POWER to the people

POWER to the people: "Released in 2003: 276 million transistors per processor
Like the POWER3 and POWER4, the POWER5 unifies the POWER and PowerPC architectures. The POWER5 is also based on the 130-nanometer copper/SOI process, and features communications acceleration, chip multiprocessing, a larger L2 cache, a memory controller on the chip, simultaneous multithreading, advanced power management, eFuse (morphing) and hypervisor technology. IBM servers built with the POWER5 feature up to ten LPARs capable of running up to 256 independent operating systems on the higest end. POWER5 processors can be found hanging about in iSeries and pSeries servers, as well as in the first IBM entry-level UNIX/Linux box, the OpenPower? line. IBM introduced the POWER5+? processors, which are built with a 90-nanometer process similar to that used with the Cell Broadband Engine, in 2005. POWER5+ ups the clockspeed significantly -- on a smaller die"

Free Programming and Computer Science Books

Free Programming and Computer Science Books: "Free books on technology subjects"

The Rings of Power: Intel's VT-x Technology and the Secrets of Virtualization

The Rings of Power: Intel's VT-x Technology and the Secrets of Virtualization: "Intel's VT-x Technology and the Secrets of Virtualization"

Visual C++ Developer Center: 64-Bit Programming

Visual C++ Developer Center: 64-Bit Programming: "Program Manager Kang Su Gatlin from the Visual C++ compiler team talks about 64-Bit programming a"

My Way News

My Way News: " U.S. life expectancy has hit another all-time high - 77.6 years - and deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke continue to drop, the government reported Thursday.
Still, the march of medical progress has taken a worrisome turn: Half of Americans in the 55-to-64 age group - including the oldest of the baby boomers - have high blood pressure, and two in five are obese"

IBM eServer x366

IBM eServer x366: "Up to 64GB DDR II ECC memory"

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now: "Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered "

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now: "These presentations included a short tour to the top-notch 65 nm production facility Fab D1D "

Sun Looks for a Sparc

Sun Looks for a Sparc: "The servers are based on Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor, formerly code-named Niagara, which the company initially had planned to release in 2006. The first T1-based systems available are the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000, which start at $3,000 and $8,000, respectively. "

The Real Story about Sun's Niagara

The Real Story about Sun's Niagara: "The Real Story about Sun's Niagara"

Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too FarThose keys have security permissions that only allow the Local System account to modify them, so I relaunched Regedit in the Local System account using PsExec: psexec ?s ?i ?d regedit.exe

Top 20 geek novels -- the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology

Top 20 geek novels -- the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

AnandTech: Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360

AnandTech: Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360: "The CPU itself features three of these PowerPC cores and is currently manufactured on a 90nm process, however Microsoft will most likely be transitioning to 65nm as soon as possible in order to reduce the die size and thus manufacturing costs. "

IBM Holds Servers

IBM Holds Servers: " revenue decline by 7.6%, and lost its third-place standing to Dell "

Mac Rumors: Intel forms 'Apple' Group

Mac Rumors: Intel forms 'Apple' Group: "that Intel Corp. has formed an internal 'Apple group'."

Intel Faces Increased Risk From Flash-Memory Venture - Forbes.com

Intel Faces Increased Risk From Flash-Memory Venture - Forbes.com: "We believe Micron gross margins for its NAND business were roughly 20% in its most recent quarter, well below Intel's gross margins of 61%.' "

Improving Database Performance on Simultaneous

Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works | The Register

Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works | The Register: "Daugman produces the calculations governing the use of two hypothetical biometrics, one with both false accept and false reject rates of one in 100, and the second with the two rates at one in 1,000. On its own, biometric one would produce 2,000 errors in 100,000 tests, while biometric two would produce 200. You can treat the use of two biometrics in one of two ways - the subject must be required to pass both (the 'AND' rule) or the subject need only pass one (the 'OR' rule). Daugman finds that under either rule there would be 1,100 errors, i.e. 5.5 times more errors than if the stronger test were used alone.
He concludes that a stronger biometric is therefore better used alone than in combination, but only when both are operating at their crossover points. If the false accept rate (when using the 'OR' rule) or the false reject rate (when using the 'AND' rule) is brought down sufficiently (to 'smaller than twice the crossover error rate of the stronger test', says Daugman) then use of two can improve results. If we recklessly attempt to put a non-mathemetical gloss on that, we could think of the subject having to pass two tests (in the case of the 'AND') rule of, say, facial and iris. Dropping the false reject rate of the facial test (i.e. letting more people through) in line with Daugman's calculations would produce a better result than using iris alone, but if the facial system rejects fewer people wrongly, then it will presumably be accepting more people wrongly."

Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers - ZDNet UK News

Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers - ZDNet UK News: "Hyperthreading hurts server performance"

My Way News

My Way News: "The UltraSparc T1 processor, code-named Niagara, has eight computing engines on a single chip, "

Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons

Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons: "Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons "

Xen has tricks up its virtual sleeves

Xen has tricks up its virtual sleeves: "There is a new version of Xen, Xen 3.0 that bring a lot of tricks to the mix. The first one is multi-CPU support, in this case 32-way "

GamePC - Intel �Paxville� Dual Core Xeon and the Asus PVL-D Intel E7520

GamePC - Intel �Paxville� Dual Core Xeon and the Asus PVL-D Intel E7520: "most people seem (rightly) skeptical "

Highly Efficient Synchronization Based on Active Memory Operations

Array-based Queuing Locks

Performance Characterization of a Quad Pentium Pro SMP Using OLTP
Workloads

Windows 2000 Performance Guide: Chapter 5: Multiprocessing

Windows 2000 Performance Guide: Chapter 5: Multiprocessing: "Windows 2000 Performance Guide"

The latency of user-to-user, kernel-to-kernel and
interrupt-to-interrupt level communication

AMD Inaugurates New Factory in Germany: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

AMD Inaugurates New Factory in Germany: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance: "share of the market for PC processors from 20 percent to 30 percent, c"

The IDC Competitive Market Map clearly shows the breadth and depth of SAS'
offerings for business analytics. Overall, SAS has demonstrated consistent, steady
growth in all the major areas of business analytics - not just predictive analytics but
also reporting, multidimensional analysis, analytic applications, and data warehousing
technologies. SAS is the only player that has significant market presence in a majority
of these areas, while maintaining high momentum and focus on BA software.

SAS Achieves Leadership Status in META Group�s Evaluation of Data Mining Tools

SAS Achieves Leadership Status in META Group�s Evaluation of Data Mining Tools: "ranked as a market leader in META Group�s METAspectrumSM report for data mining tools."

