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- Hybrid computing just like FLESH-EATING bacteria
- Symantec releases software as Amazon Machine Image
- Whitman said to be planning massive HP job cuts
- Dell forges GPU-enriched virty rack workstation
- Seagate, WD need to get a firm grip on solid disks
- You can feed 800 VMs off 1 of our boxes, startup brags
- Mutant number-crunchers win cluster popularity contest
- Seeing ads on Wikipedia? Then you're infected
- Acronis creates new roles for biz and M&A hotshots
- SGI skips future Xeon E7s, lobs E5-4600s into UV2 supers
- Finally a real use for NFC: Heart monitor in a credit card
- BBC shrinks Red Button: Loses 8 channels after the Olympics
- Nvidia drops veil on game-changing might of VGX
- Pre-Pet Commodore micro up for grabs on eBay
- Google Knowledge Graph straddles semantic web and <i>Star Trek</i>
- Google, French watchdog to hook up over privacy
- Adobe sucks on Oracle brain drain for HTML5 game gain
- Council fined £70k after burglars nick vulnerable kids' files
- Pinterest valued at $1.5 BILLION, bags $100m in funding
- Watchdog tells Greenpeace to stop 'encouraging anti-social behaviour'
- Steve Jobs' death clears way for rumoured 4in 'iPhone 5' screen
- UK man to spend year in the clink for Facebook account hack
- Microsoft books stall at Appule - the Mac expo stiffed by Apple
- HP frogmarches new Xeon, Opteron chips into ProLiants
- SoundBrush
- UK.gov IT slasher axes himself - after 5 months in new job
- Off-the-shelf forensics tool slurps iPhone data via iCloud
- Compare The Market can't touch web filth extension - simples
- Crooks sell skint fanbois potatoes instead of iPhones
- Soyuz hooks up with Space Station, delivers new 'nauts
- LOHAN starts to feel the barometric pressure
- Mobile net filters block legit content too – campaign group
- Boffins smash 3Gbps speed barrier with 542GHz T-Rays
- Google offers up new mobile usage interface to attract ad loot
- Dell to cut UK workforce
- Child support IT fail: Deadbeat mums 'n' dads off the hook
- Hong Kong CERT wants bigger team to tackle cyber threats
- Sony NEX-7 24.3Mp APS-C compact system camera
- GPS rival Beidou will cover Asia Pac by end of the year
- Asia leads global BYOD race
- AWS CISO needs permission to visit his data centres
- Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable
- Roman roads get the web maps treatment
| Hybrid computing just like FLESH-EATING bacteria Posted: 17 May 2012 03:01 PM PDT A scholarly comparisonHPC blog Hybrid computing (using CPUs plus GPUs to accelerate processing speed/throughput) and necrotizing faciitis (a flesh-eating bacterial* infection) have more in common than is typically thought. Both exhibit high growth rates, and both are incredibly difficult to stop once they get started.… |
| Symantec releases software as Amazon Machine Image Posted: 17 May 2012 02:00 PM PDT Getting cloudy with managed servicesSymantec has made its new O3 cloud identity and access control suite available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMIs), the company's first foray into selling software as a hosted virtual machine.… |
| Whitman said to be planning massive HP job cuts Posted: 17 May 2012 12:53 PM PDT 25,000 to 35,000 HPers may face extinctionNew(ish) HP CEO Meg Whitman has been at the helm for long enough to come up with a longer-term plan for the company, and according to various rumors, her plan will look eerily familiar to HPers who remember the early years of ex-CEO Mark Hurd: job cuts, predominantly in services.… |
| Dell forges GPU-enriched virty rack workstation Posted: 17 May 2012 12:12 PM PDT Quadro graphics and Tesla compute tag teamLike everyone else on the planet, you want a rocketsled to do your work. The faster, the better. But if Dell has its way, it may not be on top of or underneath your desk, but sitting in a rack in a data center. And it may not be a rocketsled as much as a rocketbus, with multiple people using it at the same time.…
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| Seagate, WD need to get a firm grip on solid disks Posted: 17 May 2012 12:09 PM PDT Pro-tip: They should buy OCZ and STECBlocks and Files STEC is touting its great CellCare flash endurance, and it is great, reinforcing a view that it and OCZ make natural flash market buy-in points for Seagate and Western Digital.… |
