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- Three scenarios for trustable computing platforms
- By John PescatoreTrustable computing platforms provide some benefits to enterprises and consumers, and many benefits to content providers. Acceptance and use of the technology will be driven by the content and software industries' ability to emphasize customer satisfaction over revenue protection.AnalysisThe PC platform was designed in the early 1980s, before...
- Tags: computing platform, Gartner , Gartner Inc., hardware, PC
- Technical articles 2003-10-09
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- Distributed Computing With a Trojan Horse
- Growing numbers of households are getting broadband Internet connections, forming an attractive platform for distributed computing. This paper describes how a trojan horse for covert distributed computing could be constructed: the mechanisms used, and how the user could be tricked to install the trojan using a known Microsoft Outlook Express...
- Tags: Trojan Horse, Distributed Computing, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Network Technology, Security, Networking
- White papers 2004-08-19
- Implementing Site Policies for SAS Scheduling With Platform JobScheduler
- SAS Institute has partnered with Platform Computing Inc. to provide a robust scheduling solution. This paper explains how to modify the configuration of Platform JobScheduler and Platform LSF, both offered by Platform Computing, in a SAS environment to automatically assign the proper resource to all jobs in a flow submission....
- Tags: Job, SAS Institute
- White papers 2004-09-01
- WS-Attestation: Enabling Trusted Computing on Web Services
- This paper proposes WS-Attestation, an attestation architecture based upon a Web Services framework. The increasing prevalence of security breaches caused by malicious software shows that the conventional identity based trust model is insufficient as a protection mechanism. It is unfortunately common for a computing platform in the care of a...
- Tags: Web, Trusted Computing, Web Service, WS-Attestation, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2006-10-31
- Platform 2015: Intel Processor and Platform Evolution for the Next Decade
- Without a doubt, computing has made great strides in recent years. But as much as it has advanced in the last ten years, in the coming decade, the emergence and migration of new workloads and usage models to mainstream computing will put enormous demands on future computing platforms: demands for...
- Tags: Platform, Computing, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Towards Securing Pocket Hard Drives and Portable Personalities
- Inexpensive portable storage devices that are available in the market nowadays have made it easier for users to carry data and programs with them and borrow computing platforms when needed. While this model of computing is very attractive, it is promiscuous and thus protection is needed both for the borrower...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Storage Device, New Jersey, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers
- Developing Grid Computing Applications, Part 1: Introduction of a Grid Architecture and Toolkit for Building Grid Solutions
- Grid computing provides a framework and deployment platform that enables resource sharing, accessing, aggregation, and management in a distributed computing environment based on system performance, users' quality of services QoS, as well as emerging open standards, such as Web services. This is the era of Service Computing. This paper introduces...
- Tags: Web Service, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2002-11-20
- On Demand Platform for Online Games
- A shared infrastructure, based on emerging on demand computing models, that supports multiple games offers an attractive option for large-scale multiplayer online game providers who want to avoid the risk of investing in dedicated resources. This paper describes a prototype implementation of a service platform for online games. The platform...
- Tags: Online Game, Games, Personal Technology
- White papers 2006-01-11
- Platform Computing: Grid as a Catalyst for Change
- This webcast explains how the grid and Oracle 10g enables a virtualized view for managing all of your computing resources.
- Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Oracle Corp., Platform Computing Inc., Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- Alchemi: A .NET-Based Enterprise Grid Computing System
- Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce. Software to enable grid computing has been primarily written for Unix-class operating systems, thus severely limiting the ability to effectively utilize the computing resources of the vast majority...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft .NET, University Of Melbourne, Grid Computing, Microsoft Windows, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2006-04-14
- Location Based Placement of Whole Distributed Systems
- The high bandwidth and low latency of the modern internet has made possible the deployment of distributed computing platforms. The XenoServer platform provides a distributed computing platform open to all and presents three major new challenges for resource discovery: Firstly, network location is key for effectively provisioning services, to mitigate...
- Tags: Provisioning, Distributed Computing, Association For Computing Machinery, Distributed System, XenoServer Platform, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2005-10-27
- eWatch: A Wearable Sensor and Notification Platform
- The eWatch is a wearable sensing, notification, and computing platform built into a wrist watch form factor making it highly available, instantly viewable, ideally located for sensors, and unobtrusive to users. Bluetooth communication provides a wireless link to a cellular phone or stationary computer. eWatch senses light, motion, audio, and...
- Tags: Audio, Carnegie-Mellon University, Sensor, Wearable Computing, eWatch, Bluetooth Communication, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-11-30
- ARM aims to flex its arms with a mobile version of Linux
- Chip designer ARM is forming a coalition for the development of a Linux-based open source platform that targets mobile computing devices. A quote from the article at InformationWeek: The result will be a Linux-based open-source platform -- including a mobile, operating system, application development framework, and...
- Tags: ARM, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Perspectives on Grid: Grid Computing - Next-Generation Distributed Computing
- Two major needs have dramatically increased the value of the concept of grid computing in the last few years. A lean economy has forced those with a limited IT budget to more fully utilize their existing computing assets and to become more flexible to respond to rapidly evolving markets by...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Distributed Computing, Economy, Network Technology, Utility Computing, It Management, Corba, Networking, It service Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-01-27
- Maestro-VC: On-Demand Secure Cluster Computing Using Virtualization
- On-demand computing is the name given to technology which enables an infrastructure where computing cycles are treated as a commodity, and where such a commodity can be accessed upon request. In this way the goals of on-demand computing overlap with and are similar to those of Grid computing: both enable...
- Tags: University Of Illinois, On-demand, Grid Computing, Cluster Computing, On-demand Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Virtualization, It service Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-02-23
- The Next Evolution in Enterprise Computing: The Convergence of Multicore x86 Processing and 64-Bit Operating Systems
- This white paper provides an overview of the market progression toward 64-bit computing and multicore processing to satisfy the need for greater computing performance in the x86 market. The convergence of these two technologies will deliver mainframe-class power and performance to mainstream platforms, enabling applications that traditionally run on higher-end...
- Tags: Enterprise Computing, Operating System, Multi-core, International Data Corp., Convergence, International Data Group, 64-Bit, VOIP, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Aligning IT in Real Time With the Speed of Changing Business Demands: Using a Grid Platform to Orchestrate Your Enterprise IT Resources
- Nowadays, grid computing is helping individual High Performance Computing HPC applications improve agility and lower costs through the virtualization of IT resources such as processors, memory, storage and network. While these grid silos offer individual instances of ROI and business value, enterprise-wide improvements remain elusive. What is needed is the...
- Tags: Information Technology, Grid Computing, Platform Computing Inc., Strategy, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Management, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Grid Computing: The Current State and Future Trends
- The term 'Grid Computing' is relatively new and means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. It has been used as a buzzword for any new technology to do with computing, especially computer networking, and therefore it has been over-hyped as the solution to just about...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Engineers, Scientists, and Mathematicians Process Larger Data Sets on 64-Bit Platform
- The MathWorks provides software for technical computing and model-based design to more than a million people in the automotive, aerospace, biotechnology, communications, financial, and semiconductor industries. The company's customers found themselves processing increasingly larger amounts of data due to the lowering cost of computing and increasing design complexity. Speed and...
- Tags: Matlab, Computing, MathWorks, MATLAB 7.2, 64-Bit, Performance Management, Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking
- Case studies
- Cluster Computing
- Parallel computing has seen many changes since the days of the highly expensive and proprietary super computers. Changes and improvements in performance have also been seen in the area of mainframe computing for many environments. This paper provides a review of cluster computing, the various types of clusters and their...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Computing, Cluster Computing, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-04-18
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