http://www.gridget.com/ grid and cluster computing]]> en 2008-08-19T18:32:05+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/highperformance_computing_in_r_at_user_2008-archive.html  [Mario's Entangled Bank] I have been using R on our in-house cluster for a few years now, and although it may sound a bit counterintuitive to run a high-level interpreted language such as R in a high-performance computing environment such as a cluster (most people would use a low-level compiled language like C for example), using R has the big advantage of allowing very fast prototyping. In other words, although the R code runs slower on the cluster than native C code would do it takes much less time to code it.

]]> Cluster admin 2008-08-19T18:32:05+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/new_lab_gives_dedicated_space_to_highperformance_computing-archive.html [Supercomputing Online] Purdue University has opened a research and learning laboratory for students in the College of Technology's growing specialization in high-performance computing.

]]> Entry admin 2008-08-19T18:31:48+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/international_grid_interoperability_and_interoperation_workshop_-archive.html  [Eventseer.net - the academic event tracker] if you want to be notified when International grid interoperability and interoperation workshop 2008 (IGIIW 2008) is updated on Eventseer.net. Click the star icon to activate notifications.

]]> Grid admin 2008-08-15T14:02:38+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/grid_controls-archive.html  [Overclock.net - Overclocking.net] There's this thing in the game called the Options, where they have this other thing called Controller Settings. It tells you what EVERYTHING does and allows you to change it to your personal preference.

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]]> Entry admin 2008-08-12T18:32:12+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/decoding_data_for_science_distributed_computing-archive.html  [esoteric_data] SETI@home - The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence project at the Space Science Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley is a project that distributes radio signals detected by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and uses the resources available on its’ grid to analyze the radio signals for signs of an intelligent use of radio signals such as we use here on earth.

]]> Entry admin 2008-08-12T18:31:27+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/cloud_computing_and_web_hosting-archive.html [BLOG > eboundhost.com] Today’s providers who claim to live in the Cloud, are using traditional hosting technology masked with a very fancy control panel.  In my opinion, cloud computing still has a long way to go before it’s going to be useful for our industry.  Today this technology is useful to a handful of customers.  For the rest of us, we have Shared hosting, VPS hosting, and Dedicated hosting.  With the incredible pace of technological advancement of individual servers, I don’t see a reason to move to the cloud.  Today’s web servers are more powerful than yesterdays supercomputers and this trend will continue for a long time yet.

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]]> Entry admin 2008-08-08T14:02:33+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/national_grid_network-archive.html  [SPM Physics Form 5 - Electromagnetism] A national Grid Network is a network of cable that connects all the power stations in a country to transmit electricity to the consumers throughout the nation. The advantages of the National Grid Network .

]]> Grid admin 2008-08-05T18:32:44+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/national_grid_outlines_plans_for_10bn_network_upgrade-archive.html  [The most recent articles from businessgreen] Company mulling different options as it seeks to prepare grid for huge increase in wind power. National Grid has released fresh details about how it intends to support the 35GW of renewable energy that is expected to come online by 2020 .

]]> Grid admin 2008-08-05T18:31:32+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/ondemand_computing_a_brutal_slog-archive.html [Voices] On-demand computing–its poster child Salesforce.com’s grinning, rosy-cheeked Marc Benioff sporting his once trademark “No Software” button–promised low-priced, convenient delivery of applications.

]]> Entry admin 2008-08-01T14:01:20+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/htc_touch_pro_the_iphone_killer_has_been_granted_a_keyboard-archive.html [Mobile Computing News] The typical applications such as a calendar, address book, and calculator are included in the OS, as are the mobile variants of Windows Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Windows Media Player comes preinstalled as well.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-29T18:31:56+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/tech_tuesday_converting_powerpoint_slides-archive.html [Digital @ Leadership Network] our contributors largely blog about web technologies and mobile computing. Once in a while, we'll mention other computer technologies, like software and even hardware.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-29T18:31:24+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/distributed_processing_with_ec2_using_poolparty-archive.html  [rubyham] Then it’s just a matter of pool -v -i -I ami-1234 -b shared_bucket.  This launches the appropriate number of instances and at the end of the process all of the data has been written to the appropriate place.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-25T14:03:49+00:00 http://www.gridget.com/cluster_computing_vs_grid_computing-archive.html  [jroller] it solves the task if how to push the latest version of Linux patch or Java VM onto hundreds computers in the cluster. And grid computing is an application level infrastructure that already assumes that correct OS, JVM and other system-level software has been installed on the target computers.

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