Grid Computing
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Alatum touts local presence as differentiator
News Singapore-based cloud provider says local presence helps win more enterprise customers, giving it edge over bigger players such as Amazon.
Tags: Cloud computing, grid computing, Citrix Systems Inc., SingTel, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Customer, network
S'pore turns on commercial grid
News Starting Nov. 1, three appointed service providers will make available computing services over the grid to businesses in Singapore and the region.
Tags: Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Business, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Singapore, Storage, Small And Medium Business, Grid
Cern CIO: Invest when times are bad
Insight newsmaker Putting resources in fundamental science and education during bad times will get results needed "to make things better and cheaper", argues the head of IT at the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Tags: grid computing, Business Strategies & Functions, CERN, CIO, biomedical, Silicon.com, financial, network, Earth, Geneva
Intel grid-computing app helps scientific research
News Progress Thru Processors application from Facebook site lets people donate their unused processor time to research into climate change, cancer and malaria.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., Chip, Chip Company, grid computing, processor, Facebook, marketing, general manager, Components
HP researchers develop browser-based darknet
News Company has come up with idea for encrypted communications network that could prove useful for businesses that want to keep files confidential.
Tags: Business applications, Web sites, Hewlett-Packard Co., Security, Conference, Web Browser, Cryptography, grid computing, Server, JavaScript
Yahoo to distrbute its version of Hadoop
News Hadoop is an open-source grid computing project, and demand for Yahoo's take on that software has led the company to make available its own code.
Tags: grid computing, Open source, Apache Software Foundation, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apache Hadoop, Server, blog, Benefit, Open source
Platform moves into cloud management tools
News Veteran grid company Platform Computing releases cloud management software to aggregate virtual and physical resources from any provider.
Tags: Cloud computing, grid computing, Web services, Xen, BMC Software Inc., Quocirca, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Cloud computing, Environment, Platform Computing Inc.
IBM floats vision of cloud's future
Insight newsmaker The head of IBM's cloud-computing strategy talks about why the company wanted to develop the technology, and where he plans to take it.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Utility computing, R&D, IBM Corp., Customer Center, oil & gas, grid computing, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News CERN's ground-breaking particle accelerator, which was shut down after a malfunction caused a leak of liquid helium, is scheduled to begin operating again in April.
Tags: CERN, Accelerator, grid computing, Switzerland, Tom Espiner, theory, scientist, Large Hadron Collider, director, France
CERN's big collider now in action
News The first particle beam successfully traverses the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest machine. Still to come: creating mini black holes.
Tags: Networking technology, CERN, Video, grid computing, image search, England, University of Cambridge, photograph, career, U.K.
How global computing grid could save the world
News A global grid of computers could one day be used to protect the world against disease pandemics and natural disasters.
Tags: Servers, grid computing, CERN, Grid, Computing Grid, Computer, bird flu, statistical analysis, virus, modeling
The current state and future of C++
Techguide Days of C++ as a general purpose programming language are quickly ending for most developers, but there is still great potential for C++ developers to do well.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Personal development, Developer, Cloud Computing, COBOL, C++, Justin James, Microsoft .NET, application development, Java
Cloud computing to fuel open source explosion
News Cloud computing will fuel growth in open source software as companies tighten their budgets and look to self support, predicts database company Ingres.
Tags: grid computing, Mobile applications, Security applications/tools, Berquist Co., Ingres, Database, Open Source, Cloud Computing, operating system, Web Application
S'pore wants 'digital abundance' to be reality
News Country needs its ecosystem to support bid to enable "unlimited bandwidth" and "supercomputing-on-demand", says industry regulator.
Tags: Utility computing, grid computing, Supercomputing, Digital media, Next-generation technology/networks, SMB, Abundance, Google Inc., Singapore, Cloud Computing
Can you trust your business to Google's cloud?
News Cloud computing is ever more fashionable. The recent Google Apps outage shows that online applications and services aren't perfect, but the concept is growing up.
Tags: Utility computing, grid computing, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, SLA, software, Adobe Systems Inc., strategy, Google Apps, word-processing
