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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

A well know application area that makes use of the advanced network infrastructure in Japan is social gaming, and it shouldnt be surprising that some of the early customers of the new AWS Tokyo Region are large gaming companies like Gumi and Zynga Japan. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

From financial processing and traditional oil & gas exploration HPC applications to integrating complex 3D graphics into online and mobile applications, the applications of GPU processing appear to be limitless. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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Introduction to Networking: Part 1, The Basics

Scott Lowe

In the beginning, there was the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model, a seven layer model that described and defined how two systems might communicate with each other in a standardized fashion across a network. You probably also already know that addresses are also employed at OSI layer 3, where IP resides.

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