Platform Computing offers HPC facility for HP servers
News High-performance computing (HPC) specialist Platform Computing has launched a version of its software to work on HP's servers in a Linux environment. Version 1.0 of Platform HPC for ICE-LX includes the open-source version of Platform's Load Sharing...
[March 23, 2009, 14:14]
AREVA - Energy Management Software Ported to Cost-Effective 64-bit Computing Platform
White Papers The Automation and Information Systems group of the Power Transmission and Distribution unit of multinational company AREVA needed to update its e-terraplatform suite of products for the electric power industry to run on a modern, cost-effective...
[March 10, 2005, 14:28]
Trusted Computing: Trusted Platform Management and Key Recovery
White Papers The computer industry offers a variety of PCs and desktop boards equipped with a Trusted Computing Module (TPM), a dedicated microchip enabled for security capabilities. Specifications for the TPM have been developed and promoted by an industry...
[August 25, 2009, 10:13]
Excel spreadsheets connect to the grid
News Platform Computing has released a software module that enables Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software to tap into the power of a grid computing system, the company said on Tuesday. The software moves a common desktop software package one step...
[November 12, 2003, 15:15]
New boost for open-source supercomputing
News Platform Computing, a company that tries to harness the collective computing power on computer networks, has signed a deal to commercialise an open-source supercomputing project. Platform is working with the Globus Project to commercialise the...
[November 12, 2001, 14:41]
Middleware of Taiwan UniGrid
White Papers Taiwan UniGrid (Taiwan University Grid) is a Grid computing platform, which is founded by a community of educational and research organizations interested in Grid computing technologies in Taiwan. Taiwan UniGrid middleware consists of three primary...
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
Qualcomm develops low-cost PC alternative
News Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has developed a new, low-cost computing platform that it hopes will provide an alternative to Windows-based PCs in parts of the world where traditional broadband connections aren't available.
[November 13, 2008, 14:29]
All About Azure
White Papers Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing platform, is still a mystery to many Microsoft developers, customers, partners (and even competitors). This Webcast will provide a high-level overview of where Microsoft has been and where it's going in the cloud...
[July 17, 2009, 8:12]
Platform details open grid plans
News Grid computing specialist Platform Computing has developed a unified framework for grid-enabled applications in a bid to drive widespread adoption of grid computing. Songnian Zhou, chief executive of Platform Computing said, of the development of a...
[September 19, 2005, 18:10]
eWatch: A Wearable Sensor and Notification Platform
White Papers The eWatch is a wearable sensing, notification, and computing platform built into a wrist watch form factor making it highly available, instantly viewable, ideally located for sensors, and unobtrusive to users.
[March 22, 2006, 0:01]
Alchemi: A .NET-Based Enterprise Grid Computing System
White Papers Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce. Microsoft's .NET Framework has become near-ubiquitous for...
[July 3, 2007, 1:00]
Platform moves into cloud-management tools
News Platform Computing has introduced a technology-agnostic cloud management package designed to help companies manage private cloud infrastructures. Platform ISF, released on Monday as a global beta for Linux and Windows, allows organisations to...
[June 23, 2009, 12:35]
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
News Red Hat on Thursday introduced what it called the first fully integrated, Linux-based, high-performance-computing platform, claiming to undercut a similar Windows-based system recently introduced by Microsoft.
[October 3, 2008, 15:25]
Palm and IBM team up on road warrior software
News IBM's Tivoli Systems said it introduced the Tivoli Device Manager for the Palm Computing platform as part of its ongoing bid to address the emerging ``pervasive computing'' market of mobile cell phone and pocket computer users.
[March 9, 2000, 11:25]
Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux
Talkback >"As organizations increasingly rely on IT to perform mission-critical functions, and with complexity a growing challenge, choosing the right computing platform for the long term can make the difference between profit and loss, and between future...
[October 28, 2004, 1:57]
New group aims at universal security
News The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), announced on Tuesday, will license and market security hardware and software technology that they intend to be integrated into every computing platform, from PCs and PDAs to mobile phones.
[April 9, 2003, 12:00]
IBM chip powers emerging security standard
News The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, a trade group representing about 145 technology companies, on Tuesday will release a specification for making computer data more secure. That technology evolved into TCPA's Trusted Computing Platform...
[January 30, 2001, 13:56]
The Palm goes corporate
News 3Com Corp.s Palm Computing division will announce, along with Computer Associates International Inc.an extension to CA's Unicenter TNG enterprise management software that supports the Palm platform. The updates will appear in applications and...
[July 19, 1999, 14:46]
Qualcomm launches mobile convergence platform
News Qualcomm has launched a new chipset platform for portable devices, claiming it will offer a basis for mobile convergence across consumer and computing environments. Our goal is to provide the industry's lowest power consumption for handsets, gaming...
[November 13, 2006, 15:16]
Psion and Pointbase unveil Java database for handhelds
News Apart from providing a useful addition for mobile workers needing to synchronise handhelds with company databases it also opens up new possibilities for cross platform computing. President and CEO of Pointbase and a co-founder of database giant...
[September 20, 1999, 16:13]



