Sys admin discovers 13-million-digit prime number
Sep. 29, 2008
A system administrator - not a mathematician - used a grid of computers supplied by volunteers at the University of California, Los Angeles, to find the world's largest known prime number. The immense number is made up ...
10 IT products for taking your network to the next level
Oct. 20, 2008
Advanced IT products from Altor Networks, Cirba, Cisco, Embotics, EMC, GainSpan, MokaFive, Palo Alto Networks, VKernal and Wireless Grids are boosting enterprise networks to the next level.
Cisco iPrize goes to energy-efficient power grid
Oct. 14, 2008
Cisco is planning to back technology that's designed to reduce energy consumption within electrical grids. Two students and a systems engineer came up with the idea, which won Cisco's iPrize contest.
CERN grid may boost drug and climate research
Oct. 03, 2008
The computing grid built to carry data from the Large Hadron Collider to scientists around the world is also being used to speed the development of life-saving drugs and uncover the causes of climate change, people ...
Windows HPC set to take on Linux
Sep. 22, 2008
Microsoft Monday said it would ship Windows HPC Server 2008 on Nov. 1 with designs on challenging Linux for supplying high-performance computers and specifically taking aim at ailing Wall Street customers.
SCADA systems remain vulnerable
Sep. 08, 2008
The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks that run the valves and switches and telemetry systems in power plants and industrial manufacturing facilities started out safe enough, but over the years ...
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Aug. 18, 2008
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Nine wireless companies to watch
Aug. 14, 2008
This year's crop of companies focuses on voice and data convergence, spectacular technical advances in radio technology, the personalization of cellular, and what can only be called mobile spontaneity.
Micro-grids for power could stave off telco outages in disasters
Jul. 23, 2008
Regional loss of phone services like that following Hurricane Katrina could be a thing of the past if telcos follow a proposed architecture of tiny grids dedicated to powering local phone networks, a University of Texas ...
Storage grid standards: heralding an end to proprietary storage management
May. 21, 2007
Grid expert Mark Linesch discusses how standards work on storage grids could finally get multivendor storage systems to interoperate.
IBM targets healthcare market with grid computing
May. 16, 2007
Hospitals have unique and challenging storage needs, as they are required to store every X-ray and medical record they create, and IBM is reaching out to that market with a system being unveiled Wednesday at a ...
Keeping data warehouses from becoming data graveyards
Apr. 09, 2007
Scientists have more data than they know what to do with, so University of Southern California researchers are trying to figure out a way to help them make the most of it.
GoGrid enters uncharted territory
Jul. 14, 2008
A few weeks ago I wrote about GoGrid, purveyors of a grid (or cloud or utility) computing service. To recap, GoGrid is a cloud computing service that provides a Web interface through which you instantiate and manage ...
Europe prays that cathedrals to computing will help industry
Jun. 03, 2008
European researchers and politicians are counting on the development of a few key high-performance computing (HPC) centers to boost science and industry across the European Union. However, their bid to build a ...
AT&T readies 3G network; Feds say TVA power grid has serious risks
May. 22, 2008
AT&T will deliver downlink speeds of 1.4Mbps to 350 U.S. market; The network controlling the country's largest public electric company could be taken down by cyber-hackers because it fails to take basic best-practice ...
Virtualization/On-demand/Grid
May. 19, 2008
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The green metrics conundrum
May. 15, 2008
All data-center products claiming to be green are not created equal. That's because metrics to determine how green equipment is usually are vendor-driven and measuring energy efficiency can be a chore for network ...
Cloudy picture for cloud computing
Apr. 30, 2008
You can call it cloud computing. You can call it grid computing. You can call it on-demand computing. Just don't call it the next big thing - at least not yet.
Evolution of Internet powers massive particle physics grid
Apr. 22, 2008
An evolution of Internet technologies is powering the worldwide grid supporting CERN's giant particle accelerator.
Green technology: hype or must-have?
Apr. 21, 2008
An onslaught of "green" technology makes it hard to separate hype from reality.
Employees love stale cake
Apr. 11, 2008
Keith and Jason talk about the latest scary security news from RSA, the batch of acquisition news, and why employees love free gadgets and free food.
Yahoo offers free supercomputing to Hadoop developers
Mar. 25, 2008
Yahoo has teamed with Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a lab run by India's Tata Group, to offer supercomputing facilities free to academic institutions in India that are researching large scale computing, ...
EMC buys Pi to round out cloud computing unit
Feb. 22, 2008
Storage giant EMC continues to push into the consumer territory: Its latest move is to acquire Pi, a company whose software and services will help users keep track of their personal data.
Data center power: the cost reality
Feb. 18, 2008
U.S. data centers rack up billions in electricity costs annually. How to get power costs under control before the energy crisis hits you
Where to turn for advice about data-center power consumption
Feb. 18, 2008
The Green Grid, SNIA Green Storage Initiative, the Green Data Project and the EPA with its Energy Star program are all working on ways to better assess how much data center power enterprises need.
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