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In addition to Rosetta@home, Progress Thru Processors participants can choose to contribute processor power to the research efforts of Climateprediction.net and Africa@home. Climateprediction.net is dedicated to increased understanding of global climate change by predicting the Earth’s climate and testing the accuracy of climate models. Africa@home is currently focused on finding optimal strategies to combat malaria by studying simulation models of disease transmission and the potential impact of new anti-malarial drugs and vaccines. “By simply running an application on your computer, which uses very little incremental resources,ghd usa, you can expand computing resources to researchers,” Deborah Conrad, Intel vice president and general manager of corporate marketing, said in a statement. The application will activate only when a PC’s performance is not being fully utilized. When the participant’s computer usage demands more processor performance, the application defers and sits idle until spare processing capabilities become available again, Intel said. The application runs automatically as a background process on a PC and will not affect performance or any other tasks, according to Intel. The massive amount of data crunching necessary for high level research is often extremely expensive or not readily available–or both. Intel’s solution is Progress Thru Processors, a computing application built on the Facebook platform that allows people to donate their PC’s available data processing capacity to research projects such as Rosetta@home, which uses computers to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. Brooke Crothers has served as an editor at large at CNET News,uk ugg boots, an editor at Dow Jones’ Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, and a senior editor at InfoWorld. His CNET blog covers chip technology and computer systems, and how they define the computing experience. He also contributes to The New York Times’ Bits and Technology sections. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. Follow Brooke on Twitter @mbrookec. |
Facebook app lets Intel PCs donate processor power
Can’t donate your personal time to a good cause? Intel is providing what may be the next best option.
GridRepublic application allows computers to work on public-interest research projects when the machines are not otherwise in use.
Intel teamed up with GridRepublic on Monday to launch a Facebook application that allows the spare processing power in a PC to be used to fight diseases and study climate change.
The application was launched Monday as a public beta and available to all Facebook users and is available for download here.
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Progress Thru Processors does not require participants to leave their computers powered up unnecessarily. By keeping their PCs on only as they normally would, participants will still be contributing,mbt sport womens shoes, Intel said.
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The move into embedded systems therefore opens up Android’s third front–after mobile phones and the desktop–against Microsoft’s Windows, the embedded version of which is Windows CE. Android was unveiled as a smartphone platform by its main sponsor, Google, at the end of 2007. Since then,mbt sport womens shoes, it has started to take off in the handset market, with several manufacturers releasing phones using the system this year. Work is also under way to release low-cost Android Netbooks later this year,cheap ugg boots, although Google is also planning a separate operating system, Chrome OS, for this market. MIPS Technologies released the source code on Monday, two months after it first said it had ported Android to the 32-bit version of the MIPS architecture. This architecture is used in set-top boxes, digital TV sets,cheap mbt shoes, home media players, Internet telephony systems and mobile internet devices (MIDs), and is a rival to the ARM technology on which Android already runs. Embedded Android code goes open source |
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The Android operating system is a step closer to being embedded in consumer electronics, after the company behind the MIPS processor architecture open-sourced the code for its Android port. David Meyer of ZDNet UK reported from London. MIPS Technologies and its partners–including chipmakers, manufacturers and working groups within the Android-focused Open Embedded Software Foundation–have already demonstrated Android running on a home media player and on a digital TV reference design. They plan to demonstrate more applications for the platform over the coming months. |
“Android presents a compelling value proposition in bringing Internet connectivity and a broad range of applications to MIPS-based digital home devices,” MIPS Technologies’ vice president of marketing, Art Swift, said in a statement. “We are working closely with customers and partners to ensure that critical technologies are available for developers to take advantage of Android for consumer electronics.”
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And according to Oracle’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ellison’s base pay of $1 million in fiscal 2009 only accounted for 1.2 percent of his total compensation anyway. Ninety-seven percent was in the form of stock.
That’s a decrease of $999,999 from last year. But Ellison won’t exactly be starving. He is the world’s fourth wealthiest person,ugg boots sale, according to Forbes.
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
“The compensation committee recognizes that Mr. Ellison has a significant equity interest in Oracle, but believes he should still receive annual compensation because Mr. Ellison plays an active and vital role in our operations, strategy and growth. Nevertheless, during fiscal 2010, Mr. Ellison agreed to decrease his annual salary to $1,” Oracle said in the filing.
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