Welcome to HP's third Superdome | CNET News.com

Welcome to HP's third Superdome | CNET News.com: "HP's sx2000 'Arches' chipset. Arches boosts performance about 30 percent over the prior sx1000 'Pinnacles'-based servers"

Intel acknowledges Itanium flubs, predicts strong future | CNET News.com

Intel acknowledges Itanium flubs, predicts strong future | CNET News.com: "But at the same time, Itanium server sales are more than half of Sun Sparc server sales and a third of IBM Power server sales"

Tarari Earns Coveted Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status

Tarari Earns Coveted Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status: "Tarari Content Processors enable extreme acceleration for a variety of applications, including Anti-Virus and XML content processing and High Performance Computing. Tarari Content Processor are dynamically reconfigurable and snap into application servers, appliances, networking devices, cluster nodes and embedded processors servers. They perform the toughest portions of compute-intensive algorithms, enabling both the inspection of complete messages and XML-rich data as well as computational acceleration at much greater rates than previously possible"

Innovation Happens Elsewhere

Innovation Happens Elsewhere: "Innovation Happens Elsewhere
Innovation happens everywhere, but there is simply more elsewhere than here. Silly as it sounds, this is the brutal truth: Regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative you believe your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside."

haiku error messages

haiku error messages: "There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge "

vogon poetry: ETech 2006 Session: Scaling Fast and Cheap

vogon poetry: ETech 2006 Session: Scaling Fast and Cheap: "a scalable enterprize web application "

tony morgan | one of the simply strategic guys: 10 Easy Ways to Know You're Not a Leader

tony morgan | one of the simply strategic guys: 10 Easy Ways to Know You're Not a Leader: "10 Easy Ways to Know You're Not a Leader
You're waiting on a bigger staff and more money to accomplish your vision.
You think you need to be in charge to have influence.
You're content.
You tend to foster division instead of generating a helpful dialogue.
You think you need to say something to be heard.
You find it easier to blame others for your circumstances than to take responsibility for solutions.
It's been some time since you said, 'I messed up.'
You're driven by the task instead of the relationships and the vision.
Your dreams are so small, people think they can be achieved.
No one is following you."

Rakkar�s Blog � Blog Archive � How to fix the patent system in 10 easy steps

Rakkar�s Blog � Blog Archive � How to fix the patent system in 10 easy steps: "1. Software cannot be patented. If there is any doubt as to whether a patent is a software patent, it is."

This Essay Breaks the Law - New York Times

This Essay Breaks the Law - New York Times: "If you invent a new test, you may patent it and sell it for as much as you can, if that's your goal. Companies can certainly own a test they have invented. But they should not own the disease itself, or the gene that causes the disease, or essential underlying facts about the disease. The distinction is not difficult, even though patent lawyers attempt to blur it."

Intel continues semiconductor market dominance

Intel continues semiconductor market dominance: "Tables below supplied courtesy of iSuppli. Dollar amounts represent millions.
2004 Rank2005 RankCompany 2005 Revenue 2004 RevenuePercent ChangePercent of TotalCumulative Percentage
11Intel$35,466$31,39613.0%15.0%15.0%
22Samsung $17,210$15,7599.2%7.3%22.2%
33Texas Instruments$10,745$10,2255.1%4.5%26.7%
74Toshiba$9,077$8,7523.7%3.8%30.6%
65STMicroelectronics$8,881$8,7601.4%3.7%34.3%
46Infineon $8,297$9,180-9.6%3.5%37.8%
57Renesas $8,266$9,000-8.2%3.5%41.3%
88NEC Electronics$5,710$6,503-12.2%2.4%43.7%
99Philips Semi$5,646$5,692-0.8%2.4%46.1%
1010Freescale Semi$5,598$5,5191.4%2.4%48.5%
1411Hynix$5,560$4,60620.7%2.3%50.8%
1312Micron Technology$4,775$4,6492.7%2.0%52.8%
1513Sony$4,574$4,2996.4%1.9%54.7%
1214Matsushita Electric$4,131$4,669-11.5%1.7%56.5%
1115AMD$3,917$5,108-23.3%1.7%58.1%
1716Qualcomm$3,457$3,2117.7%1.5%59.6%
1617Sharp Electronics$3,266$3,488-6.4%1.4%61.0%
1818Rohm$2,909$2,8492.1%1.2%62.2%
2019IBM Micro$2,792$2,50311.5%1.2%63.4%
2220Broadcom$2,671$2,40011.3%1.1%64.5%
Other Companies$84,191$80,2414.9%35.5%100.0%
Total Revenue$237,139$228,8093.6%100.0%"

