FTPOnline - MEC 2002 - Instrument Your .NET Apps With WMI

FTPOnline - MEC 2002 - Instrument Your .NET Apps With WMI: "Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) technology provides a common interface for exposing and monitoring the health of an application environment by leveraging the Desktop Management Task Force's (DMTF) Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative and the DMTF Common Information Model (CIM)."

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 Day 1 - Gelsinger Speaks, nForce4 Intel and more

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 Day 1 - Gelsinger Speaks, nForce4 Intel and more: "slide below talks about some of the performance gains they�ve seen internally due to 64-bit support (thanks to the added registers and greater memory addressability):"

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 - Day 2: The Yonah Scoop

AnandTech: IDF Spring 2005 - Day 2: The Yonah Scoop: "Yonah is far from two Dothans stuck together"

An In-Depth Look at WMI and Instrumentation, Part I

An In-Depth Look at WMI and Instrumentation, Part I: "WMI is Microsoft's implementation of WEBM (Web-Based Enterprise Management)"

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity: "My 30 years of research and these 12,000 journal entries suggest that when people are doing work that they love and they're allowed to deeply engage in it -- and when the work itself is valued and recognized -- then creativity will flourish"

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity: "the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored."

Intel to ship dual-core Xeon MP in Q1 06 | The Register

Intel to ship dual-core Xeon MP in Q1 06 | The Register: " Intel will ship one further 90nm Xeon MP processor, codenamed 'Paxville', before moving the family to 65nm.
Paxville will, however, mark the Xeon MP line's shift to a dual-core design, set to take place during the first quarter of next year, Intel digital enterprise group VP Stephen Smith said today. It will ship in the same timeframe as 'Dempsey', the first dual-core Xeon DP chip"

Yahoo! News - VMware, Intel get real on virtualization

Yahoo! News - VMware, Intel get real on virtualization: "VMware deepened its relationship with Intel on Tuesday, announcing plans to work with the chip maker on optimizing its VMware server product with Intel's future chip-level virtualization technologies and working to broaden the market's awareness about the advantages of virtualization."

AnandTech News: AMD Announces Specification For Open Platform Management Architecture

AnandTech News: AMD Announces Specification For Open Platform Management Architecture: "OPMA feature cards contain BMC firmware that communicates with software such as BIOS, drivers, manageability software suites, system management frameworks "

SAP shuffles management chores | CNET News.com

SAP shuffles management chores | CNET News.com: "Under the restructuring, Agassi is now responsible for all software, services and related development of existing SAP products, and for integrating them into a technology platform. "

Microsoft Preps for the 64-Bit Wave

Microsoft Preps for the 64-Bit Wave

Microsoft 64-bit application road map unveiled

Microsoft 64-bit application road map unveiled: "Early on in February, Microsoft let loose with Release Candidate 2, and let it be known that they are right on track for a final version before the end of June 2005. "

AMD unveils Open Platform Management Architecture - vnunet.com

AMD unveils Open Platform Management Architecture - vnunet.com: "Open Platform Management Architecture (OPMA)"

SMASH simplifies server management

SMASH simplifies server management: "SMASH simplifies server management"

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central: "The Open Management Interface "

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central

Management of web services: a set of requirements - HP Dev Resource Central: "WMI is the Microsoft implementation of Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM), an industry initiative in the enterprise management field"

Learn the Eight Principles of Web Services Management

Learn the Eight Principles of Web Services Management: "WSDL bears many similarities to the interface definition language (IDL) in CORBA, COM+, and Distributed Computing Environment (OSF/DCE) styles of computing"

Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE

Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE: "Don Box basically invented SOAP, the most inefficient and verbose marshalling format in the history of computer science.So, pleeeeze, don't let the guy out on the language arena."

Sources: IBM ditching Itanium altogether | CNET News.com

Sources: IBM ditching Itanium altogether | CNET News.com: "Another source familiar with the situation said IBM won't release a server using Intel's next-generation Itanium processor, code-named Montecito and expected to boost performance significantly upon arrival at the end of 2005. "

"Evolving to Eat Mush": How Meat Changed Our Bodies

"Evolving to Eat Mush": How Meat Changed Our Bodies: "'But when it comes to humans, the ideal occlusion [the way teeth fit together] is virtually never seen. It's really the only body part that regularly needs attention and surgery.' "

The Globe and Mail: Taller babies make richer men

The Globe and Mail: Taller babies make richer men: "$800 an inch more annually for the taller worker"

