CHIPS 'N DIPS

Musings on Broadbus and Multicore.

When every blog says, "Here's my two bits,"
It seems a stretch to speak of 64.

Continue reading "Bobby Fischer 1943-2008"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 10:57 AM  Permalink |

Of the many things I love about electronic publishing is that I will never be compelled to atone for a bad prediction by running my words through a blender and drinking the resulting text-smoothie in front of hundreds of people.

Continue reading "Why I love writing online: Reason 99"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 04:24 PM  Permalink |

In a long series on Apple's encroachments into what we are now supposed to call 'the enterprise,' Andrew Burger at MacWorldNews takes time out to talk about how and why Apple is so popular in scientific computing.

Continue reading "The Apple of their eye"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 04:32 PM  Permalink |

Udi Manber has quite a sense of humor.

Google's VP of Engineering wonders on his personal website, "Why is there no synonym for 'thesaurus'?" I wonder why someone so interested in online content hasn't substantially updated his personal website in ten years.

Continue reading "Google trawls for knols"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 03:15 PM  Permalink |

Bill Inmon coined the term 'data warehousing,' wrote the first book on the subject, and held the first conference on data warehousing. Lately he's turned his attention to the broader challenge of managing unstructured textual data.

Continue reading "Tapping into Unstructured Data"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 05:41 PM  Permalink |

It's Sun's ZFS, of course, but I've been tracking news of Apple's implementation of Sun's Zettabyte File System, and I'm not the only one.

Continue reading "Apple's ZFS"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 12:40 PM  Permalink |

Here are a few more of the folks exhibiting or presenting at SC07, the ACM/IEEE-sponsored International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, running from November 10th through the 16th at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

Continue reading "Coming to Reno"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 01:52 PM  Permalink |

SC07, the ACM/IEE-sponsored International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, runs from November 10th, that's tomorrow, through the 16th at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Here are some of the companies and products I know of that will be appearing at SC07.

Continue reading "SC07 Update"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 01:15 PM  Permalink |

I grew up on "American Bandstand," and I used to cringe when it came to the Rate a Record segment, because I knew that the kids were going to give the record a totally meaningless numerical rating and when Dick Clark asked why they gave it an 87 or whatever it was, they would invariably say, "It has a good beat and I can dance to it."

Continue reading "Sun gets smart about music recommendation"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 05:33 PM  Permalink |

Next month, supercomputing folks from all over the world will be converging on northwest Nevada for a major high performance computing conference. I'll be there. Will you?

Continue reading "HPC in Reno"

Posted by Mike Swaine at 02:03 PM  Permalink |