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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