Stories about: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

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    10 operating systems the world left behind 03/04/2009 09:02:00

    You're not really supposed to love an operating system. It's like your car's hydraulic system, your digestive system or the global financial system. It's supposed to do its job -- and not get in your way while you're doing yours.
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    HP to offer data center-in-a-box 17/07/2008 08:22:29

    Hewlett-Packard became the latest vendor to announce a "mini-data center" housed in a shipping container, which can provide a way for companies to add compute capacity when power and cooling systems in their existing data centers are maxed out.
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    Solid state drives 03/12/2007 07:50:30

    For laptop owners, flash-memory drives boost battery life and performance while making notebooks lighter and more bearable for frequent business travelers. In the data center, benefits include higher reliability than their magnetic counterparts, lower cooling requirements and better performance for applications that require random access such as e-mail servers.
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    China celebrates 10 years of being connected to the Internet 17/05/2004 12:58:35

    China's first direct connection to the Internet was established 10 years ago this week. Through a series of feature articles, this six-page report looks back at how the world’s largest nation got connected to the Net, takes a look at the key players, the role of the government and what lies ahead.
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    Particle accelerator database tops 500T bytes 16/04/2002 11:10:00

    So you think you've got database scalability problems? Staff at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) are grappling with a database holding over 500T bytes of data, and growing at more than 500G bytes every day.
 
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