IBM server design drops Itanium support | CNET News.com

IBM server design drops Itanium support | CNET News.com: "And several others besides Intel have their own Itanium chipsets: Silicon Graphics, NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Unisys and Itanium co-developer Hewlett-Packard. "

HP.com - ProLiant benchmarks

HP.com - ProLiant benchmarks: "In February 2005, the HP ProLiant DL585 server posted yet another leading 4-way x86 result. The ProLiant DL585 achieved 130,623 tpmC@$2.80/tpmC running the TPC-C benchmark, Spec. Rev. 5.3"

My Way News

My Way News: "San Francisco-based Six Apart provides two widely used blogging tools - a software publishing program, Movable Type, and a hosted service, TypePad, for people who don't want to do the technological grunt work themselves.
Boosted by the recent takeover of another blogging service called LiveJournal"

IBM Discovers The Power Of One

IBM Discovers The Power Of One: " The chip and computer units would be combined. Rather than manufacturing all kinds of chips for 400 customers, IBM would focus primarily on one family of chips, its well-regarded Power microprocessors. I"

PowerPC Gets Serious About Windows NT

PowerPC Gets Serious About Windows NT: "The fate of Windows NT on the PowerPC and the future direction of the PowerPC hinge on the availability of native PowerPC NT applications and on a price/performance edge over Intel. Motorola and IBM, the manufacturers of the PowerPC chip, recognize the connection between NT application support and the PowerPC's direction. "

Tom Yager

Tom Yager: "I'm certain that Windows for PowerPC is running now within Microsoft"

Sun shuns Intel | The Register

Sun shuns Intel | The Register: "Sun has managed to become the number one seller of Opteron gear, beating out HP's ProLiant line and IBM's box. It, however, remains a minor player in the x86 server market as a whole."

CRN Breaking News | Linux 2.6 Kernel To Include Xen Virtualization Technology

CRN Breaking News | Linux 2.6 Kernel To Include Xen Virtualization Technology: "At the Enterprise Linux Summit, Andrew Morton -- Linus Torvalds' right-hand man and maintainer of the Linux kernel for the Open Source Development Labs (ODSL) -- said he will incorporate the Xen virtualization code 'in the near future"

Intel Adds Power to Pentium

Intel Adds Power to Pentium: "Brace said that by the end of the first quarter 80% of Xeon shipments will have 64-bit capabilities. Intel will launch a new version of its 64-bit Xeon at the end of this month with an expanded 2 megabytes of level 2 cache."

Cell chip: Hit or hype? | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Cell chip: Hit or hype? | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "Cell contains 234 million transistors and takes up 221 square millimeters in the 90-nanometer production process. That's about double the size of the 90-nanometer 3.6GHz Pentium 4, with 112 square millimeters and 125 million transistors. "
Cell comes with an integrated memory controller for high-performance XDR memory from Rambus--which means that the current design works exclusively with this pricey stuff.

My Way News

My Way News: " they would immediately begin a search for a permanent replacement"

HP plugs Linux for 64-processor servers | CNET News.com

HP plugs Linux for 64-processor servers | CNET News.com: "Silicon Graphics Inc. already sells Linux servers that have a single copy of Linux running on as many as 2,048 processors, "

InformationWeek > Intel Itanium Chips > Intel Takes The Heat Off Its Chips > February 7, 2005

InformationWeek > Intel Itanium Chips > Intel Takes The Heat Off Its Chips > February 7, 2005: "Intel will publish the details of Foxton in a paper it's presenting at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week in San Francisco. It will also describe power-saving technology called demand-based switching that works with Windows to reduce energy consumption when a server isn't stressed. Both technologies will debut when Intel releases its next-generation Itanium chip, code-named Montecito, scheduled for release in the fourth quarter"

HyperTransport 2.0 Performance

HyperTransport 2.0 Performance: "HyperTransport 2.0 Performance"

PCWorld.com - Intel Says New Mobile Chip Equals High-End Pentium 4 in Performance

PCWorld.com - Intel Says New Mobile Chip Equals High-End Pentium 4 in Performance: "Intel Says New Mobile Chip Equals High-End Pentium 4 in Performance"

CarlZimmer.com

CarlZimmer.com: "TESTING DARWIN "

Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems

Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems: "Detecting Hyper-Threading Technology and Counting Processors in Multicore Systems"

My Way News

My Way News: "The translation: Apple is so proud of the iPod specs they don't want to embarrass the competition by sharing them. Uh, yeah."

