Posts tagged with: cpu

Links of interest for 3 Jun 2009 - 14 Jul 2009: "Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?" FUD - Thankfully someone's being sensible about the FUD that made it's way into the news this week. Oracle is not going to kill OpenSolaris. Oracle's Virtualization Gold Mine - Looks like Oracle is counting on Virtualization big time. Time will tell what they do with all their net technology. Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software - Kind of ironic, yet potentially a brilliant business plan: you produce some software that becomes an easy target for viruses, then release your own... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 12 Dec 2008 - 24 Dec 2008: Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom - Oooo. When this becomes a reality without any hoop jumping, I may just have to get myself a small Atom based netbook. It's recession time and Sun has the best recession kool aid. - Who needs Oracle and BEA when you can have MySQL and Glassfish, and you can even use Ruby on Rails. I agree with the final comment in the article - Sun just isn#039;t selling the whole idea very well. I hope someone sees this post and takes it#039;s content... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 3 Nov 2008 - 10 Nov 2008: Fishworks: Now it can be told : The Observation Deck - Bryan Cantrill's recount of the road to Fishworks and Amber Road. Fishworks Hardware Topology - Eric Schrock gives an intro to the chassi subsystem at the heart of the technology behind the Sun Storage 7000 series. Hybrid Storage Pools in the 7410 : Adam Leventhal's Weblog - Wow, the Fishworks guys have been busy blogging like crazy. Adam's got a great detailed report on the Hybrid Storage Pools in the biggest of the Sun Storage 7000 server -... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 14 Oct 2008 - 1 Nov 2008: Multicore Bollocks - Hmmm, for someone who's head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, he certainly talks a load of old cobblers about multicore CPUs. Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 - Sounds like there will be more need for ZFS then, that's why Sun are working on some awesome storage products coming to market very soon. Watch this space. Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solaris - Blowing that NYT and Computerworld article to pieces in an analytical manner. Good read, regardless of which side... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 12 Aug 2008 - 3 Sep 2008: Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome - Ooops. How on earth could the Google chaps have missed this one? Google Chrome Considered Harmful - Hmmm, the bad news about Google Chrome is starting to come to light now. Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project - Oooo, sounds like Firefox may have a new competitor. Now how long before we get a Solaris/OpenSolaris version? iPhone passwords not worth the paper they're written on - Ooops. This certainly won't help Apple make inroads into the business market. The latest Xeon and OpenSolaris -... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008: Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too. Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse the pun) ahead of everyone else in the processor business and this is just another example. Australian WiMAX pioneer trashes technology as "miserable failure" - I wonder how many more people are going to come forward now and bring their problems to light. All... Continue reading ►

Sun has now announced the much anticipated UltraSPARC T2 (aka Niagara 2) processor to the world, and under the GPL too. The T2 is quite a beast too... it's ONE chip with 8 cores that provides the capability of running 64 threads simultaneously. Add to that multi-threaded 10 Gb ethernet networking, crypto acceleration, PCI-Express I/O expansion and a dedicated FPU per core, and you've got one incredible CPU. There is absolutely NOTHING else on the market that comes anywhere close. Come to think of it, there is only one other 8 core CPU on the market - the UltraSPARC T1.... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007: OS X is Now Officially UNIX - Now you can legitimately call OS X "UNIX with a pretty face". OS X has been certified to UNIX03 standards, like Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Dvorak believes we're in for another pop. Maybe, maybe not. Only time will tell. Sun preps 2048-thread monster - I really hope Sun can deliver on this. If they do, they'll be so far ahead of the like of IBM, Intel and AMD it won't be funny. None of these companies are... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 April 2007 - 13 April 2007: Google Summer of Code - Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced! They've accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications. Sun Acquires Java-based Mobile Phone OS - Oooh, maybe Sun will be jumping on the iPhone clone bandwagon. I doubt it though. I do think we could be seeing some really cool mobile phones and apps coming though. ZFS on FUSE/Linux - OpenSolaris, Solaris, FreeBSD and soon Mac OS X and now even Linux is looking ZFS. If this a... Continue reading ►