Formerly the domain of academic groups and research bodies - such as the SETI search for extraterrestrial intelligence - IBM has now sold grid systems to three major corporate customers - RBC Insurance, Kansei Electric Power and Royal Dutch Shell...
One driver for Sun's push is the fact that businesses are running mathematical models once reserved for scientists. Khan enumerated Sun products appropriate to the market - everything from workstations to grid software to groups of massive...
In fact, this is a considerable extension of scope of patentability, in breach of the spirit of the European Patent Convention that excludes from patentability mathematical methods, computer programs and presentations of information," the petition...
DNS servers act as the white pages of the internet, invisibly transforming easy-to-remember domain names - such as www.silicon.com - into the numerical network addresses used by computers. Servers infected with the MSBlast worm, for example, used...
To relay the information, the software has to find its destination by contacting the internet's domain name system address servers, where a publicly available record of that request is left behind. The method counts any request coming from the same...
The rental price for the Sun Grid service is $1 an hour per processor, so running a financial simulation that takes a day on 100 dual-processor computers would cost $4,800, for example. At least one high-level Sun Microsystems executive is...