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Volunteer Computing on Clusters

Clusters typically represent a homogeneous, well maintained pool of high-end computation resources. This makes them particularly attractive for volunteer computing, where unused compute cycles are utilized for scientific guest applications.. In this paper the authors present measurements on a production compute cluster that show long periods of CPU and memory...

Tags: University Of Houston, Computing, Volunteer Computing, Guest Application, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Linux, Storage, Processors, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2006-05-30

The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing

"Volunteer computing" uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as a source of computing power and storage. This paper studies the potential capacity of volunteer computing. This paper analyzed measurements of over 330,000 hosts participating in a volunteer computing project. These measurements include processing power, memory, disk space, network throughput,...

Tags: Computing, Volunteer Computing, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-02-27

Additional Resources

Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'

I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...

Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-10

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

The most striking thing about the appliance computing applications market is that most customers have one or two global applications and a range of special purpose stuff accumulated and refined over many years - the opposite of what happens in data processing where thousands of tiny applications get strung...

Tags: IBM iSeries, Data Center, Contact Management, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Storage, Servers, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Amazon cuts S3 pricing; Dangles carrot in front of enterprises

Amazon said Thursday that it will cut prices on its Simple Storage Service (S3) and offer more volume discounts. The pricing, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, may reflect that Amazon is looking to grab share as competition from Microsoft and others is about to heat...

Tags: S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Desktone "Desktops as a Service"

I had the opportunity to chat with Desktone about their recent announcements. In the last little while they announced a pilot of virtual desktops as a service and partnerships with both Wyse and Microsoft. Here's what Desktone had to say in the desktop as a service announcement: Desktone,...

Tags: Virtual Desktop, Desktone Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?

Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?They'll all be bitter.Don't get me wrong. I'm what passes for a happy Microsoft user, but all the "flavors" have and shall continue to leave a bitter taste and confused consumers. Another plus for...

Tags: Home entertainment, 64-bit, Operating systems, Games, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft NEEDS, real question, home theater

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply

Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. ...

Tags: CERN, Power Supply, Grid, Computer, Hadron Collider, Productivity, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com

News items 2008-10-08

YieldCurveFitter (for Pocket PC 2002) (CAB)

YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...

Tags: Pocket PC 2002, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Pocket PC, Investment, Financial Accounting, Handhelds, Hardware, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08

YieldCurveFitter (CAB)

YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...

Tags: Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08

YieldCurveFitter (for Windows Mobile 5.0) (CAB)

YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08

YieldCurveFitter (for Windows Mobile 6.0) (CAB)

YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-08

Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?

My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer  MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...

Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...

Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched

Large Hadron Collider computing grid launchedWell, some question the mindset of the scientists, but think this:Hackers breaking into the system are a far greater threat to success, safety, and stability than these scientists (who doubtlessly know much more!) than some pathetic little hacker and his little... oh myOf course, why...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum

The term "brick" was mentioned in a 9-to-5 Mac rumor piece on 10 September 2008 when their source said that the MacBook update is "all about the Brick." 9-to-5 Mac now claims that the "brick" isn't a specific Apple product but rather a manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets...

Tags: Brick, Apple Inc., BW, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-07

From the vault: Lisa demo

From my forthcoming book, Corporations that Changed the World: Apple Inc. After a tour of the Xerox PARC Palo Alto Research Center laboratories in December 1979 and a demonstration of their Alto computer, Steve Jobs decided that the Graphical User Interface GUI was the future of computing. Apple traded...

Tags: Apple Inc., Xerox PARC, Lisa, Productivity, Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"

Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"Green IT or Cost Accounting...I don't believe that there is truly anything like accurate cost-center accounting either. What you propose looks good on paper, but is even more absurd than efforts to bill each employee's cost center for the paper used...

Tags: Green IT, Forrester Research Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...

Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07