'Project Fusion' to dominate Ellison's calendar | CNET News.com

'Project Fusion' to dominate Ellison's calendar | CNET News.com: "


Oracle-PeopleSoft launches
CEO Larry Ellison lays out the future of the combined companies
With Project Fusion, Oracle will attempt to combine products from PeopleSoft with its own applications"

HP augments Itanium server line | CNET News.com

HP augments Itanium server line | CNET News.com: "Itanium-related sales topped $1 billion in 2004"

IBM Redbooks | Help Me Find My IBM eServer xSeries Performance Problem!

IBM Redbooks | Help Me Find My IBM eServer xSeries Performance Problem!: "A bottleneck occurs when any server subsystem prevents the other subsystems from running at peak capacity."

IBM Redbooks | Tuning IBM eServer xSeries Servers for Performance

IBM Redbooks | Tuning IBM eServer xSeries Servers for Performance: "This IBM Redbook describes what you can do to improve and maximize the performance of your business server applications "

Euro AMD Opteron server demand slows | The Register

Euro AMD Opteron server demand slows | The Register: "Context expects Opteron-based servers to take under one percentage point of x86 server market share in Europe during Q4 2004. Small that may be, but the platform is now regularly appearing on the monthly sales charts, showing sufficient demand to lift the platform out of the 'purchase a few machines for evaluation' stage."

IBM's Patent Pledge Ripples Open Sourcers

IBM's Patent Pledge Ripples Open Sourcers: "U.S. Patent 5185861, 'Cache affinity scheduler,' "

Intel Roadmap

SAP, Microsoft tighten development tools | CNET News.com

SAP, Microsoft tighten development tools | CNET News.com

Unbreakable Java: A Java Server That Never Goes Down (SYS-CON)

Unbreakable Java: A Java Server That Never Goes Down (SYS-CON): "A Java Server That Never Goes Down"

Intel Project Z: So secret designers don't know what it is

Intel Project Z: So secret designers don't know what it is: "HP didn't like the Alpha team's Tukwila design"

In-Stat/MDR - Processor Watch

In-Stat/MDR - Processor Watch: "The facts are these: Moore�s law is a narrow observation of a general manufacturing trend, not a law of physics; it wasn�t clearly defined in the first place; its definition has been significantly changed over the years, both by its author and by trespassers, to make it better fit the actual data; and past performance is no guarantee of future results."

Intel Paxville, Blackford, Dempsey meet Diamond Peak and Sunrise Lake

Intel Paxville, Blackford, Dempsey meet Diamond Peak and Sunrise Lake: "Here are some codenames to match Swinburne's wild west. Dempsey, a dual core server chip, will use the Blackford and Blackford VS chipsets with ESB-2, and as well as Intel Active Server, it will use Diamond Peak technology and Sunrise Lake. These technologies are promised for the first quarter of 2006. That's also the timeline for the Paxville dual core processor, and for the Greencreek chipset using ESB-2 as well. Greencreek will have X16 PCI Express graphics support, and give FBD memory capabilities, and better reliability and management features, quoth Intel.
But before we reach the heights of dual core technology, some earlier technology and price cuts are on the way for 2005.
This isn't high faluting stuff, but have been promised for some time and are now close to release.
Cranford, which uses the Twin Castle chipset, is still slated for the first quarter of 2005, and will likely have 1MB of level two cache and be introduced at 3.66GHz. Intel hasn't quite made up its mind what clock speed the Potomac chip, with 8MB of level three cache will launch at, but that's still slated for the second quarter of next year. As the year progresses, Intel will ramp it up."

Microsoft nears release of 64-bit Windows | CNET News.com

Microsoft nears release of 64-bit Windows | CNET News.com: "The company said it has reached the 'release candidate' stage for Service Pack 1 of Windows Server 2003. Microsoft is also at a similar point with several 64-bit Windows versions that use the same code base, including Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
Microsoft reiterated that all three products are slated for final release in the first half of next year, with a second release candidate in between.
A second update for Windows Server 2003, known as R2, is also planned for next year. Microsoft is shooting for a private beta of that release later this month, with a goal of having about 1,000 testers. The company said it hopes to release a public beta of R2 in the first half of next year, with the final release some time in the second half of the year. "

Itanium inventor bobs to surface as chip's savior? | The Register

Itanium inventor bobs to surface as chip's savior? | The Register: "In its patent applications, Secure64 describes its Itanium-friendly software as a type of 'extensible application environment.' The good, old EAE."

Fujitsu, IBM to team on network standards | CNET News.com

Fujitsu, IBM to team on network standards | CNET News.com: "Web Services Distributed Management Event Format"

Fujitsu, IBM to team on network standards | CNET News.com

Fujitsu, IBM to team on network standards | CNET News.com: "Web Services Distributed Management Event Format"

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."

