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Farewell to ZDNet (and CNET)

Farewell to ZDNet and CNETThanks for your good work!You've put in some hard time at ZDNet, and I've been reading the blogs for awhile -- it'll be sad to see you go, and I hope someone is out there that can adequately fill your shoes while you move on to...

Tags: Blogging, RSS, Farewell, Best Wishes, blog, CMP

Discussion threads 2008-01-03

A Practical FPGA-Based Framework for Novel CMP Research

Chip-MultiProcessors CMPs are quickly gaining momentum in all segments of computing. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithreaded application development. To address this challenge, it is necessary to co-develop new CMP architecture with novel programming models. Currently, architecture research relies on software simulators...

Tags: Software, Association For Computing Machinery, FPGA, CMP

White papers 2007-02-20

Good introduction to multicore systems

With mainstream processors going dual-core and soon quad-core, anyone with an interest in computing may want to read up on how multicore systems work. David Kanter has a good introduction to multicore systems.Even to the casual observer, it is apparent that the time of multicore computing is upon us....

Tags: multi-core, Processors, Desktop, Hardware, Servers

Blog posts 2006-12-12

The Web 2.0 brawl - oh please

Watching a brand self-destruct is a bit like watching a wreck on the highway. There's a certain horrid fascination that compels you to look even though you know you should just keep going (unless you're a paramedic). The dust-up over O'Reilly's claim to the term "Web 2.0" as it relates...

Tags: Brady, CMP, O'Reilly

Blog posts 2006-05-26

Not only does Web 2.0 not exist: it's not your term to use

A few months ago, I rocked the techmeme world by standing on my soapbox and proclaiming loudly that Web 2.0 doesn't exist- and if it does, it is no more than a marketing gimmick.Well, now I have proof. Read the letter at the top of this post. Pay special...

Tags: CMP, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-05-25

Chemical mechanical planarization polisher market to drop 9.7% in 2005

Applied Materials and Cabot Microelectronics continued its dominance of the CMP Chemical Mechanical Planarization market for semiconductor applications in 2004, according to The Information Network. Applied Materials was the only equipment company that grew year-over-year in the CMP market in 2004. The company increased its market share from 67.8% in...

Tags: CMP

Blog posts 2005-06-16

Additional Resources

Apple's Grand Central threat to Microsoft

Apple's quiet preview of OS X.6 - Snow Leopard - promises ". . . unrivaled support for multi-core processors . . . " through a "new set of technologies" named Grand Central. What makes Grand Central so powerful - and how can Microsoft respond? Fresh from Google's...

Tags: Performance, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Breaking the dialogues of the deaf

Breaking the dialogues of the deafre:.I love how you think of everything in black and white terms... its refreshing. But what if you consider this cognitive dissonance in computing security to be a market itself? Most people don't actually understand very much about the subject due to not their capacity...

Tags: security, information technology, Cognitive Dissonance

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns abound

NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundGluteus maximus I suspect you mean ;-)Unless America has its own stupid version of that too.RE: NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundEmjoyed the English (and correct spelling ;)) of the glutus maximus area.Boo WhooI should feel bad the media is being...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Yahoo! Inc., media, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Find Duplicate Files (Java) (zip)

When collecting a large number of files of any kind, there will be duplicates with the same file under two different names or in more than one place. FindDupFiles is a Java 1.4 application to find duplicate files by searching for files that have the same size and the same...

Tags: File, FindDupFiles, Programming Languages, Java, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-02-01

Font Checksum (Java) (zip)

FontChecksum is a Java 1.4 application to verify the internal checksums in OpenType and TrueType font files. Sometimes when you download a file, or copy a file from a worn CD/DVD, what you receive differs from the original. After downloading or copying twice, you may have two files with the...

Tags: Java, Font, FontChecksum

Software downloads 2008-02-01

Podcast: Macworld, CES, Facebook, Intel and more...

Welcome to the new Between the Lines podcast. Now that David Berlind has left ZDNet to join CMP, where he will be working on events, my colleague and one of the top tech bloggers Larry Dignan will co-host the show. As in the Dan & David Show, we'll talk...

Tags: Facebook, Intel Corp., Podcasts, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Farewell to ZDNet (and CNET)

If you were an auditor asked to examine the human resources records of CNET parent company to ZDNet, you'd discover that even though the company was officially founded in 1992, that there's a handful of employees whose hire dates actually precede that year. My colleague Dan Farber is one...

Tags: Human Resources, CNET Networks Inc., Media Business, David Berlind

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Webcast: CMP's survey on the price of data movement failure

What are the real costs to your organization when the systems you rely on to get business done fail? What happens when those systems impact not only your internal network but also your external customer and vendor relationships? In a recent survey, conducted by CMP, IT managers, directors, and executives...

Tags: Software, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Marketing, Marketing Research, Survey, Sterling Commerce, Webcast

Webcasts 2007-11-15

Web 2.0 Summit - reflections after a trans-Atlantic flight and a day off!

Last week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was pretty intense, all things considered. It's therefore lucky that this week is the Half Term school holiday in this particular corner of the UK, and peppered with days off to do various non-work things. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Facebook, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Mastering Storage Complexity

Data center complexity in today's enterprise continues to grow at a dizzying rate. Data volumes are doubling every two years, while storage utilization rates hover at 33%. And data is needlessly duplicated - CMP Media Research estimates by as much as 50 to 500 times. Consequently, space, power, and cooling...

Tags: Data Volume, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-23

Datacenter-on-Chip Architectures: Tera-Scale Opportunities and Challenges

The world has entered in an era of Chip MultiProcessor CMP platforms, where performance is delivered with the integration of more and more cores on a die. Tera-scale CMP architectures, consisting of several tens of physical cores and hundreds of hardware threads, are highly suitable for throughput computing especially in...

Tags: Data Center, Architecture, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2007-08-22

Pepcom to CNET: If you organize any get-togethers after our events, we'll ban you

Pepcom to CNET: If you organize any get-togethers after our events, we'll ban youRealisation Sets InThe feedback that I expect they received was something along the lines of how good the aftershow was.Suddenly realisation sets in and they wonder how long it will be before vendors stop paying for stands...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Pepcom, Showstoppers

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Microsoft OCS SIP an advantage over Cisco?

We start by noting Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes' remarks last Thursday that Office Communications Server 2007 and the Office Communicator client are now code complete.The promise of this combination is that VOIP, IM, conferencing and presence will all be under one solution.Office Communications Server 2007, in public beta...

Tags: microsoft, Avaya

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Laptop insecurities

Last Thursday's issue of an Information Week newsletter I get included an editorial comment by CMP editor Barbara Krasnoff about the problem that data on laptops can be examined by airport security and other government agents on the pretence of looking for prohibited classes of pornography or other materials.As she...

Tags: Sun, Security, Linux, Enterprise Policy, Development

Blog posts 2007-06-28