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RSS laboratoryJaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News Housed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Jaguar can reach a performance speed of 1.75 petaflop per second. AMD processors power the top three fatest supercomputers in the world,... [17 Nov 2009]
Addressing the Top 5 Database Vulnerabilities Plaguing Federal Agencies
White Paper Agencies of the U.S.government such as The Pentagon, NASA, FAA, The Army, The Veterans Administration, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have suffered data losses - either through inadvertent human error, insider... [13 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 early days and... [07 Oct 2009]
Mastering the Risk/Reward Equation: Optimizing Information Risks to Maximize Business Innovation Rewards
White Paper For top-performing organizations, business innovation is not simply an event in time or a siloed laboratory project to generate a new product. It is an on-going, inter-disciplinary, cross-organizational effort to drive... [06 Oct 2009]
HIPAA Email Security Management in Email Communications
White Paper Patients are becoming more comfortable with emailing their physician's office to schedule an appointment, discuss laboratory results or request refills on medication. Performing daily business transactions through... [05 Oct 2009]
Earth System Grid Authentication Infrastructure: Integrating Local Authentication, OpenID and PKI
White Paper Climate scientists face a wide variety of practical problems, but there exists an overarching need to efficiently access and manipulate climate model data. Increasingly, for example, researchers must assemble and analyze large datasets... [02 Oct 2009]
A Vision for the Modern Grid
White Paper Given the vision, one can create the alignment necessary to inspire passion, investment, and progress toward an advanced US grid for the 21st century. A modernized grid is a necessary enabler for a successful society in the future. [02 Oct 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO - the device... [30 Sep 2009]
Academic Competition Leads the Way to a New Electric Car
White Paper The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is one of 17 North American Universities participating in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a three-year engineering competition established by the United States Department of Energy and... [12 Sep 2009]
Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g Vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008
White Paper Following the same approach taken in the earlier studies, Edison Group set up a laboratory environment to analyze a suite of standard RDBMS administrative tasks, and measured their respective management efficiency (time... [02 Sep 2009]
The National Aerospace Laboratory Saves Cost of Five Full-Time Employees With Integrated Financial Solution
White Paper The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) wanted to resolve technical and functional limitations of the legacy system, exacerbated by increased demand for functionality and provide an integrated and standardized system for... [28 Aug 2009]
HP Workstations Power Modeling for Clean, Energy-Saving Technologies
White Paper EECL deployed Colorado State University's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory has standardized on HP xw4000- and xw6000-series Workstations. In an era of unpredictable energy prices and rising eco-awareness, finding... [28 Aug 2009]
Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo Developers include: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sandia National... [21 Aug 2009]
Data Innovations Embeds Affordability Into Market-Leading Clinical Laboratory Middleware Solution
White Paper Data Innovations (DI) wanted to increase market penetration by making LPM affordable and maintenance-free with rapid installation capabilities for hospitals and clinical laboratories without an existing Oracle site license and develop a... [30 Jul 2009]
NASA Provides Interactive, 3-D Views of the Next Mars Rover to the Public
White Paper NASA hosts a Web site for the purpose of generating public awareness about the Mars Science Laboratory rover known as Curiosity. A charter of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to educate the... [30 Jul 2009]
