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On Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Consolidated Servers in Virtualized Data Centers
White Paper Server consolidation based on Operating System (OS) virtualization technologies aims to increase the total resource utilization in data centers. However, efficiently capitalizing on the available resources requires tools to automatically... [12 Nov 2009]
The Economics of Information Security: A Survey and Open Questions
White Paper The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with divergent interests, one finds incentives becoming as... [11 Nov 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, Acorn's... [07 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Technology start-ups from Cambridge unveiled their hottest gadgets at the Diving with Dolphins exhibition last month. This prototype medical device was developed by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, part of the... [02 Oct 2009]
Mike Lynch
AS Profile Lynch has a degree in engineering from Cambridge University as well as a PhD in mathematical computing. Mike Lynch is one of the UK's most successful technology entrepreneurs. He is continuing to lead... [29 Sep 2009]
Traffic Analysis of the HTTP Protocol Over TLS
White Paper The paper analyzes attacks that take advantage of the data length information leaked by HTTP transactions over the TLS protocol, in order to link clients with particular resources they might access on a web site. [16 Sep 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Here you can see the Cambridge team placing their challenger into the ocean basin in which the competition was held. The Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge took place in July with seven university... [04 Aug 2009]
Photos: Underwater robots compete to make the biggest splash
Photo The University of Cambridge also had a robot in the competition. Here, the team makes final preparations to the Cambridge Autonomous Underwater vehicle. The Cambridge... [20 Jul 2009]
Security Economics and European Policy
White Paper As Europe moves online, information security is becoming increasingly important: first, because the direct and indirect losses are now economically significant; and second, because growing public concerns about information security... [01 Jul 2009]
Stopping Spam by Extrusion Detection
White Paper End users are often unaware that their systems have been compromised and are being used to send bulk unsolicited email (spam). This paper shows how automated processing of the email logs recorded on the "Smarthost" provided by an ISP for... [01 Jul 2009]
Cooperative Attack and Defense in Distributed Networks
White Paper Computer networks are becoming increasingly decentralized. No single entity controls the entire system; therefore, no entity can compel compliance. Peer-to-peer file sharing systems connect users to exchange information, yet lack a... [30 Jun 2009]
iPhone apps, Antique PCs, Microsoft R&D and supercomputers
Photo Photo credit: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com silicon.com also got snappy at Microsoft Research's recently opened R&D facility in Cambridge. The University of Leicester's Spectrum HPC is one of the main... [02 Jun 2009]
NHS warned: It's time to beat the breaches
News One incident cited was the loss from Cambridge University Hospital of an unencrypted USB stick, which was later recovered by a car-wash attendant. The Information Commissioner's Office is putting... [26 May 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo Paul Calleja, director of HPC services at Cambridge University, said: "There is quite a complex series of operations that have to be run in sequence to avoid inefficiencies. Scientists across the UK are... [18 May 2009]
Uni takes supercomputing to the cloud
News This "democratisation of HPC" gets underway later this year, when Cambridge University begins leasing processing time on its Darwin supercomputer to small- and medium-sized businesses. Paul Calleja,... [11 May 2009]
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