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."

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"

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 "

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. "

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.'"

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."

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.'"

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"

Designer puts 96 cores on single chip | Tech News on ZDNet

Designer puts 96 cores on single chip | Tech News on ZDNet: "Chip designer ClearSpeed has put 96 computing cores onto a single semiconductor"

Intel to debut new Itaniums Nov. 8 | CNET News.com

Intel to debut new Itaniums Nov. 8 | CNET News.com: "Next on Intel's agenda is a successor called Montecito due by the end of 2005 and built with a 90-nanometer process that lets more circuitry fit on a single chip. Montecito has dual processing engines, called cores, and each core can run two instruction sequences, called threads. "

Intel plans to introduce five south-bridge chips for Smithfield

Intel plans to introduce five south-bridge chips for Smithfield: "Intel plans to introduce five versions of its ICH7 south-bridge chip for its Smithfield dual-core platform"

Intel plans to introduce five south-bridge chips for Smithfield

Intel plans to introduce five south-bridge chips for Smithfield: "Intel plans to introduce five versions of its ICH7 south-bridge chip for its Smithfield dual-core platform"

Intel's dual-core Xeon due in 2006 | CNET News.com

Intel's dual-core Xeon due in 2006 | CNET News.com

CET Cincinnati | Zinzinnati Reflections

CET Cincinnati | Zinzinnati Reflections: "Until World War I, most telephone operators in Cincinnati were bilingual, often speaking in German more often than English"

Living - The Cincinnati Post

Living - The Cincinnati Post: "There were 32 operating breweries in Over-the-Rhine in the late 19th century."

German American Studies

German American Studies: "More than four Ohioans in 10 report German ancestry and Ohio has the third largest number of people claiming German ancestry, according to the 1980 U.S. Census, but a higher percentage can be found in Cincinnati, where 50% of the population claims German ancestry!"

Travel America: Step up to the plate in Cincinnati: this ever-changing Ohio River city brims with major league fun - City Of The Month

Travel America: Step up to the plate in Cincinnati: this ever-changing Ohio River city brims with major league fun - City Of The Month: "We feasted on German food across the street at the new Hofbrauhaus, the first American outpost of the famed beer hall restaurant in Munich, Germany"

Start-up banks on Java hardware boost | CNET News.com

Start-up banks on Java hardware boost | CNET News.com: "Azul's systems plug into existing application servers, which need a minor configuration change to direct Java programs to the Azul JVM rather than the application server's regular version."

Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM talk

Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM talk: "Here are the two most important things to know about computers and the Internet:
A computer is a machine for rearranging bits
The Internet is a machine for moving bits from one place to another very cheaply and quickly "

Sun looks to chip performance to bring brighter days | CNET News.com

Sun looks to chip performance to bring brighter days | CNET News.com: "UltraSparc IV and its descendant, the UltraSparc IV+, due next year, will be the first in the series of new processor offerings, which Sun plans to deliver over the next four years. The company will first boost the clock speed of the UltraSparc IV before moving to a new 90-nanometer design for UltraSparc IV+ next year. The collective improvements are expected to double the chip's performance, Ingram said. Then, during 2006, Sun will bring out two new processors, another dual-core, dubbed Olympus, and a multicore chip capable of handling 32-threads, called Niagara. Rock, designed to be a high-end chip for speeding up applications such as databases, will arrive in 2008, Ingram said. "

AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips | CNET News.com

AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips | CNET News.com

The software side of Intel | CNET News.com

The software side of Intel | CNET News.com: "Best known for processors that have been at the heart of the PC industry for more than 20 years, Intel has quietly amassed an army of more than 8,000 software engineers, according to sources familiar with the company. "

Ars Technica: The Future of Prescott - Page 1 - (6/2004)

Ars Technica: The Future of Prescott - Page 1 - (6/2004): "IBM's POWER5 uses hyperthreading, and it certainly doesn't have the outrageous 31-stage pipeline length of Prescott. In fact, the POWER5's 16-stage pipeline isn't much longer than the Pentium M's speculated pipeline length of 12 to 14 stages. I say this only to illustrate the point that there's nothing in the lower number of pipeline stages that somehow magically makes the Pentium M a poor candidate for hyperthreading."

