September 2009
27 posts
MIMD or bust
AnandTech: ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5850 Review.
Real World Tech: Inside Fermi: Nvidia’s HPC Push. That’s no moon. The cache should help motion estimation, but there may still be massive warp divergence.
David Patterson: The Top 10 Innovations in the New NVIDIA Fermi Architecture, and the Top 3 Next Challenges. The best pimpin’ grant money can buy.
Kernel Conference Australia...
NVidia finally released OpenCL drivers.
New America Foundation: Broadband Truth-in-Labeling Proposal. Advertising “refund minimum speed” rather than technical minimum speed is a nice twist, since the latter number varies day to day. It’s not clear how customers would prove that they qualify for a refund, though.
Jeff Darcy: Cloud Storage Classification →
Engadget: Apple dictated Light Peak creation to... →
Expensive, buggy dongles for everyone!
At IDF Intel revealed that you can use the host protected area to shrink the usable space of their SSDs, thus increasing the spare area which increases performance and endurance. It would be interesting to compare an 80 GB X25-M G2 shrunk down to 64 GB against a much more expensive 64 GB X25-E. (The only downside is that this is likely to spawn more ricers one-uping each other about...
The Register: Intel debuts CE4100 “Sodaville” Atom SoC for set-tops. Canmore, we hardly knew ye.
Announcing the Tonido P2P Platform SDK.
Guy Rosen: Anatomy of an Amazon EC2 Resource ID.
“Memes are a sign of the end. They’re what happens when a web site both...”
– unalone on Hacker News
Engadget: Intel Tru2way server streams cable all... →
As if The Man will ever allow this to come to market.
The Register: Mellanox kicks off race to 40 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
Tom Lee: Net neutrality, forever and ever.
George Ou: FCC 5th principle must allow for reasonable discrimination.
NY Times: AT&T Says F.C.C. Neutrality Suggests a ˜Bait and Switch”. Shoe’s on the other foot now. AT&T wireless customers have been feeling the same way after being promised the Internet and...
Jeff Darcy: What Does “Multi Tenant” Mean?
Seagate Ships First Drive to Feature Serial ATA 6Gbit/Second Technology. Pointless. Congratulations Seagate.
NewTeeVee: Skype-Joost Licensing Drama Déjà Vu for... →
Ubiquiti has the first outdoor 802.11n equipment I’ve seen. 100 Mbps for $100 sounds impressive.
SemiAccurate: Intel postpones Braidwood.
I always fall in love with an open door
Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao: Managing Massive Time Series Streams with Multi-Scale Compressed Trickles.
Vijay Janapa Reddi, Benjamin Lee, Trishul Chilimbi, Kushagra Vaid: Web Search Using Small Cores: Quantifying the Price of Efficiency.
A 32-bit ARM can drive one DIMM. You could fit 32 or more Cortex-A9s on a chip, but the result would be completely unbalanced with only...
James Hamilton: 2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Design Announced.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Snakes on the Web. “That’s right, I’m gonna go there. I’m gonna talk about the GIL. … I’m sad to tell you that Ted says we’re screwed. …the existence of the GIL basically sends anyone interested in concurrency running for greener pastures.” Brave man. Even if threads aren’t...
Electric Cloud: Using Markov Chains to Generate Test Input.
Colm MacCárthaigh: Pitfalls of randomized periodic tasks.
Joyent: The “Cloud†is supposed to be better than the “Realâ€. If one particular cloud sucks, don’t think the cloud sucks.
Haydn Solomon: Intro to RHEV from Redhat Summit 2009.
The Register: Violin Memory grabs Fusion-io employees.
Google App Engine Migration to a Better Datastore.
Arjan van de Ven: Introducing ‘timechart’. Using SVG to create a zoomable UI is pretty clever.
The Register: Pliant pops out SASsy SSD. Smokin’ IOPS, native SAS, no write cache, DIF. This must be expensive.
Ars Technica: Apple opens Grand Central; challenges impede Linux adoption. This is a pretty negative take; I...
The Register: Adaptec adds SSD cache to RAID... →
I heard you like IOPS so I put a cache in your...
AnandTech: Intel’s Core i7 870 & i5 750 “Lynnfield” Review. Nice, but kinda anticlimactic. I’m eyeing the Xeon X3460.
Biplob Debnath, Sunil Subramanya, David Du, David J. Lilja: Large Block CLOCK (LB-CLOCK): A Write Caching Algorithm for Solid State Disks. This is for the DRAM cache inside the SSD, not using the SSD as a disk cache.
Avani Wildani, Thomas...
“I thought we knew time travel was impossible, because if it was possible,...”
– wonkavader
“Oh, the ironing. Maybe ‘open huge image in Firefox’ should be added...”
– epa when Ingo accidentally posted some benchmark results as 6000x6000px JPEGs
wtf
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars. “[Nothing] should relieve Google of the responsibility of making its collections an adequate resource for scholarly research.” Why? Just go to a library (a real library, that is).
After reading more and more about BFS, I’ve realized that it’s the Fight Club of schedulers. You do not...
SemiAccurate: Intel proves branding can get worse →
The Register: Oracle should relax Sun's Java... →
Objection of Amazon.com to proposed Google Books... →
Ah ha. Somehow the workings of the monopoly eluded me in reading all the other commentary but Amazon explains it. This is definitely bad.
“The recently posted Moorestown support patches finally indicate the arrival of...”
– Thomas Gleixner
(I haven’t seen any tokenized dead mice, though.)
Ars Technica: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard review. I love that XCode draws the execution path leading to a bug with arrows. After installing SL the gamma change is definitely noticeable; I can’t say that it’s worse but it feels weird.
DPReview: Panasonic Lumix GF1 Preview.
VMware vCloud API 0.8. For something this late it looks pretty weak; I don’t see VLANs or shared storage.
Hosting.com and Terremark appear to be running vCloud Express already. It’s a little early to call, but with prices like those EC2 could be in real trouble. (And with “100% Fiber Attached Storage” there should still be plenty of room to bring the prices down.)
The...