SAS�9 raises the bar for predictive analytics

SAS�9 raises the bar for predictive analytics: "Enhanced analytics in SAS�9 include a comprehensive set of capabilities like predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting, simulation, optimization, and design of experiments"

SAS�9 solutions pack powerful punch

SAS�9 solutions pack powerful punch: "SAS plans to deliver seven software solutions "

SAS sees Grids stopping 'paralysis' | The Register

SAS sees Grids stopping 'paralysis' | The Register: "For example, companies like Cognos and Business Objects are, according to Goodnight, only providing business reporting tools rather than business intelligence, because they do not have the analytical capabilities of SAS. "

Recognition, Mining and Synthesis Moves Computers to the Era of Tera

Recognition, Mining and Synthesis Moves Computers to the Era of Tera: "Recognition, Mining and Synthesis Moves Computers to the Era of Tera"

My Way News

My Way News: "AMD has managed to make inroads in servers, which are used for Web sites, applications and storage. Its market share jumped from 7.4 percent in the first quarter to 11.2 percent "

Transactional Memory Bibliography

Transactional Memory Bibliography: "Transactional Memory Categories"

PRESS RELEASE IBM Introduces Record Breaking Power5+ Computing Systems

PRESS RELEASE IBM Introduces Record Breaking Power5+ Computing Systems: "The new 4-way IBM System p5 550 with 1.9Ghz POWER5+ technology delivers world-record 4-processor SAP SD 2-tier performance on the Linux OS"

IBM rebuilds Unix servers with Power5+ chip | CNET News.com

IBM rebuilds Unix servers with Power5+ chip | CNET News.com: "the new chip will run at a speed of 1.9GHz and will be showing up only in the lower end of IBM System p5+ models, a new name for what had been the pSeries and eServer p5. Those machines run either Linux or, more often, IBM's AIX version "

My Way News

My Way News: "The new hires will join a payroll that already has nearly tripled in the past two years to 4,200 employees.
For all its growth, Google remains a relative midget alongside Microsoft, which employs 61,000 workers and holds nearly $38 billion in cash."

Intel's Montecito, Montvale beset by very hard times

Intel's Montecito, Montvale beset by very hard times: "Intel's Montecito, Montvale beset by very hard times "

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "'We believe digital health imaging margins will remain under pressure as doctors shift from printing X-rays to viewing on screen,' said Cross Research analyst Shannon Cross in a research note to clients"

steudten.com - Ihr professioneller Partner im Bereich ICT- und Elektronik - ALPHA LINUX Performance Tipps

steudten.com - Ihr professioneller Partner im Bereich ICT- und Elektronik - ALPHA LINUX Performance Tipps: " table describing the mapping from virtual to physical pages for each process"

BEA feeling open source heat? | Channel Register

BEA feeling open source heat? | Channel Register: "Gluecode was bought by BEA's great application server rival IBM this summer, in a deal that provides IBM a low-cost"

Geek.com Geek News - Dual-core Itanium delayed until 2005

Geek.com Geek News - Dual-core Itanium delayed until 2005: "Intel has confirmed that the dual-core Itanium is delayed until 2005. The dual-core 'Montecito' chip was originally supposed to be released next year (2004), but Intel will instead launch a faster than 1.5GHz Madison core with 9 MB of on-chip cache"

freshmeat.net: Project details for Performance Application Programming Interface

freshmeat.net: Project details for Performance Application Programming Interface: "PAPI aims to provide the tool designer and application engineer with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors."

PCWorld.com - 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know

PCWorld.com - 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know: "Finally, if the password you've forgotten is your Windows XP administrator password"

O'Reilly Network: Enterprise-Wide Network Management with OpenNMS

O'Reilly Network: Enterprise-Wide Network Management with OpenNMS: "Enter OpenNMS, a platform that allows users to add network management features over time. "

Introduction to the Xen Virtual Machine | Linux Journal

Introduction to the Xen Virtual Machine | Linux Journal: "In August 2005, XenSource, a commercial company that develops virtualization solutions based on Xen, announced in Intel Developer Forum (IDF) that it has used Intel VT-Enabled Platforms with Xen to virtualize both Linux and Microsoft Windows XP SP2.
Xen with Intel VT or Xen with AMD Pacifica would be competitive with if not superior to other virtualization methods, as well as to native operation.
In the same arena, VMware is a commercial company that develops the ESX server, a virtualization solution not based on Xen. VMware announced in early August 2005 that it will be providing its partners with access to VMware ESX Server source code and interfaces under a new program called VMware Community Source."

Groove Networks

Groove Networks: "Groove Networks was founded by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie. The company's flagship product, Groove 1.0, is a groupware application (the company likes to refer to it as 'peerware') that enables groups of collaborators to form in a decentralized ad-hoc fashion. Groove enables group members to interact in highly secure shared spaces to support collaborative editing in real time. All of a group's documents, messages and applications are stored and replicated across user machines so that all of a group's members can access the materials online or off."

IBM Software

IBM Software: "IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 now available"

A Comparison of Linux Performance Tuning Books | Linux Journal

A Comparison of Linux Performance Tuning Books | Linux Journal: "A Comparison of Linux Performance Tuning Books"

O'Reilly Network: What Is Skype

O'Reilly Network: What Is Skype: "Two major computer-based phone products that do follow standards, SIPphone and FreeWorldDialup, have tiny market share compared to Skype but have the weight of internet standards on their side. Their limited market share will not threaten to overwhelm Skype but may grow large enough to push Skype to involvement with the standards community. That probably won't happen until at least 2008, and will likely depend on how Microsoft implements Voice over IP support in Windows Vista, which will hit the streets in 2007.
Skype may not take over the world. However, Skype makes the world's highest-quality phone connections available for the world's lowest price: free"

Intel Ramping Low-Power, Dual-Core

Intel Ramping Low-Power, Dual-Core: "Intel is planning beyond dual-core with its multicore 'Reidland' and 'Whitefield' chipsets, which aren't slated to appear until 2007 and will also be in the 7000 series. The 5000 series, designed for high-volume dual processor servers, are based on dual-core Xeon processors and are due in the first quarter of 2006. The dual-core Pentium D is part of the newly christened 3000 Series. "

Service-Oriented, Distributed, High-Performance Computing

Service-Oriented, Distributed, High-Performance Computing

My Way News

My Way News: "John Mitchell and Dan Boneh will unveil Pwdhash, software that scrambles passwords typed into Web sites,"

Bring Java's System.currentTimeMillis() Back into the Fold for Transaction Monitoring

Bring Java's System.currentTimeMillis() Back into the Fold for Transaction Monitoring: "System.currentTimeMillis() "

