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RSS grid dataSpecifying and Monitoring Guarantees in Commercial Grids Through SLA
White Paper Grid computing has relied on "best effort" as the guiding principal of operation. SLAs are either negotiated between or specified to management proxies, and they are responsible for automated monitoring of data and for triggering evaluations of the... [29 Jul 2004]
Sun shines on utility computing
News Now part two is coming, in what the company is calling its Sun Grid: storage costing $1 per gigabyte per month. In some ways it's a distant vision, particularly for customers reluctant to entrust their data and computing infrastructure to others... [01 Feb 2005]
Logica makes a 'bold move' into B2B exchanges
News The company has bought the part of the grid which runs the settlement system for wholesale suppliers and users, ESIS, and the one which runs the payments system EPFAL. Cameron explained that Logica had been running the Market Data Clearing House in... [22 Nov 2000]
Winners crack open the champagne at inaugural CNET UK Awards
News An important innovation in the field of grid computing, and also in a climate of tight budgets, VMware holds great promise for companies looking to use spare server resources, allowing in some cases utilisation to increase from less than five per... [09 Oct 2003]
Issues for Using Computing and Data Grids for Large-Scale Science and Engineering
While the basic Grid services have been demonstrated, e.g.in the IPG prototype demonstrated at the Supercomputing 1999 conference, and the GUSTO testbed demonstrated in 1998, a general purpose computing, data management, and real-time... [25 Nov 2004]
Issues for Using Computing and Data Grids for Large-Scale Science and Engineering
White Paper While the basic Grid services have been demonstrated, e.g.in the IPG prototype demonstrated at the Supercomputing 1999 conference, and the GUSTO testbed demonstrated in 1998, a general purpose computing, data management, and real-time... [10 Apr 2008]
2D Inversion of 3D Magnetotelluric Data: The Kayabe dataset
White Paper In the last two Magnetotelluric Data Interpretation Workshops (MT-DIW) the participants were asked to model the Kayabe magnetotelluric dataset, a dense (100 m) grid of thirteen lines, with thirteen stations in each line. [24 Feb 2004]
Bright sparks offer broadband over power lines
News However, the process of adapting the power grid to carry high-speed data signals has been hit by technical problems in the past - with electrical home appliances disrupting the service. Homes and businesses in the Winchester area can now get high... [21 Aug 2003]
Moneybookers chooses The Bunker for data security
News The Kent-based hosting company claims its IT infrastructure was designed by cryptologists and it has its own connection to the national grid. To improve security, the company moved its resilience hardware to The Bunker, an electromagnetic pulse... [05 Aug 2005]
London schools put broadband on the curriculum
News The London Grid for Learning (LGfL) is the result of 33 of London's local education authorities (LEAs) teaming up to enable kids and teachers to learn and communicate more effectively. The network is 10 times the size of the UK's higher education... [16 Jul 2002]
Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation
News Combining multiple grid computing farms and adding virtualisation is also on the agenda. Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, added: "We are looking to leverage virtualisation... [04 May 2007]
What does WEEE mean to IT?
News The WEEE Directive could bring on more charitable donations as well as reuse of hardware within an organisation, especially at the server level, where a powerful system could be retired to a less resource-intensive job such as in a grid or... [17 Feb 2005]
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. Market researcher Gartner asserts that by the end of... [14 Apr 2003]
Energis loses less
News Energis' high-speed network runs on the power lines of one-time parent company, National Grid. The company said the results are due to increased demand, especially for data and Internet services. Energis today released what it called "strong... [24 May 1999]
Complexity holding IT back, say CIOs
News However, Humza Malik, director of shared services at National Grid Transco, argued the quest for simplicity must not limit a worker's capabilities. He added difficulties in learning how IT can be used to make sure each individual employee gets... [19 May 2005]
