Posts Tagged ‘Computing’
Microsoft: Cloud computing won’t hurt us
Cloud computing is widely perceived as a threat to Microsoft, because the maker of Windows and Microsoft Office earns the lion’s share of its money selling licenses for packaged software.
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Google Tech Talks September 2, 2008 ABSTRACT In recent years, cloud computing has emerged as an attractive tool for delivering web-based services. Cloud computing enables rapid deployment of new services and allows those services to scale dynamically, in response to changing user demand. However, the range of cloud computing applications is constrained by limitations of the Internet service model. New network level services are needed to enable advanced applications that include real-time, person-to-person communication. This talk discusses how to add a dynamic network layer to cloud computing infrastructures, to enable the rapid introduction of new network services in support of advanced applications. Speaker: Jonathan S. Turner Jonathan S. Turner received the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Northwestern University in 1979 and 1981. He holds the Barbara and Jerome Cox Chair of Computer Science at Washington University, is Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Applied Research Lab. The Applied Research Laboratory creates experimental networking technology to validate and demonstrate new research innovations. The Lab’s current projects center on extensible networking technology with a particular focus on high performance platforms for overlay hosting services. Professor Turner served as Chief Scientist for Growth Networks, a startup company that developed scalable switching components for Internet routers and ATM …
Amazon adds graphics-chip computing service
Tapping into the GPU’s power for more than just graphics work is a major trend in computing. Now Amazon Web Services is jumping into the market with a GPU-based service. Originally posted at Deep Tech
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Dialogic and Continuous Computing Collaborate to Deliver 2,000 Ports of Carrier-Class Audio Conferencing on a Single …
PARSIPPANY, NJ–(Marketwire – 09/28/10) – Dialogic Corporation (“Dialogic”), a global provider of world-class products and technologies for multimedia and signal processing , and Continuous Computing , a global provider of integrated platform solutions that address the mobile broadband capacity challenge, have successfully tested a 2,000-port audio conference with each port in full duplex mode …
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Novell and Tencent Establish Joint Cloud Computing Laboratory in China
BEIJING, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Novell and Tencent today announced the establishment of a research laboratory in Shenzhen, China to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform. Tencent, China’s largest Internet service portal with more than 480 million active users, is adopting SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server and PlateSpin® Orchestrate as its auto-deployment …
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TechBits: Spectrum inventory; Cloud computing; Google grants; Reddit donations
WASHINGTON – U.S. federal officials are beginning work on a comprehensive inventory of the nation’s radio spectrum in hopes of finding more capacity for wireless high-speed Internet connections.
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SAS powers up grid computing for new service offerings
CARY, N.C. – SAS is rolling out a new service in a move seeking to capitalize on the growth of collaborative computing and ever-increasing amounts of data.
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Microsoft and Novell Collaborate to Deliver Hybrid Options for High-Performance Computing
Latest initiative targets High-Performance Computing, empowering customers to balance server workloads using both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Server for greater IT efficiency. High-performance computing (HPC) continues …
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Padova Technologies Teams up with Bright Computing to Simplify Scalable Cluster Management
Two leading HPC providers join forces to simplify scalable cluster management.
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Wyse Extends Leadership in Mobile Cloud Computing with Breakthrough PocketCloud Client Virtualization App for iPad
SAN JOSE, Calif.—-Wyse Technology, a global leader in thin computing and client virtualization, today announced its Wyse PocketCloud™ App for iPad is available on the App Store. In addition, Wyse PocketCloud has also been enhanced with more than 20 new features and improvements for existing iPhone users, including VMware View™ 4 support, enhanced user experience via the new Wyse Touch Pointer™ …
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