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IBM is offering its customers the tools to operate their own data centres as if they were hosted distributed computing services ... It's the brainchild of IBM's own distributed computing projects such as its partnership with Google to let students use their hardware to study large-scale cluster computing. (Register)
IBM tips 'Blue Cloud' distributed computing plan Nov 16, 2007
IBM on Thursday announced a major initiative under which it plans to offer businesses the tools and services to create large scale, distributed computing environments that transcend geographic bounds. Under its so-called Blue Cloud program, IBM will develop virtualization tools that allow businesses to route computing tasks to areas where they can be done most efficiently, regardless of location. (EETimes)
Univa UD Launches Open Source Grid Community Nov 14, 2007
Yahoo said it will launch an open source program aimed at advancing the research and development of systems software for distributed computing. Yahoo's program will leverage its leadership in Hadoop, an open source distributed computing sub-project of the Apache Software Foundation, to let researchers modify and evaluate the systems software running on a 4,000-processor supercomputer provided by Yahoo. (eSecurityPlanet)
Needed: A new design-to-fab flow for advanced ICs Nov 14, 2007
This acceleration can be accomplished by assuring the fastest possible DRC run time using techniques such as improved data structuring, hierarchical processing, more efficient usage, multithreading and distributed computing. is particularly important today because volume microprocessor companies, such as Intel and AMD, have turned to multicore architectures to deal with runaway heat density in their products. (EETimes)
Yahoo sets program to boost distributed computing Nov 13, 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it would launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture. Yahoo has been a main supporter of Hadoop, an open source distributed file system that lets users process massive amounts of data. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Yahoo Launches Open Source Nov 13, 2007
Yahoo Sets Program to Boost Distributed Computing ... Yahoo Sets Program to Boost Distributed Computing ... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it would launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture. (eWeek)
Lessons for studentsto kick-start careers Nov 10, 2007
A scientific research project initiated by Stanford University to help study diseases has been officially claimed as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world by Guinness World Records ... Stanford chemistry professor and Folding@Home project leader Vijay Pande said, "To have Folding@home recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network ever is a reflection of the extraordinary worldwide participation by gamers and consumers around the... (Asia Times Online)
Supercomputer vet joins Microsoft Research Nov 10, 2007
He was also chief architect of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid, a national distributed computing system for researchers. The move to Microsoft Research marks Reed's first job in the commercial sector. (EETimes)
Sony adds remote access to playstation 3 Nov 9, 2007
Sony's latest PS3 firmware 2. 0 update features Remote Start R E L A T E D C O N T E N T Similar articles. (VNUNet.com)
Mario Galaxy dazzles Nov 6, 2007
Sony announced the September 16 milestone has been recorded to Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network in existence. The milestone was reached again on September 23. (Inquirer)
PS3 helps Folding to record Nov 3, 2007
The leader of the folding@home distributed computing project has paid tribute to PlayStation 3 owners for helping boost the project's processing power after it was recognised by Guinness World Records ... Guinness says FAH is now the most powerful distributed computing network ever, at over a petaflop, which is a lot more (technical term) than the 250 teraflops (trillion calculations per second) on the subject points out the program managed when it was 200,000-computers-strong prior to its... (Eurogamer)
Computer disease project record Nov 3, 2007
Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home (FAH) as the world's most powerful distributed computing network ... "To have folding@home recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network ever is a reflection of the extraordinary worldwide participation by gamers and consumers around the world and for that we are very grateful," said Professor Vijay Pande of Stanford University and a leader of the FAH project ... Distributed computing is a method for... (BBC News -- Health)
Folding@home Leaps Into Record Books Nov 2, 2007
November 2, 2007: Stanford Universitys Pande lab Folding@home project has been recognised as the largest distributed computing environment in the world by The Guinness Book of Records, largely thanks to support from Sony and its Playstation 3 user base ... This translates to more than a petaflop, or one thousand trillion floating point calculations per second a milestone in distributed computing that has never been achieved before ... To have Folding@home recognized by Guinness World Records... (IDM.net.au)
Digital Hollywood Fall flourishes Oct 30, 2007
His upcoming confab will be made up of 13 separate but co-located events hosted by the likes of Microsoft, Alcatel-Lucent, Adobe Systems, the Distributed Computing Industry Assn. and research firm Parks Associates. Harwood, now based in New York, expects as many as 2,800 attendees at Digital Hollywood Fall, held at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and complex and the adjacent Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. (Variety)
Home Computers Help Researchers Better Understand Universe Oct 27, 2007
A new distributed computing project designed by a University of Illinois researcher allows people around the world to participate in cutting-edge cosmology research by donating their unused computing cycles. See also. (Science Daily)
New approach builds better proteins inside a computer Oct 18, 2007
More than 70,000 home computer users around the world were an integral part of the project, volunteering their computers to participate in the quest for protein structures through Rosetta@home, a distributed computing project that is based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. Over the past decade, Baker and his colleagues have made steady progress in developing computer algorithms to predict how a string of amino acids will fold into a given proteins... (EurekAlert!)
