There is a letter (e-mail) from Microsoft to its partners where they are encouraged to pay up and vote. They will receive "marketing fundings" for doing so.
You're right, but how far can we scale this? I really think the 8-core chips of the future are
worthless for the desktop. It's just so much easier to write efficient programs than it is to
exploit that sort of parallelism. Then again, you could argue we don't even need all the cycles
we have. 8 core is not future. They've been here a year or so in production. Ask Sun... Maybe not for desktop, but anyway.
The Niagara has 8 cores each running 4 threads but have only one combined FPU. It's doing very well as web server etc. The Niagara 2 will have one FPU/core so it will also do general computing at rocking speed. The Rock will have 16 cores...
For people that are totally computer illiterate (and 99% are) there should not be a need to run any computer at all neither at home nor at work. The ISP or IT department and should provide a SunRay environment for them. Especially in the aftermath of the recent environmental discussions in Paris, France, the idea of a solution requiring 4 Watts power consumption looks ideal.
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It's as if there's only one ISP in Lund, which of course is not the case. Actually there are more ISPs than Vista users.
There is a letter (e-mail) from Microsoft to its partners where they are encouraged to pay up and vote. They will receive "marketing fundings" for doing so.
There's always Mythbusters and Brainiac...
...but will it run linux? Yes, of course. Although not as speedy as Solaris...Have a look at the Solaris man pages. Plenty of examples in them...
Why do you think ZFS is untested?
"The system is free for use if your storage requirements are less than 1 Terabyte." Not really what we in the free world is looking for...
The Niagara has 8 cores each running 4 threads but have only one combined FPU. It's doing very well as web server etc.
The Niagara 2 will have one FPU/core so it will also do general computing at rocking speed.
The Rock will have 16 cores...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_processor
The machines based on Niagara runs Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
For people that are totally computer illiterate (and 99% are) there should not be a need to run any computer at all neither at home nor at work. The ISP or IT department and should provide a SunRay environment for them. Especially in the aftermath of the recent environmental discussions in Paris, France, the idea of a solution requiring 4 Watts power consumption looks ideal.