Seau said set to re-sign with Pats
A source familiar with the situation said last night that the veteran linebacker will re-sign with the New England Patriots late next week, pending a physical exam. (Read on Source)
Link Building Do's and Don'ts
Link building is a technique that most webmasters find hard to execute. Years ago it was simple enough, choose your key word for your anchor text and use it for all incoming links. Now, that just do...
Two Years
Two years ago this month, FM was born (well, I started this blog in March, but we were funded in June, and that's when I had to go get us incorporated...). (Read on Source)
Sun supercomputer takes on IBM's Blue Gene
(InfoWorld) - Sun Microsystems is aiming to wrest the world supercomputing crown from IBM's Blue Gene, courtesy of a $59 million contract from the University of Texas for its Constellation design.
The design provides 21 million flops (floating-point operations per second), potentially reaching 2 petaflops (Pflops). IBM already has a 3-Pflop version of its Blue Gene supercomputer, but Sun could potentially hit the No. 2 spot.
Sun's Constellation will be installed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center along with other supercomputers and is a Linux cluster system, to be known as Ranger. It will have 3,288 nodes, starting out with 26,304 processing cores, using AMD's forthcoming Barcelona 4-core Opteron design, mounted on Sun blades. Ultimately, there will be 1,302 Opterons providing 52,608 cores.
The initial memory will be 52.6TB with a final RAM capacity of 105TB. This will be backed up with 1.73PB of disk storage. The system components are connected by InfiniBand with a 3,456-port central switch designed by Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolstein. Its total bandwidth is 110TB per second, and it connects 1,152 cables with 12 connections per wire.
The benefit of a big switch is that interswitch cables -- needed if smaller switches were used -- can be dispensed with, saving a lot of money as it's cheaper to build one big switch than link several smaller switches. Six times fewer cables are needed, in fact. Sun also said that the processors get a standard latency for data access this way.
It will need 3 megawatts of power to run, and a standard rack holds 768 cores.
Sun estimates that Constellation could scale to a 2-Pflop system with 1 exabyte of disk capacity. It isn't enough to keep IBM at bay, though.
IBM has announced Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the world's most powerful supercomputer. Also a Linux cluster, it nearly triples the performance of its predecessor, Blue Gene/L, while remaining, according to IBM, the most energy-efficient and space-saving computing package ever built.
It is designed to run continuously at speeds faster than 1 Pflop and could be configured to reach 3 Pflops.
IBM suggests that a home user would need a 1.5-mile-high pile of laptops to have the equivalent of 1 Pflop of computing power.
Dave Turek, IBM's deep computing vice president, said, "We see commercial interest in Blue Gene developing now in energy and finance, for example. This is on course with an adoption cycle -- from government labs to leading enterprises -- that we've seen before in the high-performance computing market."
IBM said Blue Gene/P is a green supercomputer, being at least seven times more energy efficient than any other supercomputer. Its design uses many small low-power chips, each connected through five specialized networks inside the system.
Blue Gene/L uses dual-core 700MHz chips. Blue Gene/P has four 850MHz PowerPC 450 processors integrated on a single chip. Each chip is capable of 13.6 billion operations per second. A 2-by-2-foot board containing 32 of these chips churns out 435 billion operations every second, making it more powerful than a typical, 40-node cluster based on two-core commodity processors. Thirty-two of the compact boards comprise the 6-foot-high racks, meaning 4,096 cores per rack -- far denser than Sun's core count per rack.
The 1-Pflop Blue Gene/P configuration is a 294,912-processor, 72-rack system harnessed to a high-speed, optical -- not InfiniBand -- network. A new SMP mode supports multithreaded applications.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., will deploy the first Blue Gene/P in the United States beginning later this year.
In Germany, the Max Planck Society and Forschungszentrum Julich also plan to begin installing Blue Gene/P systems in late 2007. Additional Blue Gene/P rollouts are being planned by Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England.
Nguyen ousted two spots short of final table
Former champion Scotty Nguyen survived late into Monday morning's play, but was eventually eliminated from the World Series of Poker's main event in 11th place, two spots shy of making the final table. (Read on Source)
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Happy BlogDay 2007
BlogDay is here again. BlogDay is the one day celebration of the blogosphere created by Nir Ofir also of BlogTV fame. BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On BlogDay bloggers highlight or recommend five other blogs to their ... (Read on Source)
Backing up e-mail
No one approach is right for everyone, says Michael Horowitz, but here's one way to do it.
What does THIS mean to YOU?