SDSC Does Supercomputing on Demand Oct 10, 2007
The goal of the initiative is "to improve computer science students' knowledge of highly parallel computing practices to better address the emerging paradigm of large-scale distributed computing.". IBM and Google are teaming to provide hardware, software and services to augment university curricula and expand research, hoping to lower the financial and logistical barriers for the academic community to explore this emerging model of computing. (eSecurityPlanet)
Google, IBM Promote Cloud Computing Oct 10, 2007
and have teamed up to offer a curriculum and support for software development on large-scale distributed computing systems, with six universities signing up so far ... October 9, 2007 Google and IBM are offering a university curriculum and support for development on large-scale distributed computing systems. (PC World)
Church voices Resistance to Sony Bafta nomination Oct 9, 2007
2 application for distributed computing project released22 Aug 2007. We know who you are and where you live. (VNUNet.com)
Google, IBM Seed the Cloud Oct 9, 2007 Google and IBM float idea for 'cloud computing' Oct 9, 2007 IBM Says No to 'Monolithic, Unchangeable Environments' Oct 5, 2007 EGEE announces 3 new business associates Oct 2, 2007 Understanding The Big Bang: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Aids Search For Quark-gluon Plasma Sep 29, 2007 Sophos Blocks More Devices Sep 26, 2007 Kerberos, a computer security technology, to be turbocharged for the mobile Internet era Sep 24, 2007 Folding@home protein project hits a petaflop Sep 21, 2007 Ooma Starts Selling Free-Call Phone Boxes Sep 21, 2007 Drought breakers Sep 21, 2007 InSync Software, Inc. Releases Edgeware 3.2 Collaboration Platform for RFID Deployments Sep 18, 2007 Is Cisco's VFrame a 'virtual mainframe'? Sep 6, 2007 Debugging Samba: Deciphering Access Denied Aug 30, 2007 Share conference special report fall 2007 Aug 30, 2007 Using Web services as distributed transactions and the ... Aug 24, 2007 Desktop disease-busters Aug 16, 2007 LabView programming language gets updates Aug 14, 2007 Google Raises Storage Ceiling - for a Fee Aug 13, 2007 Novell Teams with IBM To Beat Red Hat Aug 10, 2007 Supercomputer funding gets nod Aug 9, 2007 REST 'ideally suited' for SOA-style data services Aug 8, 2007 Jimbo takes on GoogleCan an open source project improve online searching? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales thinks so Aug 4, 2007 Friendster redoubles its efforts Aug 2, 2007 Wikia to compete with search service Aug 1, 2007 Wikia plotting search rival to Google Jul 30, 2007 Wikia details plans for search rival to Google Jul 28, 2007 Stocks to Watch Jul 27, 2007 Web-Phone Device Delivers Free Domestic Calls Jul 20, 2007 X86 servers drive data center purchases in 2007 Jul 19, 2007 Intensive computation research not just for exploding star simulations anymore Jul 14, 2007 See new galaxies — without leaving your chair Jul 12, 2007 Mossberg calls IT departments "regressive and poisonous" forces ... Jul 6, 2007 Firm Hedges Bets with Digipede Jul 4, 2007 Divorcing SOA and Web services Jul 4, 2007 Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer Prototype Jun 29, 2007 SOA provides data integration, BPM for prisons Jun 28, 2007 'Push-button' Climate Modeling Now Available Jun 13, 2007 Apple Announces New Mac OS X Server Leopard Features Jun 12, 2007 Secrets of the fastest-growing techs May 31, 2007 Adobe ColdFusion 8 Beta Goes Public May 31, 2007 Global 500 Companies Benefit From ORSYP Exclusive Peer-to-Peer Architecture for High-Performance IT Automation May 28, 2007 Complex Events? BEA Has 'Em Covered May 28, 2007 SoftJin launches layout and mask database comparison tool May 24, 2007 A Mighty Number Falls May 22, 2007 Magma updates DRC, adds yield analysis May 22, 2007 A World of Computational Power May 20, 2007 HDS Puts Storage at Your Service May 19, 2007 Riding the CMDB Tidal Wave, Part One: Understanding May 17, 2007 HDS Aims High with New Array May 16, 2007 Mobile applications: Making the most of managed ... May 16, 2007 BI+BPM: Convergence or Conjecture? May 12, 2007 Xbox '@home' research projects possible May 11, 2007 PlayStations moonlight on serious side May 7, 2007 Grid Computing Planet Apr 29, 2007 Stanford's Folding@home gets boost from PlayStation 3 Apr 26, 2007 PS3 Folding Update Coming Maana, Adds More Speed Apr 26, 2007 SA govt finalises EDS replacments Apr 24, 2007 How Web services can use JavaSpaces Apr 18, 2007 Read the filing Apr 18, 2007 Sunday Showdown: Was dropping the 20 GB PS3 a sound decision? Apr 16, 2007 IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year Apr 14, 2007 Data interchange issues for SOA Apr 12, 2007 Iona Takes LogicBlaze for Open Source SOA Apr 11, 2007 WebMethods Puchase Could Challenge IBM Apr 10, 2007 IBM, HP, and the webMethods Takeover Bid Apr 8, 2007
