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Virtualisation will power utility computing
News Another software component is support for the Open Grid Services Architecture, a software standard to link disparate systems into a unified pool of computing power. IBM will provide essential plumbing for its utility computing vision later this...
[April 29, 2004, 16:40]
Low Power Computing: African results
Blog A year ago, ZDNet produced a five-strong shortlist (ASUS Eee, OLPC XO, Intel Classmate, Inveneo Computing Station and NComputing X300) based on performance and power consumption measurements. Our friends at Computer Aid, the charity that supplies...
[April 22, 2009, 10:36]
Low-power computing: a tech guide review
Reviews After surveying the low-power computing market and requesting some 15 products, we ended up with the following eight systems for testing in ZDNet UK's labs: The OLPC XO, although the most power-frugal design on test, was penalised by its slower...
[March 26, 2008, 15:19]
IBM High Performance Computing for Linux on POWER Using InfiniBand
White Papers This paper provides an overview and describes the components and performance of a High Performance Computing (HPC) solution for Linux on POWER using InfiniBand as the cluster interconnects. The paper contains performance results for several...
[February 19, 2007, 0:00]
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics Boosts Supercomputing Power With Dell High-Performance Computing Cluster Based on PowerEdge Servers, Dell Precision Workstations and Linux SuSe
White Papers Swinburne implemented a high performance computing cluster technology solution with 90 rack-mounted Dell PowerEdge 2650 Dual Xeon servers, 30 Dell Dual Xeon Precision 530s. They wanted to increase the processing power of the supercomputing facility...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
Sun plans trading floor for computing power
News Sun believes customers eventually will stop building their own infrastructure and instead buy computing power off a grid from companies specializing in such utility computing services. But some characteristics of Sun's unit of computing power...
[February 4, 2005, 8:10]
High-Performance Computing Power of 64-Bit Intel Itanium 2 Processors Helps Reduce Financial Trading Risks
White Papers However, risks modeling and calculations in the busy financial markets require high-performance computing platforms in order to deliver the accuracy and timeliness that is needed to effectively carry out profitable trading.
[May 17, 2007, 1:00]
Nuggets: Mobile computing power from Toshiba
News The Satellite Pro 4220XCDT offers 450 MHz of power, 64MB SDRAM memory, which you can expand to a maximum of 320MB, a whopping 6GB hard drive, integrated floppy disk drive, 24 speed CD-ROM drive and a 14.1" TFT screen.
[October 26, 1999, 8:23]
Futuristic Advertising Relies on VersaLogic Computing Power
White Papers Vert Inc.s "VID", or Vert Intelligent Display, is a mobile video graphics display module that mounts to the top of taxicabs and receives advertising media through a wireless internet connection. The VID uses GPS to identify its location and change...
[April 30, 2009, 1:19]
Power Efficiency in High Performance Computing
White Papers This paper provides power measurements for various computational loads on the largest scale HPC systems ever involved in such an assessment. This paper demonstrates clearly that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the power consumed while running the...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Weaving grid computing into Web services
News Two high-profile movements to harness the power of the global network of computers will start pooling their resources next week as academia's "grid" computing initiative meets the Web services trend that's sweeping business computing.
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
Improved Network Utilization through Virtualization
White Papers Underutilization of computing power can be costly. As a result, computing power is wasted simply because servers are under-utilized. Studies show that for many companies, their IT infrastructure investment has yet to achieve the financial...
[May 21, 2007, 10:38]
Power Efficiency & Management in Windows Server 2008 R2 - In Brief
White Papers One opportunity for an organization to reduce power usage is to implement an energy-efficient server infrastructure that facilitates management and allocation of power to computing resources as needed.
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
Blue Gene goes nuclear
Talkback However, have these scientists considered putting this supreme computing power to something more relevant in people lives. Obviously some serious computing power is needed to create the ultimate toilet that will catch stray shots.
[December 24, 2004, 15:40]
IBM utility model taps into Net
News In its latest step toward utility computing, Big Blue is offering to let customers use the Internet to tap into the power of server computers that run a variety of operating systems. It involves letting customers access the computing power of IBM...
[September 30, 2003, 11:35]
IBM expands 'on-demand' computing
News IBM plans to add muscle to its "on-demand" computing push on Thursday with the debut of several efforts designed to help it defend its position of power in the technology world. Utility computing is closely related to two other concepts that make...
[May 1, 2003, 7:47]
Intel to construct giant computing grid for China
News By 2006, 100 of China's universities will be linked by a network that will combine their computing power to create a shared supercomputer. Chip giant Intel yesterday announced it would team with China's Ministry of Education to build a national...
[September 25, 2003, 10:40]
Adobe takes to GridIron
News Adobe Systems has signed a deal with GridIron Software that will enable its video effects software to tap into spare computing power on a network. GridIron's approach is often called distributed computing, which harnesses the power of PCs across a...
[February 3, 2004, 8:55]
Google steams ahead with 'floating datacentre'
News Also, transient needs for computing power may arise in a particular area. Google sees the future of computing at sea. Server makers and datacentre operators are already circulating water to cool computing gear.
[September 9, 2008, 10:08]
Sun has its head in the clouds
Leader Sun has a laudable vision of the future of utility computing, where organisations with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar panels can sell power back to the electrical power grid.
[September 22, 2004, 12:25]
