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Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Instead of collecting and processing ever larger amounts of information in the hope of discovering terrorist plots, Black said, the next-generation approach would be to detect anomalous behaviour in real-time by combining information collected... [04 Jul 2008]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News The procurement was managed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council on behalf of UK Research Councils with some of the money coming from the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills. [15 Jan 2008]
Intel: 'Software must learn to do Moore'
News This is a physical limit," he said, referring to the fact that core chip speed is not increasing. Last week, Microsoft's Ty Carlson said the next version of Windows will have to be "fundamentally different" to handle the amount of processing cores... [29 May 2007]
Microsoft strips features from 'Viridian'
News The first feature that is being taken out of the initial Viridian release is so-called live migration, which enables people to move a running virtual machine from one physical server to another. And it will only support computers with a maximum of... [11 May 2007]
Boffins get £52m computing handout
News According to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, which is managing the project, HECToR is set to go live in April 2007. The High End Computing Terascale Resource (HECToR) will give scientists the processing power to carry out... [31 Mar 2006]
CIO Jury: Will biometrics replace passwords and PINs?
News Biometrics will replace passwords in many institutions in the next 18 months via fingerprint recognition for authenticated sign-on and via iris and facial recognition for physical building access, according to Graham Yellowley, director of... [16 Feb 2006]
Inside London's Congestion Charging hub
News Cross said: "What's unique about our scheme is there are no physical barriers to entry. The cameras are linked by fibre optic to the image processing centre. The aim of the scheme, which went live in February 2003, was to reduce traffic by 15 per... [13 Oct 2005]
RFID tags used to track Hurricane Katrina dead
News When relief workers find an unidentified body, they insert a chip and enter information about the location, physical condition and characteristics of the body. VeriChip said: "While difficult to think about, such technologies will greatly assist in... [19 Sep 2005]
Dell lays out 64-bit Madison plans
News The company is expected to tout the advantages of 64-bit Itanium servers over their 32-bit Intel Xeon brethren - benefits such as the ability to handle more physical memory and to perform floating-point calculations with more aplomb - for markets... [26 Jun 2003]
Microsoft to change licensing rules
News But Park warned that "the technical aspects of using logical and physical partitioning of servers to achieve licensing cost reductions are complex". Such a plan is also good for responding to spikes in processing demands because a partition under a... [14 Mar 2003]
PlayStation 2 taps into grid computing
News IBM, which provides servers, physical space and software for the Butterfly project, has been the most active corporate proponent of grid computing as a way to make networked computing more reliable and efficient. [27 Feb 2003]
SGI goes live with supercomputer
News CSC is advertising it as a viable alternative to testing in a physical environment, or for applications such as genome research. Customers pay CSC on demand for the processing power they need. SGI has gone live on the world's largest production... [24 Jan 2002]
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