A new StarTrek trailer
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IBM acquires Transitive
Well, as Transitive delivers one of the foundations of IBMs PowerVM technology, i expected, that they would acquire Transitive at some point in time. Today IBM announced such a move...
Observations on the new Top 500 list
Just did an short look on the new Top500 list: Wow ...A Constellation is an own architecture type in the Top 500 list</lu> The are just 9 Itanium systems left...
Hadoop in the enterprise
We had an Hadoop presentation in the Emerging Technology track at CEC 2008. While it gave an good insight of the technology to the uninitiated, it left out one important...
Flickr-Photoset: CEC Las Vegas 2008
People from Switzerland are strange
Or to be exact: At least their sense of humor in regard of their airline. The Map application in the Swiss A340-300 is really interesting. They show some POI in...
Air travellers euphemism
Another word for special security screeeing? A TSA massage …
Valley of Fire
It´s called Valley of Fire for a reason …
SunCEC2008 - Day 6 : Heading homewards
The CEC2008 is over since yesterday, but my flight schedule gave me the opportunity to stay an additional night in Las Vegas. I used this additional afternoon to visit the...
Sun slashes 6000 employees
Not a good way to start the day as i´ve found a mail from Jonathan and some Google Alerts mails not much later. Sun will cut costs in the verge...
SunCEC2008 - Day 5: Good Morning Las Vegas
links for 2008-11-14
Analysis: Understanding the new 787 fastener challenge - FlightBlogger (tags: boeing blogs aircraft 787)
Networking
I don´t like this large networking receptions … my degree of having fun is reciprocally proportional to the number of people at the event minus 2. And when you add...
A walkthrough to the Sun Storage Simulator - Part 1: Initial Config
I hope that you won´t say after this walkthrough, that Sun can’t develop a decent GUI. I´ve used the VMware based storage simulator for the Sun Storage 7000 series to...
Sun Storage 7000 in the words of Kent Brockman
Paul Venezia wrote an article about this opinion about the new 7000 series and comes to an interesting conclusion: So, in the immortal words of Kent Brockman, I, for one,...
SunCEC2008 Day4: CET2008
Hmm … i used to write more about the CEC the last time. But this CEC is quite different to last one … i would call it Customer Engineering Training...
When it rains, it pours ...
Okay, the bad messages from Boeing doesn’t end: The flight blogger reports , that Boeing has to replace of nut plates because of non-conformance to specification, as they used ones...
links for 2008-11-13
Report: Overview of Recent Supercomputers (tags: hpc)
Outsourcing mal anders
Mit einem freundlichen Gruss an die Schweizer Kollegen, die eine Reihe vor mir im “Emerging Technologies”-Track sitzen ;) : Der Präsident der Sicherheitskommission des Ständerates hat vorgeschlagen, das man das...
A different modus operandi
Adam Leventhal brings it to a concise point where the new Sun Storage 7000 systems are really different from other systems besides of this cool administration interface: Further, you can...