TeraGrid adds four Linux clusters
he National Science Foundation's grid-computing project is getting four new Linux clusters for distributed computing.
One site, two clicks
When you click on the Geospatial One-Stop map viewer and see the word LOADING flash for a few seconds, servers and applications are talking to one another behind the scenes.
DISA recommends compliance with Linux standard
<font color="CC0000"> UPDATED </font color>The Defense Information Systems Agency is backing a Linux industry standard designed to avoid the interoperability problems that once dogged the proprietary Unix community.
Law enforcement gets XML standard for data exchange
The third version of the Justice Department's data dictionary for the Extensible Markup Language is awaiting comment by law enforcement agencies.
Storage vendors boost capacity and connectivity
Dueling network protocols, soaring capacities and better software distinguish the storage market this year.
Data Swappers
The Bureau of Land Management is setting up Extensible Markup Language data exchanges with oil and natural gas prospectors who drill on federal lands.
Forecast for NWS: flash flood of Linux
The National Weather Service is converting its severe-weather prediction system to Linux.
MIT lab turns a TIA-like mirror on government
Lawmakers aren't the only folks with the Terrorism Information Awareness projects in their sights.
DVD's the format for digital libraries
DVD is the next step in preserving the government's digital data, and an interagency DVD working group is studying the technology.
Name the missing
Old bones speak to John E. Byrd, and he is building a data warehouse to help them divulge their names.
Administration set to survey Section 508 compliance
The Section 508 Working Group is preparing to survey all executive branch agencies about their IT's accessibility to the 54 million disabled Americans.<br>
WebSphere moves to Linux on Power4
The newest version of IBM's WebSphere Application Server will be the first to run under the open-source Linux operating system on IBM's Power4 processors.
Verity upgrades its Ultraseek search engine
Verity Inc. has upgraded the graphical interface and analytical tools of its enterprise search engine for small to midsize agencies.
DOD's high-performance computing program gets its annual tune-up with purchases for two centers
The Defense Department gave the High-Performance Computing Modernization Program its annual technology upgrade with high-end purchases from Cray Inc. of Seattle, IBM Corp. and SGI Federal.
Model details federal 'information factory'
A consultant known for conceptualizing the data warehouse for the private sector now wants to do the same thing for government.
Frost and Snow are part of NOAA's summer forecasts
Hurricane and tropical storm forecasts are coming straight from Frost and Snow.Those are nicknames for partitions in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's new supercomputing workhorse: an IBM SP parallel system with theoretical peak speed of 11.4 trillion operations per second'more than twice as fast as the system it replaced.
Data squeeze
Just as rockets must blast off within their launch windows, the Air Force group that helps NASA get rockets off the ground was constrained by a different kind of window'the time needed for daily data backups.
Dell debuts 64-bit server for clusters
A two-way, 64-bit server from Dell Computer Corp. can handle cluster computing and other high-performance applications.
IBM allows WebSphere to work with Linux
IBM Corp.'s newest version of its WebSphere Application Server, which goes on sale next week, will be the first capable of running on both Linux and IBM's Power4 processors.<br>
DARPA awards $146 million for supercomputing R&D
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded three computer manufacturers contracts totaling $146.1 million to design new kinds of high-performance computers for national security needs.
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