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Mythic Blades (exe)

Mythic Blades places the player in the role of Legendary Hero or Terrifying Monster during combat to determine the fate of the Olympus. Ares has challenged his father; if Ares wins, he will take over Zeus' place and rule over the Olympus--but the battle does not take place there. Instead...

Tags: Olympus Corp., Blade, Mythic Blades, Ares, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Games, Servers, Hardware, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-05-04

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I want an iPhoneStormDroid

I want an iPhoneStormDroidUmm, Xen's been doing this for over a year...The Xen hypervisor has been shown on a future Samsung PDA prototype doing exactly this for a long time - about a year and a half. Great to see Wind River finally catch on, but notice how the...

Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Xen Hypervisor, operating system, Apple iPhone, crashe, iPhoneStormDroid, keyboard, HTC Touch Pro, Wind River Systems Inc., phone, HTC Touch, High Tech Computer Corp., Xen

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Marantz ES7001 SSX Front Surround Speaker System

As one of America's oldest audio brands, it was inevitable Marantz would offer a single-speaker surround system. Every few months another manufacturer unveils a new one, and now it's Marantz's turn. With the ES7001 SSX Front Surround Speaker System, Marantz built a model that competes in the upper end of...

Tags: Build Quality, ES7001, Marantz

Product reviews 2008-11-24

H2O + C = cool idea

Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...

Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Making Man As Super As His Computer

Worst case, Steve Wallach figures it costs $10,000 to buy a blade server that can execute 50 billion floating point operations in a second. By that measure, it would take $200,000 to buy 20 of the blades, to handle a trillion operations a second in a heavy-duty scientific or financial...

Tags: Programmer, Computer, Steve Wallach, Convey Computer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Jaquar chases Roadrunner for fastest supercomputer

Two systems, including one based on x86 chips, have become the first ever to break the petaflop/s barrier in the latest Top500 supercomputer list. Cray's XT5 Jaguar supercomputer has narrowly missed displacing IBM's Roadrunner system as the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the results of the bi-annual 'Top500' supercomputing...

Tags: Supercomputer, Chip, Top500, Roadrunner, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, supercomputer, IBM, Jaguar, Intel, AMD

News items 2008-11-17

Addressing virtualization's achilles heel

The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more...

Tags: Bandwidth, Virtualization, Network Interface Card, Blade, Achilles Heel, VM, Networking, Servers, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Court's decision is boon for alternative energy

Court's decision is boon for alternative energyWhen will they learn?The last 168 BILLION DOLLAR round of stimulus checks did NADA for our economy. We must not as a nation forget the role the high cost of our dependence on foreign fuel played in the demise of businesses from the largest...

Tags: Green Energy, alternative energy

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobs

Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobsIf I were a Sun employee I'd be looking for another job.There seems to be a never ending stream of layoffs at Sun. Very demoralizing.RE: Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobsi think it's hard to compete for Sun in the new IT market place. The...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Linux, Operational accounting, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Now Let, Careful Murph, Sun Microsystems Inc., job

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

HP boosts power efficiency features for latest ProLiant blade server

As promised, I'm back this morning from the airport with a couple more thoughts about Hewlett-Packard's green tech introductions this week, specifically some notes on its latest blade server, the HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Blade. Here are the energy-related vitals on the product: - Uses...

Tags: Blade Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Power Supply, Enclosure, HP Compaq ProLiant, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-04

MySpace, MTV cast lot with Auditude: Who will follow?

MySpace, MTV cast lot with Auditude: Who will follow?Troubling...While it somewhat promising to perhaps keep websites free from big media suits against them for user's upload content, it troubles me. Not the fact that MySpace and MTV are using it, but who else will use it in the future? AT&T...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, MySpace, MTV, Auditude, movie

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Rio Grande - an Egenera customer profile

I recently had the opportunity to hear from Danny Cox, CFO of the Bell Group Rio Grande. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with PAN Manager from Egenera. I've watched Egenera for quite some time and am happy to have had a chance to learn from someone using...

Tags: Blade, Personal Area Network, Egenera Inc., Rio Grande, Danny, Bluetooth, Servers, Wireless, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Denon DHT-FS3

After you've heard a few virtual surround speakers, you realize there's not a whole lot of surround sound coming out of these things. Yes, the better ones project sound beyond the width of the speaker and well into the room, but only if you're sitting directly in front of the...

Tags: subwoofer, Denon DHT-FS3, Denon, speaker

Product reviews 2008-10-30

Ncomputing: Sharing the power of a single computer

Do you remember Digital Research's Concurrent CP/M and Concurrent DOS? In this little walk down memory lane, how about MP/M? Ncomputing is walking down the same historical path. The goal of all of these operating systems was to take currently available off-the-shelf software designed for the single user operating systems...

Tags: PC, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Ncomputing, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Productivity, Software, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Gartner Top 10 embraces the Cloud

As in previous years, the analysts at Gartner have unveiled their 'Top 10 Strategic Technologies,' and Jason Hiner provides details elsewhere on ZDNet. The press release is here. One of the analysts involved David Cearley discusses the Top 10 over on YouTube, and posts the information from...

Tags: Gartner Inc., David, Jason, Semantic Web, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Green Grows Saddleback Valley

Saddleback Valley Unified School District needed to refresh its aging HP server farm in an environment of severe budget cutting. Existing servers were poorly utilized and required extensive amounts of power and cooling. The district consolidated and virtualized its HP servers onto 7 Dell PowerEdge 1955 blades running VMware ESX...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., HP Server, Utility Computing, Servers, Ip storage, Hardware

Case studies 2008-10-01

Ant Planet (dmg)

Somewhere in the South Pacific, in a rare natural event, a shower of blue crystalline meteors landed on several uninhabited islands. The shower lasted days and nights, and from a safe distance on their home islands, entire tribes of primitive peoples watched the sky with fear and awe, hoping that...

Tags: Ant, Island, Shower, Reliabit

Software downloads 2008-09-23

Apple recalls iPhone power adapter

Today Apple announced the Apple Ultracompact USB Power Adapter Exchange program. Apple has determined that under certain conditions the new ultracompact Apple USB power adapter's metal prongs can break off and remain in a power outlet, creating a risk of electric shock.  We have received reports of detached blades...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adapter, Apple Inc., Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-21

Verari: A system builder that claims to be green tech to the core

It seems to have become sort of de rigueur for the server vendors to introduce blades optimized for virtualization and, of course, the last VMware software technology. I wanted to make note this week of one such offering from Verari Systems, not necessarily because it's the only game in town...

Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Verari Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-21

Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware: We have you surrounded

Microsoft and Novell had their first virtualization child Thursday. A joint virtualization effort that couples SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell operating with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The news itself isn't all that important--part of the Microsoft-Novell pact--dictated that SUSE would use the software giant's virtualization technology. But if you...

Tags: Novell Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-11