News tagged with tolerant networking

Slime design mimics Tokyo's rail system

What could human engineers possibly learn from the lowly slime mold? Reliable, cost-efficient network construction, apparently: a recent experiment suggests that Physarum polycephalum, a gelatinous fungus ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Scalable Energy Efficient Data Centers

(PhysOrg.com) -- To protect their systems from network failures and to make sure that their data is delivered as fast as possible, popular services such as Google may replicate their data centers on multiple ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer scientists scale 'layer 2' data center networks to 100,000 ports and beyond

University of California, San Diego computer scientists have created software that they hope will lead to data centers that logically function as single, plug-and-play networks that will scale to the massive ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers test new 'space Internet' system on International Space Station

The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's Internet into outer space ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Study shows males are more tolerant of same-sex peers

Women have traditionally been viewed as being more social and cooperative than men. However, there is recent evidence that this may not be the case. In fact, studies have shown that men maintain larger social networks with ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1