Windows Remote Management (Windows)

Windows Remote Management (Windows): "Windows Remote Management
Purpose
The Windows Remote Management (WinRM) is the Microsoft implementation of WS-Management Protocol, a standard Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based, firewall-friendly protocol that allows hardware and operating systems, from different vendors, to interoperate.
The WS-Management protocol specification provides a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across an IT infrastructure. WinRM and Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), along with the Event Collector are components of the Windows Hardware Management features."

Intel SOC

"First products out the gate such as the Tolapi chip for data center appliances and Canmore for digital TVs and set-tops have largely flopped.
But Intel continues to invest in SoCs, and there are signs it is gaining traction. A second-generation TV chip called Sodaville is said to be getting good reviews among consumer OEMs, and a new networking chip called Jasper Forest has won sockets in Hewlett-Packard storage arrays and wireless infrastructure gear from Nokia Siemens Networks and China's ZTE"
http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220200034&cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_newsRSS

But melts just like a little girl (Ftrain.com)

But melts just like a little girl (Ftrain.com)

But melts just like a little girl

Bob Dylan plans to release a collection of familiar yuletide tunes... with proceeds of the album to benefit hunger-relief charities... —"Sleigh, Lady, Sleigh: Bob Dylan to Release Christmas Album," Dave Itzkoff, the New York Times

• Snowin' in the Wind
• Reiny Deer Women #12 & 35
• If Not for Yule
• Can You Please Crawl Down Our Chimney?
• Just Like a Snowman
• Positively 34th Street
• Ain't No More Cane
• Gotta Serve Somebody Eggnog

VMware’s vCloud API Forces Cloud Standards | Cloudscaling

VMware’s vCloud API Forces Cloud Standards | Cloudscaling: "We’re in the midst of a monumental transformation of the IT space, namely cloud computing, and the transformation is stalled. Or, it was, until today when VMware released their vCloud API at VMworld under an extremely permissive license. A FAQ is here. So what’s the big deal you say?"

Deltacloud | Many Clouds. One API. No Problem.

Deltacloud | Many Clouds. One API. No Problem.: "Start an instance on an internal cloud, then with the same code start another on EC2 or Rackspace. Deltacloud protects your apps from cloud API changes and incompatibilities, so you can concentrate on managing cloud instances the way you want."

hackers-with-attitude: Interactive Programming with Clojure, Compojure, Google App Engine and Emacs

hackers-with-attitude: Interactive Programming with Clojure, Compojure, Google App Engine and Emacs: "The Google App Engine SDK includes a development server (based on Jetty) that allows you to test your application in an environment that is close to the real one. This is nice for a pre-flight check but for every change you make in the code you must stop the devserver, recompile and start the server again. You can't develop your code incrementally and interactively as you're used to in a lispy language."

InformIT: Profiling .NET Applications: Part 2 > Using the Performance Monitor and PerformanceCounters to Profile .NET Applications

InformIT: Profiling .NET Applications: Part 2 > Using the Performance Monitor and PerformanceCounters to Profile .NET Applications

InformIT: Profiling .NET Applications: Part 2 > Using the Performance Monitor and PerformanceCounters to Profile .NET Applications

InformIT: Profiling .NET Applications: Part 2 > Using the Performance Monitor and PerformanceCounters to Profile .NET Applications

Download .NET Memory Profiler

Download .NET Memory Profiler: "Here you can download the full version of .NET Memory Profiler"

Codeka.com • Got Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Want Profiling?

Codeka.com • Got Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Want Profiling?: "Visual Studio 2008 Professional doesn’t come with the built-in profiler (that’s a feature reserved for the Team Suite edition). But that doesn’t mean you can’t profile your applications! Microsoft actually provides a stand-alone verson of the profiler, which you can use from the command-line."

CLR Inside Out: Using concurrency for scalability

CLR Inside Out: Using concurrency for scalability: "ny algorithm managing real resources also has to take into account cross-machine utilization. Software that makes entirely local decisions to maximize parallelism—especially in a server environment such as ASP.NET—can (and will!) lead to chaos as well as an increase in contention for resources, including CPUs. A ForAll-style loop, for example, might query the processor utilization before deciding the optimal number of tasks dynamically."

ANATP

ANATP: "ASICs-based SoC designs are not money pits if properly managed even though costs can quickly spiral out of control, potentially derailing product development plans and leaving manufacturers and semiconductor supply partners vulnerable to lower priced options from competitors."

Eurotech - Digital technology for a better world

Eurotech - Digital technology for a better world: "Eurotech, a leading provider of special purpose computing platforms, today unveiled Aurora, a revolutionary supercomputer that sets the pace for performance and efficiency. Aurora is packed with the most advanced solutions, such as quad-core high performance Intel® Xeon® 5500 processors series, 100Gbps per node bandwidth capacity, programmable on-node acceleration, multi-level synchronization networks and direct liquid cooling. Aurora sets a new standard of excellence in high performance computing."