Apple's share price an in-joke for Intelites | News.blog | CNET News.com

Apple's share price an in-joke for Intelites | News.blog | CNET News.com: "In a bit of unintended humor, Wall Street closed Apple's stock Tuesday, the day the company unveiled its first Intel processor-based computers at Macworld, at $80.86. "

How the IT industry really works - Membox.com

How the IT industry really works - Membox.com: "How the IT industry really works "

Publishing Hacks � The Stealth Mode Fallacy

Publishing Hacks � The Stealth Mode Fallacy: "there is no shortage of brilliant ideas in the world. There is, however, a shortage of people that can execute on those ideas and turn them into successes."

Why Grammar is the First Casualty of War

Why Grammar is the First Casualty of War: "WHAT really alarms me about President Bush's 'war on terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? It's rather like bombing murder.
Imagine if Bush had said: 'We're going to bomb murder wherever it lurks. We are going to seek out the murderers and the would-be murderers, and bomb any government that harbors murderers.'
The other thing that worries me about Bush and Blair's 'war on terrorism' is: how will they know when they've won it? With most wars, you can say you've won when the other side is either all dead or surrenders. But how is terrorism going to surrender?
It's hard for abstract nouns to surrender"

Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right

Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right: "We added a 'find similar' button to the Blink interface, and the results were often quite good. The problem was that we were once again asking the user to go out and do things. The vision was that the similar sites would just be there, the same way Amazon presents you with the related products. But the servers couldn�t handle it. They could barely handle it when the users actually clicked to see results, let alone on every pageview.
I suggested a compromise. Instead of the algorithm, how about just using the text of the folder name as the key. Show the top 10 sites in all folders with the same name, across all users. I was basically suggesting a rudimentary tagging system"

A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod

A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod: "CHECK THE 'USE ERROR CORRECTION' BOX under PREFERENCES > ADVANCED > IMPORTING. Once I did I've never had a problem"

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?: "The sequence of Busy Beaver numbers, BB(1), BB(2), and so on, grows faster than any computable sequence"

Sun's Rock goes 16 cores and arrives with multi-core friends | The Register

Sun's Rock goes 16 cores and arrives with multi-core friends | The Register: "Rock will cater to a broader audience than today's UltraSPARC T1 processor that supports 32 threads and the second rev of that product that supports 64 threads. Each of the Rock processing cores will have a higher clock speed than the UltraSPARC T1cores "

Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Vista not to support EFI

Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Vista not to support EFI: "EFI support will not be seen until Longhorn Server is released in early 2007"

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system: "new speed record of over 102 gigabytes per second of sustained read/write performance to a single file."

Supermicro stuns with four-socket, 1U Opteron bad boy | The Register

Supermicro stuns with four-socket, 1U Opteron bad boy | The Register: "This is an OEM-only product, which is probably good because it's not for the faint of hear. Supermicro demands a 1,000 watt power supply to get this bad boy humming"

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system

IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system: "new speed record of over 102 gigabytes per second of sustained read/write performance to a single file."

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006: Introducing Intel's new Core processors

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006: Introducing Intel's new Core processors: "Woodcrest sees an 80% increase in performance and a 35% decrease in power compared to a Xeon 2.8GHz with two 2MB caches"

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown

AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown

IBM - News: eServer xSeries Benchmarks

IBM - News: eServer xSeries Benchmarks: "x460 server achieves 15 percent better performance than HP ProLiant DL585-G1"

technology exclusive to IBM: an integrated snoop
filter that minimizes front-side bus (FSB) congestion and maximizes CPU performance, a key
ingredient for higher performance on the new dual front-side bus architecture.