Google, IBM Plant Distributed Computing Seeds ... Google, IBM Plant Distributed Computing Seeds ... Computer science students are getting a chance to learn about distributed computing from two of the biggest names in high tech. (eWeek)
Google, IBM team up for parallel computing Oct 9, 2007
"The goal of this initiative is to improve computer science students' knowledge of highly parallel computing practices to better address the emerging paradigm of large-scale distributed computing," said IBM in a statement. "It's no longer enough to program one machine well," argued Google senior software engineer Christophe Bisciglia. (Xinhuanet, China)
Google and IBM on Monday announced an initiative to advance large-scale distributed computing by providing hardware, software, and services to universities. The two companies aim to reduce the cost of distributed computing research, thereby enabling academic institutions and their students to more easily contribute to this emerging computing paradigm ... "We're working with our academic partners to teach large-scale distributed computing to students.". (EETimes)
For those who can't keep all these acronyms straight, SOAs are distributed computing frameworks that allow customers to reuse code and services to help them choreograph Web services and legacy applications to power and react to modern business processes. "People are tired of this monolithic, unchangeable environment," Rosamilia said. (Datamation)
As an EGEE Business Associate, companies can influence the programme of industrial events, as well as help define a sustainable infrastructure to follow EGEE. EGEE Business Associates work with EGEE to make the distributed computing infrastructure of the Grid more user-friendly, effective and secure in an industrial context. Existing EGEE Business Associates include GridwiseTech, NICE and Platform Computing. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Due to the computing and data intensive nature of the project, the Sun Grid Compute Utility has become a part of the STAR distributed computing strategy to allows such computations to be done at a faster rate, leaving more time for physicists' to analyze the large datasets. "A scientist will look at the initial analysis and then go on to look at the details, which requires even larger data samples," explains Jerome Lauret, RHIC/ STAR Software and Computing Project Leader, "so the more scientists... (Science Daily)
Sophos's application control is fully integrated into Sophos Endpoint Security and Control, which gives companies the power to selectively block remote connection tools, games, VOIP (voice over IP), peer-to-peer, Instant Messaging and distributed computing applications. "We're giving companies the ability to control what is and what isn't acceptable on their network," Cluley said. (eWeek)
Kerberos, which is named after the three-headed dog guarding the gates of Hades in Greek mythology, was originally designed by MIT researchers Cliff Neuman and Ted Tso as part of Project Athena, one of the early academic experiments in distributed computing. That project, funded by and Digital Equipment Corp., installed terminals across the MIT campus on which students could get access to their files and schoolwork over a network. (Boston Globe)
The Folding@home distributed computing project of Stanford University has hit the petaflop mark with 80 percent of the power coming from spare processor cycles on PlayStation 3 consoles. On this topic. (ITworld -- News)
The system works like to peer-to-peer and distributed computing through both cable and DSL lines. While traditional phone switches connect a local toll call or a long-distance call through the public switched telephone network, Ooma uses the Internet to connect the long-distance portion of calls for free. (Fox News)
The PS3 is already: 1) a fantastic games platform (now with rumble) and some decent games now arriving, 2) a Blu-ray HD DVD player, 3) a media centre hub that will play multiple formats of audio and video over a wireless network, 4) Internet PC and 5) a distributed computing hub that is helping cure cancer. By next year it will also be a dual tuner HDTV DVR.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
This enables distributed computing with the capability for data acquisition and business logic functions in remote locations where processes may be disconnected from the IP network. "With Edgeware 3.2 we looked at the main challenges of RFID adoption, and zeroed in on reducing development and deployment times, and simplifying partner collaboration," says Ravi Panja, CTO for InSync. (PR Newswire)
That may not be the precise goal of Cisco Systems Inc.'s , which the company announced this summer; but Cisco has created a more evolved, hybrid server infrastructure that blends distributed computing and old mainframe concepts, according to John Webster, a principal IT adviser at Nashua, N.H.-based research firm and author of the recent report "VFrame, Cisco's Virtual Mainframe.". The basic idea is to think of all your distributed servers as 'stateless vessels. (Search390.com)