LinuxDevCenter.com: Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting [Jun. 03, 2004]

LinuxDevCenter.com: Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting [Jun. 03, 2004]: "Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting"

NewsForge | Analysis: New Fujitsu deal looks like smart long-term move for Sun

NewsForge | Analysis: New Fujitsu deal looks like smart long-term move for Sun: "The key point regarding Tuesday's news is that Sun and Fujitsu also have collaborated for years on the design and production of the carrier-grade UltraSPARC chip architecture they each use in their enterprise servers. This is part of the technology foundation they will use to create the new product line, which could boost the fortunes of Sun in a big way. McNealy said the APLs will provide 10 to 20 times the throughput and storage capacity of the older servers.
Sun needs to offload this new work because it wants to focus more resources on a couple of even more advanced enterprise projects: the new multithreaded Rock and Niagara chips, which are expected to be introduced in 2006. "

Dell nears Sun in IBM-led server race | CNET News.com

Dell nears Sun in IBM-led server race | CNET News.com

Intel MFG

Intel Will Not Enable 64-Bits in Existing Prescott Cores: "By 3Q 2004, we'll see chip volume from Intel's 90nm process technology surpassing the 130nm technology volume. Regarding Intel's 300mm wafer production, Barrett says Intel is 10 times ahead of the competition in CPU manufacturing and fab capability, yielding sizable cost reductions and competitive advantages. The 130nm process generation will still be manufacturing in declining volume through early 2005, and by mid-2005 we'll see the 65nm technology emerge in products. Using a ballpoint pen tip that's about 1 square millimeter in size, Barrett said a 65nm static ram cell is about 10000 times smaller, or about one half a square micron, and Intel can put about 10M transistors in a square millimeter, or 1B transistors per square centimeter if building SRAM alone, though packing densities would be quite so high for a full microprocessor design. Intel has developed 75 Mbit SRAMs on 65nm technology in their labs. At the 65nm process level, the gate length is about 30nm. "

IBM eServer - Linux on POWER - Analyst Watch: Linux on POWER in top 64-bit racing form

IBM eServer - Linux on POWER - Analyst Watch: Linux on POWER in top 64-bit racing form

AnandTech: AMD Touts World's First Purpose-Built 64-Bit X86 300 mm Production

AnandTech: AMD Touts World's First Purpose-Built 64-Bit X86 300 mm Production: "'Less than six months after we broke ground for AMD Fab 36, the first significant phase of our 300 mm wafer fab project has been completed successfully, and we are well on our way to meeting our overall project schedule,' said Hans Deppe, vice president and general manager for AMD Saxony. 'We have now begun to install the necessary infrastructure that will allow us to be ready for equipment towards the end of the year in preparation for our planned first production shipments in the first half of 2006.'"

CoolTechZone-HP inserts two Itanium 2 chips in one socket

CoolTechZone-HP inserts two Itanium 2 chips in one socket: "HP released a new module for the company's high-end servers that will allow business consumers to insert two Itanium 2 processors into one socket. HP plans to increase the performance while being cost-effective to it's enterprise level consumers."

DevChannel | File alteration monitoring techniques under Linux

DevChannel | File alteration monitoring techniques under Linux: "

File alteration monitoring techniques under Linux"

ONJava.com: Performance Analysis of J2EE Applications Using AOP Techniques [May. 12, 2004]

ONJava.com: Performance Analysis of J2EE Applications Using AOP Techniques [May. 12, 2004]: "Performance Analysis of J2EE Applications Using AOP Techniques"

Microsoft, SAP get closer on Web services | CNET News.com

Microsoft, SAP get closer on Web services | CNET News.com: "The nitty gritty
Specifically, the deal calls for SAP and Microsoft to do the following:
� This summer, begin testing tools that will let developers use Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net tools to build SAP Web portal applications.
� Offer through SAP a new version of SAP.Net Connector, a tool for linking SAP applications to Microsoft.Net.
� Incorporate what Microsoft calls advanced Web services protocols to handle transactions into SAP's NetWeaver. Microsoft, along with IBM, introduced those advanced Web services concepts last year.
� Make available sample code and a software development kit for integrating Office applications, such as Excel, into SAP's applications. The support extends to Longhorn, as the next version of Windows, expected in 2006.
� Integrate SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft Exchange and Windows SharePoint Services software. Microsoft said it will deliver software to integrate those products later this year.
In addition, the companies will jointly staff a collaboration technology support center in Walldorf, Germany, where SAP is based. SAP and Microsoft will collaborate on marketing and sales calls, publishing technical papers, and funding of marketing development."

Forbes.com: AMD Sells Without Dells

Forbes.com: AMD Sells Without Dells: "According to data from Current Analysis, a research firm based in La Jolla, Calif., AMD accounted for 52% of all retail desktop-PC sales for the week ended April 24, compared with Intel's 47%. "