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| Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
- The grid that will process data from the Large Hadron Collider has undergone stress testing, with Cern and other organisations trying to gauge its limits. The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data around the distributed computing project, which uses dedicated optical-fibre networks to distribute data from Cern (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) to 11 main computer centres in Europe, Asia and North America. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:54:01 +0100 |
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Heatwave? No sweat for CIOs
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The hot weather the UK has been experiencing in the past week or so doesn't seem to have caused too many headaches in IT departments across the country. The latest silicon.com CIO Jury poll asked tech chiefs whether they'd taken any extra steps to protect their technology infrastructure during this week's heat wave, with nine of the 12 revealing they haven't. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:46:01 +0100 |
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Video: 60-Second Pitch: Collaboration software
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CIOs spend countless hours listening to suppliers pitch their technology, so silicon.com decided to make the process a lot more entertaining by putting the vendors on the spot. Welcome to the 60-Second Pitch. Suppliers have just one minute to pitch their product or service to a panel of current and former heads of IT, who then have the opportunity to quiz the vendor before giving the technology a green or red light - just for fun, of course. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:24:02 +0100 |
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The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
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Glastonbury - home to ley lines, juggling hippies, gurning students covered head-to-toe in mud and publicity-hungry minor celebrities showing off in their wellies. And, this year, they were joined by 407 BBC staff. Yep, 407. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:06:02 +0100 |
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Has in-flight entertainment got wings in the iPod era?
- Airlines should scrap in-flight entertainment systems because they cannot compete with the thousands of songs and scores of movies that can be stored on modern media players, according to an aviation expert. The pace at which airlines can update the selection of film, music, games and technology offered to passengers is being outstripped by constant advances in storage and functionality on media players, according to professor John Hansman, director of the International Technology Center for Air Transport at MIT. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:57:02 +0100 |
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