The best efficiency can be achieved with the plant running at 90 per cent or so of its rated capacity but large nuclear plants are not suited to respond to sudden power demand changes. At times of excess power production water is pumped up the...
A spokesperson said it had achieved an 11 per cent reduction in the error rate for its predictions for the northern hemisphere. On 12 April 2005, it began to use a new supercomputer with even more processing nodes: the NEC SX-8.
Another key challenge for the team's IT department is handling the huge amounts of data generated by aerodynamic simulation and the recently installed wind tunnel. Communication is critical, with the team testing or racing 40 weeks per year - in as...
Here are my predictions. Finally, and best of all, this will all be achieved at a lower cost and power consumption, less raw material than anything that has gone before. First, DVDs, HDVDs, Blu-ray et al will soon share the same fate as the floppy...
Once an organisation has worked out what to monitor - and how - it can begin collecting data and establish a baseline, which represents normal operations in the area being monitored. Plug an SNMP (simple network management protocol) or RMON (remote...
But portable computing has come on leaps and bounds. One of the key reasons the Asus has achieved these dimensions is because it uses a solid-state drive instead of a traditional hard disk, so its installed storage capacity is a rather paltry 12GB.