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In Brief: Fujitsu telco grid computing system tested

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created Apr 12, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A system that allows telecom companies to better manage load fluctuations on their networks has been developed by Japan's Fujitsu and France Telecom.


A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing

A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking ...


Grids get down to business

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New technology developed by European researchers allows companies to deploy their business processes using grid computing and, even better, it validates a platform that gives easy access to grid resources. ...


World's biggest computing grid launched

World's biggest computing grid launched

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind’s biggest data challenge from the earth’s most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected ...


Grid computing 'Mappa mundi' unveiled in Florida

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 15, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Visitors to Supercomputing '06 in Tampa, Florida this week will be the first to see a new interactive map that shows nine of the world's largest computing Grids. The map, developed by researchers from GridPP in the UK and ...


One-stop shop for grid computing

One-stop shop for grid computing (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From searching for cures for disease to monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere, grid computing has become essential to data-intensive research. But accessing limited grid resources is not always a simple task. ...


FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing.


Foundations for the World Wide Grid

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The dream of using the internet to allow people to access as much computer processing and storage power as they need, when they need it, is a step closer thanks to European researchers.


Idle computers offer hope to solve cancer's mysteries through grid computing project

Technology / Other

created Jun 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A biomedical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is using a concept called "grid computing" to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer.


CERN Grid Computing Center

Data-Taking Dress Rehearsal Proves World’s Largest Computing Grid is Ready for LHC Restart

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider ...


Grid helps find one picture in a million

Grid helps find one picture in a million

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for images on the internet can be a frustrating business. Whether you want the perfect sunset over the sea or the London skyline by night, youre dependent on people to describe the ...


World Grid used to study protein folding

Technology / Internet

created Jun 27, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A team of U.S. scientists is using IBM's World Community Grid to be able to predict the structures of key proteins.


Grid computing, the new commodity

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardised computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...


What to do with 15 million gigabytes of data

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (26) | comments 5

When it is fully up and running, the four massive detectors on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva are expected to produce up to 15 million gigabytes, aka 15 petabytes, of data ...


New project to create 'FutureGrid' computer network

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created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is part of a team chosen by the National Science Foundation to build and run an experimental high-performance grid test-bed, allowing researchers to collaboratively develop ...