This is getting UGLY. More and more, I'm seeing a lack of respect for the flag. As a symbol, as an item of respect of our nation. And I blame... ... (Read on Source)
MS applies for iPhone-like interface patent
Microsoft has filed a continuation application for an existing patent describing a user-interface similar to the one used by Apple's iPhone. Microsoft's application, titled "Extensible, filtered lists for mobile device user interface," aims to provide an improved user interface for mobile devices by providing access to data as well as services from...
Drug Preemption Case On Supreme Court's Docket Is 1st To Be Heard
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 25 decided to hear its first case on the issue of federal preemption of drug liability claims (Warner-Lambert Co., et al. v. Kimberly Kent, et al., No. 06-1498, U.S. Sup.; See 8/16/07, Page 4). Full story on lexis.com
Housing: Location Key With Environmentally Friendly Cluster Developments
As housing developments sprout across the United States, smart growth proponents have urged communities to cluster developments in concentrated pockets, instead of the more standard and familiar "sprawl." Now a new study finds that while cluster development is indeed much easier on the surrounding environment, the location of housing developments is key.
The man behind Moore's Law
BBC News interviews Gordon Moore, the man whose "law" has driven the computer revolution.
Become a Better Counselor Through Meditation
When they come back down from the hills, lawyers undergoing "mindful meditation" during a gathering in the Catskills of New York this September will have spent four days living like monks in hopes of becoming more skillful counselors. They will dine together, wordlessly, three times daily, and they will exist without cell phones, BlackBerrys, e-mail, iPods or newspapers. But it is anticipated they will emerge as better attorneys, more able to control their impulses and choose their words more wisely.
NASA awards planning assessment contract
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded an advanced planning assessment contract to Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. of McLean, Va.
Some Ads Are Just Too Hard To Ignore
Hey, you're new. We like you already! You obviously have great taste! If you like what you read here you'll probably want to subscribe to our RSS feed (or the audio RSS feed). Stick around and be sure to speak up and post a comment or two! (Read on Source)
New site lets you put God on your postage
Am I the only one who is cracking up at this? Perhaps it's just the notion of a place being called "The Office of Holy Postage". LOL Just one way to say "hey, I'm more Christian than you". (Read on Source)
Making punishment fit the crime
Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders about the punishment that should be meted out to copyright infringers.
Olympian blogs range from the bland to the bitter (AFP)
AFP - Hugh MacDonald, Canadian's reserve archer for the Olympics, was not a happy blogger.
LaCie 4big Quadra RAID available up to 6TB
LaCie has announced the latest addition to its line of storage devices featuring Neil Poulton design, the 4big Quadra 4-bay RAID system. The array can be configured to write data in seven different RAID modes, including RAID 0 for faster speeds or RAID 5 for protection, with each drive hot-swappable if needed. Four Quadra units can be stacked or chained to quadruple the potential storage capacity ...
Tangent Quattro is a solid Internet radio
For an entertaining example of how Linux can power home appliances, check out the Tangent Quattro Internet radio. This device combines Internet and broadcast radio with a media server client on an embedded Linux platform to give you a variety of audio playback options. The Quattro has a solid feel. A single speaker at the top of the unit produces rich sound. The front panel has volume and tuning knobs and a dozen buttons for station presets and other functions. At the center of the front panel is a two-line LCD display that shows the station you're listening to, menu choices, and status messages.
United Technologies and Textron post quarterly profits
United Technologies and Textron both post quarterly profits, but while UTC shares rose on a solid forecast, Textron's shares slipped on its fourth-quarter view.
Managed Dedicated Hosting Provider SingleHop Offers Atom Servers
... extremely affordable, and the power costs are obviously substantially lower to our company." More web hosting news for Monday, November 03, 2008 ...
Sun Microsystems To Lay off Up to 6000 Workers
The world hasn't been kind to Sun for quite a while now, but with the economic downturn, things are getting worse. Sun announced today that it will be laying off 18% of its workforce, or about 6000 people. In addition, it was announced that Sun's software chief Rich Green has resigned for reasons that were not stated, although as part of Sun's reorganization and cost cutting efforts, many departments are being merged, and the software division is being restructured and reorganized.
BuyAutoTruckAccessories.com Offers New Lines of Truck Tool Boxes
The online retailer, BuyAutoTruckAccessories.com, has added a wide variety of new truck tool boxes to their selection, including tool boxes from the Owens Garrison series, Scout series, and Extreme Truck series. (PRWeb Nov 26, 2008)
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London Hospitals Almost Back Online After Worm Infection
Three London hospitals whose computer systems were infected with a relatively old worm are now almost back online.
Cairo Public Forum Response Published
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U-T Editorial: Sacramento stench
On Dec. 12, the state Air Resources Board approved sweeping new rules governing diesel emissions, winning applause from environmentalists around the nation who said that once again California was blazing a path for the world. (Read on Source)
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