Multimedia's new world
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Among the most interesting product introductions at the Comdex-Fall 1991 trade show are those that use multimedia technologies. Two especially interesting software products shown by IBM are Columbus: Encounter, Discovery and Beyond and Illuminated Books and Manuscripts. The revolutionary nature of multimedia is revealed by products such as Columbus, which comes on three video disks and two CD-ROM disks and includes 2,600 text articles with thousands of graphic illustrations and hundreds of maps. The material is structured and organized with 'links.' According to IBM, the product includes 180 hours of interactive instruction. IBM's PS/2 Ultimedia 57 SLC microcomputer, scheduled to ship in Mar 1992, will come standard with a CD-ROM drive; an XGA graphics card for photographic quality images, audio, video and music adapters and an IBM-developed 20-MHz 386SX microprocessor IBM says runs up to 88 percent faster than Intel's 80386SX microprocessor.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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A standoff with Brazil on computer
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The US delays shipping an IBM mainframe computer to Brazil while waiting for the Brazilian government to provide guarantees that the technology will not be used for military purposes or be transferred to other countries. Pres George Bush approved the sale of an IBM 3090 to Embraer S.A. in 1990, and the Brazilian company contends that the mainframe will be used for aircraft design only. Embraer develops missiles and participated in a consortium in 1988 to aid Iraq with its space technology. Government agencies including the Pentagon, the Energy Department and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency oppose the deal, claiming that the sale could encourage use of missiles and nuclear weapons in third world countries. The Commerce and State Departments endorse the deal because it stands to strengthen US competitiveness and increase exports. Negotiations of conditions of the sale are in progress.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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I.B.M. plans a tough problem for Blue Gene's million processors
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I.B.M. is building a supercomputer, known as Blue Gene, that will be able to try to model the folding of proteins. Blue Gene will have a million processors and will, at a quadrillion calculations a second, still take a year of computing to simulate the folding of a single average-size protein. Blue Gene will use a 'processor in memory' or PIM design, in which memory will be on the same chip as the processor. I.B.M.'s computational performance target is one petaflop, or a thousand trillion floating-point operations per second. I.B.M. hopes that all the processors can be kept busy, because if Blue Gene is forced to run like a standard serial computer for even 1 second out of 10,000 seconds, it will be 99% less efficient than it would be otherwise.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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