This repeated emphasis on high-end infrastructure and superlative quality of life hints at a discomfiting answer to the second question: who the intended inhabitants of smart cities are likely to be.
This paper shows that using the BOINC system as a private, dedicated desktop grid a community, like the EU CancerGrid chemist community, can easily set up its own high-end infrastructure based on available and inexpensive desktop computers.
Tucked behind a semi-circular screen of a virtual-reality amphitheatre at ExxonMobil's laboratory is over $80m-worth 80m-worth ofcomputing infrastructure, including supercomputers (known as the firm's "analytic brain").
The AppExchange allowed developers and VAR's to target the true and huge mid market with highly cost-effective, but still enterprise grade applications running on a high-end platform and infrastructure," he said.
He has also served as CTO of startup companies in the fields of printing, business decision optimization, and high-end Web server infrastructure.
XO racked up a lot of debt to build a high-end data and phone-line infrastructure; customer-rich McLeod could absorb some that.
Laboratories in the developing world may be severely resource-constrained in terms of funding, physical infrastructure, and high-end technical support personnel [1].
Simply stated, the MAG concept aims to make applications running on our metro Grid infrastructure aware of their complete computational and networking environment and capabilities, and able to make dynamic, adaptive and optimized use of heterogeneous network infrastructures connecting various high-end resources.
Multicore systems are widely deployed in both the embedded and the high end computing infrastructures.
Demand for residential and commercial property has increased the size of Cambridge, with the addition of high-end developments in the city center, infrastructure projects and two new suburbs.
