News tagged with large networks

Cloud computing's ubiquity brings down prices

If you've ever had your laptop stolen, watched your toddler baptize your PC with Pepsi, or had your MacBook come to a cold, dead stop, you know that the digital memories we store on our home computers are anything but indelible.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Scientists find a brake that acts when cellular motors run too far

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has shown how microtubules are interconnected into large networks. Like the poles of a tent, microtubules give shape to cells. By sliding microtubules along ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

How a smart, decentralized Energy Web is essential for managing renewable energy sources

(PhysOrg.com) -- A decade ago, Gnutella, Kazaa and other early peer-to-peer (P2P) systems showed that a decentralized approach to managing large-scale, widely distributed systems could offer many essential ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

Data-Taking Dress Rehearsal Proves World’s Largest Computing Grid is Ready for LHC Restart

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A genomic CluE for cloud computing

DNA sequencing is the next frontier in biological research. As new sequencing technology becomes more efficient and affordable, it is increasingly available to small laboratories. Thus, sequencing data is being generated ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0