Monthly Archives: December 2008

Dec
16
2008

World Community Grid

As an update to my previous Cloud Computing post, I came across an interesting grid/distributed computing project, the World Community Grid. The WCG’s aim is to create the world’s largest public computational grid, with the goal of seeking projects that benefit humanity. IBM is the primary corporate sponsor, and, according to the site, it “has […]

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Dec
10
2008

Contact page update

By popular request (see the comments), I’ve added a form on the Contact page. So now you have a way other than GTalk to send me a message. It appears the Contact page isn’t as discoverable as I’d like; I may work on better placement for it in a future layout update.

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Dec
07
2008

When the Cloud transforms into Universal Utility Computing

The Cloud is Born One of the most popular themes in the last couple years on the web is the much-heralded “cloud computing”. Of course, the cloud metaphor is taken from the representation of the Internet in architecture diagrams as a big fluffy cloud to which other, more discrete networks and systems are interconnected. From […]

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