The Cabinet Office has released their e-Government framework for Information Assurance for draft consultation. The document sets forth guidelines for implementing the transformational government agenda of delivering more effective, more efficient customer-centric public services. These guidelines ar[...]
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Information security for the UK: making everyone happy?
Tessellations: a math metaphor for team working
When I was in fifth grade, our math teacher introduced us to tessellations. Here’s the brief rundown: A tessellation is a repeated pattern of 1 closed shape, arrayed one after the next, with no gaps or overlaps. At their simplist, a grid of squares or a pattern of hexagon tiles on a bathroom f[...]
Lots of computers, one problem
For the wish-list: I’d love to find a comparison/breakdown of the infrastructure and uses of : share nothing clusters SMP (Symmetrical Multi-Processing) grid computing (Globus-based) map/reduce implementations (This list is subject to grow)[...]