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Wi-Fi patent has turned CSIRO money mad
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| There's a good case to be made that
| Australia's peak science body is turning into
| a patent troll.
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http://apcmag.com/wi-fi-patent-has-turned-csiro-money-mad.htm
CSIRO to reap 'lazy billion' from world's biggest tech companies
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| Australia's peak science body stands to reap
| more than $1 billion from its lucrative Wi-Fi
| patent after already netting about $250
| million from the world's biggest technology
| companies, an intellectual property lawyer
| says.
|
| The CSIRO has spent years battling 14
| technology giants including Dell, HP,
| Microsoft, Intel, Nintendo and Toshiba for
| royalties and made a major breakthrough in
| April last year when the companies opted to
| avoid a jury hearing and settle for an
| estimated $250 million.
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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/enterprise/csiro-to-reap-lazy-billion-from-worlds-biggest-tech-companies-20100601-wsu2.html
Australia's fastest Linux computer makes CSIRO a leader
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| Updated: Hot on the heels of yesterday's
| Top500 supercomputer announcement comes a
| reminder that Australia is a significant
| player in the field with the only NVidia CUDA
| research centre in the southern hemisphere.
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http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/technology/39511-australias-fasted-linux-computer
GNU/Linux *Does* Scale â and How
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| As everyone knows, GNU/Linux grew up as a
| project to create a completely free
| alternative to Unix. Key parts were written
| by Richard Stallman while living the
| archetypal hacker's life at and around MIT,
| and by Linus Torvalds â in his bedroom.
| Against that background, it's no wonder that
| one of Microsoft's approaches to attacking
| GNU/Linux has been to dismiss it on technical
| grounds: after all, such a rag-bag of code
| written by long-haired hippies and near-
| teenagers could hardly be compared with the
| product of decades of serious, top-down
| planning by some of best coding professionals
| money can buy, could it?
|
| And thus was born the âLinux does not scaleâ
| meme â the idea that, yes, this stuff is
| free, but you get what you pay for: code that
| no enterprise could take seriously.
| Unfortunately for that narrative, GNU/Linux
| is not only able to scale rather well, but
| able to do it in perhaps the most demanding
| of environments â that of supercomputing.
|
| Ten years ago, GNU/Linux had 10% of that
| market, according to the Top500
| Supercomputers site, with Unix holding a
| pretty solid 85%. Five years ago, those
| numbers had nearly switched, with GNU/Linux
| holding 63%, and Unix 31%, and Windows
| running in splendid isolation on just one
| machine. A year ago, Windows had managed to
| crank that up by a massive 400% - to five
| machines; meanwhile, GNU/Linux was on 88% and
| Unix down to 4%.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2990
Super Computers â All You Probably Didnât Want To Know
http://madhatter.ca/2010/05/31/super-computers-all-you-probably-didnt-want-to-know/
Recent:
CSIRO seeking Linux cluster for SKA high performance computer
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| CSIRO will spend up to $5 million on a Linux-
| based high performance computing system to
| help boost research efforts at the Pawsey
| Centre for SKA Science in Perth.
|
| The Pawsey High Performance Computer (HPC)
| will be used in the Square Kilometre Array
| (SKA) project, which will use a telescope 50
| times more sensitive than current instruments
| and about 3600 antennae spread over thousands
| of kilometres to peer into deep space.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/332789/csiro_seeking_linux_cluster_ska_high_performance_computer/
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