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Too long since our last
Friday Fun Thanks to Jesse for the tip. Check the youTube post for a larger image and this piece from Illuminata's Gordon Haff for some complementary comments of Fishworks and DTrace. |
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Cuil today launched to much attention, not all positive; then Joyce Pointed me to SearchMe, and that prompted a pass through alternative search engines, collected below searching on "GlassFish". Of that batch, I agree with Joyce and I find SearchMe to be the most interesting one, although Google is still the most accurate. |
Sorted alphabetically:
• Altavista
• Ask.COM
• Cuil
• IceRocket
• LiveSearch
• PowerSet (only Wikipedia)
• SearchMe
• Yahoo
Any missing engines? Which do you like the best?
The second round (my count) of OpenStorage announcements are out. This includes the next rev of Thumper, as well as a new storage family - Sun Storage J4000.
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The successor to Thumper is SunFire x4500, faster and bigger than before but still the same storage/server hybrid. The new storage family combines a Bunch of Disks (BoD) - SATA/SAS - and OpenSolaris/ZFS (and later Flash Memory), to deliver up to 72Gb/sec throughput and up to 192 SATA disks on 16RU at around 1$ per GB. |
Additional reading:
• Sun.Com
Feature Article and the
J4000
Family Overview
• Home pages for the
J4000 Family
and the
Big,
Medium
and
Small
brothers
• Blogs: Overviews by George and
Taylor
Innovating@Sun,
Satish on
MySQL and SugarCRM
• Richard's entry is worth its own bullet;
check it out!
• News:
Computer World,
InfoWorld,
Blocks and Files,
The Register
• Press Release,
SDN Announcement
• OpenStorage and
OpenSolaris Storage Community
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Sun has announced a new InfiniBand switch, the NanoMagnum (DataCenter Switch 3x24); see BMSeer intro and Sun's Press Release. Josh has a Detailed Note that shows how NanoMagnum works, including how 4 NanoMagnums can provide full interconnectivity with 288 nodes (blade servers). NanoMagnum's bigger brother Magnum (DataCenter Switch 3456) can connect 3456 nodes, or 13,824 in a group of 4. There is a nice description of the two switches in this Interactive Tour. The full systems are the Constellation Systems: home page, tour. And then there is also the Magnum Ice Cream. Arguably more useful in hot days like today :-) |
I've tagged this entry with (geeky) Toys :-)
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OK, folks. Share some fun with the rest of us... Contribute your favorite fun links to the comments list. I'll start the list with:
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