Sentence examples for computing efforts from inspiring English sources

3. Multi-touch requires computational resources better used on predictive computing efforts, like predictive word typing algorithms.

That business approach, he said, has been why the largest computer users, including companies like J. P. Morgan, have largely ignored Microsoft's corporate computing efforts until now.

To accelerate its parallel computing efforts, Microsoft has hired some of the best minds in the field and has set up teams to explore approaches to rewriting the company's software.

Even more ambitious distributed computing efforts are under way at research laboratories, including those at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where researchers are trying to build radically distributed computing systems that look beyond today's Internet.

In the process, they created a virtual computer albeit a relatively slow one by today's standards with its innards scattered about the office or campus.The idea is fast coming back into vogue, as a host of high-tech firms start unveiling distributed computing efforts of their own.

This time, however, the goal is to create new capabilities instead of simply borrowing resources.Over the past year, IBM, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have all unveiled integrated distributed computing efforts, seeking to sell products and services that take advantage of this emerging technology.

It taps the unused computing cycles of nearly one million computers around the world — much like SETI@home, the best-known distributed computing effort, which claims it has harnessed more than 3 million PCs in the search for extraterrestrial life.

The idea behind the HP-Intel-Yahoo! cloud computing effort is to give researchers real world experience, yoking together lots of computers to dish up services over the Internet to vast numbers of users.

Dell started a cloud computing effort last year.

IBM's "autonomic computing" effort goes hand-in-hand with Big Blue's IT services business.

Microsoft's Internet computing effort is currently based on 200,000 servers, and the company expects that number to grow to 800,000 by 2011 under its most aggressive forecast, according to a company document.