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  • Aust data grids to power international research

    Four Australian universities have teamed up to create and test a "data grid", designed to allow global access to the terabytes of data generated by modern large-scale scientific research.

  • Distributed computing: Power grid

    Distributed computing, which harnesses the power of multiple CPUs, grew out of scientists' and academics' needs for processing power, but it is rapidly developing commercial applications. ZDNet Australia examines the power grid.

  • Clusters add beef, keep costs down

    If you want increased computational muscle, grid computing isn't your only option. How can clustering pump up performance and still shave a bit off your TCO?

  • Oracle rejects grid computing assault

    Oracle has emphatically rejected claims by a leading figure in the European grid research community that vendor grid computing offerings were "overhyped".

  • Oracle ships grid software

    Oracle claims its Application Server 10g is the first to be able to take advantage of clusters of commodity hardware, an architecture that could make data centres far cheaper to run.

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  • Distributed computing: Power grid

    Distributed computing, which harnesses the power of multiple CPUs, grew out of scientists' and academics' needs for processing power, but it is rapidly developing commercial applications. ZDNet Australia examines the power grid.

  • Oracle ships grid software

    Oracle claims its Application Server 10g is the first to be able to take advantage of clusters of commodity hardware, an architecture that could make data centres far cheaper to run.

  • Australia: SAP vs Oracle

    SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.

  • The Net: Blazing a new data speed record

    A group of researchers have found a way to transfer the equivalent of three DVDs per second.

  • Open source's next frontier

    Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.

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Reviews (3)

  • Intel gets inside life sciences

    Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.

  • Round-up: Dual-core servers

    Multi-core processors deliver many benefits, including much-improved performance per watt, over single-core designs. We examine three dual-core servers from the leading vendors to see what this technology can do for your business.

  • Personal tech Visionary: Simplicity is key

    Mike Nuttal believes that simplicity is key to a successful product and that integrated devices such as combination mobile phone-camera-MP3 players are a step in the wrong direction.

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