Kraken is the most powerful academic supercomputer in the world
by Nick Farrell | Oct 12, 2009
NICS, the US National Institute for Computational Sciences has just upgraded its Cray XT5 supercomputer called Kraken. It's so powerful, it puts out petaFLOPS of peak power
Linux is a threat to Windows
by Nick Farrell | Aug 6, 2009
Microsoft has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
FreeDOS turns 15
by Nick Farrell | Jun 30, 2009
It was born when Microsoft indicated a move to Windows 95 and is still on version one today. The non-Microsoft version of DOS, the FreeDOS project turned 15 years old on Sunday