Bridges and rail platforms may be monitored for terrorist bombs and residents of aged care facility for falls under research projects based on a new grid computing system being deployed by Monash University in Melbourne.
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.
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Researchers at England's Newcastle University have developed graphical passwords for mobile devices, and hope to expand the uses of the software.
One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday in Europe.
The Central Queensland University's realisation that its e-mail database was set to surpass the one terabyte mark has finally motivated the IT team to take proactive measures.
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Sun Microsystems has upgraded its top-end "grid" software, a product that lets teams of computers collectively tackle calculation problems, making it more suitable for businesses that need strict control of their computing resources.
Hewlett-Packard researchers will unveil a major breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology, a milestone in the company's goal to build chips based on "molecular grids".
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Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.
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IBM and a host of technology partners are working on software for the U.S. Defense Department that will let the idle time of anyone's computer be devoted to investigate anti-smallpox drugs, the companies are expected to announce Wednesday.
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