Technorati: Discussion about “IBM gives workers ten days to switch from Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony - OR ELSE!”

Technorati: Discussion about “IBM gives workers ten days to switch from Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony - OR ELSE!”: "IBM There's word today today that IBM has finally ordered its staff to abandon Microsoft Office immediately and switch to their own Lotus Symphony suite. Symphony has been around since 2008 , and apparently IBM is now confident enough in its office work kung fu that it's going to take over full time duties. The move makes perfect sense. It's hard to imagine any company using someone else's software to do the chores that their own app is designed to tackle. Why ask your customers do something you can't even ask your own staff to do? Symphony, of course, is based on OpenOffice.org and recently gained support for Office 2007 ."

Industry Veteran Pat Gelsinger Joins EMC as President & COO of Information Infrastructure Products; Howard Elias Promoted to President & COO of Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services - Yahoo! Finance

Industry Veteran Pat Gelsinger Joins EMC as President & COO of Information Infrastructure Products; Howard Elias Promoted to President & COO of Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services - Yahoo! Finance
Pat Gelsinger has joined the company from Intel Corporation as President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products. Gelsinger, 48, will be responsible for EMC's Information Infrastructure product portfolio, including its Information Storage, RSA Information Security, Content Management and Archiving and Ionix IT management divisions. EMC also announced the promotion of Howard Elias, 52, to President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services.

Fifth-Generation iPod Nano Teardown Posted - Mac Rumors

Fifth-Generation iPod Nano Teardown Posted - Mac Rumors
The main ARM processor is Apple-branded and expected to be a Samsung processor as in the past, and the 8 GB flash memory chip in the dissected unit is from Toshiba.

VMworld session DV2363 – CVP Tech Deep Dive « VM Junkie

VMworld session DV2363 – CVP Tech Deep Dive « VM Junkie
CVP is a powerful client hypervisor solution, which is part of the greater VMware View offering. It is not going to be offered standalone, it is a View product only. It helps create what the presenters called a “thin” thick client.
There are two approaches to doing a client hypervisor: Direct Assignment or Advanced Device Emulation.
In Direct Assignment, technologies like Intel VT-D or other software techniques are used to pass through a physical device (such as a video card) directly into the VM. This has some advantages such as lower overhead, and if you’re running Windows in your VM then all you need is a set of Windows drivers, which are easy to find. Passthrough is also much easier to program…
It has several downsides, however. For example, it ties your VM to that particular hardware which reduces portability. It also becomes difficult to interpose on that device. For example, if the video card is owned by the VM, there’s no way for the hypervisor to access it. Same goes for the network card. The point being – if all you’re doing is passing through your physical devices, why do you need a Client Hypervisor? Just run native. You can’t add value when using passthrough on everything. For some device types (such as USB) where the O/S is expecting hardware to appear and disappear, passthrough is okay

Getting to grips with VDI | Client

Getting to grips with VDI Client
Who’s who in VDIVMware has the most complete offering of any vendor and is widely credited with creating the term VDI. From hypervisor to client, management infrastructure to application virtualisation, VMware has a complete solutions stack and is the only vendor with a mobile offering. Citrix is the latest entrant into the VDI space. Years of experience in thin client and the purchase of XenSource give Citrix a complete stack to rival VMware. Despite being well established in the thin client space and having virtual desktop and server tools, Microsoft only has parts of the VDI solution and currently relies on Citrix and Quest Software to provide the broker and other services.Symantec purchased Altiris two years ago, becoming a major player in application virtualisation and is currently building a VDI solution: it is not known if it will include a hypervisor. Quest Software is the leading third-party broker for VDI and has tools including software preparation and virtualisation. Heavily used by Microsoft and Parallels.

Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel - New York Times

Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel - New York Times: "'Lactic acid will be gone from your muscles within an hour of exercise,' he said. 'You get sore one to three days later. The time frame is not consistent, and the mechanisms have not been found.'

The understanding now is that muscle cells convert glucose or glycogen to lactic acid. The lactic acid is taken up and used as a fuel by mitochondria, the energy factories in muscle cells.

Mitochondria even have a special transporter protein to move the substance into them, Dr. Brooks found. Intense training makes a difference, he said, because it can make double the mitochondrial mass."

Moblin Zone

Moblin Zone: "Tool-based optimization. This means taking advantage of tools that can help mobile developers create more power-efficient applications, including:

PowerTOP is a Linux tool that helps you find programs that are misbehaving while the computer is idle.

Battery Life Toolkit is a Linux framework to measure battery life on a MID.

Application Energy Toolkit helps you simulate power status, graph power consumption, and measure total power consumption.

