High Performance Computing is Flying High | eWeek 05/23/2008
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“The swift rise of cloud computing—applications made available as on-demand services for enterprises and consumers over the Web—is now requiring HPC and “super” storage at all levels, Platform Computing founder and CEO Songnian Zhou told an audience of several hundred IT managers and developers here at Platform Global Conference, held May 19-21.
Platform Computing makes specialized management software for HPC data centers serving sectors such as the financial market, earth science, oil and gas exploration, health care, and government and military installations.
“Current data centers, most of them built more than 10 years ago, are costly to run and not very efficient in using power resources,” Zhou said. “What IT managers and CIOs need when they are looking to upgrade are agile, scalable, more powerful, more cost-effective servers and storage systems that use more automation, share resources, use less power and run on commodity hardware.
“Yet these new systems must be able to deliver powerful Web services 24/7. This is what HPC brings to the table.”"
Lots more stats and numbers at the origianl article: Why HPC Is Flying High
Java: A Retrospective 10/23/2007
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Read it all, and read the comments, and leave some comments of your own. Where do you think Java is heading?
Linux developers considering move to Eclipse 07/09/2007
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Linux developers considering move to Eclipse
“From outside the Linux development world, it would seem that this choice is a no-brainer. However, Eclipse is still largely seen as a Java IDE, rather than an IDE for any language. Eclipse can, and has been, turned into an IDE for everything from Java and JavaScript to C, C++ and C# and scripting languages like PHP, Perl, Python and COBOL.”
LinuxPlanet | Reports | Sun Wants to Make Linux 3D 05/08/2004
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LinuxPlanet | Reports | Sun Wants to Make Linux 3D | Beyond the Second Dimension:
“Sun saw great potential in Looking Glass from its beginnings as an experimental proof of concept. ‘When we saw the prototype and saw a great opportunity, we built an engineering team around the idea. What we are doing is dissecting the original concept and rebuilding it using traditional desktop graphics technologies,’ Soto says.
While it certainly sounds like an attractive approach to an operating system, analysts say it’s too early to say what impact (if any) Looking Glass could have on Linux or the general operating system market. Tom Murphy, senior program director at Meta Group, wants to know what they will do with it.
‘I think in and of itself, it has a big wow effect. It’s cute to see these things like 3D animations of stuff moving around and think of collaborative space, but how does it make my business more productive?’ Murphy wonders. He believes, they need to tie the product to business productivity to make it successful. ‘As it’s shown (in the demonstration), if it’s not going to make me more productive, then who cares?’ “
Looking Glass BigAdmin Resources | Xtreme Tech Show 03/23/2004
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Looking Glass
BigAdmin Resources: The Xtreme Tech Show:
“What if windows were translucent so that you could see the multiple windows you’re working on at the same time? What if you could tack a note to yourself right on the Web page you’re viewing? What if your CD or movie database became a 3D jukebox, where titles were joined with images to make finding what you want easier than ever?
Join Eric and Julie as they check out the Looking Glass.”
