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Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Travel substitution through teleconferencing or home working, for example, cannot happen without tech's close involvement. True sustainability is much more than hammering the data centre over power, says Martin Atherton. [17 Jul 2008]
Apple OS gaining ground on Windows
News Apple's operating system is gaining ground on Microsoft Windows, with second-quarter results showing the company inching close to a 10 per cent market share in the US. While Windows certainly still dominates the computer market, Apple's share... [17 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo This is a close-up of Everest, showing a set of data related to the spread of volcanic ash around the globe after eruptions. Pictured here is one row of the lab's Cray X1E, the largest vector supercomputer in the world. [14 Jul 2008]
Global IP Infrastructure Keeps Refrigeration Leader Close to Its Customers
White Paper Epta Group, a multinational leader in supplying high-quality retail food refrigeration and product displays, traces its origins to the acquisition of an Italian refrigeration company by the Nocivelli family in 1986. [11 Jul 2008]
Efficient Bandwidth Guaranteed Restoration Algorithms for Multicast Connections
White Paper Results show that the heuristic algorithm performs competitively close to the ILP-based algorithm, and is more bandwidth efficient than other existing heuristic algorithms that are based on different restoration strategies. [11 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing of the Direct Linear Multisplitting Method in a Grid Computing Environment
White Paper Many scientific applications need to solve very large sparse linear systems in order to simulate phenomena close to reality. Grid computing is an answer to the growing demand of computational power but communication times are significant and the... [10 Jul 2008]
Decentralized Dynamic Load Balancing: The Particles Approach
White Paper Besides load balancing, the goal is to place intensively communicating tasks close together to minimize communication delays. This paper considers the problem of mapping tasks to processor nodes at run-time in multiprogrammed multicomputer systems... [10 Jul 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: Developer Security Principals and Guidelines (Level 200)
White Paper Then the presenter will close by comparing Rich Client, Web Client, and Web Service applications and modeling the functional areas of security concern. It is important to realize the different types of security attacks that might be encountered. [10 Jul 2008]
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Core Router Testing
White Paper Full testing of the performance of these devices requires close coordination of user plane traffic generation and control plane emulation. The new breed of routers on the market has been designed to meet more demanding requirements in the core... [10 Jul 2008]
Experiences in Traceroute and Available Bandwidth Change Analysis
White Paper IEPM-LITE uses ping, forward traceroutes, and ABwE sensors to monitor, in close to real-time, Round Trip Times (RTT), changes in available bandwidth and routes to and from target hosts. SLAC has been studying end-to-end WAN bandwidth availability... [10 Jul 2008]
Improving End-to-End Delay Through Load Balancing With Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using Directional Antenna
White Paper Route coupling, in wireless medium, occurs when two routes are located physically close enough to interfere with each other during data communication. Multipath routing protocols are distinguished from single-path protocol by the fact that they use... [10 Jul 2008]
The Cisco Intrusion Detection System Delivers Robust Security for Mission Critical eBusiness
White Paper Ipera successfully helped launch their client's highly secure e-commerce web site with the technology in place to immediately detect break-ins, track their source, close down attempts and prevent access. [10 Jul 2008]
Only one in 10 Brits recycles old mobiles
News However, just three per cent of the 6,500 people surveyed said they recycle their unwanted devices, and close to half weren't even aware a mobile phone could be recycled. Just one in 10 people in the UK recycle their old mobile phones. [09 Jul 2008]
Migrating to Eclipse: A Developer's Guide to Evaluating Eclipse Vs. Netbeans
White Paper Eclipse is organized around the concept of a perspective that makes it easier to get the job done, because the appropriate tools (and only the appropriate tools) are close at hand. Feature-for-feature, Eclipse and Netbeans are well matched. [09 Jul 2008]
Virtual Private Networks: International Data Tunnels Offer New Possibilities
White Paper The heightening of the already close longstanding co-operation with Cisco Systems has enabled MediaConnect S.A.to develop an innovative corporate solution. PubliGroupe is one of the main partners for advertisers and publishers in Switzerland. [09 Jul 2008]
