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Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo Forty years after packet switching was invented, silicon.com took a wander through the history of its birthplace: the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Bushy Park, Middlesex. Blast skyward with more pictures here. [02 Sep 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo It's 40 years since the technique was invented by a team at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Bushy Park, Middlesex, led by professor Donald Davies (pictured in 1974). Packet switching is one of the crucial technologies that made the... [06 Aug 2008]
Developing the Web100 Based Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT)
White Paper Finding and fixing a network performance or configuration problem is a difficult and complex task. It requires time, energy, and expertise to track down problems and it is difficult for users to know whom to contact when the source and destination... [04 Aug 2008]
Consuming Network Bandwidth With Visapult
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]
Scalable Collective Communication on the ASCI Q Machine
White Paper Scientific codes spend a considerable part of their run time executing collective communication operations. Such operations can also be critical for efficient resource management in large-scale machines. [04 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great supercomputer labs housed inside the US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leading research institution and the site of the reactor in which plutonium for the first atomic bombs was refined... [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great supercomputer labs housed inside the US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leading research institution and the site of the reactor in which plutonium for the first atomic bombs was refined... [14 Jul 2008]
Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper TCP/IP routing is the standard for static wired networks, but TCP/IP cannot quickly ad adjusts to change in network topology that at can occur in wireless ad hoc networks. A wireless ad hoc network's topology is dynamic because hosts eventually... [11 Jul 2008]
Symmetric Active/Active High Availability for High-Performance Computing System Services: Accomplishments and Limitations
White Paper This paper summarizes the efforts over the last 3-4 years in providing symmetric active/active high availability for High-Performance Computing (HPC) system services. This work paves the way for high-level reliability, availability and... [10 Jul 2008]
Concepts for High Availability in Scientific High-End Computing
White Paper Scientific High-End Computing (HEC) has become an important tool for scientists world-wide to understand problems, such as in nuclear fusion, human genomics and nanotechnology. Every year, new HEC systems emerge on the market with better... [10 Jul 2008]
Distributed Intrusion Detection and Attack Containment for Organizational Cyber Security
White Paper The sheer number and sophistication of cyber attacks are making the nation's critical computer networks increasingly vulnerable. At the same time, these networks are being called upon to play a key role in processing, data storage, monitoring and... [10 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]
A Study of FDDI and Ethernet Traffic on the LANL Network Backbone
White Paper This paper discusses several network traffic traces taken on the Los Alamos National Laboratory backbone between 2001 and 2002. These traces, approximately 1.2 terabytes of binary data, will soon be released for public study in an anonymous form. [08 Jul 2008]
Initial Experience With Database Applications
White Paper The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Project relies on a single relational database as its main repository for accelerator information. Every hardware component is represented in this repository with data ranging from equipment location to... [03 Jul 2008]
New NIST Team Tackles High-Level Computer Security Analysis for Federal Agencies
White Paper The Computer Security Expert Assist Team (CSEAT) is a relatively new initiative housed in the Computer Security Division, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [03 Jul 2008]
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