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Computer Idle? Now You Can Donate Its Time to Find a Cure for Major Diseases
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Jun 17, 2009 |
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Not using your computer at the moment? You can now donate your computer's idle time to cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at finding a cure for HIV, Parkinson's, arthritis, and breast cancer.
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Idle computers offer hope to solve cancer's mysteries through grid computing project
Jun 23, 2008 |
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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.
New Net mapping tool helps truckers
Apr 25, 2006 |
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Truckers now get help with conserving energy via the Internet. A new Internet-based mapping system is helping truckers find truck stops with idle-reduction facilities in order to help cut fuel use while reducing air emissions.
Call center optimization
Aug 26, 2009 |
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A research report in the current issue of the International Journal of Engineering Systems Modeling and Simulation suggests that help desks can be optimized by adding very few extra staff.
PowerNap plan could save 75 percent of data center energy (Podcast)
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume.
Continuous Descent: Saving Fuel and Reducing Noise for Airliners
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Airline passengers arriving in Atlanta on early morning “redeye” flights during the past few months may have noticed something different during their descent to the runway. Instead of the ...
Nexsan, Reldata Combine for Unified NAS/SAN Package
Apr 05, 2007 |
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The SATABeast-based system can place its disk drives into an idle state to conserve energy, yet provide near-instantaneous access to data, the companies claim.
IBM world community grid squeezes decades of cancer research into 2 years
Nov 06, 2007 |
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Canadian researchers expect to accelerate the war on cancer by tapping into a global network of hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer their idle computer time to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems.
Microsoft Sees Complex Future for Software
May 01, 2007 |
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The next generation of applications will include local software and global services, resulting in a persistent hybrid model, says a Microsoft executive at the New Software Industry conference.
Biodiesel blend performs as well as ultra-low sulfur fuel
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Those worried about a performance drop-off going from standard diesel fuel to the more environmentally friendly B20 biodiesel blend can ease their minds.
'Sleep talking' PCs save energy and money
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Apr 24, 2009 |
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Personal computers may soon save large amounts of energy by "sleep talking." Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers ...
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