Customers can rent a "grid" of interconnected computers that can be used for calculation tasks such as computing financial risks, searching seismic data that can locate oil fields or detailing frames in animated movies.
Now part two is coming, in what the company is calling its Sun Grid: storage costing $1 per gigabyte per month. Sun Microsystems is expected to update its vision of utility computing on Tuesday, including a second major component and plans for...
For the best of both worlds the two mechanisms can be run in parallel, though the burden on CPU starts to become noticeable on a less than current machine. However, such capabilities have in general remained too expensive for general use, remaining...
For anyone who did use the earlier tool, the researchers' blog has instructions for removing the Sony component. Princeton University computer science professor Ed Felten yesterday wrote in his blog that he and a fellow researcher had confirmed...
Another tactic is for IT developers and vendors to start improving the 'green appeal' of their products, both at the component level and at the whole system or solution level. Once delivered and installed, increasingly powerful computers and...
Wiping the disk or rewriting random bits over the existing data multiple times makes it impossible to retrieve the original information, according to experts, although it is worth making sure that any wiping method meets the standard Gutmann...