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A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture
White Papers This paper shows how to leverage largely commodity Ethernet switches to support the full aggregate bandwidth of clusters consisting of tens of thousands of elements. Today's data centers may contain tens of thousands of computers with significant...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Configurable Isolation: Building High Availability Systems With Commodity Multi-Core Processors
White Papers This paper proposes a new chip multiprocessor architecture that provides configurable isolation for fault containment and component retirement, based upon cost-effective modifications to commodity designs.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Motivating Commodity Multi-Core Processor Design for System-Level Error Protection
White Papers This paper analyzes the reliability and availability features in several commodity Chip MultiProcessors (CMPs) and finds that they have numerous single points of failure. Failures in some system components, e.g.interconnect cache controller and...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Net access 'becoming a commodity'
News Incumbent telecoms providers have been told to start falling into line with utilities companies as bandwidth and connectivity become commodity products, piped into customers' homes like gas and electricity.
[March 1, 2005, 8:50]
Application of Open Multi-Commodity Market Data Model on the Communication Bandwidth Market
White Papers In the paper the market model for Balancing Communication Bandwidth Trade (BCBT) is analyzed in the form of multi-commodity market data model (M3). The distinguishing feature of BCBT model is that it assumes that market players can place buy offers...
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Understanding software as a commodity
Talkback Software vendors should owe "Product Liability" to the users, just like commodity manufacturers in general. There are three preconditions of software commoditisation for personal computers. Operating system should be provided for the user in the...
[July 23, 2004, 22:09]
Mobile IT - Commodity or Value Add
White Papers Mobile or remote working is not new, nor specific to the use of mobile technology, but the increasing dependence on instant access to IT has led to an increasing demand for mobile data services. Operators recognising the long term decline of voice...
[January 12, 2007, 0:00]
The Outsourcing Decision for a Globally Integrated Enterprise: From Commodity Outsourcing to Value Creation
White Papers A new brand of outsourcing is essential for organizations intent on leading in today's global economy. Globalization and rapid advances in technology have shifted the measure of success, driving companies to rethink how they acquire and deliver...
[May 16, 2008, 12:50]
Computers: Just another commodity?
News From where he sits, John Sculley enjoys a panoramic view of the IT landscape. As an investment partner with venture firm Sculley Brothers, Sculley does not count himself among those subscribing to the school of thought that IT is headed for a dead...
[October 3, 2003, 10:54]
Winning Services Strategies: How to Avoid the Commodity Trap
White Papers In this webcast the attendee will learn how to create high value services and solutions and how to develop value propositions to move beyond mere cost reductions.
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
Comparing Exchange Server to "Low-Cost" and Commodity E-Mail Products
White Papers Several e-mail vendors claim to offer inexpensive basic e-mail services that are integrated with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Outlook® solutions but they cannot reliably deliver on this claim.
[November 23, 2007, 5:19]
The outsourcing decision for a globally integrated enterprise: from commodity outsourcing to value creation.
White Papers Globalization and advances in technology have changed the way business gets done. Today, outsourcing helps make the globally integrated enterprise possible. And the decision-making process for outsourcing is changing -- with CIOs playing a more...
[October 28, 2008, 12:11]
Hard Real Time Quick EXAFS Data Acquisition With All Open Source Software on a Commodity Personal Computer
White Papers This paper describes here the data acquisition subsystem of the Quick EXAFS (QEXAFS) experiment at the National Synchrotron Light Source of Brookhaven National Laboratory. For ease of future growth and flexibility, almost all software components...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Wireless Virtualization on Commodity 802.11 Hardware
White Papers This paper describes specific challenges in virtualizating a wireless network and multiple strategies to address them. Among different possible wireless virtualization strategies, the current work in this domain is focussed on a Time-Division...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Performance Evaluation of Commodity iSCSI-Based Storage Systems
White Papers iSCSI is proposed as a possible solution to building future storage systems. However, using iSCSI raises numerous questions about its implications on system performance. This lack of understanding of system I/O behavior in modern and future systems...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Sharedband uses commodity hardware and has same functionality
Talkback Which may be a lot cheaper than Xrio. The functionality you list appears to be almost the same as Sharedband. Does your system allow the full combined capacity to be utilised by a single TCP/IP stream ?
[December 6, 2007, 20:11]
Red Hat defends UK's open source record
Blog Comment Attitudes towards commodity Open Source infrastructure are significantly different than those of Open Source Applications. The higher up the stack you move away from commodity infrastructure towards business applications the more conservative the...
[May 22, 2008, 11:27]
Track 'n Trade Futures
Downloads Track 'n Trade Futures is a commodity and options charting and technical analysis software designed for position traders and visual investors. Its features include Fibonacci ruler, Gann Fan, Commitment of Traders, commodity calculators, and...
[May 19, 2009, 2:42]
Maestro-VC: On-Demand Secure Cluster Computing Using Virtualization
White Papers On-demand computing is the name given to technology which enables an infrastructure where computing cycles are treated as a commodity, and where such a commodity can be accessed upon request. Recently, virtualization has emerged as a viable...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Quickly upgrade Cisco routers using drag-and-drop
White Papers Now, thanks to commodity CF memory and USB memory sticks, these tasks hardly take any time at all. Fortunately for network engineers, the newer Cisco 1800, 2800, and 3800 series routers use commodity CF memory cards that can be loaded into any...
[May 16, 2006, 5:23]
