Articles by Dice Staff
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World's First Petaflop Supercomputer, "Roadrunner," Retired
This past weekend, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) decommissioned Roadroader, the first petaflop supercomputer. It was only five short years ago that the machine took the crown as the world… -
Make Your Job Descriptions More 'Persona'-l
What's the difference between a profile and a persona? It could mean the difference between sourcing a top-notch candidate and boring your target audience to tears. A persona is profile or narrat… -
Death to Downloads: Browser-Based Games on the Rise
Here's another nail in the coffin of console games. The folks at Mozilla and Will Harbin, CEO of the gaming portal Kixeye, are banking on the idea that more people are picking up hammers as they… -
Failing Over an Entire Data Center: No Biggie
Racks of servers in a shipping container can quickly add to a data-center’s computing capacity. And according to Microsoft, they can also help out with reliability. David Gauthier, Microsoft’s di… -
AMD's Radeon Sky Optimized for Cloud Gaming
It's a PC GPU—but in the data center! AMD has unveiled its Radeon Sky architecture, which leverages its "Tahiti" and "Pitcairn" GPUs for cloud computing. Nvidia will release three cards based on… -
5 Stories on Making Your Resume Great
The purpose of a resume is surprisingly simple: To get you a job interview. It's the tool you use to show HR that you're a serious enough candidate to tell the hiring manager about, and to demons… -
Key Takeaways from TalentNet Live: Austin
Though it is already more than a week since TalentNet Live in Austin, I am still working through all my notes and ideas from just one day of learning! It was a fantastic opportunity to have the f… -
Life Lessons Learned at SXSWi…Who Knew?
South By Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi) is an annual conference held in Austin, TX where tech-lovers from all over get together to network, learn about the latest technologies, and cut lo… -
"Blue Waters" Supercomputer Lucky to be Alive
One could argue that the University of Illinois' "Blue Waters" supercomputer, scheduled to officially open for business March 28, is lucky to be alive. The 11.6 petaflop supercomputer, commission… -
Oracle Claims Title of "World's Fastest Microprocessor"
Oracle has whipped the curtain back from what it claims is the "world's fastest microprocessor"—and it may not be the one that everyone was expecting. Oracle launched the SPARC T5 microprocessor…