| You can feed 800 VMs off 1 of our boxes, startup brags Posted: 17 May 2012 11:02 AM PDT Tintri wraps NetApp up in white paperApparently, just adding a tincture of Tintri to your virtualised server-storage array pathway gets those VMs running like super-charged rockets. The firm says a European customer is running 800 virtual machines off one Tintri box, leaving a NetApp array chastened in the background.… |
| Mutant number-crunchers win cluster popularity contest Posted: 17 May 2012 10:21 AM PDT CUDA you dig it? Yes, you canHPC blog Hybrid computing has come a very long way in a relatively short period of time. My first exposure to hybrids came at SC08 in the lovely city of Austin, Texas. Earlier that year, the Roadrunner system at Los Alamos National Lab had achieved two milestones: 1) It was the first system to break through the petabyte barrier; and 2) It was the first high-profile hybrid system.… |
| Seeing ads on Wikipedia? Then you're infected Posted: 17 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT Click fraudsters are milking you for cashSurfers who see ads when they visit Wikipedia are likely infected with malware, the online encyclopedia warns.… |
| Acronis creates new roles for biz and M&A hotshots Posted: 17 May 2012 09:26 AM PDT Could be poised to snap up some juicy prospectsData protection software supplier Acronis has created two new roles on its executive team: senior vice president in corporate development and SVP in global business development. The move suggests the firm is anticipating a spike in growth and is preparing itself to make a few acquisitions, or even positioning itself to be acquired.…
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| SGI skips future Xeon E7s, lobs E5-4600s into UV2 supers Posted: 17 May 2012 09:03 AM PDT Adds Xeon E5s, Tesla K10 GPU coprocessors to rackable boxesSupercomputer and cluster maker Silicon Graphics has fallen hard for Intel's new "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5-4600 processors for four-socket servers.… |
| Finally a real use for NFC: Heart monitor in a credit card Posted: 17 May 2012 08:41 AM PDT Pay-by-bonk becomes bleeding-edge techVid We've seen heart monitors built into mobile phones and puck-sized Bluetooth kit, but now iMPak Health has got one down to the size of a credit card and used wireless technology to transfer the data.… |
| BBC shrinks Red Button: Loses 8 channels after the Olympics Posted: 17 May 2012 08:19 AM PDT Extra 24 live HD streams during the GamesThe BBC will be dropping eight of its Red Button channels after an Olympic splurge, focusing on IPTV content instead of the alternative electronic programme guide that the Red Button had become.… |
| Nvidia drops veil on game-changing might of VGX Posted: 17 May 2012 08:02 AM PDT VDI'ing Your BYODsHPC blog What's a "holy crap" moment? For me, it's when I see or hear (or do) something that has far-reaching and previously unforeseen consequences. I've had at least two of these moments (so far) at the GTC 2012 conference. The first was when Jen-Hsun Huang, in his keynote presentation, tossed up a slide about Kepler and this new thing they're calling VGX.… |
| Pre-Pet Commodore micro up for grabs on eBay Posted: 17 May 2012 07:48 AM PDT Kim-1 could be yoursReaders, you now have 12 hours or so to bid for a slice of computing history: a Kim-1 single-board computer, released some 36 years ago by the company that would become a key part of Commodore.… |
| Google Knowledge Graph straddles semantic web and <i>Star Trek</i> Posted: 17 May 2012 07:34 AM PDT Beyond Bing-blocking and screen-fiddlingGoogle's battle to retain search supremacy is seeing it roll something it claims will take us closer to the "computers of Star Trek".…
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| Google, French watchdog to hook up over privacy Posted: 17 May 2012 07:28 AM PDT Last encounter left CNIL unsatisfiedGoogle will meet CNIL next week to chat about the French regulator's ongoing concerns over the web giant's revamped privacy policy.… |
| Adobe sucks on Oracle brain drain for HTML5 game gain Posted: 17 May 2012 07:04 AM PDT Java VM experts exit en masseAdobe seems to be juicing its software gaming credentials against HTML5 by grabbing some hard-core Sun Microsystems talent as they slip out Oracle's back door.… |