Intel's new chip family: Core Microarchitecture | CNET News.com

Intel's new chip family: Core Microarchitecture | CNET News.com: "Core Microarchitecture features
Rattner touted a list of improvements coming with the new chip design.
� Intel Wide Dynamic Execution, which lets as many as four instructions be executed in a single tick of a chip's clock. In addition, a feature called macrofusion automatically combines two high-level chip instructions, in some cases into a single instruction.
� The Digital Media Boost means all 'SSE' instructions can execute in a single clock tick. SSE stands for streaming SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) extensions and speeds several operations such as video decoding or digital photo processing.
� Intel Advanced Smart Cache improves how high-speed cache memory is shared by multiple processor cores. For example, it lets one core control the whole cache when the other core is idle, and for other times, it governs how the same data can be shared by both cores, Rattner said.
� Intel Smart Memory Access is an improved set of algorithms that can predict what data should be 'prefetched' from main memory into faster cache memory so it's at hand when the processor needs it, he said.
� And Intel Intelligent Power Capability 'lets us shut down portions of the chip that aren't needed at a particular time to support instruction execution,' Rattner said. "

AMD gives Opteron lineup a speed bump

AMD gives Opteron lineup a speed bump: "All three dual-core CPUs top out at 2.6GHz, a 200MHz increase from the previous top-of-the-line Opterons. "

Virtualization in Xen 3.0 | Linux Journal

Virtualization in Xen 3.0 | Linux Journal: "Virtualization in Xen 3.0"

My Way News

My Way News: "One model, designed by White Lake, is made from 14-carat gold and features not one but five diamonds built-in for a touch of flash. It is expected to retail for euro2,950, or around $3,545, and comes in storage sizes of 128 megabytes to one gigabyte"

Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog

Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: "if you write a blog that fairly assesses the machine's performance (positively or negatively), send us a pointer, we're likely to let you keep the machine"

Linked from - Madville.com - How to Spot a Pet Emergency, or When to Call 911 on Spot.

Linked from - Madville.com - How to Spot a Pet Emergency, or When to Call 911 on Spot.

New Scientist Breaking News - Mathematical proofs getting harder to verify

New Scientist Breaking News - Mathematical proofs getting harder to verify: " the large statements of mathematics are so complex that we may never know for sure whether they're true or false"

2005 Linux Symposium --

2005 Linux Symposium --: "Linux Virtualization on Virtual Iron VFe
Alex Vasilevsky "

EBN - The Future Of Linux: A Virtual Success

EBN - The Future Of Linux: A Virtual Success: "While VMware and Xen are busy about the job of carving up single servers for many guest OSs, Virtual Iron aims to move beyond the single server environment into what we might normally think of as a clustered environment. With Virtual Iron's VFe 1.0, a single OS image can run on a fraction of a processor, as is typically done with VMware and Xen. In the other extreme, it can also run on as many as 16 CPUs simultaneously. To make this magic happen with commodity hardware, Virtual Iron requires that a Topspin Communications InfiniBand switch connect all systems participating in the virtual system"

Ken Novak's Weblog

Ken Novak's Weblog: "turn a host of Linux servers into a single virtual server"

2 workers have chips embedded into them

2 workers have chips embedded into them

The Pros and Cons of Virtual Machines in the Datacenter

The Pros and Cons of Virtual Machines in the Datacenter: "The Pros and Cons of Virtual Machines in the Datacenter"

Techworld.com - Q&A: Power chip inventor speaks out

Techworld.com - Q&A: Power chip inventor speaks out: "High volumes are extremely important if you want to stay in the processor business"

DailyTech - AMD To Show Quad Core Running on Current Platforms

DailyTech - AMD To Show Quad Core Running on Current Platforms: "AMD has updated its statement and now says that quad-core processors will only be compatible with Socket-F platforms. While Socket-F does support single-core and dual-core processors, it will be the only 'current' socket to support quad-core. Unfortunately, Socket-F platforms are not currently shipping to consumers. AMD clarifies that it meant no user who uses a Socket-F platform with a single-core or dual-core processor will have to change boards in order to use upcoming quad-core processors."

