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Photos: BlackBerry Boldy 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. BlackBerry-maker RIM has been showing off the latest...

Tags: rim, bold, iphone, blackberry

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[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.

Tags: f1, grid, power, server

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[10 Mar 2008]

Photos: Cambridge innovation day abuzz with fresh tech

Photo 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 fixed PIN or password. The grid is filled with random numbers every time a password...

Tags: university, chip and pin, innovation

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[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...

Tags: second life, grid

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[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...

Tags: large hadron collider, grid, particle , lhc

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[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.

Tags: photos of the year, photos

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[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. Photo: Steve Ranger This robot hand, part of a tape library, is used by researchers to retrieve the data needed to...

Tags: grid computing

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[24 Nov 2005]