| Council fined £70k after burglars nick vulnerable kids' files Posted: 17 May 2012 06:32 AM PDT Second data law breach in two yearsThe UK's privacy watchdog has fined the London Borough of Barnet £70k ($111k) after the local authority lost extremely sensitive information about young children for the second time in two years.… |
| Pinterest valued at $1.5 BILLION, bags $100m in funding Posted: 17 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT Next stop: JapanCupcake and kitten-laden photo site Pinterest has bagged $100m in funding from a bunch of investors led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten.… |
| Watchdog tells Greenpeace to stop 'encouraging anti-social behaviour' Posted: 17 May 2012 05:42 AM PDT Hippies told to stop asking for money to fund vandalismThe UK's advertising watchdog has upheld a complaint against advertising by hippy collective Greenpeace, which solicited money to help in such things as breaking into power stations and defacing property.…
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| Steve Jobs' death clears way for rumoured 4in 'iPhone 5' screen Posted: 17 May 2012 05:18 AM PDT Apple places order for large display, claim sourcesThe next Apple iPhone will have an enlarged 4-inch screen, according to well-placed anonymous sources.… |
| UK man to spend year in the clink for Facebook account hack Posted: 17 May 2012 05:02 AM PDT 21-year-old admitted breaking into US victim's profileA British man has been jailed for a year after hacking into the Facebook account of a US citizen.… |
| Microsoft books stall at Appule - the Mac expo stiffed by Apple Posted: 17 May 2012 04:42 AM PDT Redmond to flog Office at UK fanboi gatheringMicrosoft has signed up for the Appule Personal and Professional User Live Expo, which Apple has so far snubbed.… |
| HP frogmarches new Xeon, Opteron chips into ProLiants Posted: 17 May 2012 04:21 AM PDT Wants world+dog to know that it's also using E5-2400 two-socketeersIn the wake of Intel's launch of the entry Xeon E5-2400 processors for two-socket servers earlier this week, X86 server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard wants to keep its name in the mind of customers who might be shopping for systems from rivals Dell, IBM or Fujitsu.… |
| Posted: 17 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Paint me a tuneiOS App of the Week After happily tapping away with Figure just recently, I decided to try and find some other simple apps that might be fun for musically challenged people like me. SoundBrush is well named, as its clever interface allows you to doodle with sound in the same way that you would sketch with a simple painting app.… |
| UK.gov IT slasher axes himself - after 5 months in new job Posted: 17 May 2012 03:37 AM PDT Ian Watmore follows horde of civil servants streaming out the doorFormer tech-spending axeman Ian Watmore is leaving the civil service just five months after taking up a new role as the permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office.… |
| Off-the-shelf forensics tool slurps iPhone data via iCloud Posted: 17 May 2012 03:18 AM PDT Cops don't need your actual phone any moreElcomSoft has updated its mobile forensics software to include the ability to retrieve online backups from Apple iCloud storage.…
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| Compare The Market can't touch web filth extension - simples Posted: 17 May 2012 02:59 AM PDT First biz to lose .xxx cybersquat disputePrice comparison biz Compare The Market has lost its bid to seize the domain name comparethemarket.xxx.… |
| Crooks sell skint fanbois potatoes instead of iPhones Posted: 17 May 2012 02:44 AM PDT 'I wanted an Apple, not a vegetable'Greater Manchester police are appealing for help after a number of people who thought they were laying hands on a shiny new iPhone ended up with a sack of spuds instead.… |
| Soyuz hooks up with Space Station, delivers new 'nauts Posted: 17 May 2012 02:19 AM PDT Full crew to be ready for Dragon arrivalVid The Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new members of Expedition 31 hooked up with the International Space Station this morning without a hitch at 4.36am GMT.… |
| LOHAN starts to feel the barometric pressure Posted: 17 May 2012 02:03 AM PDT Mulls spaceplane rocket motor triggerAs the design of our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) Vulture 2 spaceplane continues apace, we've been considering just how to fire the aircraft's solid rocket motor at a predetermined altitude.… |
