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Toward a Pattern Language for Service-Oriented Architecture and Integration, Part 1: Build a Service Eco-System

whitepaper One also tends to repeat solutions with slight variations. As the IT industry matures, one will witness the emergence of more and more successful designs and implementations of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Twinhead International Streamlines Supply Chain and Cuts Order Processing Time by 50%

whitepaper The biggest challenges facing the company are the number of customizations they undertake for each customer, and the fact that they often deal in small quantities with large variations. Taipei-based Twinhead International manufactures and markets...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

The Factory Design Pattern in MIDP 2.0: How It Works With MIDP's Generic Connection Framework

whitepaper In this month's Architectural manifesto column, the paper introduces to the three variations of the Factory pattern and then shows how it enables connection handling in the MIDP 2.0 Generic Connection Framework.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Air and Water Monitoring for Homeland Security

whitepaper Homeland security efforts must therefore include advanced understanding, assessment, and prediction of natural and human-induced variations in our environment, enabling retooled policies and planning, allocation of resources, and partnership...

Tags: anti-hacking, air, water, disaster

[10 Apr 2008]

IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy

whitepaper However, adoption of this paper does not preclude local variations in each region or area. This paper describes policies for the allocation and assignment of globally-unique Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) address space.

Tags: ip technologies, policies, protocol, space

[10 Apr 2008]

MIME - Technical Overview

whitepaper It was designed to cope with many of the most bizarre variations of SMTP, UUCP, and other Procrustean mail transport protocols that like to slice, dice, and stretch the headers and bodies of e-mail messages.

Tags: international standards, message, mail, electronic

[10 Apr 2008]

Dynamic Power Variations in Data Centers and Network Rooms

whitepaper The power requirements of data centers and network rooms vary on a minute-by-minute basis depending on computational loads. The magnitude of this variation has grown and continues to grow dramatically with the deployment of power management...

Tags: data center

[08 Apr 2008]

Implement Best Practices, Gain Insight, and Promote Efficiency With Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX

whitepaper Food, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies tend to use containers and packaging, while basic metals and pulp and paper companies often use variations of end items. This white paper contains an overview of Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics...

Tags: accounting applications

[03 Apr 2008]

Management by Contract in the Virtual Data Center

whitepaper Recent variations of the VDC model include grid, fabric, and utility computing, each of which has a goal of satisfying Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements at guaranteed resource costs. Increased competition and globalization are forcing...

Tags: data center

[28 Mar 2008]

Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine

Photo This cipher text had to be repeatedly scanned at high speed by Colossus, which then analysed it for variations that would reveal the 12 starting settings used by the Lorenz machine to encrypt that message.

Tags: colossus, bletchley park, message, messages

[18 Mar 2008]

Integration of High-Performance Transistors, High-Density SRAMs, and 10-Level Copper Interconnects Into a 90 nm CMOS Technology

whitepaper The key process features are 193 nm lithography with a Phase Shift Mask (PSM) and Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) that enables to fabricate a 40 nm-long gate and a sub-1 µm 2 SRAM cell, a unique transistor feature called a sidewall-notched...

Tags: embedded systems

[29 Feb 2008]

Discovering Genetic Variations and Improving Lives With Windows High Performance Computing Clusters

whitepaper Perlegen's Bioinformatics organization uses a Microsoft Windows-based High Performance Computing cluster to analyze individual variations in human genome data. Perlegen Sciences conducts genetics research and develops products that impact and...

Tags: application servers

[20 Feb 2008]

Statistical Static Timing Analysis Technology

whitepaper With CMOS technology scaling down to the nanometer realm, process variations have been increased. In particular, the increase of delay variations has seriously affected the design periods and timing yields.

Tags: embedded microprocessors

[14 Feb 2008]

Jointly Coordinating ECN and TCP for Rapid Adaptation to Varying Bandwidth

whitepaper Simulations indicate that the ECN-mod protocol is better than ECN-NewReno in exploiting rapid variations in the available bandwidth. The introduction of service differentiation in the Internet implies that the residual bandwidth available to best...

Tags: switching

[14 Jan 2008]

TCP-Friendly Internet Video With Smooth and Fast Rate Adaptation and Network-Aware Error Control

whitepaper The adopted weighting scheme enables the response in a fast manner only for distinct network variations so that the overall network utilization is improved while sustaining end-to-end video quality. A solution for Internet video streaming with two...

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Utilizing Characteristics of Last Link to Improve TCP Performance

whitepaper The variations in link characteristics present different problems to TCP and enhancement of TCP performance over these links remains an active area of research. TCP, perhaps the most widely used transport protocol, was designed for wired links and...

Tags: tcp - ip

[08 Jan 2008]

Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging Within a Massive Online Network

whitepaper The data reveal a number of strong daily and weekly regularities which provide insights into the time use of college students and their social lives, including seasonal variations. This paper has analyzed the fully-anonymized headers of 362 million...

Tags: im

[08 Jan 2008]

Business Continuity - HP and VMware

whitepaper It can also make it easier to manage variations in application workloads by creating virtual machines and application instances that can be automatically migrated across virtual machines. Whether it's managing an unscheduled power black - out or...

Tags: infrastructure management

[08 Jan 2008]

Guide to Advanced Linux Command Mastery

whitepaper In this four-part series, the reader will learn some not-so-well-known tricks about various routine Linux commands as well as variations in usage that make them more useful. As the series progresses, the reader will learn successively difficult...

Tags: database management, linux, learn, commands

[07 Jan 2008]

On the Stationarity of TCP Bulk Data Transfers

whitepaper While the Internet offers a single best-effort service, the paper remarks that core backbones are in general over provisioned, end users have increasingly faster access and CDN and p2p solutions can mitigate network variations.

Tags: tcp - ip

[26 Dec 2007]

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