SETI@home, Toshiba & Excite@Home
SETI@home, the peer-to-peer computing project that ties together millions of computers to examine radio waves coming from space, has 3 million users — and thousands of new people sign up to crunch data each day — making the entire SETI@home network more powerful than the biggest of supercomputers. So powerful, indeed, that there is the possibility of running out of data to process. To solve this problem, SETI@home is installing a Linux-based, super-fast digital data recorder that was donated by Hewlett-Packard. According to the company, the new machine can record data 10 times faster than the previous recorder.
Toshiba is bringing its low-temperature polysilicon display technology to notebooks in hopes of eventually lowering their price. Such technology is already used in smaller devices, including some handheld computers and mobile phones, and offers higher quality images using fewer components — 40 percent less, according to Toshiba — than its counterpart called amorphous silicon.
The pending liquidation of Excite@Home has AT&T offering to pick up some assets — to creditors' dismay — but a buyer for the Excite portal could be harder to come by.
Toshiba is bringing its low-temperature polysilicon display technology to notebooks in hopes of eventually lowering their price. Such technology is already used in smaller devices, including some handheld computers and mobile phones, and offers higher quality images using fewer components — 40 percent less, according to Toshiba — than its counterpart called amorphous silicon.
The pending liquidation of Excite@Home has AT&T offering to pick up some assets — to creditors' dismay — but a buyer for the Excite portal could be harder to come by.