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Transitive virtual processing magic

Transitive virtual processing magicMissed a coupleRight after the launch of Windows NT, Digital Equipment also came out with a program that would not only translate, but would also optimize and store that translated code on-the-fly, for 32-bit x86 apps to run on the Alpha platform. The award-winning program...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Processors, Alpha, virtual processing magic, processing magic, FX!32, Digital Equipment Corp., Transitive

Discussion threads 2008-03-15

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30% of desktops to have 2 GPUs by 2012 ... Really?

I really don't see the need...Unless you're a hard core gamer or work heavily in the graphics dept...RE: 30% of desktops to have 2 GPUs by 2012 ... Really?Mine has two. And how do you get the little quote box thing? I've been looking to get that on mine for...

Tags: Desktops, Games, GPU, desktop, graphics, Jon Peddie, game

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Pocket Artist (Mobile)

delivers the powerful features you'd expect from desktop image editing software in an easy-to-use artistic solution for Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices, including Windows Mobile 6 Professional, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003 and Pocket PC 2002 devices.With Pocket Artist, you can edit and retouch photos and images, add text...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, GIF, Mobile, Image, Tool, Productivity, Mobile Operating Systems, Pocket PC, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Mobile Applications, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-10

Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?

Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?Virtual machine worthless.http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/12/vmware-update-bombedUnless you are running two different OS', why would you run a virtual machine? My Windows and Linux machines multi-task just fine with only one instance of the OS loaded. Especially as cheap as hardware is today, VM's simply add a layer...

Tags: desktop virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Servers, virtual machine, server, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Could 3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment Grow on You?

B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO of 3Leaf Systems, and I had a long, interesting discussion of what it would take to create the proper hardware platform for an agile, highly reliable, high performance environment using industry standard components when and wherever possible. It was pretty clear that that path requires the creation...

Tags: 3Leaf Systems, Dan Kusnetzky, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Environment, Hardware, I/O, Industry Standard, Servers, Storage

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Your turn: Readers choose their 10 favorite Windows programs

Your turn: Readers choose their 10 favorite Windows programsThanks for the clarificationI would certainly expect better service from anyone expecting to actually have customers. I can only guess that they get so few calls that they help desk is out of practice. :-)SkypeNot sure about your customer service...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, IrfanView, favorite Windows program, Windows Program, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

HP launches data center as a service; The cloud meets outsourcing

Hewlett-Packard on Monday plans to launch an effort to offer data center as a service to large enterprise customers. The move is notable for the following reasons: Cloud infrastructure has been primarily focused on small- to mid-sized businesses that have been leveraging companies like...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Outsourcing, Service, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Transitive virtual processing magic

What would it be like if it was possible to take an executable image that was built for one operating system and processor family, wave a software wand over that software and then simply run it on another platform? Wouldn't that make life for an organization's IT staff quite a...

Tags: Computer, Generation Datacenter, Productivity, Data Centers, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Should storage virtualization always be part of a virtual processing environment?

John Joseph, VP of Marketing of Dell EqualLogic Storage, and I had a short, but interesting dicussion about the place virtual storage should have in a well designed virtualized environment. If one is attempting to abstract functions away from the underlying physical platform, it simply makes sense to do the...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Dell Computer Corp., Environment, EqualLogic, Storage System, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Yamaha Air Surround YAS-70

Yamaha's YSP Digital Sound Projector single-speaker surround systems have been popular for good reason: they produce room-filling sound from a single speaker. The catch is they're expensive: list prices start around $700 (the YSP-900) and go up to $1,600 (for the excellent YSP-4000), and--because the higher-end models include video connections...

Tags: sub, Yamaha Corp., speaker, YSP Digital Sound Projector, Yamaha YAS-70, subwoofer, cable

Product reviews 2007-12-19

Sell magic

Sell magicWrong again, MurphWe're buying AMD64 machines for two reasons:1) They run the software that we need for our business2) At over $100K/cpu license, the [b]last[/b] thin we need is massively parallel at lower per/cpu performance.Power6 would be better for (2) but runs up against (1). SPARC (which until...

Tags: Processors, DSP, Cell, CPU, software, processor, Sun Sparc, game

Discussion threads 2007-07-18

Mainframes, IFL, and Linux

(Note: This is a re-run - from May 16, 2006)The IFL, or integrated facility for Linux, is a mainframe CPU license that's limited to running Linux.Novel has yet to post SuSe licensing costs for the new z9 series mainframes, but charged $13,999 per year per "processing engine" on the...

Tags: Linux, General, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Only 256 threads? naaaa

One of the reports on Suns memory and Rock announcements I didnt cite yesterday, because it didnt quote any of the blurts, was by Timothy Prickett Morgan on itjungle.com In many ways his retelling illustrates what "value added", i.e. interpretive, reporting should be all about with solid...

Tags: Sun Solaris

Blog posts 2007-01-23

Smart Displays and Productivity (2)

Smart Displays and Productivity (2)UtopiaYou are solving a problem while ignoring others. You are working WAY down the application stack at the hardware layer. Whether that is the biggest "pain point" is of much discussion.What does the rest of your infrastructure look like? Those servers that are running SunRay software...

Tags: Servers, SunRay, server, Smart Display, job

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

Mainframes, IFL, and Linux

The IFL, or integrated facility for Linux, is a mainframe CPU license that's limited to running Linux. Novel has yet to post SuSe licensing costs for the new z9 series mainframes, but charged $13,999 per year per "processing engine" on the previous generation z900 series. in...

Tags: Mainframes, Performance management, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, mainframe, Linux, performance, IFL, FTP

Blog posts 2006-05-16

FBI/FCC collaborating to create software 'police state?'

FBI/FCC collaborating to create software 'police state?'You Wanna See Something Really Offensive"French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software"http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.htmlThis Bill would require black box routines built into all software that produces or copies any type of file. It controls and tracks who creates what and who opens it. The...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Federal government, Media players, Consumer electronics, FBI/CIA/NSA, French Law, FBI, FCC, digital-rights management, open source, police-state, software, French Government Lobbied, DVD

Discussion threads 2005-12-02

Report from Demo: Cool products

I am at Demo today looking at new products and trying to get a sense of where consumer and enterprise technology is heading. So far, I have seen some cool products, but nothing that is "disruptive."  Existing product categories, such as home networking, VoIP, digital entertainment, screen technology, wikis, and wireless, are...

Tags: 3D Model

Blog posts 2005-02-14

IBM mainframe sales surge

IBM mainframe sales surgeMessage to Sun, you lost, give us your Java. NOW!!!:-)Gee, P.T. Barnum WAS right.......there IS a sucker born every minute!!!!!kind of makes you smileafter all the microsoft and unix rhetoric over the years about mainframes being dead, here they still are. Turns out making an extremely...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, sales, mainframe, IBM Corp., CPU, IBM mainframe

Discussion threads 2004-02-27

PhotoRite v3.0 for P800/P900/P910 3.0 (Mobile)

PhotoRite™ v3.0 for P800/P900/P910PhotoRite™ is an advanced image processing software solution to perform automatic enhancement on digital photos. Photos processed by the software will have much better visual appearance. With PhotoRite™, novice or professional users can get good photos anytime, anywhere! In this P800/P900 version, extra funny and useful filters...

Tags: Mobile, Photograph, Image Processing, PhotoRite

Software downloads 2004-02-12