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...fastest supercomputers in the world is now up and running for Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS). The IBM Blue Gene, which has the processing power of several thousand desktop computers in roughly the floor space of two desks, will be used to study complex systems such as blood circulation and galaxy formation, according to Director of Information Technology Joy Sircar. Harvard’s Blue Gene is called CrimsonGridBGL and will be part of the DEAS’s Crimson Grid, a technology initiative aimed at creating a campus-wide technology infrastructure for research...
...quaint but short on manpower and desperately poor ... Stroessner got off to a dictator's ironfisted start, organizing a tough secret police, suppressing all opposition, packing the prisons. Close to 300,000 Paraguayans now live in exile. At Stroessner's Colorado party headquarters in the Asunci?n capital, functionaries keep IBM listings on everyone who applies for party membership; there are 400,000 names on file." Read more at timearchive.com...
...gambit to seize international market share by expanding into every nook of the PC industry. Lenovo is introducing new products, building a complex global-distribution network and splurging on a brand-building campaign. The strategy could turn Lenovo into a far fiercer rival for Dell and HP than stately IBM was, and threatens to intensify the cutthroat competition that is a hallmark of the famously bloodthirsty PC business. "I eat, drink, sleep PCs," promises Amelio. "There is nothing else in my world...
...IBM did bring Amelio two great assets: top talent and a top brand name. Former IBMers say they feel liberated after years of being marginalized as the red ink of Big Blue. "It was more fighting for survival at IBM," says Fran O'Sullivan, now a senior vice president at Lenovo. "We didn't talk about growing." After the acquisition, "there was a real entrepreneurial feel again." There were other benefits too: Lenovo got the rights to use the IBM brand name for five years and snatched the premier Think family of computers. ThinkPad notebooks boast some of the best...
...tactic used by other Asian upstarts, like Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor--value for money. Lenovo is packing its products with goodies and charging less than other PC brands, especially in a new series of computers called Lenovo 3000. Launched in February, the 3000s are an amalgam of Lenovo and IBM design and technology. The desktops are based on a Chinese product that features a one-button fix-it process to restore virus-damaged systems. They also feature ThinkPad-quality keyboards--all at a very reasonable $349. In comparison with other major brands, Lenovo notebooks ranked at the top for value...