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Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier

Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke the terabyte barrier and a world record when they sorted more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds. During this 2010 Sort Benchmark competition the World Cup of data sorting the computer scientists from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering also tied a ...

Data World Record Falls as Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier

Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier" - and a world record - when they sorted more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds.

Security Suites: Big Protection, Little Fuss

Just a few short years ago, all a PC needed for protection was a basic antivirus program to guard against any malware that arrived via an e-mail attachment... antivirus - Malware - Security - Personal computer - Malicious Software

Data sorting world record falls: Computer scientists break terabyte sort barrier in 60 seconds

Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier" - and a world record - when they sorted more than one terabyte of data in just 60 seconds. During this 2010 "Sort Benchmark" competition - the "World Cup of data sorting" - the computer scientists from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering also tied a world record for fastest data sorting rate ...

The Hunt for the Wikileaks Whistle-blower

Digital encoding could catch future informants. Attorney General Eric Holder's new probe into Wikileaks's posting of 91,000 war documents will likely find that tracing the path of the documents back through the Internet is next to impossible. But watermarks--if they were embedded in the files--could reveal the whistle-blower.