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Hey! You! Get off of my cloud - computing structure
Blog So, is the cumulus nimbus too fluffy to support real world cloud computing structures right now? Commentators have suggested that cloud computing really doesn’t break the mould to quite the degree that the technology publicists would have us believe.
[August 17, 2008, 16:04]
Middleware: Computing's unsung hero
News With the spread of networks and applications working across them we can now see computing as a truly social device, enabling the proliferation of services and communication across multiple platforms. We can no longer afford to represent computing...
[February 1, 2005, 16:20]
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud - computing structure
Blog Comment I forgot to draw parallels with, or even use the term, "clustered computing" in that blog. Oops and yikes! Virtualisation.you're right mate - that reminds me. Very naughty of me. Can you imagine that the IT industry would re-purpose (their term...
[August 17, 2008, 19:17]
Computing Aggregates for Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper briefly describes an architecture for sensor network monitoring, then focus on one aspect of this architecture: continuously computing aggregates (sum, average, count) of network properties (loss rates, energy-levels etc.packet counts).
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Sun: computing service providers are the future
News The way Sun Microsystems sees things, Moore's Law divides the computer technology market into two parts: those who will buy computers and those who will rent computing services from the first group. Informally, it also stands for steady...
[October 26, 2006, 9:35]
Humanity: Computing's biggest problem
News And while past gatherings have looked at such radical user interfaces, this year's New Paradigms in User Computing conference was focused on getting a handle on what is understood about the way people use the technology they have.
[July 17, 2003, 10:10]
Supporting Provenance in Service-Oriented Computing Using the Semantic Web Technologies
White Papers This paper analyses the nature of service-oriented computing and defines a new conception called augmented provenance. The Web is evolving from a global information space to a collaborative problem solving environment in which services (resources...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Implementing a Utility Computing Environment Based on Virtualization
White Papers Creating a virtualized, utility computing environment is by no means a trivial undertaking. Many enterprises are saddled with cumbersome, yet highly underutilized, IT infrastructures that hamper their ability to adapt to changing business conditions.
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Cloud Computing for the Enterprise
White Papers Cloud Computing is a set of IT/Business application services that companies provide for a pay-per use or rental basis. Storage, servers, and applications also fall in this realm of Cloud Computing and are available on-demand basis.
[June 19, 2009, 1:20]
Aerospace Firm Attracts Customers With High-Performance Computing
White Papers Andrews Space needed a new parallel-processing computing environment with the high-performance that complex contracts demand, and the cost-effectiveness to meet its budget requirements. After researching processors and interconnect technology...
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
Embedded computing to boom in Europe
News Embedded computing is set to take over the tech world — but Europe could see itself left behind as long as the continent's decision makers have short arms and deep pockets. Industry group Artemis, whose members include Airbus, Ericsson, Nokia and...
[July 5, 2005, 9:05]
Museum of Computing finds new premises
News A museum dedicated to the history of computing has found a new home after being forced to shut its doors for a year. The Museum of Computing will reopen in new premises in Swindon in July, showcasing a collection of 2,500 machines — from mechanical...
[May 27, 2009, 8:50]
Bringing computing to India's masses
News Professor Jitendra Shah, from the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing, is examining ways to reduce usage of electricity from the grid by setting up solar-powered computing terminals that tap into battery-powered PCs acting as servers.
[July 5, 2005, 13:40]
HW-SW Framework for Distributed Parallel Computing on Programmable Chips
White Papers This paper addresses a new hardware/software Multi Processor System-on-a-Chip (MPSoC) co-design methodology to map PVM/MPI parallel software framework to a developed multiprocessor architecture for distributed parallel computing on a chip.
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Subspace Computing With Inbuilt Web
Blog The advent of quantum computing and what that really means. If any of the above is possible we would be faced with the prospect of as good as infinite computing power connected to a default universal networking system.
[January 7, 2009, 11:28]
VNC+: Virtual Network Computing for Mobiles
Downloads VNC+ application requires VNC service to be installed and running on your PC.Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing system which uses the RFB (Remote FrameBuffer) protocol to remotely control another computer.
[June 1, 2004, 8:00]
Distributed computing tackles climate change
News Computer users who want to put their spare computing power to good use can now do their bit to help predict the impact that climate change will have on the Earth. In 2001, a distributed computing scheme to search for a cure for cancer was launched.
[February 16, 2006, 8:45]
Big computing flexes its muscle at LinuxWorld
News Even for those who don't like it, Linux has become an unavoidable part of the computing landscape. The growing influence of the Linux operating system and the open-source software movement will be on display this week as several large companies...
[August 12, 2002, 7:47]
Big leap for quantum computing
News That situation makes quantum computers analogous to a traditional computing system that has very little useful software written for it. Bad memory? Perhaps quantum computers can help. Scientists learned years ago they can use electrons as super...
[May 25, 2000, 14:48]
Student Printing in a Mobile Computing Environment: Access to Wireless Printing on Campus
White Papers The growth of mobile computing on school campuses is creating tremendous benefits, but also spawning a new suite of concerns for campus computing. One of these developing problem areas is printing. Long thought to be well understood and under...
[August 17, 2007, 10:29]
