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Siemens Case Study: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

In August 2002, the Mechanical Systems Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL, a NASA center managed by the California Institute of Technology, decided to use a single source for all the tools it uses for large-scale projects. Jet Propulsion Laboratory wanted to integrate analysis data with the rest of...

Tags: NASA, Siemens AG, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Analysis, CAD, Software

Case studies 2007-01-01

Infoblox Case Study: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology. Previously, JPL's Domain Name System DNS infrastructure, which performed essential internal domain name resolution services, included approximately 25 servers using various hardware platforms with different operating systems and versions of BIND. This ad-hoc solution required constant...

Tags: Infoblox Inc., Domain Name, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Domain Names, Internet

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Discussion threads 2008-07-16

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Blog posts 2008-07-16

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Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Samsung ships 128GB SSDs with cheaper flash memory

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Blog posts 2008-07-09

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Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Office, spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away

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Tags: Technique, Detection, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Laser, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-27

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Blog posts 2008-06-26

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Software downloads 2008-06-23

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

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Blog posts 2008-06-18

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Discussion threads 2008-06-16

Continuous prototyping

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Tags: Manufacturing, Continuous Prototyping, Demming, software development

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

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Image galleries 2008-06-09

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Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Wirelessly networking cows

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Blog posts 2008-06-08

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Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-06

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Blog posts 2008-06-05

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Software downloads 2008-06-05

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Blog posts 2008-06-02