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- Why computers fail
- Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...
- Tags: Checkpoint, Multiprocessor, Failure, Computer, Desktop Computer, LANL, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
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- Microsoft still fighting a losing battle against Google
- Microsoft still fighting a losing battle against Googlebut MS has shown they can't think outside the box...all they do is make 'me too' products and add on gimmicky low utility features like "the social" with the Zune. Seach is not different... they add nothing to the mix that really...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search dealThe chattering class???"The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo’s never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class–bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship" ...Why would companies like Microsoft and Yahoo let their business strategies be driven by "the...
- Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?
- A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?Neato technology, but...I was a nuclear engineer in a former life, so I can make a pretty good guess as to what the technology in these mini-nukes is. Its all very clever, as one could imagine from a product coming out of LANL.However,...
- Tags: reactor, micro nuclear reactor, nuclear reactor, garden, nuclear energy
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...
- Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Breaking out of walled gardens: The promise of ethernet interconnection
- COLT has always been a pioneer in the delivery of Ethernet services. Our Ethernet capability stretches back to 1993 when we launched our first point-to-point Ethernet service. We quickly developed it into our standard Ethernet service, COLT LANL ink, and followed that with Ethernet over DSL , hub-and-spoke and any-to-any...
- Tags: COLT TELECOM Group, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-08-23
- A Study of FDDI and Ethernet Traffic on the LANL Network Backbone
- This paper discusses several network traffic traces taken on the Los Alamos National Laboratory backbone between 2001 and 2002. These traces, approximately 1.2 terabytes of binary data, will soon be released for public study in an anonymous form. This paper will discuss the collection methodology, tools, and an analysis showing...
- Tags: FDDI, Ohio State University, Ethernet, Fiber Optics, Networking, Telecommunications
- White papers 2007-02-05
- An 'underground' radio to save lives
- The Duluth News Tribune wrote last week about a communication device which could be a lifesaver for miners. This invention is the brainchild of David Reagor, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL. His prototype radio works at depths of 500 feet and is based on very low frequency...
- Tags: radio, David Reagor, Underground Radio
- Blog posts 2006-05-06
- Windows for supercomputers likely out by fall
- Windows for supercomputers likely out by fallLate againLast week we learned that Windows hopes to have a 64-bit OS running soon. Today we learn Windows hopes to introduce a beta Windows supercomputing cluster this summer. Yawn.Good thing MS gets a 60 percent profit margin on its desktop and...
- Tags: Microsoft Excel, Operating systems, Even Microsoft, computer, grid computing, supercomputer, Wintel, cluster, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-03-03
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