by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 26, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
The parallel computing/manycore initiatives may be missing the point. The challenge of manycore computing is burn up as many CPU cycles as possible doing things that we don’t do today because the computational cost is too great. Making existing apps go faster is...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Over on O’Reilly radar, Nat Torkington, does a neat riff on the enterprise SOA movement. He likens enterprise IT to a stern father: . . . with strict rules, transgressors to be punished;. . . while the Web is: . . . the nurturing parent (the API provider) who...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 20, 2008 | Off-Topic |
I’ve put together a couple of ~3 minute video excerpts from the Seattle Scalability Conference last Saturday. I’ve edited them to be useful standalone intros. Maybe they’ll entice you to learn more. Chapel: productive parallel programming at scale...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 19, 2008 | Architecture, Information Management |
Can single-user OS X be far behind? Here’s the official Apple announcement: For business-critical server deployments, Snow Leopard Server adds read and write support for the high-performance, 128-bit ZFS file system, which includes advanced features such as...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 16, 2008 | Future Tech |
Gary Orenstein has published a podcast of a discussion we had a couple of weeks ago about cloud computing. Cloudy days on the hype cycle Cloud computing and storage is still climbing the hype cycle. Remember client-server computing? It was going to change the world....
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