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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 500 institutions every year for at least 10 years. [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 classic signs of disruptive technology - it's not good enough for... [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, workstations left idle by staff when they leave work can also be... [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, added: "We are looking to leverage virtualisation... [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 - a particle physics grid, built as part of another... [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 definition of grid is not about a new distributed... [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 climate change. The grid project discovered the UK's average temperature is... [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 and benefits of grid computing across multiple... [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 altogether, sources said. [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 flagship software products free of charge to enable Sport Relief... [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 managers quizzed, 88 per cent said their board of directors don't... [31 May 2006]
Grid seeks bird flu cure
News Scientists in the UK and Asia have deployed a computing grid to find a potential cure for Avian flu. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (Pparc) said on Thursday that it put up a grid computing project, which was originally designed... [05 May 2006]
Boffins get £52m computing handout
News Many have turned to grid computing, which pools the resources of vast networks of computers. The Department of Trade and Industry has announced a £52m investment in the next-generation, high-end computing service known as HECToR which will provide... [31 Mar 2006]
Sun Grid battered by DoS attack
News Sun Microsystems' Grid, a publicly available computing service, was hit by a denial of service network attack on its inaugural day, the company said on Wednesday. To let people try out the Sun Grid, the company made a text-to-speech translation... [23 Mar 2006]
Sun Grid set to go live, says Schwartz
News Ultimately, Sun believes most computing will happen on generic grid assemblies rather than in customised data centres. Initially, the grid will be used for high-performance computing tasks such as pharmaceutical research or stock market analysis... [22 Mar 2006]
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