News tagged with virtual machine

BaBar data preserved in 'computational cocoon' for future analysis

More than eight years worth of pristine particle physics data will remain available for analysis or re-analysis at least until 2018, now that BaBar's Long Term Data Access project is complete. The project ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Augmented reality windshield from GM to show drivers potential hazards (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- General Motors and scientists from the University of Southern California and Carnegie Mellon University are developing a windshield display that will highlight obstacles or objects on the ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

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

Windows 7 Virtual XP Mode

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has decided to give Windows 7 users a tool that will allow them to run Windows XP applications in a virtual machine. The tool is free with Windows 7 but will only be available to ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (15) | comments 3 weblog

Computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 8

Microsoft to patch 17-year-old bug

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft's February security update will include a patch for a bug that dates back to Windows NT 3.1, which was released in July 1993. The vulnerability has been present but undetected in ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Research team 'virtualizes' supercomputer

A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University, Sandia National Labs and the University of New Mexico has resulted in the largest-scale study ever done on what many consider an important part of the future ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers show new security threat against 'smart phone' users

Computer scientists at Rutgers University have shown how a familiar type of personal computer security threat can now attack new generations of smart mobile phones, with the potential to cause more serious ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New Research Offers Security For Virtualization, Cloud Computing

Virtualization and cloud computing allow computer users access to powerful computers and software applications hosted by remote groups of servers, but security concerns related to data privacy are limiting public confidence ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new way to patch holes in the 'cloud'

Researchers from North Carolina State University and IBM have invented a way to update computer systems packaged in virtual machines in a computer “cloud” – even when those programs are offline.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Virtual' computers span the digital divide

NComputing is out to span the digital divide with a version of cloud computing called "virtualization," which essentially turns one machine into many.

Technology / Software

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing

Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Facebook blocks social network 'suicide' website

Facebook said Monday that it is blocking a website called "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" that helps users delete their social network profiles.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Nimbus and cloud computing meet STAR production demands

(PhysOrg.com) -- The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NEC develops network technology supporting server virtualization using OpenFlow

NEC announced today the development of technology that improves the OpenFlow communication efficiency of virtualized servers that accommodate virtual machines (VM) by more than 10 times when compared to existing technology.

Technology / Software

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0