No longer lost in translation

No longer lost in translation - PittsburghLIVE.com: "An increasingly globalized world became even smaller on Thursday when Carnegie Mellon University and German scientists unveiled technology that makes it possible to speak one language, yet be understood in another.

Although this speech translation system is probably a decade away from commercial availability, it has the potential to topple the Tower of Babel by bridging the language divide between countries and cultures, said CMU computer science professor Alex Waibel, who directs the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies, or interACT."

dogtail: taking your application for a walk

dogtail: taking your application for a walk: "dogtail is a GUI test tool and automation framework written in Python. It uses Accessibility (a11y) technologies to communicate with desktop applications. dogtail scripts are written in Python and executed like any other Python program.

dogtail is free software released under the GPL. Some example code is released to the Public Domain."

Blue Gene/L tops its own supercomputer record

Blue Gene/L tops its own supercomputer record | CNET News.com: "The 65,536-processor machine can sustain 280.6 trillion calculations per second, called 280.6 teraflops, IBM said Thursday. That's the top end of the range IBM forecast and more than twice the previous Blue Gene/L record of 136.8 teraflops, set when only half the machine was installed."

unagi.py - P2P-like system monitor

unagi.py - P2P-like system monitor: "unagi.py is a system monitoring tool for a small, loosely coupled cluster environment where trusted users run various programs from time to time. It helps users to utilize the machine resources cooperatively by reporting the current status of a cluster. It runs on every machine in a cluster and shares the system information from all machines cooperatively. It also acts as a simple HTTP server through which a user can view a status report."

Sun's grid: lights on, no customers

Sun's grid: lights on, no customers | Channel Register: "Many of you will remember the fanfare and bravado surrounding Sun Microsystems' Sep. 2004 announcement of a $1 per hour per processor utility computing plan. What you won't remember is Sun revealing a single customer using the service. That's because it hasn't."

ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger"

ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 5.10 - Breezy Badger) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/POP3s/IMAP/IMAPs, Quota, Firewall, etc.)."

ISPConfig - OpenSource ISP management and Hosting Control Panel.

ISPConfig - OpenSource ISP management and Hosting Control Panel.: "ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license."

PyUMLGraph

PyUMLGraph: "PyUMLGraph is a Python debugger that produces UML diagrams by inspecting running Python programs. The output is in Graphviz's dot language, and dot can produce pictures in many popular formats, such as PNG, PDF, SVG, and others. The UML diagrams can contain information about class inheritance relationships, references to other classes, class methods and return types, as well as class attributes and types."

GNU Enterprise

GNU Enterprise: "GNU Enterprise (GNUe) is a meta-project which is part of the overall GNU Project. GNUe's goal is to develop enterprise-class data-aware applications as Free software. GNUe is itself comprised of several subprojects:"

Clarens Grid-Enabled Web Services Framework

Clarens Grid-Enabled Web Services Framework :: "The Clarens Grid-Enabled Web Services Framework is an open source, secure, high-performance 'portal' for ubiquitous access to data and computational resources provided by computing grids."