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The American Diabetes Association: Improving the Accuracy of Health Care System Modeling: The American Diabetes Association ADA is the nation's leading voluntary health organization supporting diabetes research, information and advocacy. Diabetes is a complex disease. The ADA has a vision to accurately predict the effectiveness of different therapies to best manage the disease while considering these myriad factors. ADA experts found a...; Tags: American Diabetes Association, United Devices, disease, Software Solution, modeling, health care, software; Case studies 2006-05-04
The University of Oxford: Intel and united devices Team Up to Speed Cancer Research: The University of Oxford Chemistry Department is home to the Centre for Computational Drug Design, set up by the National Foundation for Cancer Research NFCR. Oxford's aggressive goal was to screen several chemical libraries against 12 target proteins previously determined to be key elements in cancer growth. The objective was...; Tags: United Devices, University of Oxford; Case studies 2006-05-04
U.S. Department of Defense: Unprecedented Pre-Clinical Research Acceleration to Find an Anthrax Treatment: The Anthrax project was launched when a key protein component of anthrax was submitted to the United Devices Global grid powered with the Grid MP platform. The team responsible for this collaborative effort needed to accelerate the process of identifying lead molecular candidates to ultimately develop a treatment for advanced-stage...; Tags: United Devices, grid, PC, server; Case studies 2006-05-04
Life Sciences Solutions: Discovery, Clinical, Sales & Marketing: With expiring patents, drying pipelines, strict FDA guidelines, and stiff competition, the business of drug delivery gets tougher every year. The amount of available molecular, population and patient data is immense, and building a reliable infrastructure to sift through it all is arduous and computationally demanding. While recent advances in...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, United Devices, life science, workstation, desktop, server, computer; Case studies 2006-05-04
Supporting Biodefense by Speeding Development of Countermeasures: The threat of terrorist attack with a biological, chemical, or agricultural agent can be countered by quickly identifying drug leads to treat the related afflictions. United Devices grid technology can exponentially accelerate Virtual High-Throughput Screening used in the initial stages of drug discovery. United Devices' grid infrastructure features the most...; Tags: United Devices, terrorist attack, security; Case studies 2006-05-04

Oil & Gas Solutions: Accelerate Exploration and Production Analysis: Energy exploration and production (E&P) companies have always needed to consume significant amounts of compute power. Fueling this need is a growing amount of available data that must be analyzed by highly sophisticated applications in order to maximize productivity and minimize time to extraction. With United Devices' Grid MP solutions,...; Tags: United Devices; Case studies 2004-11-30
Supporting Security and Intelligence Operations With Grid Technology: In line with E-Government initiatives, government agencies are looking for ways to become more efficient and effective. Adding to the complexity of this effort is the Homeland Security mission of enabling intelligence operations to happen faster and more accurately than ever before. As the available pool of data grows exponentially,...; Tags: United Devices, e-government, homeland security; Case studies 2004-11-30
Life Sciences Solutions: Drug Discovery: Drug discovery researchers working with in silico screening tools can significantly reduce project timelines while increasing discovery capabilities by grid-enabling their applications. In silico drug discovery is extremely CPU-intensive and time-consuming. In addition, combinatorial researchers are faced with massive libraries of molecular data - and building a reliable infrastructure to...; Tags: United Devices, researcher, life science, CPU; Case studies 2004-11-30
united devices and IBM: Accelerating Life Sciences Research and Analysis: To keep pace in a highly competitive environment, life sciences companies need innovative ways to increase the scope and speed of their discovery and development work, bringing new treatments to market faster and more successfully than ever before. To help meet these challenges, United Devices and IBM offer a solution...; Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, United Devices, life sciences company, IBM Corp., life science, database; Case studies 2004-11-30
GlaxoSmithKline: Implementing Breakthrough Technology for Clinical Development Modeling and Simulation: GlaxoSmithKline is a research-based pharmaceutical company and a drug development innovator. When faced with the challenge of improving efficiency in modeling and simulation, the Research, Modeling and Simulation team at GSK's clinical development organization set out to develop new, faster methods of establishing and running models for a drug's effects...; Tags: United Devices, Modeling, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., Research & Development, Business Operations; Case studies

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How to ... install Ubuntu 8.04 on a USB flash drive: From the Hardware 2.0 mailbag: Can you install Ubuntu on a USB flash drive? Yes, yes you can. Here's what you need: Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD USB flash drive (4GB+) If you don't have an Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD then...; Tags: Ubuntu, USB Flash Drive, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-16
RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working: RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...; Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics; News items 2008-05-16
Photo of rumored Palm Treo 800w appears: Back in the day when I had a Palm OS Treo I used to load up the custom ROMs created by Shadowmite since they took out a bunch of junk that was included by default and helped me recover some available memory. It seems he scored the first photos of...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Palm OS, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Open Source in 2013: <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...; Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-16
News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...; Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform: Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...; Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Patent reform dead for 2008: The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...; Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
The newspaper's last stand: Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...; Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Off Topic: Integrating mobile devices can be a challenge: I've been working through a project for a KG client that involves running through the same script on Windows XP, Mac OS X (10.5) and Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I mentioned the overall parameters of that effort in the post Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and...; Tags: Microsoft ActiveSync, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobile Device, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Desktops, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Mobius Seattle 2008; First impressions of the HTC Advantage X7510: As I stated in my Mobius Seattle 2008 Day one post eric lin from HTC gave each one of the attendees the new HTC Advantage 7510 device. These may not come to the U.S. due to Qualcomm import issues, but you will be able to pick them up from U.S....; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobius, Key, HTC Advantage 7510, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15