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To try to assess global warming's impact on the environment and see if the world faces an abrupt climate change, Zhengyu Liu, director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is turning to supercomputing technology.

For years, the name of the game in supercomputing has been raw speed, with hardware and software designers striving to boost the number of instructions per second -- FLOPS -- that could be crunched. Gigaflops computers gave way to teraflops machines, which are now yielding to petaflops models -- those able to execute 1 quadrillion computations per second.

IBM and Cray have beat out Sun Microsystems to win sizable U.S government contracts to design a new generation supercomputer.

The market for secure, business-grade instant messaging software is picking up steam, with several start-ups now offering packages that automatically encrypt real-time chat sessions between users. However, these packages do not yet offer secure communications with users of popular consumer-oriented IM systems from AOL Time Warner, Microsoft, and others.

The amount of 10 Gigabit Ethernet network gear being introduced and demonstrated at NetWorld+ Interop 2001 this week means enterprise users could get the high-speed LAN technology in their networks sooner rather than later, and next-generation Ethernet services could be around the corner.

After 22 years in the hard disk drive manufacturing business, Quantum Corp. announced that its stockholders have approved the sale of its hard-drive division to Maxtor Corp. for US$1.1 billion in stock. The sale also marks a new course for Quantum, which confirmed its leap into a pure-play enterprise storage solutions company.