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 2009: Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore ZFS keynote. There isn’t that much new here; I guess that’s why nobody bothered to take notes.
Geoff Huston: Is the Transition to IPv6 a “Market Failure?” I suspect that this will all be over before any US government intervention could kick in.
Forbes: The Myth of Crowdsourcing.
Messaging News: The State of User Tracking and the Impossibility of Anonymizing Data.
Information is Beautiful: The Billion Dollar Gram. I love the juxtapositions of putting the manned mission to Mars next to bribes received by Russion officials or the Internet porn industry next to foreign aid.