NASA site shows New York disaster images
NASA's home page on the Web now shows images of the smoke plume from New York's World Trade Center as it appears from hundreds of miles above the Earth.
Federal energy managers claim 11 percent cut
Agency employees across the country tuned in via the Web last month to hear Federal Energy Management Program officials describe ways they have cut electricity consumption in federal buildings in California.
Cache system will speed up storage arrays
A data storage manufacturer has introduced a cache system that speeds up enterprise applications on server farms and storage area networks.
Microsoft releases its first 64-bit server OS
Microsoft Corp. last week delivered to hardware manufacturers its first operating system for the new 64-bit Intel Itanium platform.
Federal energy managers claim 11% power savings
Federal Energy Management Program officials, including FEMP utility program manager <b>Brad Gustafson</b>, yesterday held a national webcast to describe their recent efforts to cut electricity consumption in federal buildings in California.
Oracle9i readies databases for clustered servers, adds XML
Oracle Corp. has upgraded its flagship database management system for clustering.
Library gives capacity on demand
An enterprise tape library from Advanced Digital Information Corp. can increase capacity on demand for data consolidation and storage networks.
NIST team sees in stereo
A team of computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is inventing new ways to study the most common'and the rarest'substances on Earth.
As promised, Bush orders less standby power use
President Bush recently made good on his promise to instruct agencies to buy equipment that uses less electrical power while switched off.
Energy, IBM ink R&D agreement on genome supercomputing
The Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has signed a one-year cooperative research and development agreement with IBM Corp. to develop new techniques for studying genes and proteins with high-performance computers.
NSF OKs supercomputer teragrid
The National Science Foundation has given a green light to what could be the largest supercomputing infrastructure ever.
Middleware gives apps common look
A legacy-to-Web middleware company has a software development environment that can unify browser client interfaces to multiple applications.
Rumba upgrades PC-to-host apps
NetManage Inc.'s PC-to-host access software, Rumba, now has Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 authentication and interactive help.
NARA is nearly done with Web site snapshots
Nearly all agencies have complied with the National Archives and Records Administration's program for saving snapshots of Clinton-era Web sites.
NOAA's satellite archive amasses environmental data
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration archive of environmental satellite data uses different types of storage for different data availability needs.
Talk to Me
Public-safety workers depend on wireless devices despite their low bandwidth, spotty access and fragility.
Comptroller calls for more Web transactions
Agencies have made headway in electronic government, but they should be conducting far more transactions over the Internet, comptroller general David M. Walker said at last month's E-Gov conference in Washington.
NSF funds multisite supercomputing network
The National Science Foundation yesterday awarded $53 million to build the first multilocation supercomputing environment. The so-called teragrid will link multiple clusters of computers running Linux with a 40-Gbps optical network.
Server app has Web calendar
A new version of an e-mail server application comes with a Web calendar and Secure Sockets Layer authentication.
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