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White Paper In one view, high performance and large data visualization is largely an exercise in the efficient use of bandwidth. Terascale visualization problems involve movement of large amounts of data from spinning disk to software components that transform... [04 Aug 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News Neil Lawrence, project manager for AIDC, said: "The use of AIDC has been picked up very quickly and everyone from manufacturers to nurses have realised the benefits. Hospitals across England are keeping track of patients and equipment using RFID... [09 Jul 2008]
Non-Shared Disk Cluster - A Fault Tolerant, Commodity Approach to Hi-Bandwidth Data Analysis
White Paper The STAR experiment, in collaboration with the NERSC Scientific Data Management Group is prototyping / developing an approach to accomplish a high bandwidth data analysis capability using commodity components in a fault tolerant fashion. [09 Jul 2008]
Livermore National Lab Taps Into the Power and Simplicity of GlobeXplorer's ImageConnect
White Paper As one of America's top research facilities, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is constantly pioneering new ways ensure national security and apply science and technology. Whether they're using the ImageConnect extensions in 2D ArcMap projects... [03 Jul 2008]
Canadian Coast Guard Boosts Marine Survey Accuracy and Productivity With Thales Navigations DGPS Solutions
White Paper Lawrence River, was looking for a real-time kinematics GPS solution that would give them vessel positioning data and greater overall accuracy, and would take into account the hydrodynamic effects their old system could not measure. [03 Jul 2008]
Network Appliance Delivers Reliable, Consolidated Storage for Herbert Smith
White Paper To solve the company’s problems, Lawrence turned to Network Appliance. Herbert Smith, as have many law firms, has become heavily dependent on data management in recent years, having seen accelerated growth in the amount of data it produces, manages... [03 Jul 2008]
Cisco Aironet Aids Wireless Internet Access at Union Endicott Schools
White Paper Lawrence and Burns were attracted to the possibility of eliminating their leased telephone line expenses, but were skeptical of the reliability and capacity of wireless bridges. The Union Endicott School District in Endicott, New York had a 56 Kbps... [03 Jul 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Last year's most powerful computer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's BlueGene/L - also made by IBM - reached 208.6 teraflops. Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference... [19 Jun 2008]
DC Power for Improved Data Center Efficiency
White Paper The mission of data centers in use today calls for them to be much more energy intensive than other office buildings. Recent reports prepared by this project team for the California Energy Commission estimated that the US annual energy consumption... [11 Apr 2008]
Peta-Scale I/O With the Lustre File System
White Paper The Lustre file system first went into production in Spring 2003 on the Multiprogrammatic Capability Resource (MCR) cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This paper describes low-level infrastructure in the Lustre file system... [29 Mar 2008]
A HighSpeed TCP Study: Characteristics and Deployment Issues
White Paper The current congestion control mechanism used in TCP has difficulty reaching full utilization on high speed links, particularly on wide-area connections. For example, the packet drop rate needed to fill a Gigabit pipe using the present TCP protocol... [15 Jan 2008]
Improving Distributed Application Performance Using TCP Instrumentation
White Paper Distributed scientific computing applications are requiring an ever-increasing amount of bandwidth. Raw network bandwidth has been increasing rapidly, but getting the applications to effectively use this additional bandwidth is becoming more and... [15 Jan 2008]
Energy Sciences Network Enriches Scientific Collaboration With Integrated Voice, Video, and Web Conferencing
White Paper Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory wanted to facilitate collaboration among scientists in geographically dispersed locations and simplify participation in rich-media conferences. Behind some of the world's most important scientific projects... [11 Jan 2008]
Modbus/TCP Controller for the Power Supplies in ALS BTS Beam Line
White Paper The development, testing and commissioning of a self-contained power supply controller for four 100 KW power supplies for the upgraded Booster to Storage Ring (BTS) beam line at the Advanced Light Source(ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory... [09 Jan 2008]
Ordnance Survey opens up mapping code
News Vanessa Lawrence, the OS's director general and CEO, said of the project that technology is creating new benefits from geographic information. The Ordnance Survey (OS) has opened up its map source code for online developers to use when creating web... [14 Dec 2007]
