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Mobile Broadband At Virginia Tech: Benefits To Student Body, Faculty, Support Staff, And Public Safety
White Papers Mobile broadband is defined as broadband access in the cellular environment. The term is synonymous with FLASH-OFDM, a 3G alternative system developed and marketed by Flarion Technologies. Just as the cellular phone revolutionized voice telephony...
[July 23, 2008, 1:04]
Big Mac Supercomputer Heads For Top Ranks
News A supercomputer built by US university Virginia Tech from 1,100 dual-processor Macintosh G5 PCs looks likely to rank with the five fastest-ranked machines in the world, despite costing a relative pittance.
[October 23, 2003, 13:00]
'Big Mac' Gets An Upgrade
News Virginia Tech plans to announce on Tuesday that its System X now operates at 12.25 teraflops, or 12 trillion calculations per second, up from 10.28 teraflops in its original incarnation, which used 1,100 Power Mac G5s.
[October 26, 2004, 15:10]
'Big Mac' Broken Up And Sold
News Just a few months ago, Virginia Tech was using 1,100 high-end Macintoshes to enter the top of the supercomputer ranks. At the time as Virginia Tech was building its computer, Apple offered the G5 chip only as part of the Power Mac, while the Xserve...
[February 13, 2004, 9:30]
Mac Cluster Rises In Supercomputing Ranks
News According to the latest performance figures from Virginia Tech's Terascale Cluster, nicknamed the Big Mac, the system is computing at 9.55 trillion operations per second, or teraflops. Virginia Tech's goal was to build one of the world's five...
[October 31, 2003, 13:10]
Apple Eases Closer To Clusters
News Technical computing clusters such as the Virginia Tech system typically consist of numerous identical, dedicated servers. Since it didn't have that option, Virginia Tech had to create its supercomputer from a collection of Power Mac G5 desktop towers.
[January 8, 2004, 8:15]
Big Blue Breaks 36 Teraflop Barrier To Take Supercomputing Speed Lead
News An upgrade with the same number of slimmer Apple Xserve computers is now complete, said Virginia Tech spokeswoman Lynn Nystrom. Although Apple sells Xserves only with 2GHz processors today, the Virginia Tech upgrade uses 2.3GHz chips, she said.
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
AOL Quietly Shifts Staffing To India
News A recent company job posting seeks a product manager in Virginia to lead global software development in the United States; Dublin, Ireland; and a new office in Bangalore, India. AOL has offered to relocate 100 of the workers to its Virginia...
[December 23, 2003, 7:35]
VT Web Cams
Downloads A Web cam widget that features two cameras from the Virginia Tech campus. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[June 18, 2007, 9:36]
Apple Shoots For Supercomputer Heights
News The university, better known as Virginia Tech, said it has been working with the Mac maker for months to set up the massive computer cluster. Virginia Tech's idea was to develop a supercomputer of national prominence based upon a homegrown cluster...
[September 3, 2003, 9:15]
'Big Mac' Gets An Upgrade
Talkback For what purpose Virginia Tech developed its new System X? The team should show us the result which could not come without the super computer's power.
[October 26, 2004, 20:26]
Tech Slump Has Knock-on Effect In Property Market
News Northern Virginia, home to tech companies such as AOL, has seen its commercial vacancy rate go from 3.9 percent to 12.1 percent during the same time period. While the woes of dot-coms and other tech companies have contributed to the glut, companies...
[July 4, 2001, 12:54]
US Army Contractor Buys Mac Supercomputer
News The upgraded Virginia Tech system is being built using Xserve G5 machines. System X's successor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is expected to be running in time to produce a score for the coming November version of the...
[June 22, 2004, 10:20]
Supercomputing: Small Firms Making A Big Impact
News Srinidhi Varadarajan, the brains behind Virginia Tech's cluster, also serves as California Digital's chief technology officer. Large clusters, including a much heralded one at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, have also been built out of Apple PCs...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
Small Firm Creates Supercomputer Thunder
News Srinidhi Varadarajan, the brains behind Virginia Tech's cluster, also serves as California Digital's chief technology officer. Large clusters, including a much heralded one at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, have also been built out of Apple PCs...
[May 11, 2004, 10:30]
British Man To Be Extradited For US Military Hacks
News The US Attorney's office in Virginia will be taking lead on the case, a representative from that office said. Gary McKinnon, a 36-year-old former systems administrator from London, was charged by a grand jury in New Jersey with intentionally...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
Storage Giant Sues Former Executive
News A sustained economic downturn could dramatically increase the number of non-compete suits filed, said Carl Khalil, the attorney and founder of Virginia Beach, Va.based BreakYourNonCompete.com , a company that provides information on how to get out...
[October 11, 2001, 11:29]
FBI Taps ISPs In Hunt For Attackers
News We are cooperating with them in this ongoing investigation," said Nicholas Graham, spokesman for Virginia-based AOL, a division of AOL Time Warner. Security experts described Tuesday's attack as low-tech, with reports of knives being used as the...
[September 13, 2001, 9:57]
Legal Woes, Stock Drop Mar Rambus' Future
News But the company's chances of claiming such a sweeping victory have dimmed in recent months, since a federal judge in Virginia dismissed Rambus' patent suit against Infineon. Though the small profit is better than many chip companies have managed...
[July 13, 2001, 15:14]
US Defence Department Reaches Wi-Fi Pact
News The resolution will also apply to the additional spectrum that is being requested by senators Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, and George Allen, a Virginia Republican, under the proposed Jumpstart Broadband Act.
[February 3, 2003, 8:57]
