SYMANTEC CORP., Cupertino, Calif., the maker of anti-virus software, said it agreed to acquire At Stake, Cambridge, Mass., which identifies programming faults in software, for an undisclosed sum.
Essentially, the micro-architectural-driven dynamic voltage scaling identifies program regions where the CPU can be slowed down with negligible performance loss.
QUESTION FROM SIDK: Obama said repeatedly during the 2008 campaign that he would "look at the budget line by line to identify programs that don't work".
After parallelism is identified, programs can be parallelized and then executed on parallel multiprocessor systems to achieve high performance.
From a number of choices, 27 percent identified programs for the poor, 17 percent said unemployment benefits and programs, 14 percent said Social Security and 5 percent named veterans' benefits.
Aides have already begun trying to identify programs that can be trimmed back, and they predict that the House and Senate will face tough negotiations over spending on individual programs.
But initially he has said he will focus less on political inquiries and more on identifying programs that are hemorrhaging the most money.
Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy has ordered managers at the Board of Education's headquarters to cut $19.8 million, or 10percentt, from their administrative budget for next year, in part by identifying programs and jobs that can be eliminated from the board's central operations.
TiVo and competitor ReplayTV sell hard-disk recording devices that let viewers store hours of television programming, identify programs they might like, and zip through commercials.
