IBM JRD 49-4/5 | POWER5 system microarchitecture

IBM JRD 49-4/5 | POWER5 system microarchitecture: " POWER5 chip, corresponding to an increase from 184 million transistors to 276 million transistors."

Intel Pumps Itanium

Intel Pumps Itanium: "It's the only processor with over a billion transistors; 1.72 billion "

Intel finds itself on the front lines in Israel - Yahoo! News

Intel finds itself on the front lines in Israel - Yahoo! News: "Intel has a total of 5,400 employees at several locations in Israel. Qiryat Gat, in southern Israel, is home to a US$1.6 billion manufacturing plant, Fab 18. The Intel design team in Haifa, on Israel�s northern coast, produced the Pentium M chip and is responsible for the design of the company�s next-generation mobile processors"

Living in a hidden-fee economy

Laibson and Gabaix aren't conspiracy theorists. Their explanation for the persistence of hidden prices, laid out in "Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets," describes a complex balancing act, in which companies must weigh the costs of educating consumers against the benefits of duping them. And their work relies on the insight, now common in what's called behavioral economics, that many consumers are far less rational than economists used to think.

Training..

least reinforcing syndrome (L. R. S.). When a dolphin does something wrong, the trainer doesn't respond in any way. He stands still for a few beats, careful not to look at the dolphin, and then returns to work. The idea is that any response, positive or negative, fuels a behavior. If a behavior provokes no response, it typically dies away.
Amy Sutherland is the author of "Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers" (Viking, June 2006).

Intel's Core 2 Duo lives up to hype | CNET News.com

Intel's Core 2 Duo lives up to hype CNET News.com: "Intel's Core 2 Duo lives up to hype"

10 things you need to know about Intel's Core 2 Duo (aka "Conroe")

10 things you need to know about Intel's Core 2 Duo (aka "Conroe"): "About the lame code-naming convention: Conroe, Merom, and Woodcrest don't exactly call to mind 'speed' or 'kickin' performance.' Intel's desktop and workstation CPU design offices are in Oregon, California, and Texas, so it makes sense that the towns of Conroe (Texas) and Woodcrest (California) are represented in Intel's code names. And Merom? That's an ancient lake in Israel, so two guesses where the laptop chips are engineered. "

NewsForge | IBM unveils Lotus Notes on Linux

NewsForge IBM unveils Lotus Notes on Linux: "Lotus Notes on Linux was designed using the Eclipse framework, an open source application development tool. The upcoming 'Hannover' release, slated for 2007, was also designed using Eclipse technology. IBM says that same technology will be used for all future releases of Lotus Notes in order to provide multi-platform functionality."

Strange statues around the world | haha.nu - interesting findings over the net

Strange statues around the world haha.nu - interesting findings over the net: "Strange statues around the world"

Christos Kozyrakis' Web Page

Christos Kozyrakis' Web Page: "'The Common Case Transactional Behavior of Multithreaded Programs,' JaeWoong Chung, Hassan Chafi, Austen McDonald, Chi Cao Minh, Brian D. Carlstrom, Christos Kozyrakis, and Kunle Olukotun, Proceedings of the 12th Intl. Conference on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2006. http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/publications/2006.commontm.hpca.pdfslides]"

Memory Wall -- McCalpin

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~mccalpin/MemoryWall2004-02-20.ppt

Inflection

“...a strategic inflection point is a time in the life ofa business when its fundamentals are about tochange. ... Let's not mince words: A strategicinflection point can be deadly when unattended to.Companies that begin a decline as a result of itschanges rarely recover their previous greatness.”– Only the Paranoid Survive, Andrew S. Grove, 1996

Multicore Systems @ SOA WEB SERVICES JOURNAL

http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/175384.htm: "Multicore Systems
Ready or not, here they come
By: Bob Pasker"

DataAllegro WDC benchmarks

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DBMS2 � DataBase Management System Services�Blog Archive � DATallegro�s technical strategy

DBMS2 � DataBase Management System Services�Blog Archive � DATallegro�s technical strategy: "Like Netezza, DATallegro�s basic strategy is to stream data on and off disk very quickly, sequentially rather than randomly, resolving queries with full table scans. Unlike Netezza, which actually has chip-level optimizations, DATallegro�s most direct I/O acceleration lies in protocol software for talking to Infiniband storage systems"

DBTA 5 Minute Briefing: Data Integration - May 16, 2006

DBTA 5 Minute Briefing: Data Integration - May 16, 2006: "SAP Taps DB2 Viper as Preferred Database
SAP AG and IBM announced that the next version of the industry-leading DB2 data server--code named 'Viper'--will be the preferred and highly recommended database for mid-market SAP applications. DB2 Viper is the second in a series of DB2 releases optimized for SAP solutions. It represents the next milestone in a joint roadmap designed to help customers ease configuration, enhance performance and increase availability of their SAP applications running on DB2. Customers using the new DB2 offering will benefit from embedded capabilities like self-tuned memory, new compression technology, built-in high availability and advanced autonomic capabilities. 'SAP remains committed to working very closely with IBM to deliver tighter integration of SAP applications on DB2 so that our customers, regardless of size, can achieve greater application performance at the lowest license and maintenance cost on the market today,' said L�o Apotheker, a member of the executive board, SAP. 'We also look forward to having our mid-market customers benefit from one year of free maintenance if they select SAP's recommended and preferred database of choice.' For more information, go here"