Wednesday, October 26, 2005

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 "

Friday, October 14, 2005

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 "

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

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"

Monday, October 10, 2005

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 "

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

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 "

Monday, October 03, 2005

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."