At the same time, also gaining credibility was parallel computing, a way of using many computers to share CPU resources across a network to make connected machines function as one large supercomputer.
Programmers writing the software underpinnings for grid supercomputing software have begun an overhaul to make the software more business-friendly. The programmers hope to release a final version of the Globus Toolkit in June or July, Foster said.
Rocks is an open source program that's developed by the NPACI at the SDSC by the University of California at Berkeley, Singapore Computing Systems and individual programmers. There already was an Itanium version of the Rocks software, but it didn't...
The challenge is that [the flawed function] ships with a variety of products," said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager for Microsoft's incident response centre. Windows XP Service Pack 2, which is still being distributed to many customers...
For most of us, we have to make do with systems which are, at best, only C2-rated systems in which some minimal security function is provided but not guaranteed. The internet can be relied upon to route data between any two connected computers...
One such flaw, described in Microsoft's MS05-051 security bulletin, lies in a Windows component for transaction processing called the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, or MSDTC. The MSDTC buffer overflow flaw primarily affects...