The Future of Open Source Grid
Computing in the Enterprise
A New Arms Race to Build
the World's Mightiest Computer
In the race to design the next breed of supercomputer, one
that will vault past current leader IBM's Blue Gene in speed
and performance, China has emerged to join the United States
and Japan as a leader in the global technology economy. Though
the next batch of supercomputers will not ...
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Al-Qaida Recruiting Target:
Skilled Hackers
Mark Rasch, chief security counsel for Solutionary, Inc.
and former head of the Justice Department's computer crime
unit, reports that foreign governments and terrorist
organizations such as al-Qaida are attempting to hire Internet
...
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$150 Million TeraGrid Award
Heralds New Era for Scientific Computing
TeraGrid, the largest and most comprehensive computing
infrastructure for science and engineering research in the
world, will be operated and augmented through a five-year,
$150 million award from the National Science Foundation. The
award will apportion $48 million to the University of ...
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'War of the Worms' Spurs
Latest Cyber-Attack
The attack earlier this week that slowed systems at The New
York Times, The Associated Press, and other media outlets may
have been an example of battling worms competing for control
of major computer networks. The culprit was identified as
different strains of the Zotob worm, which ...
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Gates Urges Legislators to
Harness Power of Technology
Computer security, international competition, and declines
in U.S. computer science and engineering graduates were some
of the topics Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates touched on in an
on-stage interview at the National Conference of State
Legislatures in Seattle. He told the gathered ...
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Computer Virus Writers
Moving Faster with Attacks
A flood of malware-based attacks against U.S. media
companies and other corporations this week has prompted
security analysts to warn that the window between the
disclosure of vulnerabilities and their exploitation by
hackers is shrinking. "These guys have gotten a lot
faster...they are ...
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Despite Gains, Women Still
Face Bias in Science Careers
A group of eminent women researchers and administrators
present the case that most women scientists at universities
must still contend with bias, a lack of respect, and even
outright hostility in the Aug. 19 issue of Science. University
of Wisconsin-Madison professor and group leader Jo ...
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Pixels Speed Quantum
Crypto
Scientists from the University of Rochester have developed
a new method for quantum cryptography, a technique that could
yield theoretically perfect security. Their research considers
the position of a photon within an array of pixels; because it
condenses more data into each photon, pixel ...
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Researchers to Use Quicker
Data Network
The National LambdaRail (NLR) academic data network will be
accessible to researchers at the University of Virginia and
Virginia Tech in the next few months. UVa environmental
sciences professor Bruce Hayden will collaborate with a
consortium to construct ecological monitoring stations
throughout ...
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Google Pauses Library
Project
Google recently announced it will temporarily suspend
scanning copyright-protected books into its database until
November, so that it may revise its Google Print Publisher
Program in the interim. Google's library project involves
scanning copyrighted and out-of-print works so that users ...
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System Carries PC
Soul
The SoulPad is a prototype device developed by IBM
researchers that allows users to carry a personalized virtual
computer between PCs while retaining the user's work. The
virtual computer can be stored on a USB disk or any portable
device with enough storage capacity; the "soul" of the virtual
...
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Musings From a
Mouse
In a departure from traditional and costly methods of
measuring eye movements, a new study analyzing the movements
of a computer mouse could shed important light on the
understanding of language cognition. Cornell psycholinguist
Michael Spivey placed 42 undergraduates in front of ...
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Purdue Nurtures Cyber
Infrastructure
Purdue University officials announced the launch of a new
cyber infrastructure program on Aug. 18. The Cyber Center will
connect the school's computer resources and augment research,
as well as cultivate new, economically beneficial
technologies, according to center director and ...
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Virtual World Fits on a
Smartphone
Artificial Life, an American game company, plans to launch
a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for
third-generation (3G) cell phones before year's end. The game,
which will run on phones outfitted with the Java J2ME software
engine, will let players take on a ...
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Facing the Global
Competitiveness Challenge
Kent Hughes, author of "Building the Next American Century:
The Past and Future of American Competitiveness," warns that
the United States is in danger of losing its lead in the
global economy unless it systematically focuses on innovation,
a strategy that has been critical to the country's ...
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The Future of Open Source
Grid Computing in the Enterprise
The emergence of Web services-driven data transactions and
the expanding adoption of open source technologies are driving
grid computing's evolution toward the transaction grid model.
This model involves scores of horizontally scaled commodity
computers that process business applications ...
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