IBM Grid to 'help defeat cancer'
News IBM is to devote the computational power of its World Community Grid to a project that will help scientists who are working on cancer treatments. The World Community Grid, formed in November 2003, uses idle clock cycles on around 360,000 PCs across...
[July 21, 2006, 17:30]
Grid computing to tackle climate change
News The African Climate @ Home project will focus on building models to analyse existing weather patterns in the region, using the World Community Grid to crunch the numbers. Wakefield said that the World Community Grid was "much faster than a single...
[September 4, 2007, 16:12]
IBM, Harvard tap grid computing for solar-cell study
News The initiative, announced on Monday, is part of the IBM-sponsored World Community Grid, which seeks to speed up research on humanitarian challenges with a grid of connected computers. Existing World Community Grid projects are aimed at developing...
[December 8, 2008, 14:42]
AIDS research grid project gathers support
News It is based within IBM's World Community Grid. The team behind FightAIDS@Home announced on Monday that the World Community Grid had enjoyed its most successful week ever in terms of new users, following the launch of the AIDS research project.
[December 5, 2005, 17:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Meanwhile, IBM and others are getting together to do AIDS research on its World Community grid, run on much the same lines. Ideally, you'd want the grid software to run in its own little virtual world where it had no access to anything other than...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
Grid computing founders form start-up
News Among grid marketing approaches: IBM announced a "World Community Grid" in November that harvests unused processing cycles from anyone with a PC. For those wanting to spend money on a grid project, hiring Univa would be like paying World Wide Web...
[December 13, 2004, 8:00]
UK e-science centre pushes grid computing
News The grid is the most recent effort to make it possible for researchers around the world to make use of the data and processing power of other scientific facilities, regardless of where they are located in the physical world.
[April 26, 2002, 7:31]
Open-source clan clashes with Sun
News For example, the company has released software for better encryption in Web site transactions, in addition to introducing its OpenOffice competitor to Microsoft Office, its NFS file-sharing software, its Jxta peer-to-peer experimental software and...
[December 4, 2002, 13:44]
Blunkett talks money at BETT
News Further funds will be allocated to the National Grid For Learning, the first elements of which went live on World Wide Web today.It will (the teacher training initiative) be linked to the National Grid for Learning - and £100 million has been...
[January 14, 1998, 15:37]
A Year Ago: Blunkett talks money at BETT
News Further funds will be allocated to the National Grid For Learning, the first elements of which went live on World Wide Web today.It will (the teacher training initiative) be linked to the National Grid for Learning - and £100 million has been...
[January 14, 1999, 5:13]
What the hell are Grids anyway?
News IBM recently announced plans to create The World Community Grid for various medical and environmental research programmes but projects of this scale are the exception rather than the rule. The term Grid computing has joined the august pantheon of...
[December 10, 2004, 13:30]
Timms: Communications competition has made us better off
News This is the reasons for Ofcom's duty of care to the citizen, as well as UK Online Web terminals in all libraries, the Grid for Learning and the Wired-Up Communities programme. Timms said that IT-driven technologies such as blogging and community...
[September 28, 2004, 14:55]
US Report: The mouse turns 30
News In 1968, Engelbart was paid $10,000 (£6,000) by his then-employer, Stanford Research Institute, for the first mouse -- a block of wood with a tail-like cord and an X-Y grid underneath. Engelbart made it plain Wednesday that he considers the mouse...
[December 10, 1998, 8:46]
Microsoft takes on supercomputing
News Our typical user has no knowledge of Unix and Linux," said Cox, who has no time for other technologies favored by academics, such as grid computing. Microsoft has been "determined to leverage and work with the academic community" on making the...
[June 9, 2006, 14:25]
Sun chief steps out of McNealy's shadow
News What about all these other projects — Solaris and open-source software in general, storage, the Sun Grid? We are very hopeful that the GPL 3 will give us the opportunity to converge on a uniform licence that gives safety and assurance to the...
[May 23, 2007, 15:57]
Grid computing luring mainstream backers
News This will help the toolkit be more rapidly and widely adopted beyond the research community," said Carl Kesselman, a seminal grid thinker, Globus leader and director of the Center for Grid Technologies at the University of Southern California.
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
Web cooperative unearths top prime number
News Distributed and grid computing have been of interest chiefly to the academic community, but it's becoming increasingly useful for commercial applications such as pharmaceutical research. But as resources get more formally attached to the pool, the...
[December 3, 2003, 10:05]
ASP.Net - keeping it simple
News Back in design view, you can drag a datagrid on the screen, and three lines of custom code will bind the grid to the new dataset:Dim dataSet As System.Data.DataSet = MyQueryMethod()DataSet1.DataSource = dataSetDataSet1.DataBind()
[July 31, 2002, 12:40]