The New York Review of Books: The Tragic Tale of a Genius

The New York Review of Books: The Tragic Tale of a Genius: "The Bell system became operational and the Wiener-Bigelow system never saw combat. In the end, the choice of the Bell system probably had little effect on the course of the war. The big breakthrough in antiaircraft technology was the invention of the proximity fuse, a radar-controlled fuse that enabled a shell to explode and destroy an airplane nearby without directly hitting it. Without proximity fuses, neither the Bell system nor the Wiener-Bigelow system was accurate enough to shoot down airplanes reliably. After proximity fuses became available in 1944, the Bell system was good enough. "

Car Crashes . . . Criminals . . . Cancer . . . Black Swans? AAAAAIIIEEEH! - Popular Science

Car Crashes . . . Criminals . . . Cancer . . . Black Swans? AAAAAIIIEEEH! - Popular Science: "Traveling a mile by bike is almost 14 times as likely to be fatal as a mile by car.5"

ONJava.com: Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming

ONJava.com: Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming: "Before we delve too deeply into AOP, let's introduce some standard terminology to help us understand the concepts.
Cross-cutting concerns: Even though most classes in an OO model will perform a single, specific function, they often share common, secondary requirements with other classes. For example, we may want to add logging to classes within the data-access layer and also to classes in the UI layer whenever a thread enters or exits a method. Even though the primary functionality of each class is very different, the code needed to perform the secondary functionality is often identical.
Advice: This is the additional code that you want to apply to your existing model. In our example, this is the logging code that we want to apply whenever the thread enters or exits a method.
Point-cut: This is the term given to the point of execution in the application at which cross-cutting concern needs to be applied. In our example, a point-cut is reached when the thread enters a method, and another point-cut is reached when the thread exits the method.
Aspect: The combination of the point-cut and the advice is termed an aspect. In the example below, we add a logging aspect to our application by defining a point-cut and giving the correct advice. "

ONJava.com: Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming

ONJava.com: Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming: "Before we delve too deeply into AOP, let's introduce some standard terminology to help us understand the concepts.
Cross-cutting concerns: Even though most classes in an OO model will perform a single, specific function, they often share common, secondary requirements with other classes. For example, we may want to add logging to classes within the data-access layer and also to classes in the UI layer whenever a thread enters or exits a method. Even though the primary functionality of each class is very different, the code needed to perform the secondary functionality is often identical.
Advice: This is the additional code that you want to apply to your existing model. In our example, this is the logging code that we want to apply whenever the thread enters or exits a method.
Point-cut: This is the term given to the point of execution in the application at which cross-cutting concern needs to be applied. In our example, a point-cut is reached when the thread enters a method, and another point-cut is reached when the thread exits the method.
Aspect: The combination of the point-cut and the advice is termed an aspect. In the example below, we add a logging aspect to our application by defining a point-cut and giving the correct advice. "

SOC

SOC: "Tenets of SOA by Rich Turner
Service Boundaries are Explicit: Services are expressed at their boundary and there is only ONE way to access the information and/or functionality held within a service - through capabilities exposed at the Service Boundary. Also, assume that calling methods on a Service may take time and may be unreliable.
Services are Autonomous: A service should not have hard-dependencies on other services. You should design your Services to be isolated, independent and interchangeable otherwise you'll end up with a closely coupled system that is fragile and overly complex. Services should maintain all the information needed to operate in isolation so that should one or more supporting services become unavailable, your service will not fail.
Services expose Schema and Contract, not Class and Type: Services should expose their interfaces and shared information interchange structures through well understood schema, rather than a particular language or platform's representation of class or type. By adopting standards based schema can we hope to build truly interoperable systems.
Services negotiate using Policy: This is quite possibly the most valuable, most differentiating tenet. Services must comply with one another's policy requirements in order to interoperate. If you offer a secure, reliable, transacted service, a caller must also support the necessary protocols etc. This protocol negotiation should be performed dynamically which will help ensure that systems do not take hard-dependencies upon one another, and will allow Service designers to largely abstract away the actual �hook-up� mechanisms between systems focussing instead on the functional semantics of their service. "

SOC

SOC: "Tenets of SOA by Rich Turner
Service Boundaries are Explicit: Services are expressed at their boundary and there is only ONE way to access the information and/or functionality held within a service - through capabilities exposed at the Service Boundary. Also, assume that calling methods on a Service may take time and may be unreliable.
Services are Autonomous: A service should not have hard-dependencies on other services. You should design your Services to be isolated, independent and interchangeable otherwise you'll end up with a closely coupled system that is fragile and overly complex. Services should maintain all the information needed to operate in isolation so that should one or more supporting services become unavailable, your service will not fail.
Services expose Schema and Contract, not Class and Type: Services should expose their interfaces and shared information interchange structures through well understood schema, rather than a particular language or platform's representation of class or type. By adopting standards based schema can we hope to build truly interoperable systems.
Services negotiate using Policy: This is quite possibly the most valuable, most differentiating tenet. Services must comply with one another's policy requirements in order to interoperate. If you offer a secure, reliable, transacted service, a caller must also support the necessary protocols etc. This protocol negotiation should be performed dynamically which will help ensure that systems do not take hard-dependencies upon one another, and will allow Service designers to largely abstract away the actual �hook-up� mechanisms between systems focussing instead on the functional semantics of their service. "

Longhorn Developer Center Home: Programming Indigo: The Programming Model

Longhorn Developer Center Home: Programming Indigo: The Programming Model: "Programming Indigo: The Programming Model"

Paul Fallon's Blog - SO and SOA

Paul Fallon's Blog - SO and SOA: "Peter Deustch�s �The 7 Fallacies of Distributed Computing� , probably cause it gets used more in the Java world than in the DCOM/.NET world. For those that are unfamilar with the notions that Peter Deustch proposed so long ago (in internet time terms) back in the 90�s (I think), they are the following:-
1. The network is reliable
2. Latency is zero
3. Bandwidth is infinite
4. The network is secure
5. Topology doesn�t change
6. There is one administrator
7. Transport cost is zero"

15 Seconds : Indigo Programming Model

15 Seconds : Indigo Programming Model: "Indigo is the latest Microsoft implementation of service oriented architecture. Indigo provides a rich set of technologies for 'creating, consuming, processing and transmitting messages'. "

The State of Standards @ WSJ

The State of Standards @ WSJ: "One of the most important concepts to understand about the WSF is that it is not a distributed object system. Web services communicate by exchanging messages - it's more like JMS than RMI. The WSF doesn't support remote references, remote object garbage collection, or any of the other distributed object features developers have come to rely upon in RMI, CORBA, or DCOM"

Grid Services Extend Web Services @ WSJ

Grid Services Extend Web Services @ WSJ: "Distributed systems research has a rich literature where virtualization of resources and objects is a common solution to many problems. This virtualization results in a 'transparency.' Nine of these show up again and again. They are used with respect to accessing a remote service or object. Usually the intent is that the programmer/user need not know or deal with something, but can if they want to. The transparencies are:

Access: The mechanism used for a local procedure call is the same as for a remote call. Many have argued that this is a special case on location transparency.
Location: The caller need not know where the object is located, California or Virginia - it makes no difference.
Failure: If the object fails the caller is unaware. Somehow the requested service or function is performed, the object is restarted, or whatever is needed happens.
Heterogeneity: Architecture and OS boundaries are invisible. However, objects cannot migrate without limitation. At a bare minimum communication with objects on other architectures requires no data coercion.
Migration: The caller need not know whether an object has moved since they last communicated with it.
Replication: Is there one object or many objects behind the name? The caller need not know or deal with coherence issues.
Concurrency: Are there other concurrent users of an object? The caller need not be aware of them.
Scaling: An increase or decrease in the number of servers requires no change in the software. Naturally, performance may vary.
Behavioral: Is it live or not? Whether an actual object or a simulation of the object is used is irrelevant. For example, am I talking to a host object, or a virtual host objec"

Grid Services Extend Web Services @ WSJ

Grid Services Extend Web Services @ WSJ: " mechanically, the differences between Grid services (as defined in the Open Grid Services Infrastructure [OGSI] V.1.0 specification) and Web services are few: a Grid service is simply a Web service that conforms to a particular set of conventions"

Message Passing Interface

Message Passing Interface: "MPI is a library specification for message-passing"

SOA Pipeline | Well on Our Way to SOA? Still Much To Do

SOA Pipeline | Well on Our Way to SOA? Still Much To Do: "SAP's Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) � SAP's own brand of service-oriented architecture (SOA). SAP claimed that ESA lets you change your processes and create new composite applications not by coding but through model-based design and configuration"

SOA Pipeline | Well on Our Way to SOA? Still Much To Do

SOA Pipeline | Well on Our Way to SOA? Still Much To Do: "SAP's Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) � SAP's own brand of service-oriented architecture (SOA). SAP claimed that ESA lets you change your processes and create new composite applications not by coding but through model-based design and configuration"

NewsForge | Linux to the rescue: A review of three system rescue CDs

NewsForge | Linux to the rescue: A review of three system rescue CDs: "System Rescue CD is the largest download at 110MB. It includes:
Linux-kernel-2.4.27-xfs
GNU-Parted-1.6.11 -- This reliable text-based partition editor is the best Linux partition tool.
QtParted and PartGui are regarded as the best free PartitionMagic clones for Linux, and you can use these two graphical partition tools without XFree86. They work with QtEmbedded and allow you to see a chart of your hard disk, create, format, delete, and modify partitions.
Partimage-0.6.4 is a Ghost/DriveImage clone for Linux.
GRUB-0.94 / LILO-22.5 -- These tools are the most common bootloaders used with Linux. You can restore your bootloader from this System Rescue CD. For example, if Windows removed GRUB, you can run GRUB from this CD and reinstall the bootloader.
File system tools
Evms 2.3 is a powerful logical volume manager.
Archiving tools tar/gzip/bzip2 are provided for Unix users. Zip/unzip, while rar/unrar/unace are provided for Windows users. "

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas: "If you want to learn what people want, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. [8] When a friend recommended this book, I couldn't believe he was serious. But he insisted it was good, so I read it, and he was right. It deals with the most difficult problem in human experience: how to see things from other people's point of view, instead of thinking only of yourself.

Most smart people don't do that very well. But adding this ability to raw brainpower is like adding tin to copper. The result is bronze, which is so much harder that it seems a different metal."

Microsoft's message for AMD | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Microsoft's message for AMD | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "AMD's unit share of the worldwide x86 CPU market was more than 20 percent in 2001. Last year, it fell to less than 16 percent--and this despite its tech leadership over Intel."

Will SAP sample hosted recipe? | CNET News.com

Will SAP sample hosted recipe? | CNET News.com: "Salesforce has grown rapidly in recent years--it reported just more than $176 million in revenue for fiscal 2005--and it has become nearly synonymous with on-demand business applications"

ANA publications

ANA publications: "Rethinking the design of the Internet"

Visual Studio: Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE

Visual Studio: Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE: "Competitive Reports and Evidence: Comparing .NET to J2EE"

FireWire vs Hi-Speed USB

FireWire vs Hi-Speed USB: "Look for an ENHANCED USB Host Controller - this indicates you have USB 2.0. "

Trying Oracle on Linux in the Enterprise | Linux Journal

Trying Oracle on Linux in the Enterprise | Linux Journal

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says: " And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent."

Enterprise software | News.blog | CNET News.com

Enterprise software | News.blog | CNET News.com: "Convention wisdom among many pundits is that BEA Systems will ultimately be marginalized by the industry heavy-weights with more resources, market clout and broader product lines"

Xen getting multiprocessor support | CNET News.com

Xen getting multiprocessor support | CNET News.com: "Xen is a 'hypervisor'--a thin layer of software that governs how different operating systems get access to computer resources such as processors and memory. But the current version is hobbled by the fact that each operating system can use only one processor"

Food for Thought: Calories May Not Count in Life Extension, Science News Online, June 11, 2005

Food for Thought: Calories May Not Count in Life Extension, Science News Online, June 11, 2005: "Partridge's team made a surprising finding. Although flies eating the new diets took in about as much food as a group eating regular chow did, those on the reduced-protein diet lived about 24 days longer than the average fruit fly's life span of 40 days. "

Open: AMD64 Opteron NUMA and IA-32 Xeon SMP Benchmarks

Open: AMD64 Opteron NUMA and IA-32 Xeon SMP Benchmarks

Intel ships 64-bit, 1MB L2 Pentium 4s | The Register

Intel ships 64-bit, 1MB L2 Pentium 4s | The Register: "The 521, 531, 541, 551, 561 and 571 P4s all bring Intel's 64-bit technology, EM64T, to its line of 1MB L2 cache-enabled processors. The new chips are clocked at up to 3.8GHz, just like the existing 5x0 P4s, and are similarly fabbed at 90nm. They too use the LGA-775 interface, and support a frontside bus clocked to 800MHz."

The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive | CNET News.com

The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive | CNET News.com: "With more computationally intense tasks, the performance of translated software is between 60 percent and 80 percent of native software, Wiederhold said.
Another skeptic is Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64. 'Everybody always has said 50 (percent) or 60 percent and delivered 30 (percent) or 40 percent,' he said. Among those who have tried: Digital Equipment Corp.'s FX!32 to run x86 Windows programs on computers with Alpha chips; Hewlett-Packard's Aries software to run HP-UX software for PA- RISC chips on Itanium; and Intel's IA32-EL software to run software for x86 chips on Itanium."

