16th June 2007 Archive

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• 100Gbps Internet2 link spans US

  Gets your kicks on route IP6

  A 100Gbps link between the east and west coasts of the US has been established for the first time by the Internet2 project. The network is already providing high-speed networking resources for the US research and academic community. Suggested applications include medical researchers developing and fine-tuning virtual surgery …

  Data Networking 16 Jun 2007, 00:08

• Voltaire saves glaciers with 20Gb/s Infiniband switch

  Defender of the Universe?

  Infiniband specialist Voltaire is playing the green card to hawk its new 20Gb/s director-class switch for high-performance grid computing. The vendor claims the efficient packet delivery and low error rates in the Voltaire Grid Director ISR 2012 makes it an economical alternative over 10Gb/s Ethernet. Voltaire's Grid …

  Data Networking 16 Jun 2007, 00:38

• Ambitious Evergrid to conquer VMware, Oracle and whatever else

  Your data center is our play thing

  Evergrid has become awfully ambitious since we checked in with the start-up at the end of last year. Six months back, Evergrid would only discuss the Availability Management Suite (AvS) - a set of software tools that helped keep batch jobs up and running on Linux HPC (high performance computing) clusters. That particular …

  Servers 16 Jun 2007, 00:38

• UK invades California in cyber MMORPG wargame

  Walk softly and carry a thin pipe

  All next week a worldwide virtual war is being fought. Soldiers, warships, jets, and unmanned drones from the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand are combining in cyberspace to form "Task Force BISON," which will join NATO's "Task Force ATLANTICA" to mount massive amphibious landings in a conflict-stricken West African …

  Government 16 Jun 2007, 08:02

• Fancy a jet-powered Sinclair C5?

  Wannabe Richard Hammonds click here

  It appears that jet-powered novely vehicles are bit like number 8 buses - you wait ages for one and loads come at once. Indeed, no sooner had the jet-powered go-kart roared onto eBay, than another kamikaze vehicle aficionado decided to give wannabe Richard Hammonds the chance to burn some serious rubber. Cue the truly …

  Bootnotes 16 Jun 2007, 10:38