18seconds.org: Yahoo's green CFL mashup
From the good idea department, Yahoo, with some assistance from Wal-Mart, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and others parties, launched 18seconds.org (green.
From the good idea department, Yahoo, with some assistance from Wal-Mart, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and others parties, launched 18seconds.org (green.
Data projectors are dropping rapidly in price and improving in function. Which of the latest models best suits your needs?
Michael Kanellos reports that the High Energy Physics team won the Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge by shuttling data at a sustained rate of 101 gigabits--the equivalent of three DVD movies--per second between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles....According to Harvey Newman, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology and team leader, transfer rates of 130gbps to 140gbps are likely possible...
One of the world's biggest weather prediction systems is set to get a major upgrade.
If you've ever used serialization in Java, the first thing you probably noticed is how easy it is to code. The second thing you probably noticed is how easy it is to break serialization by changing your classes.
Starting with JDK 1.1, Java provided the ability to create nested classes. A nested class is defined inside another class. There are two types of nested classes: static nested classes and inner classes.
Italian big data users are out there - but they tend to be whales, not minnows.
As part of its five-year transformation project, Horizon Power has recognised that using data will help it reduce costs and improve business efficiency.
Supercomputing resources available via a web server have helped researchers in Barcelona take a step towards better HIV treatments designed on PCs.