Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures

Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures: "Directory-based Cache Coherence Protocols"

Real World Technologies - x86 Servers Brace for a Hurricane

Real World Technologies - x86 Servers Brace for a Hurricane: "The X3 strikes a compromise between these two methods and uses a hybrid directory/broadcast mechanism and virtual L4 caches for inter-node traffic, and a snoop filter for intra-node traffic"

My Way News

My Way News: "offshoring required more management effort than they had originally thought"

Tom's Hardware Guide Business Reports: Pat Gelsinger: A Shot at Running Intel - Andy And Bill

Tom's Hardware Guide Business Reports: Pat Gelsinger: A Shot at Running Intel - Andy And Bill: "'Those are lousy answers. Be in my office in a week with better ones."

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.: "radically restructured database architectures "

David Kirkpatrick - Execs Tell Software Makers: 'Some of You Are Doomed' - FORTUNE

David Kirkpatrick - Execs Tell Software Makers: 'Some of You Are Doomed' - FORTUNE: "but rather about getting software delivered as a service."

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com: " if you have joined a closed network, you'll see an IP address beginning with 169.254"

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com: "According to a report by the Associated Press, a representative of Adobe Systems, owner of the PDF format, has suggested that whoever attempted to censor the report did so by placing black rectangles over the text in question, rather than deleting the text.)
The technique used would indeed have protected the data if the document were being read online or printed. However, by an attacker selecting the blacked-out text and using the copy and paste functions, he or she could easily reproduce the document in its entirety on any word-processing application."

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs: "software as a service (SaaS), in which applications are piped over the Internet at a customer's behest, has snowballed in popularity. "

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005: "Intel could now see a path down to the 5-nanometer range."

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register: "Inside Sun Labs "

Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds: "Here's an example. The first thing that FogBugz Setup does when you run it is to test that all kinds of prerequisites are installed, like IIS and MDAC and VBScript. In order to develop and test that code, I need virtual machines that are missing the prerequisites, so I can test all the code paths."

It's Show-Me Time for Siebel

It's Show-Me Time for Siebel: "It's Show-Me Time for Siebel
While the software maker pledged to revive slumping profits, increasingly restless investors heard few specifics about how this would occur "

New Scientist Whatever happened to machines that think? - Features

New Scientist Whatever happened to machines that think? - Features: "In the next few months, after being patiently nurtured for 22 years, an artificial brain called Cyc (pronounced 'psych') will be put online for the world to interact with"

New Sun priorities could speed Niagara servers | CNET News.com

New Sun priorities could speed Niagara servers | CNET News.com: "Niagara has been due to arrive in systems in 2006, but Ingram said customers have prototype systems today and an earlier shipment date is possible. 'The latest will be early 2006 that we introduce the products,' he said. 'It's coming in better than any other processor we've ever produced.' "

SAP - SAP and Microsoft Announce First Joint Product Designed to Revolutionize How Information Workers Access Enterprise Applications

SAP - SAP and Microsoft Announce First Joint Product Designed to Revolutionize How Information Workers Access Enterprise Applications: "As part of this expanded partnership, SAP and Microsoft have agreed to each resell the complete solution, meaning SAP will resell Microsoft Office and Microsoft will resell licenses to SAP�s business process platform, which will deliver ready-to-run business processes accessible as enterprise services. Available in 2006, the business process platform will serve as the foundation for the creation and deployment of composite applications such as �Mendocino.�"

SAP readies new business-monitoring programs | CNET News.com

SAP readies new business-monitoring programs | CNET News.com: "The programs, called SAP Analytics, will monitor activities as diverse as tax collection, factory utilization and retail staffing,"

My Way News

My Way News: "Mendocino' is designed to integrate SAP processes, such as time management, budget monitoring, travel and expense management, directly into Microsoft Office."

Pacifica is similar enough to virtualization efforts by Intel, dubbed Vanderpool, that software developers should be able to create applications that work with both companies' technologies, instead of crafting separate versions

Microsoft Raises the Speed Limit With the Availability of 64-Bit Editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional

Microsoft Raises the Speed Limit With the Availability of 64-Bit Editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional: "Early adopters of Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions have seen stronger, faster results for database and data-intensive server applications. The x64 version of Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services, for example, can accommodate up to 170 percent more users per server than its 32-bit predecessor.* "

Techworld.com - IBM's X366 Xeon server has no L3 cache but is faster. How come?

Techworld.com - IBM's X366 Xeon server has no L3 cache but is faster. How come?: "At design time, there was a maniacal focus on latency reduction. When you can cut the time it takes it gets from one point to the next you can increase performance, so chipset latency has been cut by two and half times -- down from 265 nanoseconds to 108 nanoseconds"

Wired News: Linux Distribution Tames Chaos

Wired News: Linux Distribution Tames Chaos: "Chaos, a Linux distribution developed by Australian Ian Latter, harnesses the unused processing power of networked PCs, creating a distributed supercomputer that can crack passwords at lightning speed"

Technology@Intel Magazine - Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology

Technology@Intel Magazine - Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology: "Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology Improves Network Performance, Reliability and Efficiently"

Randomly Generated research paper!