Microsoft 'hypervisor' plan takes shape | CNET News.com

Microsoft 'hypervisor' plan takes shape | CNET News.com: "Muglia, senior vice president in the Windows Server Division, said at Microsoft's Tech Ed conference here that the software will be 'built directly in Windows and will allow companies to virtualize multiple operating systems.'"

Intel neuters Montvale, Itanic screams in alarm

Intel neuters Montvale, Itanic screams in alarm: "Soon after that, it is in such miserable shape, no one cares if you pull the plug. That is what Intel is doing to Itanium."

Apple to Switch Macs to Intel Chips

Apple to Switch Macs to Intel Chips: "Jobs said Apple will begin offering Macs with Intel processors by June 2006 and will switch its entire product line by the end of 2007."

Pricing Gap Between Online Home Sellers and Buyers Exceeds $82,000 in June

Pricing Gap Between Online Home Sellers and Buyers Exceeds $82,000 in June: " In June, the average home seller at HomeGain expected to choose an agent
and list their property within the next 54 days, unchanged from May.
When it comes to housing bang for the buck, these cities in June
registered the lowest price per square foot (based on lower than average price
expectation and higher than average square footage per home):


-- Orlando - $66;
-- Houston - $70;
-- Atlanta - $75;
-- Austin - $77;
-- (tie) Nashville, Tampa - $82;
-- (tie) Dallas, Minneapolis - $83;
-- Baltimore - $89;
-- Las Vegas - $97.

By contrast, cities with the priciest real estate by the square foot in
June were:

-- San Francisco Bay Area - $237 per square foot;
-- Orange County - $172;
-- San Diego - $160;
-- Los Angeles - $146;
-- New York City - $137;
-- Boston - $132;
-- Sacramento - $129;
-- (tie) Portland, Seattle - $125;
-- Denver - $123."

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: " The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online"

WindowsDevCenter.com: Using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool

WindowsDevCenter.com: Using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool: "Malicious, malcontent, maladapted, maladjusted, malaprop, maleficent, malodorous, malevolent ... they're all bad things. So is malware"

Intel spills beans on Yonah, the next notebook chip | CNET News.com

Intel spills beans on Yonah, the next notebook chip | CNET News.com: "Yonah will also contain more transistors--151.6 million--than the current Pentium M, which has about 140 million transistors. Still, because it will be produced on the more advanced 65-nanometer process"

My Way News

My Way News: "who bought versions of the digital music player through May 2004."

Opinion: Linux May Be the Main Life Support for Intel's Itanium @ XMLJ

Opinion: Linux May Be the Main Life Support for Intel's Itanium @ XMLJ: "Intel's plans were for the Itanium. Paul Otellini said it was a RISC replacement processor, typically running Linux. There are a number of companies who run SAP on Windows where the Itanium fits into the infrastructure nicely. Intel wasn't walking away from the Itanium, he said.�"

JDA Software and Intel Corp. Announce Strategic Relationship

JDA Software and Intel Corp. Announce Strategic Relationship: " JDA and Intel intend to work cooperatively to ensure that PortfolioEnabled solutions are operationally optimized using advanced, 64-bit computing space with Intel Xeon, Extended Memory 64-bit Technology(TM) and Intel Itanium(TM) processor family-based servers"

Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds: "Brain Randell explains the advantages and disadvantages of Virtual PC and Virtual Server"

Linux lab lays off programmers | CNET News.com

Linux lab lays off programmers | CNET News.com: "The Open Source Development Labs, the organization that employs Linux leader Linus Torvalds, has laid off nearly a sixth of its staff as part of a shift to new priorities.
The group cut nine of its 57 staff and contractor positions, Chief Executive Stuart Cohen confirmed Monday. The cuts affected several programmers who worked on the open-source operating system as well as staff in sales, marketing, business development and internal computer operations. "

Report: Oracle pulls into tie with IBM in databases | CNET News.com

Report: Oracle pulls into tie with IBM in databases | CNET News.com: "Oracle claimed 34.1 percent of the overall market for relational database software, with IBM lording over 33.7 percent--a finish the report considered a dead heat. According to Gartner analysts, the difference between the two vendors was less than $30 million. Microsoft came in third, with a 20 percent share"

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "Sandra Morris, 50, "

Internet News Article | Reuters.co.uk

Internet News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "Apple's pricing, which has often been higher than rivals, could become more competitive if Intel were to provide the kind of marketing subsidies it has given to other computer makers, the newspaper said."

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "Intel, SAP and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), for instance, have linked up to
develop advanced query functions to improve access to information generated by
SAP and other systems."

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: " will license
the German company's enterprise services architecture, or ESA, to use in their
products."

The Tail does not Wag the Dog: A Cautionary Tale for Contract First Development Highlights - WebServices.Org

The Tail does not Wag the Dog: A Cautionary Tale for Contract First Development Highlights - WebServices.Org: "highlights the key difference between WSDL and most of the SSDL protocol framework plugins, namely that SSDL supports rich choreographical metadata."

IBM outfits blade servers with cheap middleware for the masses | The Register

IBM outfits blade servers with cheap middleware for the masses | The Register: "to run on its HS20 Xeon-based server"

NewsForge | Researchers speed, optimize code with new open source tools

NewsForge | Researchers speed, optimize code with new open source tools: "He said the open source SPIRAL software, released under the BSD license, addresses the time it takes software developers to fine-tune and update digital signaling processing (DSP) algorithms and libraries according to hardware advancements from Intel, IBM, and other hardware companies. "

Linked from - Madville.com - Dead Link

Linked from - Madville.com - Dead Link: "'He was glued to his computer 24/7,' she said tearfully. 'He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment or start a discussion, that he just stopped eating.' "

Repairs under way for server speed tests | CNET News.com

Repairs under way for server speed tests | CNET News.com: " 'The most widely referenced result in RFPs'--the requests for proposals by which customers solicit bids--'is TPC-C,' Buggert said. One reason it's useful compared with alternatives such as SAP's SD test is that it not only measures performance, but also provides a ratio of price to performance."

