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Data Practices Database Best Practices 8ms Please consider the following before you start building your MariaDB database. What are your goals for the database? Keep in mind for what purposes your database will be used. Once built, will the database be static or will... View Details

February 2008 (Revised August 2008)
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Quanta Computer and the One Laptop Per Child Initiative

By: Willy Shih, Chintay Shih and Jyun-Chen Wang

When Quanta Computer, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of laptop computers, first joined the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, it faced a challenge trying to balance the cost objectives of a laptop computer targeted at children of the developing world with... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Disruptive Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Hardware

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Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting - Research Computing Services

if the compute grid is busy. RUNNING: Job is running. COMPLETED: Job has finished and the command(s) have returned successfully (i.e., exit code 0). CANCELLED: Job has been terminated by the user or administrator using bkill. FAILED: Job... View Details

September – October 1973
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Computer Data Bases: The Future Is Now

By: R. L. Nolan

Keywords: Information Technology; Information

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August 1981 (Revised June 1986)
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McGraw-Hill Book Co.: Micro Computer Resource Center

By: James I. Cash Jr.

Keywords: Information Technology; Publishing Industry; Information Technology Industry

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

unlimited length of time. gpu This queue is available for both interactive and batch work, and must be specified in order to access GPUs on the compute node(s). In addition to specifying the queue itself, default or custom gpu usage... View Details

February 1999 (Revised February 2003)
Teaching Note

Product Development at Dell Computer Corporation TN

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade

Teaching Note for (9-699-010). View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry

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March 1995 (Revised February 1997)
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Apple Computer (A)(Abridged): Corporate Strategy and Culture

By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers

Provides an overview of the company's history, industry, competitive position, strategy, and organization. Analyzes the culture and morale at Apple. Written at a time when the company faces a very compelling threat to their business, and when morale within the company... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Computer Industry

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HBS Grid (Computing Environment) Training - Research Computing Services

Training HBS Grid (Computing Environment) Training 1ms HBSGrid Compute Cluster Training Slide deck Using GPUs on the HBSGrid Cluster Slide deck Brown Bags and Lunch & Learns Amping Up Your Research with the (Compute) Grid How much RAM?... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Changing Lives One Computer at a Time

TECH KNOW-HOW: student Angelica Lopez with Jackie Adams (MBA '78) and Edward Olebe (MBA '99). Photo Courtesy HBS Club of Greater New York The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has joined forces with Dell to put computers... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

October 2002 (Revised April 2007)
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Dell Computers (A): Field Service for Corporate Clients

By: Frances X. Frei, Amy C. Edmondson and Corey B. Hajim

Explores the highly successful PC and low-end server manufacturer's entry into the large-scale server market in the United States. A key difference of this new market is the intense service element required to support the larger hardware. Specifically, the industry... View Details