This ability, they argue, will lead to improved computer performance, providing faster operations and reduced power consumption, particularly in the ever smaller, ever faster circuits of the future.
The recent advances in quantum chemical techniques, combined with improved computer performance, make it possible to conduct quantum chemical calculations to represent more realistic models of active sites and more complex reaction schemes.
Computer Associates International Inc., a maker of software that improves computers' performance, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy Sterling Software Inc. for $4 billion in stock, gaining computer-storage management products.
Cleverer management of the local memory banks known as 'caches' could improve computer chips' performance while reducing their energy consumption.
The sort of engineering considerations that go into improving computer performance reducing component size, capacitance, and the communication time between them, among other things—also improves energy efficiency, Koomey says.
The renovation of the permanent structure, the first in 30 years, includes installing bathrooms for the disabled, building a new community room with performance space and improving computers and elevators.
The performance critical regions of the M-VIA software is identified and two modifications to the existing code that aim to improve local computer performance without affecting overall network performance in a cluster environment is explored.
But in their effort to improve computers' 3-D performance, they have lost sight of the one great advantage of game machines and their software: they just work.
As a result, when NICAM was implemented on the K computer at B/F = 0.5, numerous optimizations had to be applied to improve the efficiency of computer performance.
The reason that computer performance has been improving so rapidly is that the density of circuits etched on to silicon wafers has increased.
Transmeta is picking up a torch originally carried by a hardy band of computer-design rebels in the late 1970's and 1980's, who bet that computer performance could be improved by drastically simplifying the hardware and shifting many of the most complex operations to software.
