grid high performance in news
IBM to use DNA to shrink chip size
News The nanotube grid, conceivably, could function as a data-storage device or perform calculations. Once the nanotube array has been constructed, the laboratory-generated DNA molecules could be removed, leaving an orderly... [21 Feb 2008]
Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation
News Combining multiple grid computing farms and adding virtualisation is also on the agenda. Paul Hopkins, IT director at Newcastle University, said: "There are lots of different and often complimentary reasons, including... [04 May 2007]
Sun Grid set to go live, says Schwartz
News Initially, the grid will be used for high-performance computing tasks such as pharmaceutical research or stock market analysis but the company expects mainstream use eventually. Sun... [22 Mar 2006]
Cisco snaps up Topspin for $250m
News These 'server fabric switches' are designed to provide data centres with high-performance networking service in areas such as grid computing, clustered applications and server... [15 Apr 2005]
Grids get corporate groupies
News In the latest effort to put corporate teeth into the amorphous idea of grid computing (for the lowdown, see the silicon.com grid computing Cheat Sheet), IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Intel are banding... [24 Jan 2005]
Grid computing: Its $12bn time is coming, say analysts
News When grid finally gets its act together in terms of software and standards, and spreads beyond niche high performance computing applications, the technology should make it onto CIOs'... [21 Apr 2004]
Oracle ships 10g database and throws in price cuts
News Oracle 10g, a significant upgrade to the company's flagship product, introduces "grid" capabilities to lash several hardware servers together for better performance and reliability. The clustering... [04 Feb 2004]
Open source database use on the increase
News Developers are also keen to string together several cheaper database servers in a grid configuration as a cheaper alternative to pricier high-end database servers. Twelve per cent of companies in the... [05 Jan 2004]
Lights go out as power cuts cripple America
News News outlets reported that the outage was the result of a failure in the Niagara Mohawk power grid. While mobile phone networks have suffered severely, internet performance tracker Keynote Systems said... [15 Aug 2003]
Liverpool Uni employs Dell cluster
News The university's physics department will use the high-performance computing cluster, consisting of 940 Dell PowerEdge servers loaded with Red Hat's Linux operating system, for research in physics.... [10 Jun 2003]
Sun goes back to its high-performance roots
News Khan enumerated Sun products appropriate to the market - everything from workstations to grid software to groups of massive multiprocessor Sun Fire 15K servers joined with the high-speed Sun Fire Link... [28 Apr 2003]
Swedes plump for Itanium
News In addition, the cluster will be linked into Sweden's national 'grid' for scientific computing, one of many networks of shared computers that collectively tackle even larger computing problems. Thus far, Itanium systems... [14 Apr 2003]
Itanium gets revamped Linux supercomputer software
News The move will make it easier for Rocks users to add Itanium systems into clusters that use the other chips, according to Philip Papadopoulos, program director for the San Diego Supercomputing Centre's (SDSC) grid and... [11 Apr 2003]
Planet Online deal secures ISP foothold for Energis
News Energis - which operates a high-speed UK network piggy-backed on the National Grid's power lines - said the acquisition adds to its portfolio of value-added Internet and intranet services, and delivers a... [01 Sep 1998]
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