Formerly known as Ethereal, is a network sniffer and protocol analysis tool that provides excellent support for Server Message Block/Common Internet File System; Network Basic I/O System; distributed computing environment/remote procedure calls, Kerberos, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and other associated protocols. There are also system trace tools, such as strace, ltrace and the contents of /proc. (Search Enterprise Linux)
Immediate past president Robert Rosen gave us a preview, which includes mainframe news, ITIL, distributed computing and more, prior to this year's Share conference. At the recent Share conference, the IBM user group covered workload consolidation, Linux on the mainframe, distributed computing and mainframe education opportunities. (Search390.com)
I first used XA on a large-scale DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) project with a major NYC bank where we used Transarc's Encina Transaction C++ (now an IBM company). This was in the middle '90s and XA was already established and one of the key protocols within the DCE. After all, if you are going to call yourself the "distributed computing environment" you better support distributed transactions. (Search Webservices)
LOOKING FOR CURES: Drug Design and Optimization Lab (D2OL) is a distributed computing project with the goal of discovering drug candidates to fight SARS, avian flu, anthrax, and other diseases. Pharmaceutical companies and research institutions are using an innovation called grid computing (also known as distributed computing), which runs life sciences research on millions of Internet-connected PCs owned by volunteers from around the world, thus creating a kind of "decentralised supercomputer.".... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Technology)
AUSTIN, Texas Non-overwriting back-up, simplified distributed computing through better management of shared resource connections and better paths to incorporate user-generated customizations are but three of the improvements to LabView programming language currently swirling around the brain of National Instruments' cofounder and ideas man Jeff Kodosky ... Kodosky's intention is to make that shared resource connection more visible and manageable through a wire that would be a 3D representation... (EETimes)
The online storage of documents and applications alike appears to be a key part of Google's long-term strategy to move computing away from the PC model that favors Microsoft toward a distributed computing model with online storage, Sterling Market Intelligence Principal Analyst Greg Sterling. "Google would be the network and host most of the software," Sterling told the E-Commerce Times. (TechNewsWorld)
In combining WAS CE with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell, the companies are targeting SMBs, as well as larger enterprises using distributed computing. The companies have their sights set on the retail and financial services industries, in particular. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
It would have a peak performance of just under one petaflop, almost four times the capacity of the current NSF-supported Teragrid, the world's largest and most powerful distributed computing system for open scientific research. The Teragrid currently supports more than 1,000 projects and more than 4,000 U.S. researchers. (InfoWorld)
It's a style of distributed computing that promotes a resource as its key abstraction. A resource then is simply anything that can be named, and by named I mean it can be provided with a URI." In terms of business data, the named resource could be something obvious such as an employee or a stock item or a document, he said. "But it can also be fairly unobvious things like the third item purchased today, or all sales for 2007, or just the second quarter, or just yesterday, or just yesterday at 3,... (Search Webservices)
The idea of this kind of distributed computing first gained notoriety with the project, launched in late 1999. The project set out to find extraterrestrial life through a novel program that launched a screensaver when you weren't using your computer. (Time.com)
Friendster now employs solutions from Akamai Technologies, a provider of distributed computing platforms for content and application delivery over the Web. Though Friendster now sports even more content and features in its site than ever before, its webpages have never loaded faster, said Roberto. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Technology)
Grub relies on distributed computing technology to power the crawler. Computer users who download the software can share computer processing time when they are not using their machines, cutting the cost of Wikia developing its own network of computers to crawl the Web. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Grub relies on distributed computing technology to power the crawler. Computer users who download the software at can share computer processing time when they are not using their machines, cutting the cost of Wikia developing its own network of computers to crawl the Web. (USA Today -- Tech)
