Computer bugs have brought Hong Kong's airport cargo handling system to its knees. A spokeswoman for the Hong Kong Embassy said: "It's only a minor problem" but was unable to confirm whether systems have returned to normal.
The grid allows hospitals to store mammograms in digital form, provide powerful analytical tools to help doctors identify individual cases and identify cancer "clusters" in the population. IBM's distributed computing initiative has taken another...
Platform Computing, known for distributed resource management and grid computing software, has recently made some announcements that extend its market presence. Grid* Platform Federal will develop and customise grid software solutions for the US...
Khan worked at Cray Research, the company with perhaps the best-recognised name in the technical computing arena, while Masters himself comes from Floating Point Systems and Cray. Khan enumerated Sun products appropriate to the market - everything...
Cable & Wireless has got rid of its final Hong Kong holding for up to £246m, at a 10 per cent discount to the market, but it will still be left out of pocket. These were part of the price paid for C&W's Hong Kong operations.
Trouble is, grid found its niche with single applications that can run in a distributed manner. Computing has evolved to the point where current hype surrounds concepts such as grid and virtualisation.
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