4 posts and columns on Jaguar

Nvidia Chips to Power World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

in Enterprise on October 11, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

The U.S. government announces plans to build the next great supercomputer. What’s new is that its main computing element will come from Nvidia.
Oak Ridge National Lab's "Jaguar" computer

Liveblogging Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting (Morning Session): It's a Beautiful Day?

in News on July 29, 2010 at 8:24 am PT

BoomTown took the corporate All Things Digital jet–aka Virgin America, seat 10A–up to Redmond, Wash., today to attend Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting, which also includes a passel of media drones like me. I liveblogged the event all day, which was essentially a cavalcade of top execs from the software giant taking the stage and showing off their wares. Before it started, U2′s “Beautiful Day” was playing over the sound system, which it was not up here in the Pacific Northwest this morning–it was kind of cold and gloomy, a la “Twilight”–but hopefully sparkly for Microsoft execs.

300+ New Features! That's Not an OS … It's a Space Station

in News on October 16, 2007 at 5:54 am PT

Like Jaguar, Panther and Tiger before it, Leopard will be “the best upgrade to Mac OS X that Apple’s ever released.” This according to CEO Steve Jobs, who today said Leopard will arrive at market Oct. 26, as expected. Priced at $129 for a single-user license, Leopard offers some 300 new features–“Even Leopard innovations have [...]

300+ New Features! That’s Not an OS … It’s a Space Station

in News on October 16, 2007 at 5:54 am PT

Like Jaguar, Panther and Tiger before it, Leopard will be “the best upgrade to Mac OS X that Apple’s ever released.” This according to CEO Steve Jobs, who today said Leopard will arrive at market Oct. 26, as expected. Priced at $129 for a single-user license, Leopard offers some 300 new features–“Even Leopard innovations have [...]