SI.com - Writers - John Rolfe: Steve Smith experiences payback - Tuesday January 24, 2006 2:49PM

SI.com - Writers - John Rolfe: Steve Smith experiences payback - Tuesday January 24, 2006 2:49PM: "While watching Steve Smith fuss, fume and sit stone-faced through "

Put Up Or Shut Up - Brian's Brain - Blog on EDN - 400000040

Put Up Or Shut Up - Brian's Brain - Blog on EDN - 400000040: "Here's the fine print on that retail market share data:
a) It's US-only
b) It doesn't include the bulk of the business market, which is largely Intel-loyal
c) It only includes desktop PCs....hot-selling and fast-ramping laptops aren't comprehended, and
d) It doesn't include direct sales....i.e. Dell."

Intel to AMD: Gimme 65!

Intel to AMD: Gimme 65!: "AMD will likely be a year behind Intel in rolling out this 65 nm technology and, perhaps, it will take even longer to get to mass production."

Steve Smith is NFL�s most amazing show - NFL - MSNBC.com

Steve Smith is NFL�s most amazing show - NFL - MSNBC.com: "Steve Smith is NFL�s most amazing show"

Joel on Software

Joel on Software: "�Don�t start a business if you can�t explain what pain it solves, for whom, and why your product will eliminate this pain, and how the customer will pay to solve this pain. The other day I went to a presentation of six high tech startups and not one of them had a clear idea for what pain they were proposing to solve.�"

Delete a song from a playlist

Delete a song from a playlist: "When you remove a tune from the Library, iTunes doesn't always offer to delete the song's file from the hard disk. Here's why: iTunes has a default folder for the music it knows about. On the Mac, this folder is in your User directory at Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/, and on Windows, it's located inside My Documents at My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\. Not every song file in iTunes needs to be in this default folder. Any song file can be added to the iTunes Library, no matter what folder it's in. If it's in the default folder, iTunes assumes it owns the file, so it offers to delete the file when you remove it from the Library. If the file is not in the folder, iTunes figures it belongs to somebody else, so it shows good manners by not deleting it."

Help me help iTunes not to be stupid | Ask MetaFilter

Help me help iTunes not to be stupid | Ask MetaFilter: "I forget where I read this - but here's a solution that worked for me (similiar to the initial link posted):

1 - backup the itunes xml and database files
2 - Do a find and replace in the iTunes xml file to update all of the song locations
3 - open the itunes database in a text editor, delete everything, and save. (simply deleting the database file does not work)
4 - open up itunes - it will rebuild the library file from the xml."

POWER to the people

POWER to the people: "Released in 2003: 276 million transistors per processor
Like the POWER3 and POWER4, the POWER5 unifies the POWER and PowerPC architectures. The POWER5 is also based on the 130-nanometer copper/SOI process, and features communications acceleration, chip multiprocessing, a larger L2 cache, a memory controller on the chip, simultaneous multithreading, advanced power management, eFuse (morphing) and hypervisor technology. IBM servers built with the POWER5 feature up to ten LPARs capable of running up to 256 independent operating systems on the higest end. POWER5 processors can be found hanging about in iSeries and pSeries servers, as well as in the first IBM entry-level UNIX/Linux box, the OpenPower? line. IBM introduced the POWER5+? processors, which are built with a 90-nanometer process similar to that used with the Cell Broadband Engine, in 2005. POWER5+ ups the clockspeed significantly -- on a smaller die"

Free Programming and Computer Science Books

Free Programming and Computer Science Books: "Free books on technology subjects"

