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Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge in workload associated with future missions and scientific research. Ames director, Pete Worden, said the massive performance boost will fulfil Nasa's increasing need for capacity...

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

CIENA's CN 2000 Storage Extension Platform Provides a High Performance Solution for Cost-Effectively Extending Multiple Applications to Meet Business Continuance Goals

whitepaper The University of California Davis (UC Davis) Medical Center, a fully accredited facility with over 500 beds, supports the clinical and research missions of the UC Davis School of Medicine. Challenge for the University was to optimize existing...

Tags: storage management, extension, protocols, fiber

[10 Apr 2008]

The USAF Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC)

whitepaper These computers directly support Air Force programs, missions, and operations. The US Air Force is one of the largest and most sophisticated IT organizations in the world. The US Air Force has over one hundred bases located in the United States...

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[03 Apr 2008]

JMTC Teams With Intermec Wireless Mobile Computing to Virtually Wipe Out Inventory Errors

whitepaper Army depends on the JMTC to manufacture spare/repair parts and end items as well as to assemble the tool sets, kits and outfits that support soldiers' equipment in the field.tracking system, missions were managed with the existing mainframe base...

Tags: printers - plotters, united states, rate, arsenal

[11 Feb 2008]

Photos: Robots race around 'Darpa city'

Photo Stanford's robot, Junior, was the first to cross the finish line in last Saturday's Urban Grand Challenge, a six-hour test of autonomous vehicles with three separate missions. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, raised the...

Tags: photo, darpa, race, robots

[14 Nov 2007]

TCP-Planet: A Reliable Transport Protocol for InterPlaNetary Internet

whitepaper The space exploration missions are crucial for acquisition of information about the space and the universe. The entire success of a mission is directly related to the satisfaction of its communications needs.

Tags: tcp - ip, protocols, tcp, propagation

[30 Oct 2007]

Vint Cerf gazes at interplanetary web

News During his talk, Cerf said the interplanetary backbone will accumulate as new private and publicly funded missions are launched in the solar system. Internet visionary Vint Cerf has predicted that in the coming decades, scientists will have...

Tags: nasa, data, vint cerf, google

[25 Oct 2007]

Biometric visas get $4.4m tech boost

News The UK biometrics visa programme has awarded a $4.4m contract to Cross Match Technologies for the supply of fingerprint scanners to UK overseas missions. The US-based biometric identity company will provide British embassies and consulates around...

Tags: contract, fingerprints, home office, visas

[24 Sep 2007]

Photos: Cambridge innovation day abuzz with fresh tech

Photo The saucer also has military applications to help reconnaissance missions, with the Ministry of Defence and the US Department of Defense both showing interest in the tech. Search and rescue flying saucers, sniffer bees and mobile maps are just some...

Tags: university, chip and pin, innovation

[07 Sep 2007]

Portal to Empower Charity to Double Its Impact Within One Year

whitepaper Thanks to resources from The Develop Without Borders Challenge, co-sponsored by Microsoft and HP, FUNDAMED expects to double the number of international medical missions it supports each year, increase volunteer and staff productivity, better...

Tags: portals, mission, supports, volunteer

[31 Aug 2007]

A Survey of Sensor Selection Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks

whitepaper Based on the purpose of selection, The paper classifies the schemes into coverage schemes, target tracking and localization schemes, single mission assignment schemes and multiple missions' assignment schemes.

Tags: network security, selection, schemes, sensor

[31 Aug 2007]

VigilNet: An Integrated Sensor Network System for Energy-Efficient Surveillance

whitepaper This paper describes one of the major efforts in the sensor network community to build an integrated sensor network system for surveillance missions. Such missions often involve a high element of risk for human personnel and require a high degree...

Tags: monitoring systems, sensor, surveillance, sensor network

[25 Aug 2007]

Portal to Empower Charity to Double Its Impact Within One Year

whitepaper Thanks to resources from The Develop Without Borders Challenge, co-sponsored by Microsoft and HP, FUNDAMED expects to double the number of international medical missions it supports each year, increase volunteer and staff productivity, better...

Tags: portals, supports, mission, volunteer

[10 Aug 2007]

A Survey of Sensor Selection Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks

whitepaper Based on the purpose of selection, The paper classifies the schemes into coverage schemes, target tracking and localization schemes, single mission assignment schemes and multiple missions' assignment schemes.

Tags: selection, schemes, sensor, sensors

[10 Aug 2007]

The Nonprofit Evolution: Six Simple For-Profit Business Strategies to Improve Efficiency, Customer Service and Revenues

whitepaper They are beginning to operate like their "non-loss" counterparts - focusing more on improved efficiency, increased customer service, and improved revenue performance as integral to their organisations' missions.

Tags: profit, nonprofit, revenue, customer service

[02 Aug 2007]

Science of Continuous Media Application Design in Wireless Networks of Mobile Devices

whitepaper Example deployments might include disaster relief missions, conferences, and university campuses to name a few. Display of continuous media using self-organizing ad hoc networks of wireless communication systems will potentially be used in a...

Tags: cellular equipment, media, continuous, bandwidth

[01 Aug 2007]

Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Using Multi-Criteria Evolutionary Algorithms

whitepaper There are difficulties in the design of these vehicles because of the varied and non-intuitive nature of the configurations and missions that can be performed. A growing area in aerospace engineering is the use and development of Unmanned Aerial...

Tags: gui, configurations, vehicles, trade

[15 Jun 2007]

Photos: Top Gun goes virtual

Photo The Mission Training through Distributed Simulation (MTDS) programme has developed the Capability Concept Demonstrator in which pilots in different locations can simultaneously take part in simulated missions.

Tags: training, military, raf, mod

[08 Jun 2007]

Networking Academy Program in Ethiopia Bridges Both Gender and Digital Divides

whitepaper Achieve her missions she did. With a bachelor degree in Public Administration from the National University of Rwanda, Beth Murora had but a few computer-related courses under her belt. She knew that the Networking Academy program, which follows the...

Tags: training and certification, program, networking academy, degree

[13 Apr 2007]

Porting Linux to ERC-32 Architecture

whitepaper ERC-32 is an ESA approved radiation-tolerant SPARC V7 processor developed for space applications, and its interest lies in the open nature of its design and specification in order to increase the availability of development tools, operating...

Tags: linux - open source, description, linux, space

[11 Apr 2007]

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