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Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo Geo bought its London sewer network from Thames Water and National Grid in 2006. silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down inside London's Victorian sewer network to see a... [22 Jul 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo The site is plugged into the 'super grid', the base level of the national power grid and during shortages is given the same power priority as a hospital. The two data halls being built fill just a quarter of the available space. [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo A grid of 64 sensors monitors the surface of the image, playing piano notes as a person moves across its surface. Passing through the soothing blue glow of a giant neon tube sets the tone perfectly for outsourcer Satyam's R&D facility in Chennai... [19 May 2008]
Photos: BlackBerry Boldly goes Qwerty over touch again
Photo There is also a trackball scroller and additional navigation buttons, and the graphical user interface offers a tiled grid of clickable icons which are scrolled through via the trackball. The Bold has a shiny black face and curved silver edges... [15 May 2008]
Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory
Photo Due to the huge demand for computing power, the organisation runs a supercomputer and uses grid computing to support the development process. CFD requires huge amounts of processing power which Red Bull is able to boost through grid computing. [10 Mar 2008]
Photos: Cambridge innovation day abuzz with fresh tech
Photo The grid is filled with random numbers every time a password or PIN is required. Users create a pattern by choosing four squares on a grid (pictured) and it is this pattern which is then used to authenticate purchases or passwords, instead of a... [07 Sep 2007]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo Handling all this information and dishing it out to 5,000 scientists around the world is no mean feat so a global grid has been put together to distribute and filter the data. Find out more about the super-grid behind the LHC and see shots inside... [30 May 2007]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo The LHC's grid uses a four-tiered model with a primary back-up recorded on a tape at Cern. To make sense of all this information, Cern - the European centre for particle physics near Geneva which is building the collider - has put together a global... [21 May 2007]
Re:Viewing 2005: Photos of the year
Photo November 2005: silicon.com's Steve Ranger visits the world's largest grid computing project at the CCLRC e-Science Centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. See more photos of the world's biggest grid here. [20 Dec 2005]
Photos: World's biggest grid
Photo John Gordon deputy director of the CCLRC e-Science Centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory checks that the grid is running well. This robot hand, part of a tape library, is used by researchers to retrieve the data needed to test their physics... [24 Nov 2005]
