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10.5.09 San Diego Business Journal
"Startups Connect With Investors on Their Way to Market"
Jacobs School of Engineering structural engineering professor Yu Qiao, his startup AgileNano and the UCSD William J. von Liebig Center are featured in a recent San Diego Business Journal story by Ned Randolph. Related Jacobs School Link »

9.29.09 North County Times
"Cyber security operations face competition"
San Diego is one of the top areas for cyber security work, Jones said, but quantifying it more precisely is difficult because much of the activity is classified. It includes research centers such as UC San Diego and work performed by the region's large defense industry. Stefan Savage, a noted cyber security expert at UCSD, said academic research is less vulnerable to a change in SpaWar operations than business activities, because SpaWar typically passes along money already allocated to a par...

9.20.09 San Diego Union Tribune
"UCSD becoming lab for energy innovation"
On a roof overlooking a parking garage at the University of California San Diego, Byron Washom pulls out his laptop and calls up an in-house Web site. Within moments, he's advising that the photovoltaic panels atop the garage are pumping out 243 kilowatts of electricity, down from their peak of 271 kilowatts.

9.28.09 Voice of San Diego
"Fighting Botnets with Doc Savage"
Long considered a top cyber-security expert, Savage leads a team at the Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses that last year infiltrated the infamous Storm botnet, which victimized millions of people through internet spam scams.

9.23.09 Israel National News
"Israeli Student Honored for Work on Flash Memories"
Eitan Yaakobi, an Israeli native who is currently a graduate student at University of California at San Diego, is one of five students selected worldwide to receive the prestigious Marconi Young Scholar Award.Yaakobi, a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Technion in Haifa, is being honored for his work in error-correcting coding in flash memories, among other things. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.21.09 Ars technica
"Researchers crack network latency nut with new algorithm"
The paper describes how the systemwhich they term a Lossy Difference Aggregatorwould operate in principle, describe some simulations of its performance, and suggest how it might be implemented. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.21.09 PC Pro
"Researchers claim parallel processing breakthrough"
Researchers claim to have developed an inexpensive software tool that can diagnose and correct the thousands of tiny network delays responsible for crippling parallel processing speeds in computer clusters... Related Jacobs School Link »

8.21.09 Datacenter Dynamics
"Highly accurate latency measurements for data center networks"
In a recently published paper, four scientists from the two universities proposed a new solution that they say will provide latency and loss measurements at extremely small scales down to tens of microseconds. The mechanism, called Lossy Difference Aggregator, can be installed either within a router or across multiple routers to assist with fault localization. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.21.09 Finextra
"Researchers claim network delay tracking breakthrough"
In a breakthrough that could prove significant for investment banks running electronic trading systems, computer scientists say they have developed an inexpensive way to track microsecond delays in data centre networks. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.21.09 TG Daily
"Diagnostic tool could save traders a packet"
The new approach - called the Lossy Difference Aggregator - can diagnose delays down to tens of microseconds and packet loss as infrequent as one in a million at every router within a data center network. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.20.09 HPC wire
"Computer Scientists Diagnose Network Delays"
Computer scientists have developed an inexpensive solution for diagnosing delays in datacenter networks as short as tens of millionths of seconds -- delays that can lead to multimillion-dollar losses for investment banks running automatic stock trading systems... Related Jacobs School Link »

8.20.09 Wall Street & Technology
"Professors Unveil Low-Cost Way to Diagnose Network Latency"
At a network conference today, a group of computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego and Purdue University said they have developed an inexpensive way of diagnosing data center networking delays as short as tens of millionths of seconds. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.20.09 NetworkWorld
"It's Microsoft vs. the professors with competing data center architectures"
Researchers from Microsoft and the University of California at San Diego have come up with divergent schemes to address shortcomings of data center architectures, particularly management and configuration burdens, and to promote the efficient use of virtual machines. Similar stories in: CIO, InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, The Industry Standard, ITWorld... Related Jacobs School Link »

8.19.09 Slashdot
"How to Build a 100,000 Port Ethernet Switch"
University of California at San Diego researchers Tuesday are presenting a paper describing software that they say could make data center networks massively scalable. The researchers say their PortLand software will enable Layer 2 data center network fabrics scalable to 100,000 ports and beyond, and they even have a prototype running at the schools Department of Computer Science and Engineerings Jacobs School of Engineering. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.18.09 Technology Review
"Making Computers Talk in their Sleep"
A device called Somniloquy processes network traffic autonomously, allowing a computer's CPU, hard disk, and display to be powered down. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.18.09 Wired
"iPhone App Review: TowerMadness"
We review an alien-busting strategy game for the iPhone called 'TowerMadness.' The player tries to protect a flock of sheep from potential alien captors using weapons like laser cannons and missile turrets, while collecting money for upgrades. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.18.09 Chemistry World
"Nanomotors detect trace silver"
Researchers in theUS andGermany have found that the speed of synthetic 'nanomotors' responds to nearby concentrations of silver. The discovery suggests that nanomotors could be used to detect trace levels of silver and other toxic substances in water supplies - a practice that has previously required bulky instrumentation. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.18.09 NetworkWorld
"How to build a 100000-port Ethernet switch"
University of California at San Diego researchers Tuesday are presenting a paper describing software that they say could make data center networks massively scalable. This story was syndicated and also appeared in: Good Gear Guide, Australian Techworld, ARNnet, Computerworld Australia, PC World Magazine, RedOrbit, ITworld.com, CIO, InfoWorld. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.17.09 Datacenter Dynamics
"New software aims to turn data centers into single plug-and-play networks"
A team of computer science professors and students at University of California, San Diego, have developed a system of algorithms and protocols that eliminates the scalability and routing-path limitations of existing layer 2 approaches and avoids the administrative and virtualization headaches caused by implementing layer 3 networks in data center environments, according to a UC San Diego statement. Related Jacobs School Link »

8.17.09 HPC Wire
"Computer Scientists Introduce PortLand"
University of California, San Diego computer scientists have created software that they hope will lead to datacenters that logically function as single, plug-and-play networks that will scale to the massive scale of modern datacenter networks. Related Jacobs School Link »

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