Developing for Developers : Cache-oblivious data structures

Developing for Developers : Cache-oblivious data structures: "cache-oblivious algorithms"

GroovyChannel and Intel Collaborate on Multi-Core Database Application

GroovyChannel and Intel Collaborate on Multi-Core Database Application: "'The GroovyDB appliance is based on a 24 core Intel server powered by four, six-core Xeon® processors and positioned to provide unparalleled performance and cost effectiveness. Our goal is to achieve a number one ranking on TPC.org's TPC benchmark, the industry standard for measuring database performance in the web-based price/performance categories. Early stage performance results point to the GroovyDB achieving this result, this year,' said Mr. Ward.
'In this relationship, we see Intel and GroovyChannel pioneering a substantial lead in high performance scalable, LIVE data management,' said Narendra Bhandari, Director of APAC Software and Solutions Group (SSG) at Intel Corporation. 'Our objective in this agreement is to provide our customers with the necessary technology alliances that will enable the GroovyDB in a performing and cost effective manner.'"

Sharding Counters - Google App Engine - Google Code

Sharding Counters - Google App Engine - Google Code: "When you want to know the value of the counter you read all of the counter shards and add them all together. The more shards you have the higher the throughput you will have for increments on your counter. This technique works for a lot more than just counters and an important skill to learn is spotting the entities in your application with a lot of writes and then finding good ways to shard them."

Amazon EC2 Instance Types

Amazon EC2 Instance Types: "Amazon EC2 uses a variety of measures to provide each instance with a consistent and predictable amount of CPU capacity. In order to make it easy for developers to compare CPU capacity between different instance types, we have defined an Amazon EC2 Compute Unit. The amount of CPU that is allocated to a particular instance is expressed in terms of these EC2 Compute Units. We use several benchmarks and tests to manage the consistency and predictability of the performance of an EC2 Compute Unit. One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor."

Dell Nehalem men badmouth your servers • The Register

Dell Nehalem men badmouth your servers • The Register: "The company has talked up a new lifecycle controller for the servers, which sets up, deploys, diagnoses, and updates the servers, starting at the Dell factory and ending in the recycle bin. The lifecycle controller has hooks back into Dell's internal cloud computing facility, where companies can create physical and virtual server software stacks and have Dell automatically deploy these customized stacks on new machines as they are ordered. Think of this as a service processor on steroids."

Microsoft Nixes Private Azure Clouds -- InformationWeek

Microsoft Nixes Private Azure Clouds -- InformationWeek: "Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) won't allow businesses to run locally hosted versions of its forthcoming Windows Azure cloud operating system.
'We don't envision something on our price list called 'Windows Azure' that is sold for on-premises deployment,' wrote Microsoft senior product manager Steven Martin, in a blog post Tuesday."

Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project

Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project: "Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language."

Unconventional architectures that might scale (I) at log4p

Unconventional architectures that might scale (I) at log4p: "Amazon has it's SimpleDB, Ruby folks seem to like MongoDB and rumors about the rising of Voldemort are spreading throughout the web. I like CouchDB, mainly due to the fact that it's build on a solid functional language (Erlang).

CouchDB offers a JSON based document model. Documents are manipulated using REST. CouchDB also offers support for replication between other instances. Custom views of the document in the database (also accessed via HTTP) are written in Javascript (where JSON is a native data structure)."

Why setting goals can backfire - The Boston Globe

Why setting goals can backfire - The Boston Globe: "Among psychologists, the link between setting goals and achievement is one of the clearest there is, with studies on everyone from woodworkers to CEOs showing that we concentrate better, work longer, and do more if we set specific, measurable goals for ourselves."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Online game gets banking licence

BBC NEWS | Technology | Online game gets banking licence: "Online game Entropia Universe has been granted a licence to be a bank."

2009 Lineup < Telluride Bluegrass

2009 Lineup < Telluride Bluegrass: "2009 Lineup

We are proud to announce the single-day lineup for the 36th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, June 18-21, 2009.

Thursday, June 18
David Byrne | Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band | Three Girls & Their Buddy | Peter Rowan | Zac Brown Band | The Lovell Sisters | Jerry Douglas & Tim O'Brien

Friday, June 19
Railroad Earth | Elvis Costello & The Sugarcanes | Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate | Jenny Lewis | John Cowan Band |
The Greencards | Crooked Still | Blue Canyon Boys

Saturday, June 20
Gaelic Storm | Sam Bush Band | Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson | Telluride Troubadour | Yonder Mountain String Band | Jerry Douglas Band | Punch Brothers Play & Sing Bluegrass | Greensky Bluegrass"

How to Sell Companies on Cloud Computing - BusinessWeek

How to Sell Companies on Cloud Computing - BusinessWeek: "Yousef Khalidi, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft (MSFT) who is helping to build the software giant's Azure cloud platform, had a cautious assessment of how enterprises are likely to view the cloud. He thinks corporate IT will want to keep its cloud under corporate control, and that as a result, the creation of hybrid clouds—or 'cloudbursting'—in which certain jobs move from the internal servers to an external cloud, are going to be a preferred model"

Rick Steves | Salon Life

Rick Steves | Salon Life: "A lot of my outlook and writing have been sharpened by enjoying a little recreational marijuana. If you arrested everybody who smoked marijuana in the United States tomorrow, this country would be a much less interesting place to call home.

