Dick Sblog

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Entries from September 2008

Grid yourself to an Xbox

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

New computing architectures are increasingly important in today’s world in all sorts of ways. Perhaps if the financial regulators of the US and UK had had been running on their own computing grids, instead of relying on figures from the banks, they may have noticed the staggering insecurity of the complex financial ‘innovations’ that earned [...]

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Point and click – or not.

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Take a look at the article ‘Grids and Kids‘ in the latest issue of the quarterly newsletter of the UK National Grid Service (NGS).
Georgina Ellis from SGI introduced Year 6 at her local primary school to the wonders of grid computing with a little help from the National Grid Service.
The NGS supports a number of [...]

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Homeworking still to take off vs Rapid rise in flexible working

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

The August issue of the CIPD’s quarterly update on policy and research contained an article saying that ‘the much heraled revolution in homeworking is yet to take off, although a quarter of employers say that homeworking will increase in their organisation in the next year’.
On September 9th, the Guardian ran a piece entitled, ‘Rapid rise [...]

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