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ARM daddy simulates human brain with million-chip super • The Register
Many wondered when this day would come. Many have written and researched and made full on attempts to simulate the brain in silicon. Now with the rise of low power CPUs (Atom,Arm), massively parallel and dense servers (Seamicro,Calxeda,Tilera) it’s time once again to take a stab at it. Luckily this time around one of the…
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Distracting chatter is useful. But thanks to RSS (remember that?) it’s optional. (via Jon Udell)
I too am a big believer in RSS. And while I am dipping toes into Facebook and Twitter the bulk of my consumption goes into the big Blogroll I’ve amassed and refined going back to Radio Userland days in 2002. When I left the pageview business I walked away from an engine that had, for…
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Atom smasher claims Hadoop cloud migration victory • The Register
SeaMicro has come up with a scenario it can win. But it’s very specific, esoteric and niche to be a winning advertising campaign. Suffice it to say, if you need SeaMicro you probably already know it and have bought one by now. If you don’t, well most likely you are doing fine with what you…
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Kim Cameron returns to Microsoft as indie ID expert • The Register
Anybody who can effectively navigate in a corporate environment of a huge software developer and evangelize something like Identity Management, well they have my undivided attention. Most folks treat it like a Directory Service when in fact it’s a free standing kind of thing that any application can subscribe to in order to determine access…
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Tilera throws gauntlet at Intels feet • The Register
I still have great hopes for Tilera in the data center cloud market place. But the only real competition out there now is Seamicro’s own SM-10000×64 which is tearing up the charts with Intel’s Atom N570. Once Tilera is able to ship its chips in volume and get manufacturers to start building servers with Tilera…
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Intel readying MIC x64 coprocessor for 2012 • The Register
There’s a recent article written comparing the Spec Marks for the Tilera GX series cpus to Intel’s Atom N270 for the first time. Some of these architectures are finally seeing the light of day, running an OS with a test suite to see how they perform. But still Intel is secretly slaving away on it’s…
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Artur Bergman Wikia on SSDs @ OReilly Media Conferences/Don Bazile CEO of Violin Memory
Most recently I have detected a disturbance in the Force. Teh Purveyors of the predominant Data Center paradigm large drive arrays costing 100,000 dollars and up are going to have their lunch eaten by a young upstart. Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, NetApp and IBM you better watch out, you better not cry, you better be…
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ARM server hero Calxeda lines up software super friends • The Register
Intel is doing its level best to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt concerning how viable ARM based chips would be in a data center server rack. ARM is the engine of many a cell phone, but server loads? That’s the question Intel is trying to raise even as data center floor space and cooling costs…