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Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
Unbound Spiral: Skype + Podcast Recorder = SkypeCasters [Edubloggers Links Feed]
This type of product/service has many applications in education and
daily life, but the advent of one button eternal audio memories on the
internet will likely be disruptive technology because it elevates
anyone with a cellphone and support to be a world wide broadcaster of
"conversations" both public and private. It should spur a good
buisness in harvesting speech recognition results and perhaps even help
open source some of the NSA software as we become a sonically
transparent society. --0 most of us would like to know what others say
about us) BL
10:54:32 AM Google It!.
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Google is going "mini" too, according to this News.Com article.
"The blue box, which plugs into a corporate intranet and searches up to
50,000 documents, will go on sale Thursday at Google.com for about
$5,000." [Scripting News]
8:10:58 AM Google It!.
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VM-enabled polycore computing. Patrick Logan points to a fascinating opinion piece in the Register by Shahin Khan of Azul Systems. Patrick quotes this bit:
A major shift is coming. Over the next few years, your ordinary
applications will be able to tap into systems with, say, 7,000 CPUs, 50
tera bytes of memory, and 20 peta bytes of storage. In 2005, Azul
Systems will ship compute pools with as many as 1,200 CPUs per a single
standard rack (1.2 kilo cores! - I like the sound of that!)
What would change about application design if you could do
this? Well, think back to what applications were like when you had just
128K of memory in your PC and a 512KB hard drive. The difference
between the capabilities and flexibility of applications in those days
and now is the level of improvement that we are talking about. [Register: Get ready to buy chips by the kilo]
The prospect of polycore computing suggests, to Patrick, that it's time to revisit programming systems designed for large-scale parallelism:
A single Erlang node on a single CPU today can comfortably
get into the tens of thousands of dynamic processes. What would your
system look like running hundreds of thousands or a million dynamic
processes and lot of activity is spent collaborating with other systems
also running at that scale?
See "Apache vs. Yaws" (Yaws is an Erlang-based web server)...
Yaws is still functioning at over 80,000 parallel connections.
... [Jon's Radio]
8:08:40 AM Google It!.
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