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Thursday, September 25, 2003
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Today appeared my new column in the MikroPC magazine about Finnish killer application. I told about Aplac, Perch, and Nimbus, among other things.
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G5 Supercomputer Goes Online: "The Virginia Tech supercomputing cluster, which consists of 1,100 Apple G5 machines housing 4.4 TB of memory, goes online Sept. 24, meeting its target of starting operations by Oct. 1. Terascale Computing Facility director Srinidhi Varadarajan, who believes the cluster will be ranked "very highly" among the world's leading supercomputers, notes that the machine will cost only $5.2 million, in contrast to the $80 million to $100 million typical of similarly-sized projects. [...] Varadarajan also devised the cluster's "Deja vu" software package, which is designed to maintain computer stability by transferring a failed application to another location without alerting the computer, thus keeping the application intact. Lynn Nystrom of the College of Engineering says the project's cost will be distributed over five years; the supercomputer is expected to generate millions of dollars in research funding so that other research centers can be established."
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MSN Cuts Unmonitored Chatrooms Around the Globe: "Microsoft will be shutting down its unmonitored chat services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and much of Latin America on October 14th--the day before MSN Messenger will lock out many 3rd party clients. [...] It's starting to become clear that Microsoft is starting up the IM wars again and that the 3rd-party lockout indeed isn't so much about security as it is about marketshare." [Slashdot]
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