Grub relies on distributed computing technology to power the crawler. Computer users who download the software at http://www. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
The San Francisco-based company, which provides products for wide-area distributed computing, said revenue in the three months ended June 30 rose to $54 million from $18 million in the year-ago quarter. Roper Industries Inc. () reported second-quarter net earnings of $61. (Fox News)
The technology hinges on a patent-pending call-routing algorithm called "distributed termination," similar to peer-to-peer and distributed computing ideas. Traditional phone switches connect a local-toll or long-distance call through the public switched telephone network but Ooma, which works with both cable and DSL, uses the Internet and P2P technology to connect the calls for free. (Fox News)
Power prices due to distributed computing are going through the roof ... Power prices due to distributed computing are going through the roof. (Search390.com)
Distributed computing was possible at his doctoral institution, Evans said, but the computers on the network were of different sizes, had slightly different software and sometimes operating systems. Teraport offers a uniform operating system and software that, combined with other features, has in some cases saved Evans months of computing time, he said. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
There are a host of such 'distributed computing' experiments, seeking everything from alien life to new cancer drugs. But these projects use the spare time of volunteers' computers. (Nature News Service)
The pendulum has shifted from centralized mainframes to more distributed computing, he said, but with "organized criminals trying to break into every computer on the network," more organization is required. Brian D. Voss, CIO at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, said he was worried about how college presidents will take Mossberg's comment. (Computerworld, MA)
The Digipede Network is a distributed computing solution built entirely on Microsoft. NET and is integrated with Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, Windows Compute Cluster Server and other Windows Server products. (eSecurityPlanet)
Distributed computing approaches from the early 1990s like the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) were both architectural approaches that abstracted software capabilities in a contracted way that provided a certain measure of loose coupling, offering greater flexibility than architectures that leveraged the tightly-coupled interfaces of other approaches -- in other words, they were service-oriented. And while both CORBA and... (Search Webservices)
In August, Vishkin will present a keynote address at the Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip in Rennes, France, held in conjunction with the 13th Euro-Par, an international European conference on parallel and distributed computing. This system represents a significant improvement in generality and flexibility for parallel computer systems because of its unique abilities, said Burton Smith, technical fellow for advanced strategies and policy at Microsoft. (Science Daily)
"You've got a SQL-based county. You've got a mainframe situation with Western Union and our state customer. And at Wachovia, you've got open architecture distributed computing type system." ... "You've got a SQL-based county. You've got a mainframe situation with Western Union and our state customer. And at Wachovia, you've got open architecture distributed computing type system.". (Search Webservices)
The post-processing of the simulation data is done on Purdue's distributed computing system, known as a Condor pool. Both institutions are part of the NSF TeraGrid. (Science Daily)
Other new features in Leopard Server include: -- Server Admin 4 with new file sharing and permission controls, tiered administration, and options for organizing servers into smart groups; -- iChat Server 2 to securely communicate over instant messaging with others on different systems outside an organization's firewall; -- External Accounts to enable Leopard users to store their home directory on an external FireWire(R) or USB portable drive; -- a new System Imaging Utility that uses a... (PR Newswire)
Akamai wanted to see if it could use some very esoteric math and ideas of distributed computing to make the Internet reliable and scalable, given all of its weaknesses, by overlaying this technology we've developed. On benefitting from the broadband revolution: We got to a magic number, a tipping point, some tens of millions of homes with cable or DSL connections about 18 months ago. (CNN -- Money / Technology)
