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whitepaper In fact, the recent revolution in information technology may be traced back to mid-1993 when NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), within the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign campus, released the first version of NCSA...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This paper is a step-by-step guide based on the highly successful cluster deployment at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. The cluster was built as a joint effort between NCSA...
[03 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The Apache server was developed from an early version of the original NCSA server with the intent of providing further improvement while maintaining compatibility. Since then, all development efforts on the NCSA server have ceased.
[25 Oct 2007]
whitepaper NCSA has developed a Backup Tracking System (BTS) to perform backup operations based on knowledge of the network and when each machine was last successfully backed up. Periodic data backup is a system administration requirement that has changed as...
[01 Feb 2007]
whitepaper A recent AOL/National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Online Safety Study in the USA found that 80 percent of scanned computers actually had some form of spyware or adware present and Earthlink reports that a scan of 3 million computers systems...
[14 Apr 2006]
whitepaper The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has earned and maintains an international reputation in high-performance computing, networking, storage, data mining, and scientific visualization.
[08 Nov 2005]
whitepaper The vision of scientific computing in the future relies on computational grids - powerful processors, research instruments, and huge data archives linked by fast networks and advanced software. These grids will be as easy to use as the Web and as...
[24 Nov 2004]
News A survey by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) found far more people remembered the name of the pop singer who accidentally flashed her breast during this year's Super Bowl half time break than when they last updated their virus...
[04 Oct 2004]
whitepaper Home to one of the fastest computers in the world, NCSA at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, is the lead institution for the National Computational Science Alliance, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper Here the text is received in SGML, converted to HTML and viewed using the NCSA Mosaic World Wide Web browser. It has been suggested that network publishing allows the traditional intermediaries of publisher and library to be dropped from the...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper One known example came in November of 1994, when one of the first commercial Webservers, running HP-UX (Hewlett-Packard UNIX), was successfully breached using a buffer overflow attack against the NCSA 1.3 Web server.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper “In the Wild” virus detection is part of the criteria of National Computer Security Association (NCSA) Anti-virus Product Certification, SECURE COMPUTING Checkmark Certification, the proposed UK IT Security Evaluation and Certification (ITSEC) anti...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper In 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois pushed the CERN scientists' idea further by creating a software tool called Mosaic. The WWW provides users with a uniform and convenient means of...
[24 Feb 2004]
Cheat Sheet The National Technology Grid http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ What's that then? Sounds a bit like the leccy to me. You're right. It is a bit like the electricity grid. Grid computing is all about making the most of computer resources by joining them up...
[11 Apr 2002]
News Dan Reed, director of NCSA, said in a statement: "We believe that Linux clusters will soon be the most widely-used architecture for parallel computing, and that these two clusters from IBM are the best way to deliver terascale performance.
[18 Jan 2001]
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