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 "