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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 at the Edge
White Papers This white paper describes how many technologies that are part of edge computing, including Grid Computing, are helping organizations get more from their existing computing resources as well as providing cost-effective ways to deploy new resources...
[December 6, 2003, 4:31]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Computing Service Architecture: Central Monitor-Absence Load Balancing
White Papers Each computing server's load balancing is achieved by dynamically changing its priority and control task acceptance rate based on a computing server's priority. A mock of computing service architecture implemented and support the claims by...
[June 16, 2009, 1:21]
Computing for Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
White Papers Within the last several years, we have witnessed a profound transition in computing. IT budgets have gone from boom to bust almost overnight. Businesses once rushed in to provide online services at almost any cost, but are now closely scrutinizing...
[August 29, 2003, 5:58]
Parallel Computing and the Message Passing Interface
White Papers Parallel computing frequently relies upon message passing to exchange information between computational units. In high-performance computing, the most common message passing technology is the Message Passing Interface (MPI), which is being...
[June 12, 2009, 3:10]
FRAMESEC: A FRAMEwork for the Application Development With End-to-End SECurity Provision in the Mobile Computing Environment
White Papers Thus, this work proposes an application framework that provides a reusable structure with security mechanisms, which enable end-to-end security in the mobile computing environment. Mobile devices offer network connectivity through wireless system...
[October 8, 2008, 1:21]
SAS Meets Big Iron: High Performance Computing in SAS Analytic Procedures
White Papers Version 9 targets the heavy-duty analytic procedures in SAS for high performance computing enhancements. These enhancements encompass both algorithmic improvements and modifications to exploit multiprocessor hardware.
[December 6, 2005, 0:01]
Museum of Computing seeks new home
News A museum dedicated to the history of computing is looking for a new home, with its collection having gone into storage. Staff at the Museum of Computing in Swindon are hopeful of finding a new site after being given office space to store the...
[July 4, 2008, 10:33]
Enhancing IT Security With Trusted Computing Group Standards
White Papers An increasingly interconnected global computing environment brings with it myriad threats for enterprises to guard against, including software attacks and theft of both data and physical devices. This paper discusses Trusted Computing Group...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Server Consolidation and Grid Computing: Performance Implications
White Papers Server consolidation and grid computing are two very different, almost opposite, approaches for addressing system availability and performance issues. Grid computing, on the other hand, tries to utilize the existing computer infrastructure and make...
[November 17, 2004, 2:00]
Grid Computing With Oracle Database 10g Release 2
White Papers Grid computing is poised to drastically change the economics of computing. Grid computing can dramatically lower the cost of computing extend the availability of computing resources, increase productivity, and improve quality.
[December 6, 2005, 0:01]
Personal, High-Performance Computing in E&P: New Capability Is Just in Time
White Papers Conditions of the petroleum marketplace, business practicalities, scientific computational capabilities and advances in computing technologies are coming together to create new ways of doing business that simply make good sense.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Performance and Reliability for Excel Spreadsheets Through High Performance Computing
White Papers This paper describes how to increase the computational power and reliability of Excel 2007 spreadsheets through the use of the Microsoft High Performance Computing platform composed of Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Cell Computing launches pocket-sized Pentium boards
News Cell Computing, manufacturer of the world's smallest Pentium-based motherboards, has excelled itself with its new NetCARD MicroPC. One drawback is Cell Computing's lack of a UK or European sales office, although it does boast international...
[September 30, 1999, 16:08]
Web Services for High Performance Technical Computing
White Papers This white paper describes the challenges of today’s collaborative research environment, provides an overview of the key organizational and technical issues involved in High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC), and shows how Sun Microsystems...
[December 6, 2003, 4:29]
Grid Computing With Oracle Database 11g
White Papers This paper discusses the evolution of the datacenter toward the adoption of grid computing and details the benefits derived from this development. It considers the implications for database systems and details the requirements of a database for...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
