Monday, March 14, 2005
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"
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
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. "
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. "
Friday, March 04, 2005
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)."
Thursday, March 03, 2005
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)"
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
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."
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
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"
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. "
Monday, February 28, 2005
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"
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