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Top 5 reasons why ITIL implementations don't happen by the book

June 18, 2008 5:44am PDT

Many organizations have moved past awareness of ITIL, and a significant number are looking to implement. That's when they find a number of roadblocks. Here are those roadblocks and how to get...

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The Comparison Between Cloud Computing And Grid Computing

November 3, 2010 12:00am PDT

It is a great idea to make many normal computers together to get a super computer, and this computer can do a lot of things. This is the concept of cloud computing. Cloud computing is an emerging...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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The Security Of Cloud Computing System Enabled By Trusted Computing Technology

August 19, 2010 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing provides people the way to share distributed resources and services that belong to different organizations or sites. Since cloud computing share distributed resources via the...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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The Journey From Computer Time-Sharing to Cloud Computing: A Literature Review

July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing has attracted the attention of many computing professionals in both the commercial and the educational sectors. Constant pressure to deliver on-demand computing services in a 24/7...

Provided by: The College of St. Scholastica

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Building a Cloud Computing Specification: Fundamental Engineering for Optimizing Cloud Computing Initiatives

August 18, 2010 12:00am PDT

The need for a specification for Cloud Computing has emerged. The commoditization of the term "Cloud Computing" for various marketing purposes has diluted, and in some cases compromised the...

Provided by: Computer Sciences

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Scientific Computing Using Virtual High-Performance Computing: A Case Study Using the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud

August 29, 2008 12:00am PDT

High-performance computing systems are important in scientific computing. Clusters of computer systems - which range greatly in size - are a common architecture for high-performance computing....

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Study on Improvement of Programming Method from Grid Computing to Cloud Computing

July 31, 2010 12:00am PDT

Based on comparison analysis in programs of Cloud Computing and Grid Computing, this paper has studied the effects produced by Cloud Computing on the extension and the development of Grid...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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A Cloud Computing Infrastructure on Heterogeneous Computing Resources

August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing is a state-of-the-art distributed computing paradigm which can support on-demand service sharing with flexibility and scalability. Cloud computing provides sharable heterogeneous...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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Grid Computing Integrated With Mobile Computing Wireless Devices

December 1, 2011 12:00am PST

One application domain the mobile computing has not yet entered is that of grid and cluster computing: the aggregation of network-connected computers to form a large scale, distributed system that...

Provided by: Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center

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Secure Optimization Computation Outsourcing in Cloud Computing: A Case Study of Linear Programming

April 9, 2011 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing enables an economically promising paradigm of computation outsourcing. However, how to protect customers' confidential data processed and generated during the computation is...

Provided by: Illinois Institute of Technology

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Cloud Computing: Changing Cogitation About Computing

December 21, 2009 12:00am PST

Cloud Computing is the next generation in computing. It is a type of computing that is comparable to grid Computing, relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or...

Provided by: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

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Examining Cloud Computing From the Perspective of Grid and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

February 22, 2011 12:00am PST

Cloud computing, which refers to services provisioning and consumption over the Internet, is the latest paradigm promising to deliver computing as a utility. Though it is still in its infancy and...

Provided by: Tsinghua University

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A Study on the Readiness of Cloud Computing for Captious Computations

August 13, 2011 12:00am PDT

The emergence cloud computing in the computing arena has had major effect in way the authors utilize computing resources. It is being heralded by many as the new computing paradigm, coming with...

Provided by: Bapatla Engineering College

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Study of Computing Consolidation Techniques in Computational Protein Loop Structure Modeling

February 22, 2010 12:00am PST

In this paper, the authors advocate the approach of "Computing Consolidation" to achieve efficient usage of computer resources in protein structural modeling applications. The fundamental idea of...

Provided by: North carolina A&T state University

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Cloud Computing for Small Research Groups in Computational Science and Engineering: Current Status and Outlook

September 25, 2010 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing could offer good business models for small Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) research groups because these groups often do not have enough human resources and knowledge...

Provided by: Springer Science+Business Media

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Secure Computation on the Web: Computing without Simultaneous Interaction

April 11, 2011 12:00am PDT

Secure computation enables mutually suspicious parties to compute a joint function of their private inputs while providing strong security guarantees. Amongst other things, even if some of the...

Provided by: International Association for Cryptologic Research

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Fault-Tolerant and Reliable Computation in Cloud Computing

August 25, 2010 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing, with its great potentials in low cost and on-demand services, is a promising computing platform for both commercial and non-commercial computation clients. In this work, the...

Provided by: National Tsing Hua University

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Cloud Computing: The Fifth Generation of Computing

March 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Cloud Computing is the emerging buzzword in information technology. It is growing day by day due to its rich features of services. It is a virtual pool of resources which are provided to the users...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Applying Autonomic Computing Concepts to Parallel Computing Using Intelligent Agents

July 27, 2009 12:00am PDT

The work reported in this paper is motivated by the fact that there is a need to apply autonomic computing concepts to parallel computing systems. Advancing on prior work based on intelligent...

Provided by: University of Reading

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Modeling Optimal Organization of the Internet-Based Computation in the Cloud Computing Environment

June 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

It is regarded that the Internet-based computing has a lot of significant merits. However, the relatively long latency and relatively high cost of wide-area networking hamper the growth of its...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers