Ben, Jason, and Dave talk about load balancing, quantum computers, Intel’s 80-core chip, Yahoo Pipes, Widgets and the harm they can do, and John Carmack.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
This week’s music: John Lennon. I bought this in Starbucks.
This week’s highlighted product: nothing.
Call in number: 415-226-1066.
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If only Starbucks would rename to Seattle, it would be a good start. They don’t sell music at their South African stores. Seattle is franchised from Starbucks.
Intels 80 core will be released in 3 years and only consumes 62 watts.
That’s amazing no matter what how much you like AMD or SUN.
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9496/1103/
I forgot to mention that the Intel 80 core is “3.16 GHz per core, using 0.95V voltages.”
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-039-s-80-Core-CPU-Running-at-5-7-GHz-46881.shtml
Is this the photo of Ben talked about in this weeks episode.
http://sol10frominnerspace.blogspot.com/
@Greg H: yes we agree, the Intel kit is impressive. And, to restate a point we’ve made many, many times, the Intel progress underscores the need for an operating system able to take advantage on the many, many cores that are coming. We don’t think that’s Linux…or Mac OS X…or Vista.
David Young wrote:“an operating system able to take advantage on the many, many cores that are coming”
reminds me of Greg P.’s “Redshift” presentation:
http://www.sun.com/events/sas2007/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2007feb06_sas
(6th link down to the right of the video window)
What precludes the likes of Linux or OS X or Vista from supporting that many cores?
I don’t see (open)solaris on the desktop any sooner than I see linux on the desktop. Or am I missing the point?
@PhilipJ: nothing precludes them (Linux and Vista) from supporting many cores. And nothing precludes me from becoming a model on the front cover of “Men’s Fitness”. Except, I’m not. And Linux and Vista won’t. Look, supporting so many cores is difficult. It’s true Solaris is open source. But the job scheduling and the many other operations required to support many, many cores don’t just get dropped in without impact on the rest of the OS. That’s been in Solaris for more than a decade.
I’m not saying Solaris is coming to the desktop. But the desktop is coming to the server (Web 2.0) and Solaris on the server, the multi-core server, is very interesting to Joyent. We hope you’ll conclude the same.
This is weird, Feedburner has an article about new BingoDisk plans, and gives the following URL
http://joyeur.com/2007/02/20/bingodisk-two-new-plans-10-and-15-gb-versions-and-unlimited-bandwidth
Yet, this URL is not active nor is BingoDisk.com updated to reflect the plans.
Bring on unlimited bandwidth !!!!
@Greg: should be fixed.
What’s up with Episode 12? Are you guys slacking off or something?
Gawsh!