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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]
Prospects For Grid-Computing In Future Power Networks
White Papers This paper is intended to alert the power system community to the concept of Grid-computing and to initiate a discussion of its potential applications in future power systems. The word 'Grid' in Grid-computing was chosen by analogy with the...
[November 17, 2004, 2:00]
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]
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]
Chip Designers Boost Their Power With A Flick Of The Utility Computing Switch: New Service From Sun Customer Delivers Pay-as-You-Go Computing Power To Silicon Chip Designers
White Papers This is where an innovative Ottawa company, GridWay Computing Corp.armed with a grid of Sun Fire servers steps in to deliver utility computing services. The continued evolution of computers relies on the creation of newer, more powerful...
[December 21, 2005, 23:00]
Harnessing The Power Of Grid Computing: Computational Astrophysics Code Runs On 1500 Processors At SDSC And NCSA
White Papers The vision of scientific computing in the future relies on computational grids - powerful processors, research instruments, and huge data archives linked by fast networks and advanced software. These grids will be as easy to use as the Web and as...
[November 25, 2004, 2:00]
Harnessing The Power Of Automation Through Mobile Computing
White Papers As technology has evolved, mobile computing solutions have become more affordable and dramatically easier to implement and manage. Across industries - from retail, manufacturing and healthcare, to transportation, government and wholesale...
[August 2, 2005, 6:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
HP's Tycoon Bids Up Utility Computing
News Sure, you want computing power, but how much are you willing to pay for it? That's the question posed by Tycoon, a Hewlett-Packard program that would weigh the priorities of groups jockeying for a shared computing resource.
[November 11, 2004, 17:10]
Service-Oriented Architecture For A Scalable Videoconferencing System
White Papers The availability of increasing network bandwidth and computing power provides new opportunities for videoconferencing systems over Internet. It is believed that with the advancements in computing power and network bandwidth, more flexible and...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Hadron Collider Gets Its Own Power Station
News The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. We are constantly trying to get the same computing power for the same energy consumption.
[October 7, 2008, 13:38]
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]
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]
