Thursday February 03, 2005 Sun Grid
Sun has announced the first PPU (pay per use) offering in the N1 Grid line - Compute Utility. This offering allows customers to purchase computing power 'on demand', obviating the need for the customer to own and manage the hosting assets.
( Feb 03 2005, 04:43:51 AM PST )
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Tuesday December 28, 2004 Top Ten IT Stories of 2004
The Sun-Microsoft cooperation agreement was ranked by PC World as one of the top 10 IT stories of the year. Read about all ten stories here.
Also from PC World: Tech 2005: What's New and What's Next
( Dec 28 2004, 08:21:58 PM PST )
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Monday December 27, 2004 Overclocking the NES
An overclocking guide for the Nintendo NES has been posted on the Epic Gaming website. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for overclocking the NES' 6502-based 2A03 processor past its rated 1.79 MHz.
( Dec 27 2004, 06:09:57 PM PST )
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Friday December 24, 2004 RLX Exiting Blade Business
RLX Technologies has announced an intention to exit the blade server business in order to focus on the development of blade/rack management software.
Read the article here.
( Dec 24 2004, 11:17:42 PM PST )
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Thursday December 23, 2004 Homemade Mech
Carlos Owens, a steelworker in Alaska, is building an 18 foot tall steel exoskeleton in his back yard. The project Owens calls NMX04-1A is intended for entertainment purposes and, eventually, mech-on-mech combat.
( Dec 23 2004, 12:44:01 AM PST )
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Monday December 20, 2004 Boulder-Longmont Tops SW List
For the fifth time, the Boulder-Longmont area in Colorado has received a 1st-place ranking in the Software and Information Industry Association's list of the 'Top 25 Metro Areas for Software Employment'. San Jose, CA and the Research Triangle in North Carolina rounded out the top 3. Denver, CO was ranked #13 and Colorado Springs, CO was ranked #15.
Rankings are based on the number of software employees, divided by the area's total population.
( Dec 20 2004, 02:44:10 AM PST )
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Friday December 17, 2004 Symantec to Acquire Veritas
Symantec has announced its intention to acquire Veritas for 13.5 billion dollars. The acquisition would create the fourth largest software company in the world - behind Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. Read the story here.
The software industry seems to be ripe for consolidation. M&A activity is certainly ramping up, as indicated by this deal and the recent Oracle-Peoplesoft deal.
( Dec 17 2004, 11:24:17 PM PST )
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Wednesday December 15, 2004 Burj Tower
Construction work on what will become the world's tallest building - the Burj Tower (Dubai, UAE) - is set to begin in January. If completed as planned, the tower will soar to 2640 feet, far surpassing the current skyscraper kings: Taipei 101, the Petronas Towers, and the Sears Tower.
In other architectural news, the 'World's Highest Bridge', the Millau Viaduct, was recently inaugurated in southern France.
( Dec 15 2004, 09:26:08 AM PST )
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Tuesday December 14, 2004 Telehaptic Arm Wrestling
Telehaptics is the 'science of transmitting computer generated tactile (tangible or touch) sensations (haptics) over networks, between physically distant human beings, using sensors and effectors.' (full definition here)
A network of telehaptic arm wrestling stations have recently been set up in 6 science museums around the country (including the New York Hall of Science and the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA).
Read more here.
( Dec 14 2004, 12:47:14 PM PST )
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Tracking CWD with RFID
The US Department of Agriculture is using RFID and Bluetooth technology in an attempt to determine how deer and elk contract chronic wasting disease (CWD). Read more about this interesting application here.
( Dec 14 2004, 12:10:41 AM PST )
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Monday December 13, 2004 Int'l Year of Physics
The United Nations has declared 2005 the International Year of Physics. 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the year in which Albert Einstein wrote three of his most famous scientific papers. These papers, sometimes referred to as the 1905 Trilogy, deal with the following subjects:
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Wednesday December 08, 2004 Thunderbird Released
Mozilla has released the much anticipated Thunderbird 1.0 email client. Read the announcement here.
As a big fan of Firefox, I am looking forward to giving Thunderbird a whirl (the integrated RSS reader is of particular interest to me). I intend to start migrating this weekend.
( Dec 08 2004, 08:58:29 AM PST )
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Tuesday November 30, 2004 Bandwidth Challenge Winner
The 5th annual HPC Bandwidth Challenge, held at the Supercomputing 2004 conference, was won by a team led by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), CalTech and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratories (FNAL). The team achieved a record aggregate bandwidth peak of 101.13Gbps using a setup including Sun Fire V20z servers running Solaris 10.
Read the press release here.
( Nov 30 2004, 01:47:17 PM PST )
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Open Graphics Project
Tech Source, a 'provider of electronic graphic solutions in the global market', has announced the Open Graphics Project. This project aims to enable the development of graphics cards with open specifications. A specification of the preliminary feature set can be downloaded here.
( Nov 30 2004, 01:00:36 PM PST )
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Saturday November 27, 2004 Fastest Supercomputer in Eastern Europe
The fastest supercomputer in Eastern Europe, the SKIF K-1000, is based on 567 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron processors and an InfiniBand interconnect. The SKIF K-1000 is currently ranked #98 on the TOP500 List of the world's fastest supercomputers, with a peak performance of 2.5 teraFLOP/s.
( Nov 27 2004, 01:23:47 AM PST )
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