| Mobile net filters block legit content too – campaign group Posted: 17 May 2012 01:38 AM PDT It even bins age-appropriate stuffMobile operators currently provide filter systems that enable parents to stop children accessing websites deemed to contain content suitable for individuals aged 18 or over. However, the Open Rights Group (ORG) said there are "a number of serious problems" with how those systems work.…
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| Boffins smash 3Gbps speed barrier with 542GHz T-Rays Posted: 17 May 2012 01:19 AM PDT Sky's the limit in terahertz territoryJapanese geniuses have maintained a 3Gbit/s radio link at 542GHz, opening up more of the electromagnetic spectrum to the voracious appetite of wireless data.… |
| Google offers up new mobile usage interface to attract ad loot Posted: 17 May 2012 01:02 AM PDT Just the thing to bulk out any business pitchThe Mobile Marketing Association and Google have again gathered smartphone usage, from 40 countries this time, and provided a snazzy interface capable of generating comparison charts of XLS files on demand.… |
| Posted: 17 May 2012 12:32 AM PDT Box shifter 'grows business' by trimming headcountDell has threatened staff in the UK with redundancy, Channel Register can reveal.… |
| Child support IT fail: Deadbeat mums 'n' dads off the hook Posted: 17 May 2012 12:03 AM PDT NAO: Child maintenance computers unable to keep tabs on paymentsProblems with IT systems at the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) have left it unable to report payment arrears properly, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.… |
| Hong Kong CERT wants bigger team to tackle cyber threats Posted: 16 May 2012 11:06 PM PDT Region's multinationals a big target for hackersHong Kong's Computer Emergency Response Team (HKCERT) has called for more resources to help it step up attempts to proactively monitor and deal with attacks on organisations in the special administrative region (SAR) of China.… |
| Sony NEX-7 24.3Mp APS-C compact system camera Posted: 16 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT DSLR worrier?Review Sony's NEX-7 is its flagship Compact System Camera that's been graced with advanced features to justify the high-end price tag for a pocketable interchangeable lens model. Indeed this 24.3Mp APS-C shooter with a built-in OLED electronic viewfinder plus tilting LCD and full manual control, is certainly going to give some DSLRs a run for their money.… |
| GPS rival Beidou will cover Asia Pac by end of the year Posted: 16 May 2012 09:25 PM PDT Chinese satnav project could go global as early as 2014China will expand its home grown GPS rival Beidou by launching three global positioning satellites that it hopes will make it possible to have the service up and running in Asia Pacific by the end of the year.… |
| Posted: 16 May 2012 09:15 PM PDT IT managers jump on the bandwagonAsian IT professionals are racing ahead of their global rivals when it comes to implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in their organisations, according to new research from BT.… |
| AWS CISO needs permission to visit his data centres Posted: 16 May 2012 06:46 PM PDT He doesn't mind and you shouldn't either because they're not that interestingAmazon Web Services' General Manager and Chief Information Security Officer Stephen E. Schmidt is not allowed to make unannounced visits to the company's data centres.… |
| Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Posted: 16 May 2012 05:36 PM PDT Father of BIND fears ISP crisis in JulyRidding the world of the DNS Changer is proving a long, slow process that won't be accomplished by July 9, when the court orders granted to the FBI expire and infected users suffer their inevitable blackout.… |
| Roman roads get the web maps treatment Posted: 16 May 2012 05:03 PM PDT M-III traffic means Londinium to Venta (Winchester) takes 3.7 daysClassical scholars at Stanford University have created a "Geospatial network model of the Roman world" which offers the chance to calculate journey times along Roman roads in much the same way as is possible on Google Maps and other online mapping services.…
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