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Comment on Stalking Your Fellow Researchers by xbox information

xbox information — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:50:52 +0000

xbox kinetic…

How many former pupils does it decide to try screw in a very light bulb? One – but it usually takes over five-years for him to acheive it. All of it depends on how big the grant. Two along with a professor for taking credit….

Comment on Setting up Gnuplot on a Mac by TW – Virtualization, Research, Grad School » Clustered Bar Graphs in Mac OS X

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:33:51 +0000

[...] previously under Linux without any problems, but to work on a Mac you need to first setup gnuplot (which can be a pain), plus you need the fig2dev utility to actually produce the final output files. Luckily, I found a [...]

Comment on Usenix ATC 09 Awards & Keynotes by bj79

bj79 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:06:41 +0000

A really interesting green computer technology I found is Userful Multiplier. It’s where multiple people can use the same computer at the same time each with their own monitor, mouse and keyboard. This saves a lot of electricity and e-waste. A company called Userful recently set a virtualization world record by delivering over 350,000 virtual desktops to schools in Brazil. They have a free 2-user version for home use too. Check it out: userful.com

Comment on Hot Cloud 2009 by Tim Wood - Virtualization, Research, Grad School » What Usenix Can Do for Students

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:04:14 +0000

[...] setting up a list of links to all blog posts written about their conferences (you can start with my notes from HotCloud!). I want to know what other researchers are thinking about, and I also want to be updated whenever [...]

Comment on Hot Cloud 2009: The Case for Enterprise Ready Virtual Private Clouds by Tim Wood - Virtualization, Research, Grad School » Hot Cloud 2009

Tim Wood - Virtualization, Research, Grad School » Hot Cloud 2009 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:21:18 +0000

[...] was really great, but maybe I’m biased since I wrote it. I’ve written a separate blog post about my own work, but the gist is that current cloud computing platforms are insufficient for enterprise users, and [...]

Comment on Publications by Tim Wood - Virtualization, Research, Grad School » Quick Tips: Adding a Fancy Header in Latex

Sat, 16 May 2009 19:31:54 +0000

[...] Publications [...]

Comment on The End of Desktops (and all your applications) by twood

twood — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:32:57 +0000

Amazon’s EC2 is precisely such a service. Within a few minutes a small business can set up a new virtual machine and have it running within the cloud.

But perhaps you are alluding to the difficulty of transitioning an application you already have to the cloud. That can be a little trickier, especially if it is a live, running system that can’t easily be taken down.

Comment on The End of Desktops (and all your applications) by elp

elp — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:26:20 +0000

But there is still no service for a small business person to switch to cloud computing and avoid purchasing a server.