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- Distributed Computing
- (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing.
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- Yahoo inks cloud computing research pact with Tata unit
- Yahoo said Monday that it has signed a cloud computing research pact with Computational Research Laboratories, a Pune, India-based subsidiary of Tata. Under the deal, Computational Research Laboratories CRL will make one of its supercomputers available for cloud computing research. Yahoo says it will use its CRL...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Userland Frontier X (dmg)
- Frontier is a powerful Web content management system, built around an object database, scripting language, script editor and debugger, outliner, multi-threaded runtime, integrated HTTP server, distributed computing protocols such as XML-RPC and SOAP. Frontier also includes our browser-based content system, Manila, at no extra cost. This version is the first...
- Software downloads 2007-12-13
- Demystify service orientation and learn how it is transforming distributed computing
- The fundamental goal of SOA and service orientation is to produce something with repeatable value, long-term benefit, and inherent flexibility for the strategic good of the organization. The greatest obstacle to achieving this goal is a lack of understanding as to what service orientation, as an industry paradigm,...
- Book chapters 2007-09-10
- Grid - distributed computing at Scale: An Overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum4.5
- Grid is a core concept in modern distributed computing architectures and is aligned with other important distributed computing technologies such as virtualization, service-orientation and data center automation. In a sense, Grids are enabled by virtualization, automation and service-orientation technologies and also integrate these technologies into a unifying solution - particularly...
- White papers 2007-08-28
- Matching Applications With Raw Power Using the Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster
- Cluster computing is the natural outcome of an evolution of distributed computing technology that has been in process for more than a decade. High-Performance Computing HPC clusters provide a mechanism for solving problems that cannot be solved without massive amounts of computing power, and they incorporate not only servers, storage,...
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Donate your spare clock cycles to a good cause
- MacResearch.org has introduced OpenMacGrid a distributed computing grid similar to other distributed computing projects (like SETI@home) but built entirely of Macs utilizing Xgrid:OpenMacGrid is a computing grid built up entirely of Macs, and open to Mac-using scientists everywhere. OpenMacGrid is based on Apples Xgrid technology, which comes pre-installed with every...
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Combining AJAX and WSRF for Web-Browser Based Grid Clients
- This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of combining Asynchronous Javascript And XML AJAX and the REpresentational State Transfer REST architectural style with the Web Service Resource Framework WSRF standard. Accessing WS-Resources according to WSRF in a manner compatible with the REST principles, using a Web browser, makes it possible to provide...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computing
- MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computingYeesh......you know things about the company I work at that I didn't know. Didn't know the Dryad team was based out of Mountain View (my official home office, though I live in LA).Microsoft DryadGoogle has left a relatively clear roadmap of the technical...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computing
- At this week’s open house for press and analysts, Microsoft Research MSR will be showing off a multitude of projects, including a so far little-publicized distributed-computing platform under development that is code-named “Dryad.” Dryad is one of a number of large-scale-computing efforts in which Microsoft researchers are engaged....
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Images: Web surfers dream up electric 'sheep'
- Electric Sheep project combines distributed computing, open-source software with psychedelic magic to produce flock of colorful screensavers.
- Image galleries 2006-07-28
- distributed computing - the promise unbroken
- Distributed computing - the promise unbroken2 Questions and a couple of comments Roger...First: good article Roger so Y and :-) (sorry, to much used to Microsoft)I have a question thoughI know this comment is a point of view thing, but it's a prequel to a question.... You wrote that you...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- distributed computing - the promise unbroken
- I asked frequent contributor Roger Ramjet to write a guest blog presenting and defending his idea that distributed Unix makes more sense than my smart display approach. Here's his contribution - read it carefully and I think you'll see we're not so far apart even if he is right to...
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- AJAX - A New Face for Client/Server Computing
- Distributed computing architectures have been evolving for decades. Competitive pressures force organizations to fully utilize the lower cost computing cycles offered by inexpensive desktop computers and industry standard servers in the data center. Today's Internet and Web-based applications are the culmination of this process. The ultimate goal of distributed computing...
- White papers 2006-07-07
- Business Value in Virtualization
- Information Technology IT organizations are increasingly implementing server virtualization as a solution to dramatically lower data center costs and increase competitive advantage. Improvements in distributed computing technology - particularly in operating system design - have made it feasible today to operate multiple server applications as "Virtual machines" VMs within a...
- White papers 2006-05-10
- IBM Grid Offering for IT Optimization: Financial Services
- A difficult economic environment has reinforced the need for financial services organizations to better control their cost-to-income ratios. Financial services organizations, units that are trading different assets or entities that are engaged in different activities must have separate, nonintegrated data and computing systems. Grid computing is a service-oriented architectural approach...
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- IBM Grid Offering for Information Accessibility: Life Sciences
- Bioinformatics groups are at the center of the problem facing the life sciences sector: how best to harness and analyze disparate datasets and files and other challenges for the life sciences industry include querying nonstandard data formats, accessing data assets across global networks and securing data outside firewalls. Grid computing...
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- IBM Grid Offering for Engineering Design: Electronics Industry
- Electronics companies face great pressure to reduce IT investments and increase return on investment ROI, requiring them to maximize the use of their existing Infrastructures. Grid computing, a service-oriented architectural approach that uses open standards to enable distributed computing over the Internet, a private network or both helps electronics companies'...
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- IBM Grid Offering for Information Accessibility: Agricultural Chemicals
- Bioinformatics groups are at the center of the problem facing the agricultural chemical sector: how best to harness and analyze disparate datasets and files. In addition to the immensity of data, other challenges for the agricultural chemical industry include querying nonstandard data formats, accessing data assets across global networks and...
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- distributed computing cracks Enigma code
- Distributed computing cracks Enigma code"Drink your Ovaltine"There it's over.RIP Darren McGavinOld StuffInteresting, BUT... How about giving us a CURRENT Al Qaeda encrypted message to decipher. Sounds like it would be more fun!If anyone could find one.If anyone actually had an encryoted message they could have a go.
- Discussion threads 2006-02-28
- The Ubiquitous Web, UPnP and Smart Homes
- UPnP is a distributed computing framework based on Web technologies that is intended for use in local area networks - especially home networks. Over the years, valuable lessons have been learned from the efforts of various companies to develop and deploy products based on this technology. The essence of this...
- White papers 2006-02-14
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