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White Paper Cluster Computing - famously used by Google, Hotmail, Yahoo and others to reliably and cost effectively run their services, as well as by government and science agencies such as NASA and the Human Genome Project to... [18 Nov 2008]
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo At number three on the supercomputer list is the Nasa Ames Research Centre Pleiades supercomputer. Photo credit: Nasa Ames Research Center/Marco Librero The colossi of computing took their places on the... [17 Nov 2008]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
Photo Photo credit: Nasa Nasa still launches spacecraft from both Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Centre on nearby Merritt Island. Cape Canaveral is famous as the site from which Nasa has... [13 Nov 2008]
"We'll find ET within two dozen years," says Seti
News He explained it had originally been a Nasa project but that it had been cancelled in the 1990s by a Nevada senator unhappy with its lack of success. A senior Seti astronomer believes advances in computing power could... [12 Nov 2008]
IPv6 and IPsec Tests of a Space-Based Asset, the Cisco Router in Low Earth Orbit (CLEO)
White Paper Off late, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cisco Systems and SSTL performed the first configuration and demonstration of IPsec and IPv6 onboard a satellite in low Earth orbit. This paper documents the design of network... [05 Nov 2008]
Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo This is Nasa's CoLab where people can find out about Nasa and participate in community meetings every Tuesday to decide how exactly the space is used. With interest around virtual worlds hotting up... [31 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.10.08
Round-Up Moving on, the Round-Up got wind this week of a musical currently in development based on Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon's life story. Sometimes, the Round-Up finds, people can't see the wood for the tech. [24 Oct 2008]
Home Office turns down Nasa hacker's appeal
News McKinnon's recent diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum, had not changed home secretary Jacqui Smith's decision that the self-confessed Nasa hacker be extradited, said McKinnon's... [14 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo Owen Memanin of Wood Lane in North London shows his support for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon outside the Home Office following the refusal by the European courts to block McKinnon's extradition to the US. [02 Oct 2008]
Ethernet for Space Flight Applications
White Paper NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is adapting current data networking technologies to fly on future spaceflight missions. The benefits of using commercially based networking standards and protocols have been... [11 Sep 2008]
Photos: McKinnon "distraught" says family
Photo Anger boiled over into tears as the distraught friends and family of Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon picketed the Home Office in a last ditch attempt to block his extradition. McKinnon is due to face trial over allegations he... [03 Sep 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Microblogging
Cheat Sheet Microblogging has been described as enabling a sort of 'social sixth sense' - by keeping you aware of developments as they happen (Nasa's MarsPhoenix Twitter will tweet you the latest insights from scientists analysing... [02 Sep 2008]
Podcast: Building the James Webb Space Telescope
White Paper In this podcast, learn why NASA chose an IBM Rational systems development solution to be used by its three international space agency partners in building the Telescope. The solution, which includes quality checks built... [02 Sep 2008]
Nasa hacker's last legal challenge fails
News Gary McKinnon has lost his legal challenge against extradition to the US to face charges of hacking Nasa and military installations. McKinnon had applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for it to hear an... [28 Aug 2008]
Will Nasa hacker be granted European court appeal?
News McKinnon claims he broke into the systems up until 2001, including Nasa, in a search for UFOs. Gary McKinnon, the man accused of hacking US military systems, has been granted a short stay of extradition. [12 Aug 2008]
