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Gartner Revises Server Share Numbers
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:43:24 -0400
Gartner revised its first quarter numbers and found that IBM actually beat out Hewlett-Packard in server revenue....
Who Is Running The Most Secure Browser?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:13 -0400
Many users are undoubtedly not updating their browsers as quickly as they should, but you can't conclude any specifics about that from the recent study of Google logs....
DOJ Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking Practices
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:08:34 -0400
Civil liberties groups claim the Justice Department is bypassing warrants to obtain real-time tracking information on U.S. citizens....
Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Strikes Back
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:53 -0400
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 security builds on the Phishing Filter of IE 7 and thwarts cross-site scripting....
IBM Helps Link POS to the Back Office
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:30 -0400
IBM and Epicor jointly release an offering that centrally manages and supports POS....

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Troubles shadow G-8 summit
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:36:36 -0700
Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic...
Florida may signal boom in coastal oil drilling
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:26:48 -0700
Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost-prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support...
U.S. share of foreign tourists slips, travel experts say
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:38:41 -0700
Despite the weak U.S. dollar, a boom in international travel around the world hasn't translated into an explosion of foreign tourists to...

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As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:22:20 -0000
As the Web has become an irreplaceable part of life, users have become less forgiving of even occasional outages.
The Medium: File-Sharing Fetish
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:48:30 -0000
Eclectic video-sharing that doesn’t succumb to the porn imperative.
For Marketers, Viruses Just Won’t Cooperate
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:19:30 -0000
Viral marketing is much harder than negative buzz to generate.

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Stealing ideas from nature
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:01:21 -0400
When self-confessed "nature nerd" Janine Benyus coined the term "biomimicry" in a book she published a decade ago, little did she know it would make her a household name, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars.
Faked tiger photo sparks Web furor
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:23:49 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
Tunguska blast still a mystery 100 years on
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:17:51 -0400
It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to understanding what caused it.

NPR Topics: Technology

Viacom May Soon Have Your YouTube Password
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
A judge ordered YouTube to hand over the log-on names and the Internet addresses of its users to media giant Viacom. The matter is stirring up major privacy concerns.
We Know What You've Been Watching on YouTube
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:13:00 -0400
A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, says the ruling has big implications for online privacy.
Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:00 -0400
Twitter.com has so many new users that the Web site keeps crashing. Meanwhile, Twitter engineers are taking popular features away for retooling. It's a painful process, but co-founder Biz Stone has a plan.

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition

Google 'faces Street View block'
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:56:34 -0000
Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner.
Warning letters to 'file-sharers'
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:41:04 -0000
The music industry says thousands of UK broadband users who share tracks illegally will be warned about it in letters.
Google must divulge YouTube log
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:53 -0000
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched avideo on YouTube, says a US court.

Reuters Video: Technology

Japan asks: anybody out there?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:02:00 -0400
Jul. 4 - Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for a fresh quest to find out if there is life in outer space.
Reuters Technology Week
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:52:38 -0400
Jul. 3 - The robo-bartender, virtual haute couture, and global leaders ride hydrogen style.
Robo barman pulls first pint
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:03:25 -0400
Jul. 3 - Billed as the world's first robot barman, Mr Asahi pulls the crowds at London's Selfridges department store.

AP Top Technology News At 6:44 p.m. EDT

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
By ANICK JESDANUN Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:52:13 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when....
2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:44:12 -0000
DOVER, N.Y. (AP) -- Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said....
Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:57:41 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own....

CNET News.com

iPhone 3G queue forms in Manhattan
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:25:00 -0700
But the usual suspects--gadget fanatics--aren't the ones at the front of the line.
Privacy advocates praise Google's new link
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:55:00 -0700
Company's decision to add a link to its home page that leads to its Privacy Center is enough to quell a controversy.
Photos: Army designates year's best inventions
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0700
Every year, the U.S. Army designates a set of top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.

 

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Aeneas Supercomputer - At the University of California at Irvine. Hardware description, news articles, software links, and benchmarks.

ASMA - At Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Cluster specs, publications bibliography, scheduler documentation, and links to other Beowulf resources.

Baldric - At the University of Western Ontario. Cluster description, pictures, and FAQ.

Beowulf Project - At the Center for Research on Parallel Computing and Supercomputers. Description and benchmarks.
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Beowulf Project at the University of Missouri, St. Louis - Specifications and software links.

500 Bolo - Specifications and pictures.

Brahma - At Duke University. Hardware and software design details.
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Bunyip Beowulf Project - At Australia National University. FAQ, configuration details, photos, and users' guide.

404 CARRIER - Cluster at Florida State University. Configuration details, network design, and benchmarks.
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Centurion at the University of Virginia - Configuration details, photos, and software links.

Chiba City - At Argonne National Lab. Configuration, users' guide, documentation, and pictures.

Cobalt - At the University of Calgary. Hardware and software configuration, and information for users.

Comyc - At the University of Heidelberg. Users guide, documentation, status, and configuration details.