The fact is, the marijuana law in the U.S. is a big lie. It's racist and classist. White rich people can smoke marijuana with impunity and poor black people get a record, can't get education, can't get a loan, and all of sudden go into a life of desperation and become hardened criminals. Why? Because we've got a racist law based on lies about marijuana."

Browser war centers on once-obscure JavaScript | Webware - CNET

Browser war centers on once-obscure JavaScript | Webware - CNET: "All the challengers tout JavaScript performance as a major part of their competitive attack"

FINCAREER: What are the World's Best-Paid Investment Banks and which Bankers generate the Top Results?

FINCAREER: What are the World's Best-Paid Investment Banks and which Bankers generate the Top Results?: "Top 5 M&A Bankers
According to Bloomberg Markets, M&A activity dramatically increased in 2004 to near 2000 levels, and the trend is clearly continuing in early 2005. Thus far in 2005, there are already over US$220 billion of acquisitions in the works, says Bloomberg Markets, with new deals being announced almost daily. As M&A activity continues its torrid pace, the April issue of Bloomberg Markets names the top five M&A bankers to watch in 2005:
All Figures in US Dollars
Individual Company (2004 Fees Earned,In Mio.)
1. Jack Levy, Gene Sykes Goldman Sachs ($1,517.1)
2. Robert Kindler JPMorgan Chase (1,406.6)
3. Stephen Munger Morgan Stanley (1,247.2)
4. Frank Yeary Citigroup (1,231.6)"

From Citi to Cal: A Top Banker Moves On - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com

From Citi to Cal: A Top Banker Moves On - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com: "Frank Yeary advised a host of corporate chieftains on strategic decisions"

I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Bowling for Dollars - Cringely on technology

I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Bowling for Dollars - Cringely on technology: "learned an important lesson that day; success in a large organization, whether it’s a university or IBM, is generally based on appearance, not reality. It is understanding the system and then working within it that really counts, not bowling scores or body bags"

Domino Blog

Domino Blog: "The Domino 8.5 Performance Benchmarks are out! This great article outlines the performance improvements seen in benchmark testing simply by upgrading from Domino 8.0.x to Domino 8.5. And let me tell you...there are some IMPRESSIVE numbers in there! The tests performed were intended to mimic the actions of everyday Notes/Domino users - with messaging and calendar operations on the server. Then, the team measured % processor busy, disk operations per second and disk megabytes transferred per second."

Amazon Web Services Developer Community : EC2 Tools and HTTP Proxy ...

Amazon Web Services Developer Community : EC2 Tools and HTTP Proxy ...: "set EC2_JVM_ARGS=-DproxySet=true -DproxyHost=resproxy -DproxyPort=8080 -Dhttps.proxySet=true -Dhttps.proxyHost=resproxy -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.proxyUser=myUsername -Dhttp.proxyPass=myPassword -Dhttps.proxyUser=myUsername -Dhttps.proxyPass=myPassword"

Instance Types and Architectures

Instance Types and Architectures: "How do I select the right instance type?
Amazon EC2 instances are grouped into two families: standard and High-CPU. Standard instances have memory to CPU ratios suitable for most general purpose applications; High-CPU instances have proportionally more CPU resources than memory (RAM) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications. When selecting instance types, you might want to use less powerful instance types for your web server instances and more powerful instance types for your database instances. Additionally, you might want to run CPU instance types for CPU-intensive data processing tasks.
For most applications, the standard instance types are appropriate. These instance types include the small instance (m1.small), large instance (m1.large), and extra large instance (m1.xlarge). High-CPU instances are well suited for compute-intensive applications such as rendering, search indexing, and computational analysis. The High-CPU instance types are the High-CPU medium instance (c1.medium) and the High-CPU extra large instance (c1.xlarge). For more information, refer to Instance Types"

Cisco Unleashes the Power of Virtualization with Industry's First Unified Computing System -> News@Cisco

Cisco Unleashes the Power of Virtualization with Industry's First Unified Computing System -> News@Cisco: "The Virtual Machine has become the new atomic building block of the data center"

Posts - Research Blogging

Posts - Research Blogging: "Trabi, M. (2002) Circular proteins — no end in sight. Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 27(3), 132-138. DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(02)02057-1"

Death Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk - NYTimes.com

Death Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk - NYTimes.com: "reveal a remarkable missing link between the high-energy hard rock of Detroit bands like the Stooges and MC5 from the late 1960s and early ’70s and the high-velocity assault of punk from its breakthrough years of 1976 and ’77. Death’s songs “Politicians in My Eyes,” “Keep On Knocking” and “Freakin Out” are scorching blasts of feral ur-punk, making the brothers unwitting artistic kin to their punk-pioneer contemporaries the Ramones,"

Louisiana Man's Death Highlights Police Bias Questions: Top News Stories at Officer.com

Louisiana Man's Death Highlights Police Bias Questions: Top News Stories at Officer.com: "'If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names,' said Mills, who is white. 'I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested. We're not out there trying to abuse and harass people -- we're trying to protect the law-abiding citizens locked behind their doors in fear.'"

