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RSS cluster in newsGoogle open sources data-moving tool
News Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. The tool, which has been in use for several years at... [11 Jul 2008]
Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall
News Rationalising its data centres through virtualisation - recently enabling a cluster of 260 servers to be replaced by just 24. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach to green computing. [09 May 2008]
Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'
News As with everything in life you need the first cluster to come in and spread the word and encourage," she said. The European Commission's (EC) commissioner for information society and media, and ambassador against rip-off roaming charges, Viviane... [07 Mar 2008]
Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner
News The cluster was substantially upgraded since the last test. The Computational Research Laboratories - a subsidiary of the Tata conglomerate, India - installed a HP Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system with 117.9 teraflops. [13 Nov 2007]
Is this the malware mother of all botnets?
News However, debate rages as to whether a million-strong cluster of computers is the same as a supercomputer. Criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs which have a combined computing power greater than the most... [12 Sep 2007]
Brum to extend Linux rollout?
News The project was subsequently mothballed, and some machines in the city's library cluster were migrated to Windows XP instead. Birmingham City Council is mulling an extension to its open source software deployment, which was criticised last year for... [06 Mar 2007]
Cambridge boffins unveil Dell supercomputer
News The machine, called Darwin, consists of 2,340 computers arranged in a cluster. The boffins at the University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell to unveil one of the world's fastest supercomputers. [22 Nov 2006]
Oxford targets 'generation-Asbo' with tech
News Rather than officers trawling through filed reports, the system will show them if an area is seeing a high proportion of similar incidents - such as a cluster of noise complaints in a particular area. [16 Oct 2006]
Digital X-ray plan hits halfway in London and south
News CfH and its suppliers have now rolled out 22 Pacs in the southern cluster and 11 Pacs in the London cluster. In the southern cluster, Fujitsu is rolling out Pacs from GE, while in London BT is rolling out a Philips system.silicon.com Public Sector [09 Aug 2006]
Cost and complexity fears hold back grid computing
News Early adopters of grid computing include universities and large pharmaceutical companies, which pool the computing power of a cluster of servers to process large amounts of data. Fewer than one in 10 businesses is planning to adopt grid computing... [31 May 2006]
Torvalds issues new Linux kernel
News The new kernel has the Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS) as well. Linus Torvalds released a new Linux kernel on Monday that supports features in IBM's Cell processor, includes Oracle software for clustered databases and improves how the open source... [22 Mar 2006]
NHS "disappointed" by digital imaging delays
News But in a statement NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), which oversees the NHS technology upgrade programme, said it is disappointed "that its suppliers have not yet been able to deploy functioning Pacs in its North West and West Midlands (NWWM... [13 Mar 2006]
Salesforce confronts outages critics
News The first was the most disruptive, and happened when "a primary hardware server in our cluster failed and one of our North American (NA1) servers did not automatically recover. Salesforce.com has responded to some of the criticism it has suffered... [06 Mar 2006]
Gates to bang supercomputing drum
News Gates is slated to speak at the SC05 supercomputing conference - a first for Microsoft - where he will announce the company has entered Beta-2 testing of its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The product consists of both a cluster-optimised... [15 Nov 2005]
French military body to install Linux cluster
News An agency of the French Ministry of Defence is planning to install a high-performance Linux cluster for technical and scientific work. The Technical Establishment of Bourges (ETBS), which tests and manufactures armaments, has issued a tender for... [30 Sep 2005]
