SGI slots 'Seaburg' chipset into blades
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| Altix ICE blades now include SGI ProPack for Linux, which gives granular
| control over throughput and I/O performance. The blades also include an
| updated version of SGI's Tempo cluster management tool. Tempo lets admins
| restrict traffic within the rack or within the blades themselves to keep
| extraneous traffic off the network.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/21/sgi_does_seaburg_chips/
What to do with a Terabyte of RAM
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| Come the day we get a terabyte of RAM in our systems, we'll find a need for
| it. After all, recall that great prophet Bill Gates who swore 640K of memory
| would be all we'd need. Real-time high-definition video editing anyone?
|
| [...]
|
| But while I can dream up applications that could use a terabyte of RAM, that
| leaves aside the wee technical problem of how you access that much memory.
| Daniel Phillips, a Linux developer, has an idea: the ramback virtual device.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9012826400.html
Recent:
Hip-hip-Hadoop!
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| Just one more reason why the Microsoft-Yahoo merger, if it happens, will be
| hell:
|
| [...]
|
| Go[t] that? 10,000 core processors running GNU/Linux at the heart of Yahoo.
| Microsoft is damned if they do (rip and replace) and damned if they don't. Go
| on, make our day, Steve....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/hip-hip-hadoop.html
Kernel space: How to use a terabyte of RAM
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| An experimental new design for Linux's virtual memory system would turn a
| large amount of system RAM into a fast RAM disk with automatic sync to
| magnetic media.
|
| We have not yet reached a point where systems - even high-end boxes - come
| with a terabyte of installed memory. But products like those from Violin
| Memory make it clear that the day is coming; one can buy a Violin box with
| 500GB in it now.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/031808-kernel.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Related:
Vista SP1 to lie about RAM usage. Deliberately!
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| If you right click on "My Computer" and go to properties, it will show the
| amount of RAM that your computer can see. This is perfectly fine, but
| sometimes the ignorant consumer buys 4GB of RAM, and thinks there is a
| problem when their OS only reports 3GB.
| So, what does the richest company in the world do about it?
| Fix the problem at the core?
| Enforce manufacturers to use 64bit?
| nope. They just have their OS lie about it.
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http://www.antonywilliams.com/2007/12/vista-sp1-to-lie-about-ram-usage.html
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