Hardware/Infrastructure
- Technology for the Physical Plant: Building Smarts
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7/5/2007
Let's face it: Most people don’t need Al Gore to convince them that the Earth’s environment has been changing significantly in the last few years. Sure, the former vice president and presidential candidate educated everyone with his 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, but with Hurricane Katrina, rising temperatures, and shrinking snows atop Kilimanjaro, evidence of something climatically amiss is all around us. Some call these weird atmospheric events “global warming,” others a natural “Little Ice Age” cycle; but whatever you call it, the evidence of change is irrefutable. Compounding the situation, energy costs are higher than ever before. In some states, particularly those in the northeastern US, energy costs have doubled in the last three or four years. Does this spell disaster for institutions of higher education? Maybe not: Many colleges and universities are doing their part to react to these challenges without breaking the bank.
- UMD Researchers Build Single-Chip Supercomputer
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7/3/2007
University of Maryland researchers have developed a new technology they describe as a "single-chip supercomputer prototype," which would be capable of speeds 100 times faster than current desktops. It is based on parallel processing on a single chip.
- Student Ambassadors for Open Source
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6/29/2007
A conversation with Dinesh Bahal about the Campus Ambassador Program at Sun Microsystems.
- U Missouri Expands E-Mail Infrastructure
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6/14/2007
University of Missouri recently revamped its Microsoft Exchange messaging environment with the help of EMC Corporation's products and services. According to EMC, the IT department at the university has reworked its infrastructure, allowing for a 500 percent increase in employees' mailbox quotas and 100 percent increase in students' mailbox quotas.
- Building for Student Success
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6/13/2007
San Jose State University AVP Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno comments on the process of creating a high-tech student success center on campus.
- UC Profs See Car Traffic as Basis of a Mobile Internet
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6/4/2007
Computer scientists at UCLA are working on a project to use moving cars as nodes in a network to create literally a mobile mobile network.
- Culture Morph
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6/1/2007
Technologists and librarians are discovering that intelligent organizational overlap is the route to the digital library of the future.
- Georgia Tech Workshop To Explore Cell/B.E.
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5/31/2007
Georgia Tech's College of Computing will host a workshop on the Cell Broadband Engine. The workshop will be held June 18 and 19 and will focus on a wide range of topics, from gaming and home entertainment to high-performance scientific and technical computing.
- A New Dimension in 'Printing'
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5/17/2007
What's a 3D Printer? If you already know, then you are probably like my editor, who wrote to me: "I freaking love those printers. The first one that comes down below $1k, I'm buying. I don't care that I have no use for one."
- Apple MacBooks Get Speed, Memory, Networking Upgrades
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5/15/2007
Apple's entry-level series of notebook computers--the MacBook--today received performance improvements across the board, including processor speed, memory, hard drive capacity, and networking. The new models are shipping now, with education pricing set below $1,000 on the low end.
- NC State-IBM Virtual Computing Project Bearing Fruit
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5/15/2007
North Carolina State University said a partnership it formed seven months ago with IBM Corp. to offer unused computer cycles via the Internet to higher ed and K-12 institutions for learning and research projects is starting to bear fruit.
- Campus IT Departments Grapple with Vista
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5/9/2007
At colleges, universities, and K-12 institutions, IT decision makers are increasingly showing concern over performance, patching, and hardware requirements of Microsoft Windows Vista. At the same time, the number of organizations using or evaluating Vista has increased to 29 percent, up 8 percent since October 2006. This according to a new survey conducted by Walker Information and released this week by CDW Corp.
- U New Hampshire Lab Demos at iWarp Interoperability
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5/8/2007
The University of New Hampshire successfully demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability between iWARP devices, which it claimed was an industry first.
- IBM Grants Mainframe to U Arkansas as Teaching Platform
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5/8/2007
IBM is providing the University of Arkansas' Walton College of Business access to its IBM System z900 mainframe and software in an effort to promote curriculum development on mainframe hardware systems.
- University of Texas Profs, Students Unveil High-Speed Chip
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5/7/2007
University of Texas computer science professors and graduate students have produced a prototype high-performance processor capable of scaling to trillions of calculations per second.
- Voices from the Sky: The Technology Is the Easy Part
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5/3/2007
So, you go out and purchase a communications system that will alert tens of thousands of people simultaneously in a crisis situation using ... text messages ... e-mail ... loudspeaker systems ... whatever.
- U Illinois Partners with Nvidia for Parallel Computing Course
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5/2/2007
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is partnering with graphics processor developer Nvidia to offer a course in parallel computing--a course that will be taught by both the chair of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the chief scientist at Nvidia, David Kirk.
- Harvard To Field Citywide Wireless Sensors Network
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4/17/2007
Harvard University is collaborating with the city of Cambridge, MA and networking firm BBN Technologies to install 100 wireless sensors on streetlights in Cambridge to help research environmental changes, ranging from air pollution to potential terrorist activity.
- Is 'Responsible Computing' an Oxymoron?
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4/12/2007
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about "responsible computing," to put one label on it. Last week my editor, David Nagel, suggested that the phrase might be an oxymoron. He asked me this question: "Is there any such thing as responsible computing?"
- Ethernet Alliance Announces Ethernet Competition for University Students
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4/11/2007
The Ethernet Alliance, an industry group dedicated to Ethernet technologies, announced its first White Paper Challenge for students from universities that are members of the Ethernet Alliance University Program (EAUP). According to the Ethernet Alliance, the goal "is to provide university students with a unique opportunity to apply and present academic theories in a real-world setting."
- U Arkansas, Wal-Mart, Blue Cross, Team on RFID
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4/9/2007
Wal-Mart has partnered with the University of Arkansas and Blue Cross Blue Shield to study how Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) might best be used to improve the health-care industry's supply-chain challenges.
- Charleston To Stream NCAA Events Wirelessly
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4/4/2007
This month Charleston Southern University in South Carolina will deploy what is described as the "first-ever all-wireless network" for delivering live video and audio streaming of NCAA soccer and softball events.
- Apple Busts Out 8-Core Macs
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4/4/2007
Apple Wednesday formally released a new high-end Mac Pro workstation that sports two quad-core Intel Xeon "Clovertown" processors. The rest of the Mac Pro workstation lineup remains at four processor cores, ranging from two 2.0 GHz dual-core "Woodcrest" Xeons to two 3.0 GHz dual-core "Woodcrest" Xeons.
- High-Performance Happy
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4/1/2007
Traditionally, the high-performance computing systems used to conduct research at universities have amounted to silos of technology scattered across the campus and falling under the purview of the researchers themselves. But a growing number of universities are now taking over the management of those systems and creating central HPC environments....
- Park University Launches Mobile Phone Program
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3/29/2007
Park University in Parkville, MO has entered into a partnership with Rave Wireless and Sprint Nextel to launch a mobile phone program for its campuses, which span 21 states. As part of the deal, Rave will provide its academic applications on the phones, while Sprint will extend its wireless network to cover the university's campuses.
