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whitepaper The TV Mistake2006-11-01 Baham Laboratories
  Several PC distributors advertise personal computers on television, while touting low cost PCs for everyone. Even though for many a sub-$1000 PC will suit the household, check those specs twice before pulling out the checkbook. This especially goes for computers priced under $600. The last thing a person wants to do, as a PC buyer, is to have to invest more money into that "New" PC while it's still got that "New computer smell". This paper provides a short list of items that any PC buyer should ask before purchasing a new PC.   
whitepaper Blade Workstations in the Securities Industry - An ROI Study2006-11-01 IDG (International Data Group)
  On the trading room floor, one of the most crucial and demanding technology environments in a securities firm, a significant new approach to meeting the challenges of supporting that infrastructure has emerged. HP's ProLiant Blade Workstation Solution, a leading example of this new approach, helps financial institutions address their trading room needs by moving the traders' operating environments off of the floor and into a datacenter. Trading operations running on blade workstations increase the productivity of both traders and IT staff, and increase the security of the computing hardware and the firm's data, while also reducing the time and cost of supporting the infrastructure, and gaining other unexpected benefits such as the support of new business workflow models like remote offices and tele-workers.

Tags: Data Center, ROI - TCO		   
whitepaper Student Self-Reported Usage of Wireless Tablet PCs in Classrooms2006-10-31 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  Wireless computing devices with novel input capabilities are becoming commonplace in college classrooms. To measure how one type of such devices, namely wireless Tablet PCs, is used in classrooms and whether they help improve teaching and learning, this paper conducted a pilot study involving four classes at various levels taught by three instructors in Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering, respectively. The preliminary result showed that both the students and the instructors liked the wireless Tablet PCs in classrooms and both thought teaching and learning were improved in various ways.

Tags: Tablets, Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper Offline File Caching in Longhorn Server2006-10-26 TechGenix
  This paper takes a look at some of the ways that Longhorn Server facilitates offline file caching. Longhorn Server's file caching feature has been greatly improved over the previous version. In case a person is not familiar with offline file caching, the basic idea behind it is that when a client accesses a share on the server, that share's contents are automatically cached. If the user attempts to access the share at a later time when no connectivity to the server exists, then the user's workstation will transparently use the cached copy. Any changes that the user makes to cached files will be automatically synchronized with the server the next time that the user establishes a connection to the share.

Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor-Based Two-Processor Workstations: Superior Performance to Improve How People Work and Create Every Day2006-10-01 Intel
  With more complex designs and an overwhelming desire to push the envelope of business, creative, and scientific possibilities, the challenges get tougher every year. Yet, these are what drives one at Intel to take the next leap in technologies so they can reach their objectives. With Intel technologies built into one's work environment, one can build success into the business. Intel continues to build more capabilities into platforms so the user can do much more with a lot less. For over 30 years, Intel has helped developers and businesses solve their toughest problems with advanced computing capabilities and technologies - from the first multi-purpose processor in 1974 to the industry's first quad-core, 64-bit processor-based platforms today.

Tags: Workstations		   
whitepaper A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization0000-00-00 Association for Computing Machinery
  The x86 architecture has not yet permitted classical trap-and-emulate virtualization. Virtual Machine Monitors for x86, such as VMware Workstation and Virtual PC, have instead used binary translation of the guest kernel code. However, both Intel and AMD have now introduced architectural extensions to support classical virtualization. This paper compares an existing software VMM with a new VMM designed for the emerging hardware support. Surprisingly, the hardware VMM often suffers lower performance than the pure software VMM. To determine why, the authors study architecture-level events such as page table updates, context switches and I/O, and find their costs vastly different among native, software VMM and hardware VMM execution.

Tags: Workstations, x86-standard Servers, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Maemo Development Platform: White Paper0000-00-00 Nokia
  Maemo is an open development platform for applications and technology innovation for handheld devices. It was developed by Nokia as part of its development process for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet device and subsequently open sourced and offered to the community. It brings to developers an easy to use development environment and a new optimized end user interface customized for handheld screen size and usage.

Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs, Linux - Open Source, 		  
whitepaper Virtualization of PC Computing: Blades, Partitioning, and Shared Resources2006-09-07 Virt2go
  One of the most significant changes in this decade is that Information Technology (IT) must align with the demands of business and there must be a link that focuses on developing products and services that are more in keeping with business needs. Companies large and small have come to the realization that every business decision triggers an event in IT, making IT either an enabler or an inhibitor. The good news is that the IT industry is in the midst of a radical restructuring to support this need. Vendors are rapidly evolving strategies that transform IT from being complex, rigid, and unmanageable to being more simplified, manageable, and flexible.

Tags: Blades, Virtualization		   
whitepaper RAID-II: A High-Bandwidth Network File Server0000-00-00 UniRecovery
  The RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) group at U. C. Berkeley built a prototype disk array called RAID-I. The bandwidth delivered to clients by RAID-I was severely limited by the memory system bandwidth of the disk array's host workstation. The authors designed the second prototype, RAID-II, to deliver more of the disk array bandwidth to file server clients. A custom-built crossbar memory system called the XBUS board connects the disks directly to the high-speed network, allowing data for large requests to bypass the server workstation. RAID-II runs Log-Structured File System (LFS) software to optimize performance for bandwidth-intensive applications.

Tags: Workstations, RAID		   
whitepaper Advantages of a Personal Workstation in Financial Services IT Environments2006-09-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Typical IT environments in financial institutions manage large volumes of high value transactions. For organizations to compete in this marketplace, they must make use of information technology effectively to ensure accuracy and security as well as to drive down operating costs. IT managers are sometimes tempted to use low-cost PCs as a hardware platform for various financial applications, such as those found on the trading floor or in front office venues. While these platforms certainly have their place, financial applications significantly benefit from the technical robustness and capabilities of personal workstations. Complementing the technology benefits are the equally important business aspects of employing personal workstations.   


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