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Second Life sets techies on stability
News Linden Lab has revealed its tech group is tackling several areas that it hopes will make the Second Life Grid - the platform which allows users to build their own islands - work more efficiently and reduce technical... [15 Sep 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News Information contained on the system includes addresses, postcodes and national grid references, as well as a unique property reference number for each individual property. The NLPG has been used by public sector... [30 Apr 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... [11 Mar 2008]
National ID Scheme an "essential defence"
News Byrne added the national ID system will become as much a part of the fabric of public life as the railways in the 19th century or the national grid in the 20th. Byrne outlined several trials, including a joint Identity... [19 Jun 2007]
'You are here': Mobile mapper aims for US
News Ellenby, who helped found laptop pioneer Grid Systems, came up with the idea with his sons, in part to compensate for his own weak sense of direction. US carriers are also historically cheap, Ellenby said, and they... [01 Nov 2006]
Luton gears up with high speed network
News The borough's schoolchildren will all have access to the Luton Learning Grid via the network with a bandwidth of up to 10Mbps. The service will help the council meet government targets for local... [26 Oct 2006]
Sun to revamp grid offering
News At least one high-level Sun Microsystems executive is departing after a shake-up that is also affecting Sun Grid, a service to let customers pay by the hour to use its computers. Sun is moving the... [18 Sep 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... [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... [23 Mar 2006]
Sun Grid set to go live, says Schwartz
News Sun Microsystems plans to open its much-delayed public Sun Grid this week or next, letting people use PayPal to buy processing cycles, company president Jonathan Schwartz said. The Sun Grid is one of... [22 Mar 2006]
Sun takes a shine to patch management star
News Sun plans to sell Aduva's technology as a product that customers can install and operate on their own or as an automated service on the Sun Grid, computers whose processing power Sun sells to some... [23 Feb 2006]
'Maiden flight' for world's biggest grid
News More than 20 other computing facilities worldwide, including those at the UK's Universities of Edinburgh, Lancaster and Imperial College London, were also involved in successful tests of a global grid... [16 Feb 2006]
A new software age is dawning, says Sun
News Naturally, Sun believes it has the answer - buying processing power from the company's standardised computing grid. But in San Francisco at an annual Sun meeting with analysts, Papadopoulos laid out his reasoning for why... [03 Feb 2006]
CIO Agenda, part 1: The 2006 IT shopping list
News Other over-hyped technologies in the last 12 months included mobile computing, service oriented architecture (SOA), grid computing and voice over IP (VoIP) - although half of respondents said they will... [15 Dec 2005]
Trust issues blight bank use of on-demand grids
News In August for example, Sun launched a financial risk simulations service on a grid network made of 3,000 servers. Grid computing holds out the promise of high capacity computing at low... [04 Oct 2005]
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