NewsFactor Network - Enterprise - No Renegade Group Behind Linux

NewsFactor Network - Enterprise - No Renegade Group Behind Linux: "Looking at the top 25 contributors to the Linux kernel today, you'll discover that more than 90% of them are on the corporate payroll full-time for companies "

Intel Q1 earnings get surprise tax boost

Intel Q1 earnings get surprise tax boost: "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) reduced its tax bill by $24 million in the first quarter, boosting net income by a penny per share above the level it reported on April 19, the world's largest chip maker said on Wednesday.
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'Subsequent to our earnings release on April 19, 2005, we recorded a tax adjustment that reduced the tax provision by $24 million,' the company said in a quarterly filing with U.S. securities regulators. "

Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures

Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures: "Directory-based Cache Coherence Protocols"

Real World Technologies - x86 Servers Brace for a Hurricane

Real World Technologies - x86 Servers Brace for a Hurricane: "The X3 strikes a compromise between these two methods and uses a hybrid directory/broadcast mechanism and virtual L4 caches for inter-node traffic, and a snoop filter for intra-node traffic"

My Way News

My Way News: "offshoring required more management effort than they had originally thought"

Tom's Hardware Guide Business Reports: Pat Gelsinger: A Shot at Running Intel - Andy And Bill

Tom's Hardware Guide Business Reports: Pat Gelsinger: A Shot at Running Intel - Andy And Bill: "'Those are lousy answers. Be in my office in a week with better ones."

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.: "radically restructured database architectures "

David Kirkpatrick - Execs Tell Software Makers: 'Some of You Are Doomed' - FORTUNE

David Kirkpatrick - Execs Tell Software Makers: 'Some of You Are Doomed' - FORTUNE: "but rather about getting software delivered as a service."

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com: " if you have joined a closed network, you'll see an IP address beginning with 169.254"

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com: "According to a report by the Associated Press, a representative of Adobe Systems, owner of the PDF format, has suggested that whoever attempted to censor the report did so by placing black rectangles over the text in question, rather than deleting the text.)
The technique used would indeed have protected the data if the document were being read online or printed. However, by an attacker selecting the blacked-out text and using the copy and paste functions, he or she could easily reproduce the document in its entirety on any word-processing application."

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs: "software as a service (SaaS), in which applications are piped over the Internet at a customer's behest, has snowballed in popularity. "

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005: "Intel could now see a path down to the 5-nanometer range."

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register: "Inside Sun Labs "

Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds: "Here's an example. The first thing that FogBugz Setup does when you run it is to test that all kinds of prerequisites are installed, like IIS and MDAC and VBScript. In order to develop and test that code, I need virtual machines that are missing the prerequisites, so I can test all the code paths."

It's Show-Me Time for Siebel

It's Show-Me Time for Siebel: "It's Show-Me Time for Siebel
While the software maker pledged to revive slumping profits, increasingly restless investors heard few specifics about how this would occur "

New Scientist Whatever happened to machines that think? - Features

New Scientist Whatever happened to machines that think? - Features: "In the next few months, after being patiently nurtured for 22 years, an artificial brain called Cyc (pronounced 'psych') will be put online for the world to interact with"

New Sun priorities could speed Niagara servers | CNET News.com

New Sun priorities could speed Niagara servers | CNET News.com: "Niagara has been due to arrive in systems in 2006, but Ingram said customers have prototype systems today and an earlier shipment date is possible. 'The latest will be early 2006 that we introduce the products,' he said. 'It's coming in better than any other processor we've ever produced.' "

SAP - SAP and Microsoft Announce First Joint Product Designed to Revolutionize How Information Workers Access Enterprise Applications

SAP - SAP and Microsoft Announce First Joint Product Designed to Revolutionize How Information Workers Access Enterprise Applications: "As part of this expanded partnership, SAP and Microsoft have agreed to each resell the complete solution, meaning SAP will resell Microsoft Office and Microsoft will resell licenses to SAP�s business process platform, which will deliver ready-to-run business processes accessible as enterprise services. Available in 2006, the business process platform will serve as the foundation for the creation and deployment of composite applications such as �Mendocino.�"

SAP readies new business-monitoring programs | CNET News.com

SAP readies new business-monitoring programs | CNET News.com: "The programs, called SAP Analytics, will monitor activities as diverse as tax collection, factory utilization and retail staffing,"

My Way News

My Way News: "Mendocino' is designed to integrate SAP processes, such as time management, budget monitoring, travel and expense management, directly into Microsoft Office."

Pacifica is similar enough to virtualization efforts by Intel, dubbed Vanderpool, that software developers should be able to create applications that work with both companies' technologies, instead of crafting separate versions

Microsoft Raises the Speed Limit With the Availability of 64-Bit Editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional

Microsoft Raises the Speed Limit With the Availability of 64-Bit Editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional: "Early adopters of Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions have seen stronger, faster results for database and data-intensive server applications. The x64 version of Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services, for example, can accommodate up to 170 percent more users per server than its 32-bit predecessor.* "

Techworld.com - IBM's X366 Xeon server has no L3 cache but is faster. How come?

Techworld.com - IBM's X366 Xeon server has no L3 cache but is faster. How come?: "At design time, there was a maniacal focus on latency reduction. When you can cut the time it takes it gets from one point to the next you can increase performance, so chipset latency has been cut by two and half times -- down from 265 nanoseconds to 108 nanoseconds"

Wired News: Linux Distribution Tames Chaos

Wired News: Linux Distribution Tames Chaos: "Chaos, a Linux distribution developed by Australian Ian Latter, harnesses the unused processing power of networked PCs, creating a distributed supercomputer that can crack passwords at lightning speed"

Technology@Intel Magazine - Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology

Technology@Intel Magazine - Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology: "Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology Improves Network Performance, Reliability and Efficiently"

Randomly Generated research paper!

Tuning xseries for performance

Memory Hiearchy

Queing in Networks of Computers

PJD's Publications on Computing Science

PJD's Publications on Computing Science: "Operational Analysis of Queueing Network Models"

Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models

Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models: "Quantitative System Performance
Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models"

AMD Dual-Core Opteron to Debut in NY

AMD Dual-Core Opteron to Debut in NY: "first quarter of 2006. That is when the company is expected to have its dual-core lineup in full production including its dual-core Xeon, Code named Dempsey, along with its dual-core Pentium 4, code named Smithfield, and its Pentium M dual-core mobile processor, code named Yonah. "

Torvalds: Put Linux to the test | CNET News.com

Torvalds: Put Linux to the test | CNET News.com: "The issue was raised when Intel employee Kenneth Chen announced some performance figures for various versions of the 2.6 kernel. The tests found that versions 2.6.11, 2.6.9, 2.6.8 and 2.6.2 of the kernel performed 13, 6, 23 and 1 percent slower respectively than the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 baseline--which runs on version 2.4 of the kernel, with some added features from version 2.6. "

Linux-Kernel Archive: measure time less than 1 jiffie?

Linux-Kernel Archive: measure time less than 1 jiffie?: "because 1 jiffie is 10ms"

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel desktop crib sheet guide arrives

Intel desktop crib sheet guide arrives: "Intel desktop crib sheet guide arrives "

adaptive path � ajax: a new approach to web applications

adaptive path � ajax: a new approach to web applications: "Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what�s possible on the Web."

