IBM INFORMATION ON DEMAND CONFERENCE — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics announced today a major new Stream Computing project to analyze massive volumes ...

AMD on Thursday announced its AMD FireStream processor, which is designed to allow for parallel computing performance found in graphic chips. The chip is tailored for scientific and engineering ...

In computing, the term stream is used in a number of ways, in all cases referring to a sequence of data elements made available over time. A stream can be thought of as a conveyor belt that allows ...

AMD hopes the FireStream 9170 catches on with researchers who need massive amounts of performance but don't want to buy fancy expensive supercomputers just to run a few applications. Tom Krazit writes ...

IBM launched this week System S, a software platform built following five years of research into the real-time analysis of large amounts of unstructured business or scientific data. IBM calls the ...

IBM's System S analyzes data in continuously updated streams of information from multiple sources rather than static files pre-loaded into a data warehouse IBM is bringing “stream computing” to the IT ...