Gridget > 80 cores ”” so developers, whatcha gonna do with ”˜em?

[Powers Unfiltered]  The New York Times reminded everyone this week what many of us already know — that pretty much all new improvements in processing speed will come from more cores.  In this article by John Markoff, Intel prepares a demonstration of a single chip with 80 cores.  (We’ve been hearing about this for many months, but apparently now it’s ready to show off.) 

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[Powersunfiltered.com] Powers Unfiltered: In our experience, the bias Marc describes is strongest in IT, which has been taught for years that grid computing means Linux and UNIX almost by definition.  But the developer community is different, and often more in touch with the scalability requirements of specific applications.  These are the hearts and minds Digipede and Microsoft are winning — because adapting applications to the grid needs to be easier, and that’s our strength.  Developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio to develop their applications (.NET, COM, or anything else) find the Digipede Framework SDK provides the most natural approach available for adapting their applications to a grid.

[Blogs.sun.com] Dan Hushon Blogging Sun Grid: Sun Grid, an Internet Utility: I believe that this was a precipitating event in realizing Scott McNealy's long term vision of the Big Friggin Webtone Switch as well as Greg Papadopoulos' predictions around the demise of shrink-wrapped software, and the emergence of next generation utility data centers, and of course to Jonathan Schwartz who acted as a catalyst in moving towards subscription/utility software models. (Obviously a lot of credit has to be given to the Networking Infrastructure Providers who, during the great build out precipitated by the DotCom boom laid a tremendous amount of Bandwidth around the country, and brought substantially more reliable/redundant networks to every business and most every home.)

[Computeractive.co.uk] Microsoft's "nervous population" prepares for Vista - Computeract!ve: At the PC WorldVistalaunch this morning on Tottenham Court Road in London, a Microsoft executivedescribed the UK's middle-ground as a "nervous population". Lowe laterclarified: "We need early adopters to have a good Vista experience and then themiddle-ground will follow."

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