"ColdFusion 8 delivers several enhancements that boost day-to-day productivity," said Brian Rinaldi, ColdFusion developer for the Distributed Computing Group at Sun Life Financial, in a statement. "Features such as debugging and server monitoring accelerate routine development and maintenance and can really make a difference when it comes to keeping service levels high and applications running smoothly.". (eWeek)
This architecture enables Dollar Universe, ORSYP's flagship enterprise job scheduling solution to leverage the power of distributed computing by spreading job scheduling functions across the entire network and avoids the main problems encountered with other solutions based on traditional Master-Agent architecture such as availability, scalability, performance or costs. The Peer-to-Peer architecture perfectly suits to the complex and heterogeneous environments of Global 500 companies allowing... (PR Newswire)
CEPs can significantly boost the performance in service-oriented architecture (SOA) () distributed computing environments. But Guy Churchward, vice president of WebLogic Products for BEA, said those products, mostly written for C or C++ environments, don't properly handle event requirements in real time and with high predictability for Java. (SmallBusinessComputing)
It uses distributed computing for faster turnaround time and has been tweaked to specifically deal with the comparison of large, cross-format databases. To showcase the tool's ability, Softjin described its comparison of two hierarchical GDSII files (each 133 Gbytes when flattened): NXCompare took 90 minutes on a single dual-core AMD machine (2. (EETimes)
A feat like this would have been unthinkable back in 1990 when Lenstra started applying number theory and distributed computing to the task of breaking factoring records. Increased computer power and refined computational techniques have raised the bar, and will continue to do so. (Science Daily)
The tools are architected toward native distributed computing environments based on multi-core and multi-platform system environments. Speedup claims to be fairly linear across processors and could run in an environment encompassing over a thousand CPUs. (EETimes)
Distributed computing like this has recently risen to a new level, with the popularity of multi-core CPU processors, which have far more processing capabilities compared to the old traditional single core CPU's. Some of these projects now also work on additional platforms, not just computer systems. (Suite101.com)
That message is service-oriented storage (SOS), storage services that invoke the service-oriented architecture () model of distributed computing. This approach is HDS' way of making storage more cost-effective in the increasingly on-demand and need-it-now world of Web 2. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Okay, so what really is a CMDB System, is it really a tidal wave and, if so, why. Answering the last two questions first: Over the past several years EMA has been actively involved in both researching CMDB adoptions and working actively with CMDB deployments to help organizations plan their strategies and set appropriate first-phase goals. (CIO Information Network)
These services are symbolic of the new treatment HDS is applying to its overarching storage strategy: service-oriented storage, which is modeled after the classic SOA distributed computing approach. HDS CTO Hu Yoshida said on the call the new approach will "mark a new era in storage where forcing users to pay for services that go unused is replaced by storage services that directly tie resources and functionality to business demands.". (EnterpriseStorageForum)
If you take the time to evaluate a hosted mobile enterprise solution today and decide that it's not for you, it may make sense a few years down the road as your organization makes greater use of Web services and distributed computing architectures. About the author: Daniel Taylor is managing director for the Mobile Enterprise Alliance, Inc. (MEA), and he is responsible for global alliance development, programs, marketing and member relations. (SearchMobileComputing.com)
BPM software, which is expected to lead the next generation of distributed computing, choreographs multiple business processes and enables disparate technologies employed in a distributed computer network to work together. For example, BPM software includes graphical editors that let developers document business processes, such as the shipping of products in a supply chain. (CIO Information Network)
The power of computer systems like the PS3 is harnessed via a distributed computing network capable of vastly sophisticated calculations - and Microsoft clearly feel they missed a smooth marketing trick here. "If we truly believe that we can in some way marshal the resources of a much larger installed base of Xbox 360 owners, with a processor that's of equal power to the PS3, then you have my commitment that we'll look at that," Moore told The Mercury News. (Play.tm)
