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Submission + - Seven Wonders of the IT World (cio.com)

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C.G. Lynch

on Monday September 10, 2007 @12:03PM

C.G. Lynch writes: "The computer closest to the North Pole. The most intriguing data center. The biggest scientific computing grid. The little kernel that rocked the world. CIO.com has compiled a list of Seven Wonders of the IT World, some of the most impressive and unusual systems on the planet (and beyond)."

Submission + - Storing CERN's Search for God (Particles) (cio.com)

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Chris Lindquist

on Friday July 20, 2007 @01:06PM

Chris Lindquist writes: "Think your storage headaches are big? When it goes live in 2008, CERN's ALICE experiment will use 500 optical fiber links to feed particle collision data to hundreds of PCs at a rate of 1GB/second, every second, for a month. "During this one month, we need a huge disk buffer," says Pierre Vande Vyvre, CERN's project leader for data acquisition. One might call that an understatement. CIO.com's story has more details about the project and the SAN tasked with catching the flood of data."

Comment Re:here's another tip: the print link (Score 3, Informative) 138

by celcxo on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @03:01PM (#19481073) Attached to: Tech Lessons From the Bad Guys

Sorry about that. The current popup on the site is only suppose to show on first arrival, but it's coming back for repeat visits on some browser versions. We're looking to fix the issue now. Chris

Submission + - Tech Lessons from the Mob and Red Light District (cio.com)

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Chris Lindquist

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @10:38AM

Chris Lindquist writes: "Organized crime, porn peddlers, gambling sites — they all use technology to make a killing. CIO.com has posted several stories that spell out how the seedy side uses IT for profit. From the online techniques of penny stock scammers to innovation lessons from a pair of "accidental pornographers," to what you can do to fend off cybercriminals, find out what they do right when they're doing wrong."

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