State of ACPI in Linux Kernel

Multicore computing, multithreaded programming, and gaming

Multicore computing, multithreaded programming, and gaming: "'implementing a multithreaded system requires two to three times the development and testing effort of implementing a comparable non-multithreaded system.' "

Windows System Resource Manager�Frequently Asked Questions

Windows System Resource Manager�Frequently Asked Questions: "Windows System Resource Manager"

Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems

Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems: "Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems"

Cooking with Lisp

Cooking with Lisp: "Robert W. Floyd's 1978 Turing Award Lecture, hosted by Markus Fix here, and he has a great quote about Lisp:
I have seen numerous examples of the programming power which Lisp programmers obtain from having a single data structure, which is also used as a uniform syntactic structure for all the functions and operations which appear in programs, with the capability to manipulate programs as data. Although my own previous enthusiasm has been for syntactically rich languages like the Algol family, I now see clearly and concretely the force of Minsky's 1970 Turing lecture, in which he argued that Lisp's uniformity of structure and power of self reference gave the programmer capabilities whose content was well worth the sacrifice of visual form. "

Supported System Configurations

Supported System Configurations: "J2SE 5.0 does not provide support for Itanium 2 -- Itanium 2 support may be added in subsequent update releases"

Myrinet Overview

Myrinet Overview: "Messages can be sent and received without system calls, resulting in measured message latencies at the MPI level with the 'E card' and 'F card' NICs of ~2.7�s with MX, and ~6.5�s with GM. Message latencies using the popular, low-cost, 'D card' NICs are ~0.8�s higher. Thanks to the OS-pass mode of operation and to protocol processing being offloaded to the firmware, the host-CPU overhead is minimal, ~0.15�s per message for sending or receiving.
For either GM or MX, and with single-port NICs, measured, user-level, one-way, data rates are ~1.98 Gb/s (248 MBytes/s), and two-way (summed bidirectional) data rates are ~3.92 Gb/s (490 MBytes/s). With the high-end, dual-port NICs, the firmware takes care of distributing and reassembling packet data across the two ports. The measured, user-level, one-way data rate of ~3.9 Gb/s (~490 GBytes/s) approaches the capacity of the two links. On hosts with good PCI-X throughput, the two-way (summed bidirectional) data rate approaches 6.4 Gb/s (800 MBytes/s)."

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

Sun Microsystems Contrarian Minds: Guy Steele

Sun Microsystems Contrarian Minds: Guy Steele: "Called Fortress, the new language is part of a larger Sun Labs effort to come up with a design for the supercomputer of the future, an effort funded in part by DARPA, t"

Peeking Into Google

Peeking Into Google: "Google replicates the Web pages it caches by splitting them up into pieces it calls 'shards.' The shards are small enough that several can fit on one machine. And they're replicated on several machines, so that if one breaks, another can serve up the information. The master index is also split up among several servers, and that set also is replicated several times. The engineers call these 'chunk servers.'
As a search query comes into the system, it hits a Web server, then is split into chunks of service. One set of index servers contains the index; one set of machines contains one full index. To actually answer a query, Google has to use one complete set of servers. Since that set is replicated as a fail-safe, it also increases throughput, because if one set is busy, a new query can be routed to the next set, which drives down search time per box. "

Using PerfCounters

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/MonitorServicePerformance.asp

good description

http://www.gwyncole.com/blogfiles/gwync/wmx/tw04072_winhec2004.ppt#7

IPMI..

http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/

FTPOnline - MEC 2002 - Instrument Your .NET Apps With WMI

FTPOnline - MEC 2002 - Instrument Your .NET Apps With WMI: "Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) technology provides a common interface for exposing and monitoring the health of an application environment by leveraging the Desktop Management Task Force's (DMTF) Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative and the DMTF Common Information Model (CIM)."

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 Day 1 - Gelsinger Speaks, nForce4 Intel and more

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 Day 1 - Gelsinger Speaks, nForce4 Intel and more: "slide below talks about some of the performance gains they�ve seen internally due to 64-bit support (thanks to the added registers and greater memory addressability):"

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 - Day 2: The Yonah Scoop

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 - Day 2: The Yonah Scoop: "Yonah is far from two Dothans stuck together"

An In-Depth Look at WMI and Instrumentation, Part I

An In-Depth Look at WMI and Instrumentation, Part I: "WMI is Microsoft's implementation of WEBM (Web-Based Enterprise Management)"

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity: "My 30 years of research and these 12,000 journal entries suggest that when people are doing work that they love and they're allowed to deeply engage in it -- and when the work itself is valued and recognized -- then creativity will flourish"

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity: "the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored."

Intel to ship dual-core Xeon MP in Q1 06 | The Register

Intel to ship dual-core Xeon MP in Q1 06 | The Register: " Intel will ship one further 90nm Xeon MP processor, codenamed 'Paxville', before moving the family to 65nm.
Paxville will, however, mark the Xeon MP line's shift to a dual-core design, set to take place during the first quarter of next year, Intel digital enterprise group VP Stephen Smith said today. It will ship in the same timeframe as 'Dempsey', the first dual-core Xeon DP chip"

Yahoo! News - VMware, Intel get real on virtualization

Yahoo! News - VMware, Intel get real on virtualization: "VMware deepened its relationship with Intel on Tuesday, announcing plans to work with the chip maker on optimizing its VMware server product with Intel's future chip-level virtualization technologies and working to broaden the market's awareness about the advantages of virtualization."

AnandTech News: AMD Announces Specification For Open Platform Management Architecture

AnandTech News: AMD Announces Specification For Open Platform Management Architecture: "OPMA feature cards contain BMC firmware that communicates with software such as BIOS, drivers, manageability software suites, system management frameworks "

SAP shuffles management chores | CNET News.com

SAP shuffles management chores | CNET News.com: "Under the restructuring, Agassi is now responsible for all software, services and related development of existing SAP products, and for integrating them into a technology platform. "

Microsoft Preps for the 64-Bit Wave

Microsoft Preps for the 64-Bit Wave

Microsoft 64-bit application road map unveiled

Microsoft 64-bit application road map unveiled: "Early on in February, Microsoft let loose with Release Candidate 2, and let it be known that they are right on track for a final version before the end of June 2005. "

AMD unveils Open Platform Management Architecture - vnunet.com

AMD unveils Open Platform Management Architecture - vnunet.com: "Open Platform Management Architecture (OPMA)"

SMASH simplifies server management

SMASH simplifies server management: "SMASH simplifies server management"

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central: "The Open Management Interface "

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central: "WMI is the Microsoft implementation of Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM), an industry initiative in the enterprise management field"

Learn the Eight Principles of Web Services Management

Learn the Eight Principles of Web Services Management: "WSDL bears many similarities to the interface definition language (IDL) in CORBA, COM+, and Distributed Computing Environment (OSF/DCE) styles of computing"

Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE

Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE: "Don Box basically invented SOAP, the most inefficient and verbose marshalling format in the history of computer science.So, pleeeeze, don't let the guy out on the language arena."