The distributed computing project "has allowed us to accurately simulate folding for the first time and to now direct our approach to examine folding-related disease.". With more than 270,000 PCs and PlayStations actively helping, the project is among the most powerful distributed computing networks. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
By David Needle - Published March 16, 2007 Distributed computing makes the PS3's Cell processor a valuable commodity. . (IntranetJournal)
Stanford University's Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month thanks to the addition of idle processor cycles from hundreds of thousands of PlayStation 3 consoles. On this topic. (ITworld -- News)
Tokyo, April 25, 2007 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that great progress has been made in the one month since PLAYSTATION3 (PS3) computer entertainment systems became part of Stanford University's Folding@home program, a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and related diseases ... Furthermore, thanks to PS3's powerful Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.), the Folding@home program has become one of the most powerful... (Gizmodo.com)
In , Conlon said the total value of all contracts signed so far -- of which distributed computing services is part -- was AU$536 million, or an average of AU$164 million per year, representing savings of AU$30 million each annum ... In a statement issued to the Australian Stock Exchange this morning, Commander claimed the distributed computing contract allowed it to bid for up to AU$144 million of work over the next three years ... Distributed computing support: EDS, HP and Volante (Commander). (ZDNet.com.au)
To recap, "space" style distributed computing is characterized by loosely coupled systems, which are coordinated through a single service acting as a shared associative memory for data containing objects ... JavaSpaces support four basic operations that turn out to provide tremendous capabilities for organizing distributed computing. (Search Webservices)
The call processing centers are built from our internally developed software and industry-standard servers and make use of techniques in distributed computing ... We seek to hire talented and innovative engineers and software programmers to solve challenging problems in areas such as distributed computing and high availability systems. (USA Today -- Tech)
Your PS3 is supposed to be your movie player, your web browser, your gaming console, your home for distributed computing (natch), and later they'll probably be rolling out the music and movie download services. There are many ways you can leverage the PS3 to make you money, and the only thing holding back the promise of all these profit pools is the challenge of getting millions and millions of these systems into homes around the world. (Ars Technica)
"Spammers have taken the lessons of distributed computing and applied them to how to distribute their content," said O'Donnell. "They've built these large botnets of compromised systems to send out their spam. If the person is only sending out a couple messages a day they would never know.". (SmallBusinessComputing)
This group houses a service-oriented architecture (SOA) committee that seeks to codify and standardize "best practices principles and patterns related to service-aware, enterprise-level, distributed computing," where such standards efforts "focus on workflows, translation coordination, orchestration, collaboration, loose coupling, business process modeling, and other concepts that support agile computing." A quick look at the technical committee efforts that fall under this umbrella will help to... (Search Webservices)
Iona Technologies (), a maker of distributed computing and integration software for service-oriented architectures (SOA), today purchased LogicBlaze, which provides similar technology under an open source license. The move further positions Iona as a provider of proprietary SOA () software and open source SOA in a crowded market for distributed computing software. (CIO Information Network)
Software AG makes all kinds of infrastructure software that supports SOA () distributed computing models; but the Crossvision SOA suite is the German company's major platform for supporting business processes. WebMethods offers several similar products, including its flagship SOA suite, Fabric 7, which helps IT administrators integrate disparate applications and manage and monitor business processes. (CIO Information Network)
SOA is a methodology for creating distributed computing software that helps companies integrate applications to better meld business processes with IT. IBM, HP and others in the market position use SOA () as a salve to help overwrought IT admin get a grip on their spaghetti tangle of disparate applications. IBM and HP make SOA software that competes with Software AG and webMethods products. (Datamation)
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