Chuck Norris sues, says his tears no cancer cure | Industries | Technology, Media & Telecommunications | Reuters

Chuck Norris sues, says his tears no cancer cure | Industries | Technology, Media & Telecommunications | Reuters: "Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried"

KCDX :: 103.1

KCDX :: 103.1: "Tom Petty - Cabin Down Below"

Rackspace Launches CloudServers, a Cloud for Big Companies - NYTimes.com

Rackspace Launches CloudServers, a Cloud for Big Companies - NYTimes.com: "Rackspace today is expected to announce its own on-demand computing product, CloudServers. The service is built on the company’s acqusition of Slicehost last year and will offer the same services as Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud. It’s also a cornerstone of Rackspace’s attempts to build out a cloud computing environment that will rival those of Amazon.com, GoGrid and other true cloud computing providers."

Price-at-risk: a methodology for pricing utility computing services.

Price-at-risk: a methodology for pricing utility computing services.: "Utility computing services represent a departure from the current ways of doing business. On one hand, they feature attributes that appeal to customers: short lead times in service provisioning, high reliability and survivability, customized service level agreements, a reduced learning curve in the adoption of a new service, and easy access to new technology. On the other hand, utility computing services have direct financial benefits for the customer. These benefits come about in two distinct ways. First, utility computing services reduce the risk faced by the customer because the costs to the customer are proportional to the volume of transactions performed during a certain time interval (say, a quarter). These transactions are usually correlated with the number of financial transactions performed during the same interval, and therefore with the revenue stream of the customer. Therefore, the cost structure is tied to the revenue"

Microsoft: A Few Companies Buy 20% Of Servers - Plug Into The Cloud - InformationWeek

Microsoft: A Few Companies Buy 20% Of Servers - Plug Into The Cloud - InformationWeek: "20% of all servers are being bought by a handful of large Internet companies, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo"

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Bold Type: Excerpt by Jon Krakauer

Bold Type: Excerpt by Jon Krakauer: "I asked one of the doctors, Howard Donner, why they volunteered to spend their summers toiling in such a godforsaken place. 'Well,' he explained as he stood shivering in a blizzard, reeling from nausea and a blinding headache while attempting to repair a broken radio antenna, 'it's sort of like having fun, only different.'"

Kona Shore Diving at Mile Marker 4

Kona Shore Diving at Mile Marker 4: "It's called mile marker 4. Why? Because it's located at the 4 mile marker on Alii Dr."

Posts - Research Blogging

Posts - Research Blogging: "Gordon G. Gallup Jr., Rebecca L. Burch, Steven M. Platek. (2002) Does semen have antidepressant properties?. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31(3), 289-293. DOI: 10.1023/A:1015257004839"

The Nation’s New Chief Information Officer Speaks - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Gov't view on cloud computing:

The Nation’s New Chief Information Officer Speaks - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: "Mr. Kundra also said that he would push the government to embrace cloud computing—having work done on large servers rather than on desktop PCs. He acknowledged that there are privacy and security issues with some cloud-computing efforts, particularly when the computers are not all operated by the government. But he said that shouldn’t stop the government from taking advantage of the speed and efficiency such systems offer."

NetSuite Tries To Lure Sage Customers To SaaS - Plug Into The Cloud - InformationWeek

NetSuite Tries To Lure Sage Customers To SaaS - Plug Into The Cloud - InformationWeek: "Gartner analyst Ray Wang did some number crunching, and ranks NetSuite as the No. 5 vendor of SaaS in 2008 based on revenue of $152.5 million. It follows Salesforce.com (CRM), Concur (Expenses), Ultimate (HR), and Taleo (HR); RightNow (CRM) comes in as No. 6.
Wang ranks Sage as the No. 7 ERP vendor based on 2008 revenue of about $1.9 billion."

DMTF - DASH

DMTF - DASH: "The DMTF’s Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) Initiative is a suite of specifications that takes full advantage of the DMTF’s Web Services for Management (WS-Management) specification – delivering standards-based Web services management for desktop and mobile client systems."

A gogglewhack that points to my linked-in entry..

omnipup & airstech

This is a legal googlewhack, as these aren't two words in the Google dictionary. Also, just adding this entry now adds my blog entry to Google (on a re-index), which will return this result.

InternetNews Realtime IT News - IBM Sows Seeds for a Future Cloud

InternetNews Realtime IT News - IBM Sows Seeds for a Future Cloud: "Through connections with over 200 schools worldwide, IBM is working to change computer science curriculum to offer skills in cloud computing. The courses are part of a larger academic initiative called Services Science Management and Engineering, said Lou Masi, director of global university programs at IBM"