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NSF Grants $5M for Research on Google-IBM Cloud [GigaOM]
University researchers from around the country today received nearly $5 million from the National Science Foundation to help them run their high-performance projects on the Google-IBMCloud Computing University Initiative infrastructure. Among the 14 universities receiving funds are leading research institutions like Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, San Diego; MIT, Yale and the University of Wisconsin received funding for a joint project. Apart from advancing the back and forth between Google-IBM and Yahoo around university partnerships, this funding further illustrates the potential applications of cloud computing and web-scale architectures. For the universities involved, these partnerships are not rooted in cloud one-upmanship, but in invaluable experience. Last month, I suggested that in order to differentiate itself from the likes of Google and Amazon, Yahoo should focus its cloud computing strategy around research.
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Microsoft Announces End of the Road for Encarta - ReadWriteWeb
Microsoft's years-long-running multimedia CD-based encyclopedia product, Encarta, will be history by the end of the year. According to Ars Technica, Microsoft quietly announced the discontinuation date for Encarta to be October 31, 2009. Although the MSN press release doesn't go into too much detail on all the reasons why this decision was made, (nothing about Wikipedia for example), they do mention that the way people look for and consume information has changed substantially in the last few years, which seems like a fair assessment. It appears that all Encarta properties will be phased out over the coming year. They will stop selling the retail and student versions by June and the online MSN Explorer content will be removed by the end of October. As we mentioned, although Microsoft doesn't directly implicate Wikipedia as one of the harbingers of their decision to kill Encarta, we can only assume that it is a big part of that decision.
25+ Best PC repair Utility Tools
Most of the time our PC will get repaired for no reason. It may be due to some corrupt files or may be due to virus. It’s really very difficult to predict what could have caused the problem. Sometimes even simple issue in registry can also make your PC to reboot automatically. We may think that this errors can’t be solved and almost everyone use to Format the windows drive. But if we format we will loose all the important applications and reinstalling them will waste your time. Here is the list of some of the best PC tools which are very useful for repairing and fixing the PC errors. Dial-a-fix is a collection of known fixes gleaned from Microsoft Knowledgebase articles, Microsoft MVPs, and other important support forums, that will assist you in repairing problems with your system. LSP-Fix is a free tool designed to fix internet connections damaged by malware or buggy software. Ever wonder which program has a certain file or folder open?
About Smart Boot Manager
Copyright (c) 2000 by James Su (suzhe@gnuchina.org), Lonius (november@video.mdc.tsinghua.edu.cn) and Christopher Li (chrisl@gnuchina.org) Smart Boot Manager (SBM) is an OS independent and full-featured boot manager with an easy-to-use user interface. There are some screenshots available. The main goals of SBM are to be absolutely OS independent, flexible and full-featured. It has all of the features needed to boot a variety of OSes from several kinds of media, while keeping its size no more than 30K bytes. SBM now supports booting from floppy, hard disk and CD-ROM. Smart BootManager is totally FREE! The latest stable version is Smart BootManager 3.7 release 1 Read news page for the newest information about SBM. Only the key features are listed below. Automatically searches drivers and partitions Smart BootManager can automatically search and locate all the floppy, hard and CD-ROM drives as well as partitions. Thanks to:
40+ Computer Pranks To Play On Your Friend Computer
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