404 CWRU Beowulf - Cluster at Case Western Reserve University. Pictures and Beowulf documentation.

DeepFlow Alpha Cluster - Specifications, information for users, how to use the scheduler, pictures, and research information.

500 Distributed ASCI Supercomputer - Cluster information and pictures.

Gargleblaster - At the University of California at Santa Barbara. Documentation and pictures.

404 Gecoa AlphaPC cluster - At the Ames Laboratory. Cluster information, links to software, and benchmarks.

Genetic Programming, Inc. - Clusters used for genetics research. Pictures, news articles, and design and configuration details for very large clusters.

Gravitor - Used for astrophysical simulations at the Geneva Observatory. Hardware and software information, pictures, and links to research.

Hälge - At Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University. Cluster information, benchmarks, and information about research.

HEP Batch Computing - At the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute. Hardware information, news, and papers.

Hermes - At the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany. Cluster description and diagram.

Hibana - A project to port Linux to the AP1000+, a distributed-memory multicomputer. Papers and documentation.

Hrothgar - At Harvey Mudd College. Reference material, system status, and list of current projects.

500 Hyglac - At the High Performance Computing Group of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Pictures and cluster information.

IBM Linux Cluster Alvarez - At the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. Cluster information and parallel computing research links.

ICE Box - At the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah. Specs, users guide, and software documentation.

404 J. W. Essex - Links to research and configuration information.
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Jazznet - At the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Benchmarks, research information and pictures, and hardware and software information.

KAIST*GALAXY Beowulf Cluster - Nuclear Reactor Analysis and Particle Transport Lab at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Description of hardware, benchmarks, links to software documentation.

Kamadhenu - Cluster at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India. Configuration details, installation notes, benchmarks, and pictures.

Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed - At the University of Kentucky. Press releases, hardware details, and benchmarks.

Laboratory for Advanced Computing in the Mathematical Sciences - At the University of Bristol. Cluster specifications and information about research.
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Lalainya - Used for analysis of traffic patterns at the Bluepoint Institute of Higher Technology Foundation. Hardware information.
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LAMA's Beowulf - At the Materials Laboratory at Universidad del País Vasco, in Bilbao, Spain. Cluster configuration, photos, and status.

LoBoS - At the National Institute for Health. System configuration, status, benchmarks, links to software, news articles, and information for users.

Loki - At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Documentation, configuration information, benchmarks, and pictures of calculations.

404 Mad Dog - At the University of Science and Technology in Manchester. Configuration information.
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MAGI - Used for speech recognition research at CTU Prague. Description and pictures.

Maginet - At the Quantum Chemistry Group of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. Cluster specs and pictures.

404 NCSA NT Cluster Group - Information about application scaling.

Nuredduna - At the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies. Cluster description and pictures.

404 Parallel Computing Lab - At New Mexico State University. Configuration information and diagrams, research, publications, and links to parallel programming information.

Parnass - Cluster statistics and links to papers about research conducted using it.
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Pentium Farm - At the University of Mannheim. Configuration details.

Pondermatic - Description of construction.

500 RWCP - At the Tsukuba Research Center. Benchmarks and papers.

Spear - At the University of Rhode Island. Cluster description.

Störtebeker Cluster Project - At the Institute of Computer Engineering, Medical University of Luebeck, Germany. Links to research, hardware description, and pictures.

Stone SouperComputer - At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Configuration details, news articles, papers, applications, and links to Beowulf resources.

Super Abacus - At the City University of Hong Kong. Hardware configuration, pictures, benchmarks, users' guide, and research description.

SWARM - At Oregon State University. Configuration, benchmarks, and information for users.

404 TECOM's Cluster Tux Project - Used for weather forecasting at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Hardware description, benchmarks, and pictures.

404 Tempest and Lear - At the University of Pittsburgh. Hardware configuration, queue information, benchmarks, and links to research.

The Chaingang - At the University of Sciences in Philadelphia. Hardware specs, links to software, and pictures.

404 The Cluster - At the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Information about using schedulers, compilers, debuggers, and performance analysis tools.

404 The Collective - At the University of Idaho. Hardware description.

The Cyborg Project - Photographs, hardware details, and links to message-passing resources.

The Scalable Computing Laboratory (SCL) - At Iowa State University. Claster homepages with Users guide, hardware and software information, benchmarks and statistics.

500 The Wesleyan Physics Clusters - Hardware and software details, links to projects using the cluster, and links to other resources.

The-Elements - Cluster description, links to research, benchmarks, articles, and information for users.

theHIVE - Pictures, software, benchmarks, research, and users guide.

Tina - At the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Magdeburg. Description of research, current workload, and pictures.

University of Louisville Mechanical Engineering Department - Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

University of Wisconsin, Madison: Alpha Beowulf System - Hardware description, pictures, benchmarking code, and construction details.

VALHAL - At the Center for Atomic-Scale Materials Physics in Denmark. Hardware and network description, benchmarks, and software information

VTT Electronics - Cluster information and links to Beowulf resources.
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ZUSE Parallel Pentium-Pro Cluster - At the University of Koblenz-Landau. Configuration diagram.