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OCZ Launches PCIe-Based HDD/SDD Hybrid Drive
As OCZ attempts to innovate even faster, they’re bringing to market interesting niche products that create whole new product classes. PCIe Flash drives have been cranking out the jams, tearing up the charts especially those branded by Fusion-io. OCZ has also brought a number of PCIe flash-only drives to market with better and better performance…
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ARM vet: The CPUs future is threatened • The Register
Many people have predicted the demise of Moore’s Law, only to have a new process or technology rush in to save the day. Current tools are variations on a theme started in the 1960s by Shockley, Fairchild, Intel and have continued to be refined over the years. Pure research in the tools and technologies underlying…
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Dave’s final questions – POSSE RIT
Dave & Chris ask the questions we all want to know the answers to, there was a lot of debate over what is the measure of success in an opensource project. One side argued it’s the number of developers, others the total number of users.
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David May, parallel processing pioneer • reghardware
Exotic chip architectures are always interesting because they tend to be designed to fix a very particular problem. The transputer was designed to be general purpose enough that you could get it to solve a variety of problems as long as you had the chops and the development tools to do it. It was in…
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From Big Data to NoSQL: Part 3 (ReadWriteWeb.com)
While I am not a DB admin, I do appreciate the wealth of new database projects spawned by the likes of Google’s MapReduce/BigTables architecture. Similarly the non-traditional Nonrelational DBs are also very interesting and prove that there’s always a right tool for the right job. Though some programmers and developers will continuously try to hammer…
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From Big Data to NoSQL: Part 2 (from ReadWriteWeb)
ReadWriteWeb’s part 2 of a series of surveys looking at the tools being developed for real-time analytics, data stream processing and Big Data in general. I don’t know what the database of the future will look like, but they’ll call it NoSQL.
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OCZ samples twin-core ARM SSD controller • The Register
OCZ is swiftly moving up the charts of manufacturers attempting to differentiate product at the consumer level. Between the PCIe based RevoDrives and this new announcement of it’s own Flash memory controller it appears they are out front on the performance and future performance fronts. Here’s to any manufacturer who decides to not just license…
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Tilera routs Intel, AMD in Facebook bakeoff • The Register
One of the more radical departures from of the off the shelf commodity data centers built on Intel is the Quanta SQ-2. Based on the Tilera chip, it has multiple cores (many more than an equivalent Intel Architecture) and uses a mesh network on chip to speed communications between the cores. It’s been a long,…
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Remy’s 3 Questions
Remy is collecting our input for the wrap-up of this year’s POSSE RIT. And herein are the answers to those questions.