Sources: IBM ditching Itanium altogether | CNET News.com

Sources: IBM ditching Itanium altogether | CNET News.com: "Another source familiar with the situation said IBM won't release a server using Intel's next-generation Itanium processor, code-named Montecito and expected to boost performance significantly upon arrival at the end of 2005. "

"Evolving to Eat Mush": How Meat Changed Our Bodies

"Evolving to Eat Mush": How Meat Changed Our Bodies: "'But when it comes to humans, the ideal occlusion [the way teeth fit together] is virtually never seen. It's really the only body part that regularly needs attention and surgery.' "

The Globe and Mail: Taller babies make richer men

The Globe and Mail: Taller babies make richer men: "$800 an inch more annually for the taller worker"

IBM server design drops Itanium support | CNET News.com

IBM server design drops Itanium support | CNET News.com: "And several others besides Intel have their own Itanium chipsets: Silicon Graphics, NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Unisys and Itanium co-developer Hewlett-Packard. "

HP.com - ProLiant benchmarks

HP.com - ProLiant benchmarks: "In February 2005, the HP ProLiant DL585 server posted yet another leading 4-way x86 result. The ProLiant DL585 achieved 130,623 tpmC@$2.80/tpmC running the TPC-C benchmark, Spec. Rev. 5.3"

My Way News

My Way News: "San Francisco-based Six Apart provides two widely used blogging tools - a software publishing program, Movable Type, and a hosted service, TypePad, for people who don't want to do the technological grunt work themselves.
Boosted by the recent takeover of another blogging service called LiveJournal"

IBM Discovers The Power Of One

IBM Discovers The Power Of One: " The chip and computer units would be combined. Rather than manufacturing all kinds of chips for 400 customers, IBM would focus primarily on one family of chips, its well-regarded Power microprocessors. I"

PowerPC Gets Serious About Windows NT

PowerPC Gets Serious About Windows NT: "The fate of Windows NT on the PowerPC and the future direction of the PowerPC hinge on the availability of native PowerPC NT applications and on a price/performance edge over Intel. Motorola and IBM, the manufacturers of the PowerPC chip, recognize the connection between NT application support and the PowerPC's direction. "

Tom Yager

Tom Yager: "I'm certain that Windows for PowerPC is running now within Microsoft"

Sun shuns Intel | The Register

Sun shuns Intel | The Register: "Sun has managed to become the number one seller of Opteron gear, beating out HP's ProLiant line and IBM's box. It, however, remains a minor player in the x86 server market as a whole."

CRN Breaking News | Linux 2.6 Kernel To Include Xen Virtualization Technology

CRN Breaking News | Linux 2.6 Kernel To Include Xen Virtualization Technology: "At the Enterprise Linux Summit, Andrew Morton -- Linus Torvalds' right-hand man and maintainer of the Linux kernel for the Open Source Development Labs (ODSL) -- said he will incorporate the Xen virtualization code 'in the near future"

Intel Adds Power to Pentium

Intel Adds Power to Pentium: "Brace said that by the end of the first quarter 80% of Xeon shipments will have 64-bit capabilities. Intel will launch a new version of its 64-bit Xeon at the end of this month with an expanded 2 megabytes of level 2 cache."

Cell chip: Hit or hype? | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Cell chip: Hit or hype? | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "Cell contains 234 million transistors and takes up 221 square millimeters in the 90-nanometer production process. That's about double the size of the 90-nanometer 3.6GHz Pentium 4, with 112 square millimeters and 125 million transistors. "
Cell comes with an integrated memory controller for high-performance XDR memory from Rambus--which means that the current design works exclusively with this pricey stuff.

My Way News

My Way News: " they would immediately begin a search for a permanent replacement"

HP plugs Linux for 64-processor servers | CNET News.com

HP plugs Linux for 64-processor servers | CNET News.com: "Silicon Graphics Inc. already sells Linux servers that have a single copy of Linux running on as many as 2,048 processors, "

InformationWeek > Intel Itanium Chips > Intel Takes The Heat Off Its Chips > February 7, 2005

InformationWeek > Intel Itanium Chips > Intel Takes The Heat Off Its Chips > February 7, 2005: "Intel will publish the details of Foxton in a paper it's presenting at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week in San Francisco. It will also describe power-saving technology called demand-based switching that works with Windows to reduce energy consumption when a server isn't stressed. Both technologies will debut when Intel releases its next-generation Itanium chip, code-named Montecito, scheduled for release in the fourth quarter"

HyperTransport 2.0 Performance

HyperTransport 2.0 Performance: "HyperTransport 2.0 Performance"

PCWorld.com - Intel Says New Mobile Chip Equals High-End Pentium 4 in Performance

PCWorld.com - Intel Says New Mobile Chip Equals High-End Pentium 4 in Performance: "Intel Says New Mobile Chip Equals High-End Pentium 4 in Performance"

CarlZimmer.com

CarlZimmer.com: "TESTING DARWIN "

Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems

Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems: "Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems"

My Way News

My Way News: "The translation: Apple is so proud of the iPod specs they don't want to embarrass the competition by sharing them. Uh, yeah."

'Project Fusion' to dominate Ellison's calendar | CNET News.com

'Project Fusion' to dominate Ellison's calendar | CNET News.com: "


Oracle-PeopleSoft launches
CEO Larry Ellison lays out the future of the combined companies
With Project Fusion, Oracle will attempt to combine products from PeopleSoft with its own applications"

HP augments Itanium server line | CNET News.com

HP augments Itanium server line | CNET News.com: "Itanium-related sales topped $1 billion in 2004"

IBM Redbooks | Help Me Find My IBM eServer xSeries Performance Problem!

IBM Redbooks | Help Me Find My IBM eServer xSeries Performance Problem!: "A bottleneck occurs when any server subsystem prevents the other subsystems from running at peak capacity."

IBM Redbooks | Tuning IBM eServer xSeries Servers for Performance

IBM Redbooks | Tuning IBM eServer xSeries Servers for Performance: "This IBM Redbook describes what you can do to improve and maximize the performance of your business server applications "

Euro AMD Opteron server demand slows | The Register

Euro AMD Opteron server demand slows | The Register: "Context expects Opteron-based servers to take under one percentage point of x86 server market share in Europe during Q4 2004. Small that may be, but the platform is now regularly appearing on the monthly sales charts, showing sufficient demand to lift the platform out of the 'purchase a few machines for evaluation' stage."

IBM's Patent Pledge Ripples Open Sourcers

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