The Rings of Power: Intel's VT-x Technology and the Secrets of Virtualization

The Rings of Power: Intel's VT-x Technology and the Secrets of Virtualization: "Intel's VT-x Technology and the Secrets of Virtualization"

Visual C++ Developer Center: 64-Bit Programming

Visual C++ Developer Center: 64-Bit Programming: "Program Manager Kang Su Gatlin from the Visual C++ compiler team talks about 64-Bit programming a"

My Way News

My Way News: " U.S. life expectancy has hit another all-time high - 77.6 years - and deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke continue to drop, the government reported Thursday.
Still, the march of medical progress has taken a worrisome turn: Half of Americans in the 55-to-64 age group - including the oldest of the baby boomers - have high blood pressure, and two in five are obese"

IBM eServer x366

IBM eServer x366: "Up to 64GB DDR II ECC memory"

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now: "Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered "

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered - Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now: "These presentations included a short tour to the top-notch 65 nm production facility Fab D1D "

Sun Looks for a Sparc

Sun Looks for a Sparc: "The servers are based on Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor, formerly code-named Niagara, which the company initially had planned to release in 2006. The first T1-based systems available are the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000, which start at $3,000 and $8,000, respectively. "

The Real Story about Sun's Niagara

The Real Story about Sun's Niagara: "The Real Story about Sun's Niagara"

Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too FarThose keys have security permissions that only allow the Local System account to modify them, so I relaunched Regedit in the Local System account using PsExec: psexec ?s ?i ?d regedit.exe

Top 20 geek novels -- the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology

Top 20 geek novels -- the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

AnandTech: Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360

AnandTech: Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360: "The CPU itself features three of these PowerPC cores and is currently manufactured on a 90nm process, however Microsoft will most likely be transitioning to 65nm as soon as possible in order to reduce the die size and thus manufacturing costs. "

IBM Holds Servers

IBM Holds Servers: " revenue decline by 7.6%, and lost its third-place standing to Dell "

Mac Rumors: Intel forms 'Apple' Group

Mac Rumors: Intel forms 'Apple' Group: "that Intel Corp. has formed an internal 'Apple group'."

Intel Faces Increased Risk From Flash-Memory Venture - Forbes.com

Intel Faces Increased Risk From Flash-Memory Venture - Forbes.com: "We believe Micron gross margins for its NAND business were roughly 20% in its most recent quarter, well below Intel's gross margins of 61%.' "

Improving Database Performance on Simultaneous

Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works | The Register

Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works | The Register: "Daugman produces the calculations governing the use of two hypothetical biometrics, one with both false accept and false reject rates of one in 100, and the second with the two rates at one in 1,000. On its own, biometric one would produce 2,000 errors in 100,000 tests, while biometric two would produce 200. You can treat the use of two biometrics in one of two ways - the subject must be required to pass both (the 'AND' rule) or the subject need only pass one (the 'OR' rule). Daugman finds that under either rule there would be 1,100 errors, i.e. 5.5 times more errors than if the stronger test were used alone.
He concludes that a stronger biometric is therefore better used alone than in combination, but only when both are operating at their crossover points. If the false accept rate (when using the 'OR' rule) or the false reject rate (when using the 'AND' rule) is brought down sufficiently (to 'smaller than twice the crossover error rate of the stronger test', says Daugman) then use of two can improve results. If we recklessly attempt to put a non-mathemetical gloss on that, we could think of the subject having to pass two tests (in the case of the 'AND') rule of, say, facial and iris. Dropping the false reject rate of the facial test (i.e. letting more people through) in line with Daugman's calculations would produce a better result than using iris alone, but if the facial system rejects fewer people wrongly, then it will presumably be accepting more people wrongly."

Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers - ZDNet UK News

Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers - ZDNet UK News: "Hyperthreading hurts server performance"

My Way News

My Way News: "The UltraSparc T1 processor, code-named Niagara, has eight computing engines on a single chip, "

Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons

Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons: "Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons "

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 "

GamePC - Intel �Paxville� Dual Core Xeon and the Asus PVL-D Intel E7520

GamePC - Intel �Paxville� Dual Core Xeon and the Asus PVL-D Intel E7520: "most people seem (rightly) skeptical "

Highly Efficient Synchronization Based on Active Memory Operations

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 "

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"

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 "

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 "

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."