Using those techniques, your applications can make intelligent choices about when to aggressively switch devices to sleep modes, take advantage of hardware-accelerated codecs, reduce application demand for wakeups (and improve overall perceived responsiveness), and use the appropriate power policies depending on context.
In the second part of this article, we’ll explore how to optimize mobile applications for maximum performance – critical when multithreading, doing a lot of network IO, engaging in CPU-intensive tasks, or displaying multimedia.
Inside the Intel Atom Processor
When it comes to power management, there are some cool features in the Intel Atom processor (pun intended). The first is the C6 power state, mentioned above. Intel calls that Deep Power Down Technology. To quote Dileep Bhandarkar, an Intel engineer,
We save away the entire processor state for the cores and turn off the caches and put the cores in an extremely low power state. This significantly reduces processor power consumed in idle mode and extends battery life. The OS initiates this with an MWAIT instruction and the CPU works with the chipset VRM to enter the deep power down state. On a wake up event (interrupt), voltage is increased, clocks and CPU state re"

Get ready for virtualization to affect you, too | Deep Tech - CNET News

Get ready for virtualization to affect you, too Deep Tech - CNET News


--virtualization could become more widely used as a way to smooth the differences between people's own computer preferences and their employers' needs.
In the "employee-owned IT" vision, virtualization could let people put a corporate-managed virtual machine on an personal computer. The corporate partition would run only company-approved applications and could connect to the company network; the personal half could run the chaos of other programs that cause corporate IT folks to grind their teeth.

...VMware also is trying to stake a claim on another facet of cloud computing, in which companies can shift workload from their own data center's virtualization foundation to one housed at a remote data center operated by a third party. At VMworld, the company announced that AT&T, Savvis, Terremark, and Verizon Business all are offering that cloud service. VMware also said it's trying to standardize its cloud-foundation interfaces through a standards group called the Distributed Management Task Force.

The Keene View on Web 2.0, Ajax and SaaS

The Keene View on Web 2.0, Ajax and SaaS
Evaluating SaaS Platforms For ISVs
Here are important criteria for ISVs to consider in evaluating SaaS platforms (sometimes called Platform as a Service, or PaaS):
Open hosting: can I move applications I build to another SaaS hosting providers? Many SaaS platforms lock the ISV into a proprietary hosting provider (e.g., SalesForce). ZDNet says that ISVs need to offer their SaaS software both on demand and on premises.
Full platform: does the SaaS platform offer a complete development solution with presentation layer, business logic, security, database and web services? Some SaaS platforms only offer part of the development stack (e.g., DabbleDB, Tibco GI)
Standard language: does the SaaS platform support development using a standard language such as Java? Many SaaS platforms are based on proprietary languages (e.g., Apex, the proprietary language for SalesForce).

Linus Torvalds, Patterson and different views (or different worlds?) « Multicore NZ

Linus Torvalds, Patterson and different views (or different worlds?) « Multicore NZ: "we already pretty much know the solution to scientific computing: throw lots of cheap hardware on it (where “cheap” is then defined by what is mass-produced for other reasons).
Designing future hardware around the needs of scientific computing seems ass-backwards. It’s putting the cart in front of the horse."

System.Diagnostics.PerformanceData Namespace ()

System.Diagnostics.PerformanceData Namespace (): "System.Diagnostics.PerformanceData Namespace
Use the classes in this namespace to provide counter data. The counters are used to expose performance metrics to consumers such as the Performance Monitor. The namespace does not contain classes for consuming the counter data. For a complete description of the performance counters architecture, see Performance Counters."

Providing Counter Data Using a Performance DLL (Windows)

Providing Counter Data Using a Performance DLL (Windows): "Providing Counter Data Using a Performance DLL
A service, driver, or application that wants to provide counter data can write a performance DLL to provide the data."

vmware vsphere counters..

2009 July
The vSphere Client Online Help has this to say about Virtual Machine Performance:
“In a virtualized environment, physical resources are shared among multiple virtual machines. Some virtualization processes dynamically allocate available resources depending on the status, or utilization rates, of virtual machines in the environment. This can make obtaining accurate information about the resource utilization (CPU utilization, in particular) of individual virtual machines, or applications running within virtual machines, difficult. VMware now provides virtual machine-specific performance counter libraries for the Windows Performance utility. Application administrators can view accurate virtual machine resource utilization statistics from within the guest operating system’s Windows Performance utility.”
Did you notice the explicit statement about Perfmon? Perfmon is Microsoft Windows Performance Monitor or perfmon.exe for short. Whereas the legacy VMware Descheduled Time Accounting Service supported both Windows and Linux guest VMs, its successor currently supports Perfmon ala Windows guest VMs only. It seems we’ve gone backwards in functionality from a Linux guest VM perspective. Another pie in the face for shops with Linux guest VMs.
Rant…

hot chips..

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10321740-23.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
"How would you like a single-chip microprocessor with more than four times the performance (on some applications) of Intel's best Core i7?
Then consider that up to 32 of these chips can be directly connected to form a single server, achieving four times the built-in scalability of Intel's next-generation Nehalem-EX processor.
That's IBM's widely anticipated Power7, which it described at last week's Hot Chips conference. But if you're interested, you'd better be prepared to spend a lot more than four times as much per chip. IBM isn't talking about pricing, but large Power servers can cost more than $10,000 per processor"