Tuning xseries for performance

Memory Hiearchy

Queing in Networks of Computers

PJD's Publications on Computing Science

PJD's Publications on Computing Science: "Operational Analysis of Queueing Network Models"

Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models

Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models: "Quantitative System Performance
Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models"

AMD Dual-Core Opteron to Debut in NY

AMD Dual-Core Opteron to Debut in NY: "first quarter of 2006. That is when the company is expected to have its dual-core lineup in full production including its dual-core Xeon, Code named Dempsey, along with its dual-core Pentium 4, code named Smithfield, and its Pentium M dual-core mobile processor, code named Yonah. "

Torvalds: Put Linux to the test | CNET News.com

Torvalds: Put Linux to the test | CNET News.com: "The issue was raised when Intel employee Kenneth Chen announced some performance figures for various versions of the 2.6 kernel. The tests found that versions 2.6.11, 2.6.9, 2.6.8 and 2.6.2 of the kernel performed 13, 6, 23 and 1 percent slower respectively than the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 baseline--which runs on version 2.4 of the kernel, with some added features from version 2.6. "

Linux-Kernel Archive: measure time less than 1 jiffie?

Linux-Kernel Archive: measure time less than 1 jiffie?: "because 1 jiffie is 10ms"

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel� Developer Services - Counting Physical and Logical Processors in 32-bit Multi-Core Systems

Intel desktop crib sheet guide arrives

Intel desktop crib sheet guide arrives: "Intel desktop crib sheet guide arrives "

adaptive path � ajax: a new approach to web applications

adaptive path � ajax: a new approach to web applications: "Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what�s possible on the Web."

State of ACPI in Linux Kernel

Multicore computing, multithreaded programming, and gaming

Multicore computing, multithreaded programming, and gaming: "'implementing a multithreaded system requires two to three times the development and testing effort of implementing a comparable non-multithreaded system.' "

Windows System Resource Manager�Frequently Asked Questions

Windows System Resource Manager�Frequently Asked Questions: "Windows System Resource Manager"

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"

Cooking with Lisp

Cooking with Lisp: "Robert W. Floyd's 1978 Turing Award Lecture, hosted by Markus Fix here, and he has a great quote about Lisp:
I have seen numerous examples of the programming power which Lisp programmers obtain from having a single data structure, which is also used as a uniform syntactic structure for all the functions and operations which appear in programs, with the capability to manipulate programs as data. Although my own previous enthusiasm has been for syntactically rich languages like the Algol family, I now see clearly and concretely the force of Minsky's 1970 Turing lecture, in which he argued that Lisp's uniformity of structure and power of self reference gave the programmer capabilities whose content was well worth the sacrifice of visual form. "

Supported System Configurations

Supported System Configurations: "J2SE 5.0 does not provide support for Itanium 2 -- Itanium 2 support may be added in subsequent update releases"

Myrinet Overview

Myrinet Overview: "Messages can be sent and received without system calls, resulting in measured message latencies at the MPI level with the 'E card' and 'F card' NICs of ~2.7�s with MX, and ~6.5�s with GM. Message latencies using the popular, low-cost, 'D card' NICs are ~0.8�s higher. Thanks to the OS-pass mode of operation and to protocol processing being offloaded to the firmware, the host-CPU overhead is minimal, ~0.15�s per message for sending or receiving.
For either GM or MX, and with single-port NICs, measured, user-level, one-way, data rates are ~1.98 Gb/s (248 MBytes/s), and two-way (summed bidirectional) data rates are ~3.92 Gb/s (490 MBytes/s). With the high-end, dual-port NICs, the firmware takes care of distributing and reassembling packet data across the two ports. The measured, user-level, one-way data rate of ~3.9 Gb/s (~490 GBytes/s) approaches the capacity of the two links. On hosts with good PCI-X throughput, the two-way (summed bidirectional) data rate approaches 6.4 Gb/s (800 MBytes/s)."

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

Sun Microsystems Contrarian Minds: Guy Steele

Sun Microsystems Contrarian Minds: Guy Steele: "Called Fortress, the new language is part of a larger Sun Labs effort to come up with a design for the supercomputer of the future, an effort funded in part by DARPA, t"

Peeking Into Google

Peeking Into Google: "Google replicates the Web pages it caches by splitting them up into pieces it calls 'shards.' The shards are small enough that several can fit on one machine. And they're replicated on several machines, so that if one breaks, another can serve up the information. The master index is also split up among several servers, and that set also is replicated several times. The engineers call these 'chunk servers.'
As a search query comes into the system, it hits a Web server, then is split into chunks of service. One set of index servers contains the index; one set of machines contains one full index. To actually answer a query, Google has to use one complete set of servers. Since that set is replicated as a fail-safe, it also increases throughput, because if one set is busy, a new query can be routed to the next set, which drives down search time per box. "

Using PerfCounters

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/MonitorServicePerformance.asp

good description

http://www.gwyncole.com/blogfiles/gwync/wmx/tw04072_winhec2004.ppt#7

IPMI..

http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/

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"