TechRepublic Resources
- Geek Trivia: Data with destiny
- The Swiss are famously neutral on nearly every major public issue of the day, including--apparently--the construction of potential doomsday devices beneath their own soil. Still, don't look for the state of Hawaii to stand idly by and allow the world to collapse into an artificial black hole or convert into...
- Tags: Data, Distributed Computing, Grid, LHC@home, Network Technology, Networking, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Infrastructure for Distributed Applications in Ad Hoc Networks of Small Mobile Wireless Devices
- Mobile wireless computing devices such as cellphones, pagers, personal digital assistants, pocket PCs, and tablet computers are all potential platforms for participating in small group, wireless, many-to-many distributed applications. The networking technology needed to support such applications is readily available. However, almost all existing middleware infrastructure for distributed applications was...
- Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, Network, Wireless Device, Middleware, Distributed Computing, Anhinga Infrastructure, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers
- Performance Evaluation of distributed computing Paradigms in Mobile Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
- The emergence of mobile ad hoc sensor networks has brought new challenges to traditional network design. This paper focuses on the study at the application layer. In specific, it compares the performance of two distributed computing paradigms, the client/server-based paradigm and the mobile-agent-based paradigm, through mathematical modeling and simulation. The...
- Tags: Performance, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Performance Evaluation, Distributed Computing, Paradigm, Network Technology, Servers, Networking, Hardware
- White papers
- MSNBC Delivers the News - Everytime, Everywhere
- With a stated mission to deliver high-quality content "anytime, anywhere," MSNBC sought a business partner that was positioned to help them execute their strategy. The company's EdgeSuite for Business Continuity solution, a suite of outsourced services built on the Akamai Platform to ensure site availability in the face of foreseeable...
- Tags: Infrastructure Protection, Distributed Computing, MSNBC, Akamai Technologies Inc., Outsourcing, Network Technology, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Networking
- Case studies
- Automating Web Service Discovery, Customization, and Semantic Translation With a Semantic Discovery Service
- The ultimate goal for the Web services effort is seamless interoperation among networked devices and programs through the development of distributed computing infrastructure and Web standards. Once achieved, many see Web services as providing the infrastructure for universal plug-and-play and ubiquitous computing. Recent industry efforts to this end, however, leave...
- Tags: Web, Industry, Web Service, Distributed Computing, Customization, Channel Management, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers
- Userland Frontier X (dmg)
- Frontier is a powerful Web content management system, built around an object database, scripting language, script editor and debugger, outliner, multi-threaded runtime, integrated HTTP server, distributed computing protocols such as XML-RPC and SOAP. Frontier also includes our browser-based content system, Manila, at no extra cost. This version is the first...
- Tags: UserLand Software, Distributed Computing, SOAP, Web Servers, Network Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-12-13
- Yahoo and Carnegie Mellon University to work together on supercomputing cluster
- Carnegie Mellon University and Yahoo have announced a collaborative project to advance distributed computing and software research. An excerpt from ZDNet: "We are excited about collaborating with Yahoo on systems software research... and jointly contributing back to the open-source community," Randall E Bryant, dean of the...
- Tags: Supercomputing Cluster, Carnegie-Mellon University, Yahoo! Inc., Distributed Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Grid - distributed computing at Scale: An Overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum4.5
- Grid is a core concept in modern distributed computing architectures and is aligned with other important distributed computing technologies such as virtualization, service-orientation and data center automation. In a sense, Grids are enabled by virtualization, automation and service-orientation technologies and also integrate these technologies into a unifying solution - particularly...
- Tags: Distributed Computing, Grid, Open Grid Forum, Virtualization, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking
- White papers 2007-08-28
- Demystify service orientation and learn how it is transforming distributed computing
- The fundamental goal of SOA and service orientation is to produce something with repeatable value, long-term benefit, and inherent flexibility for the strategic good of the organization. The greatest obstacle to achieving this goal is a lack of understanding as to what service orientation, as an industry paradigm,...