Intel's Montecito, Montvale beset by very hard times

Intel's Montecito, Montvale beset by very hard times: "Intel's Montecito, Montvale beset by very hard times "

My Way Finance

My Way Finance: "'We believe digital health imaging margins will remain under pressure as doctors shift from printing X-rays to viewing on screen,' said Cross Research analyst Shannon Cross in a research note to clients"

steudten.com - Ihr professioneller Partner im Bereich ICT- und Elektronik - ALPHA LINUX Performance Tipps

steudten.com - Ihr professioneller Partner im Bereich ICT- und Elektronik - ALPHA LINUX Performance Tipps: " table describing the mapping from virtual to physical pages for each process"

BEA feeling open source heat? | Channel Register

BEA feeling open source heat? | Channel Register: "Gluecode was bought by BEA's great application server rival IBM this summer, in a deal that provides IBM a low-cost"

Geek.com Geek News - Dual-core Itanium delayed until 2005

Geek.com Geek News - Dual-core Itanium delayed until 2005: "Intel has confirmed that the dual-core Itanium is delayed until 2005. The dual-core 'Montecito' chip was originally supposed to be released next year (2004), but Intel will instead launch a faster than 1.5GHz Madison core with 9 MB of on-chip cache"

freshmeat.net: Project details for Performance Application Programming Interface

freshmeat.net: Project details for Performance Application Programming Interface: "PAPI aims to provide the tool designer and application engineer with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors."

PCWorld.com - 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know

PCWorld.com - 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know: "Finally, if the password you've forgotten is your Windows XP administrator password"

O'Reilly Network: Enterprise-Wide Network Management with OpenNMS

O'Reilly Network: Enterprise-Wide Network Management with OpenNMS: "Enter OpenNMS, a platform that allows users to add network management features over time. "

Introduction to the Xen Virtual Machine | Linux Journal

Introduction to the Xen Virtual Machine | Linux Journal: "In August 2005, XenSource, a commercial company that develops virtualization solutions based on Xen, announced in Intel Developer Forum (IDF) that it has used Intel VT-Enabled Platforms with Xen to virtualize both Linux and Microsoft Windows XP SP2.
Xen with Intel VT or Xen with AMD Pacifica would be competitive with if not superior to other virtualization methods, as well as to native operation.
In the same arena, VMware is a commercial company that develops the ESX server, a virtualization solution not based on Xen. VMware announced in early August 2005 that it will be providing its partners with access to VMware ESX Server source code and interfaces under a new program called VMware Community Source."

Groove Networks

Groove Networks: "Groove Networks was founded by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie. The company's flagship product, Groove 1.0, is a groupware application (the company likes to refer to it as 'peerware') that enables groups of collaborators to form in a decentralized ad-hoc fashion. Groove enables group members to interact in highly secure shared spaces to support collaborative editing in real time. All of a group's documents, messages and applications are stored and replicated across user machines so that all of a group's members can access the materials online or off."

IBM Software

IBM Software: "IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 now available"

A Comparison of Linux Performance Tuning Books | Linux Journal

A Comparison of Linux Performance Tuning Books | Linux Journal: "A Comparison of Linux Performance Tuning Books"

O'Reilly Network: What Is Skype

O'Reilly Network: What Is Skype: "Two major computer-based phone products that do follow standards, SIPphone and FreeWorldDialup, have tiny market share compared to Skype but have the weight of internet standards on their side. Their limited market share will not threaten to overwhelm Skype but may grow large enough to push Skype to involvement with the standards community. That probably won't happen until at least 2008, and will likely depend on how Microsoft implements Voice over IP support in Windows Vista, which will hit the streets in 2007.
Skype may not take over the world. However, Skype makes the world's highest-quality phone connections available for the world's lowest price: free"