Entries 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]