distributed working
Kangaroo tech to get ITV kiss of life?
News Thomas said efforts by the BBC, BT and ITV to create a common standard for internet-distributed content to work on television sets - known as Project Canvas - is likely to be more significant than Kangaroo could have been. [06 Feb 2009]
ITV F1 website gets in the fast lane
Case Study This meant traffic coming from outside could be distributed across the infrastructure, allowing the F1 site to stand up to the huge amount of traffic. As White had previous experience of working with... [05 Dec 2008]
Reeducation to Expand the Software Engineering Workforce: Successful Industry/University Collaborations
White Paper In addition, the increasingly global business climate and expanding emphasis on distributed computing have accelerated the need for business software. For the past two years, the Industry/University (I/U) subgroup of the... [03 Dec 2008]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News These networks could be tailored to infect other users' computers with malware, or to launch massive distributed denial of service attacks designed to take down computer systems. Cash-out fraudsters use "money mules",... [31 Oct 2008]
PyTrilinos: High-Performance Distributed-Memory Solvers for Python
White Paper Ideally, the programming language is only a tool used to produce a working library or application. The choice of programming language for the development of large-scale, high-performance numerical algorithms is often a... [22 Oct 2008]
Five ways to make meetings bearable
Comment A clear agenda, distributed to each attendee beforehand in good time and with each item allocated a time slot, is essential. The average working person spends eight working weeks per... [21 Oct 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News Working with Oracle, it has also managed to greatly increase the speed at which Cern databases could be distributed to its computer centres.von Rueden described the challenge of collecting and organising... [17 Oct 2008]
Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test
News Although Loebner is convinced there will be a time when we have robots with artificial intelligence in our homes, he remains concerned such technology may not be distributed as fairly as it could be, much in the same way... [10 Oct 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Live coverage
Comment We need to make sure not only that the confirmed results are immediately input into the systems but also that they are printed and distributed to the media and sports federation officials. Given the extensive... [12 Aug 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo Speaking to silicon.com, NPL chief scientist, professor John Pethica explained: "The whole idea of packet switching is what underlies the idea of a set of distributed nodes, which is now the internet. [06 Aug 2008]
VMware Infrastructure: Resource Management With VMware DRS
White Paper Working with ESX Server 3, VirtualCenter 2, and VMotion, VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) dynamically allocates and balances computing capacity and virtual machine placement with resources... [04 Aug 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Secure remote access closes in
Comment Now, with the internet ubiquitous, we are all used to a highly distributed computing environment, with information obtained on demand via a wide array of computing devices, many of which are mobile. This... [25 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News The LCG will allow researchers to tap into the distributed processing power of almost 100,000 CPUs, crunching through vast amounts of data from the detectors and speeding their hunt for clues about the fundamental nature... [15 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News All incoming post should be scanned and distributed digitally. It also wants to work towards a single customer record, phasing out physical data transfers and working to eliminate paper records. Staff... [26 Jun 2008]
WAN and Application Optimization: Enhancing the WAN Experience With Performance Routing and Wide Area Application Services
White Paper As applications are being centralized, users are becoming increasingly distributed, and as IT organizations are constantly challenged to deliver more services, such as rich content and video to the customers, the... [12 Jun 2008]
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