Monday, November 29, 2004

Omri Gazitt's Weblog

Omri Gazitt's Weblog: " Intel plans on implementing it in their next-gen Baseboard Management Controllers, the piece of hardware that lets you do pre-boot and post-crash system management and diagnostics). While the NIC has power, you can get into the machine using a simple WS protocol and figure out what's wrong or reboot it. Way cool! "

WS-Management's Success Depends on Wide, Deep Vendor Support

WS-Management's Success Depends on Wide, Deep Vendor Support: "Expect little useful standardization focused on managing Web services. Gartner believes the WS-Management initiative will take until at least late 2006 to sort out. "

Goodbye SNMP? Hello, WS-Management! - Search Mage - ???? Ycul Blog - ???????

Goodbye SNMP? Hello, WS-Management! - Search Mage - ???? Ycul Blog - ???????: "WS-DM is designed to track the performance of Web services applications, noted Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at research firm ZapThink. WS-Management is meant to manage devices using other Web services protocols under development, notably WS-Eventing and WS-Notification, he said"

New spec uses Web services to manage remote data center connections

New spec uses Web services to manage remote data center connections: "heavily on the WS-* architecture as a common language for devices to communicate with management data. WS-* is a core set of Web services specifications (WS-Policy, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation and WS-Federation) that cover security"

PAPI

PAPI: "consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors"

IBM offers peek at Cell, PS3

IBM offers peek at Cell, PS3: "Sony, IBM, and Toshiba are set to fully unveil the details of the Cell processor at the upcoming International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in early February."

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

ONLamp.com: Open Source Licenses Are Not All the Same

ONLamp.com: Open Source Licenses Are Not All the Same: "If a license contains a strong copyleft provision, anyone who modifies the source code and distributes it to the public must license the modifications back to the public under the same terms as the original software."

Monday, November 22, 2004

Sun's Niagara falls neatly into multithreaded place

Sun's Niagara falls neatly into multithreaded place: "Niagara from Sun Microsystems is a family of CPUs that blurs the lines between chip, CPU and thread"

Saturday, November 20, 2004

EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | X = not a whole lot

EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | X = not a whole lot: "The people have spoken, but what did they say? John Allen Paulos finds it difficult to draw statistical conclusions from Bush 's victory in the US election "

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News

Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News: "The Xbox2, code-named 'Xenon', will include a IBM PowerPC processor, with a frequency of at least 3.5 GHz. The CPU consists of three independent cores; each of them will be able to issue two instructions per clock cycle. This allows games to use six symmetric hardware threads. At peak performance the CPU is expected to reach 21 billion instructions per second, according to the document. SiS will deliver the I/O hardware. "

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

UCLiK: Unconstrained Checkpointing in the Linux Kernel

UCLiK: Unconstrained Checkpointing in the Linux Kernel: "Unconstrained Checkpointing "

Election result maps

Election result maps: "Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results"

Linked from - Madville.com - Dell close to adopting AMD chips

Linked from - Madville.com - Dell close to adopting AMD chips

Eyeing the next wave in RISC computing | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Eyeing the next wave in RISC computing | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "Today, CISC processors such as the Pentium 4 and Opteron translate their complex instructions into sequences of simple RISC-style instructions, then rely on a powerful 'under the hood' RISC-style engine to execute the resulting 'micro-ops.'"

Monday, November 15, 2004

Linux IA64 Archives: Re: 32 bit application on IA-64 Linux

Linux IA64 Archives: Re: 32 bit application on IA-64 Linux: "AFAIK, only HPUX supports a 32-bit ia64 environment with
the HPUX compiler/toolchain."

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Linked from - Madville.com - Deer seasons opens in Indiana and Deer are off to a quick 1-0 lead.

Linked from - Madville.com - Deer seasons opens in Indiana and Deer are off to a quick 1-0 lead.: " A 69-year-old bowhunter was treated for injuries he said he suffered during a wrestling match with an angry deer.
Jim Mick, of North Vernon, said the deer attacked him Monday while he was hunting alone in rural Decatur County in south-central Indiana.
'He came out of the tall grass and briars,' Mick, assessor of Center Township in Jennings County, told The Republic of Columbus. 'When I realized it, he was on me already.'"

Monday, November 01, 2004

Paying a price to be No. 1 | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

Paying a price to be No. 1 | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: "Life is competitive. If you have the highest standard of living in the world, the only way you justify it is by having the most productive society in the world. The only way to be the most productive society in the world is to lead in new areas of technology, new areas of value-added. The only way to do that is to invest in R&D"