- Tags: Distributed Computing, Prentice Hall Inc., Service Orientation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Network Technology, Software, Networking
- Book chapters 2007-09-10
- Matching Applications With Raw Power Using the Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster
- Cluster computing is the natural outcome of an evolution of distributed computing technology that has been in process for more than a decade. High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters provide a mechanism for solving problems that cannot be solved without massive amounts of computing power, and they incorporate not only servers, storage,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Distributed Computing, Computing, Cluster Computing, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Combining AJAX and WSRF for Web-Browser Based Grid Clients
- This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of combining Asynchronous Javascript And XML (AJAX) and the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) architectural style with the Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) standard. Accessing WS-Resources (according to WSRF) in a manner compatible with the REST principles, using a Web browser, makes it possible to provide...
- Tags: Web Service, Client, Distributed Computing, Web Browser, AJAX, Network Technology, Web Browsers, Web Services, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-11-01
- AJAX - A New Face for Client/Server Computing
- Distributed computing architectures have been evolving for decades. Competitive pressures force organizations to fully utilize the lower cost computing cycles offered by inexpensive desktop computers and industry standard servers in the data center. Today's Internet and Web-based applications are the culmination of this process. The ultimate goal of distributed computing...
- Tags: Client-server, Industry Standard, Distributed Computing, Computing, Open-Xchange, AJAX, Network Technology, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Networking
- White papers 2006-07-07
- Business Value in Virtualization
- Information Technology (IT) organizations are increasingly implementing server virtualization as a solution to dramatically lower data center costs and increase competitive advantage. Improvements in distributed computing technology - particularly in operating system design - have made it feasible today to operate multiple server applications as "Virtual machines" (VMs) within a...
- Tags: Virtualization, Distributed Computing, TCO, Intel Xeon, Roi/Tco, Servers, Processors, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2006-05-10
- The Ubiquitous Web, UPnP and Smart Homes
- UPnP is a distributed computing framework based on Web technologies that is intended for use in local area networks - especially home networks. Over the years, valuable lessons have been learned from the efforts of various companies to develop and deploy products based on this technology. The essence of this...
- Tags: Web, Nokia Corp., Wireless Communication, Vision, Distributed Computing, UPnP, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2006-02-14
- NGN Control Plane Overload and Its Management
- This white paper examines the types of overload scenarios encountered within traditional networks and concludes that similar traffic behaviour, requiring overload management, will be required within Next Generation Networks (NGNs). It looks at the principals of overload protection within real-time communications servers and the types of overload management methods that...
- Tags: Distributed Computing, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Semantic Markup for Secure Survivable Enterprise Applications
- While the Internet and distributed computing bring forth fresh and exciting possibilities, they also create greater security risks, threats and obstacles. Due to the security risks associated with the Internet, most of the resources are protected with some sort of security mechanisms. Such protection can be a potential roadblock to...
- Tags: Security Risk, Distributed Computing, Enterprise Application, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Network Technology, Internet, Security, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Networking
- White papers 2005-12-20
- What's the best way to increase processing power?
- Processing power--seems you can never have too much of it. But what's the best and most scalable way to increase the processing power available to your vital applications without breaking the bank? Just like death and taxes, one thing we can count on is that tomorrow's operating systems...
- Tags: Processors, Deb Shinder, LetÂ, processor, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Clustering, Processing Power, Distributed Computing, Computer, Distributed Processing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Technical articles 2006-07-28
- Web Services on Embedded Devices
- The capabilities of embedded devices such as smart-phones are steadily increasing and provide the great flexibility of data access and collaboration while being mobile. From the distributed computing point of view, fundamental issues in mobile computing include heterogeneity in terms of varying device capabilities (i.e., operating systems and various hardware...
- Tags: Web, Interoperability, Mobile, Web Service, Distributed Computing, Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2005-11-01
- 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
- Running a Traffic Model on a Linux Cluster: Using MATLAB's distributed computing Toolbox
- Distributed computing has become an accepted technology to reduce the time needed to perform large computations. The MathWorks has anticipated this development by introducing the Distributed Computing Toolbox for MATLAB. This toolbox allows MATLAB users to run their applications on clusters of PC's, thus obtaining results quicker than on a...
- Tags: Distributed Computing, Matlab, Linux Cluster, MathWorks, Network Technology, Linux, Open Source, Networking, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2005-10-27
