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How global computing grid could save the world
News Computing grids are already combating diseases: in 2007, the Egee analysed the potential effectiveness of 300,000 possible drug components against the bird flu virus H5N1 and in a project that ran until... [20 Oct 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News The lab has partnerships with companies including HP ProCurve, Intel and Oracle, who provide the backbone of its IT infrastructure, its 8,000-server computer centre and its links to the worldwide Worldwide LHC Computing... [17 Oct 2008]
Cern IT gets new home as servers suck grid dry
News The lab cracking data from the Cern Big Bang experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. A large part of the existing... [06 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider puts a grid on it
News The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors. Scientists who spent years building the grid and its... [03 Oct 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG), a super high bandwidth network, will channel about 15 petabytes - 15 million gigabytes - of data from the LHC to about 5,000 scientists in... [15 Jul 2008]
Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?
News Providers use virtualisation extensively and grid computing software. Cloud computing, the notion of outsourcing hardware and software to Internet service providers, is showing the... [11 Mar 2008]
Red Bull F1 racing up the grid
News The Red Bull Formula One (F1) team is using grid computing to boost development work for its 2008 racing car by getting the most out of its processing power. Using grid technology,... [07 Mar 2008]
Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation
News Combining multiple grid computing farms and adding virtualisation is also on the agenda. Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International,... [04 May 2007]
Grid boosts efforts to fight malaria
News Scientists working to find effective drugs to combat malaria have enlisted the computing muscle of a grid spanning 28 countries. The main bulk of the UK's contribution came from GridPP -... [15 Feb 2007]
Investment bank races apps around the grid
News Grid allows organisations to share that computing power - both in servers and desktops - and so reduce that waste.silicon.com Financial Services Lando told the Finexpo conference London: "The real... [25 Jan 2007]
50,000 sign up to BBC weather grid project
News A grid computing project launched by the BBC, the Met Office and others back in 2003 has seen more than 50,000 users volunteer their home computing power in the name of... [19 Jan 2007]
EC pumps cash into grid research
News The European Commission has launched 23 new research projects to highlight the power of grid computing to businesses. The three projects - BEinGRID, XtreemOS and Brein - will all explore the relevance... [19 Sep 2006]
Sun to revamp grid offering
News And Stuart Wells, the executive vice president for utility computing who joined in 1988, is losing his position leading the Sun Grid project, though it's not yet clear whether he's leaving Sun... [18 Sep 2006]
Oracle grid gets a bit of Sport Relief
News UK charity Sport Relief is to use Oracle's grid computing technology to ensure its web infrastructure can handle online donations and user demand. Oracle will provide a range of its... [14 Jul 2006]
Cost and complexity fears hold back grid computing
News Fewer than one in 10 businesses is planning to adopt grid computing because of concerns about cost, complexity and security, according to a survey of IT managers. Out of the 100 IT... [31 May 2006]
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