Intel Dunnington processors coming next month
August 22nd, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 30 times, 1 so far today
Intel Dunnington processors coming next month
Microprocessor industry giant Intel is scheduled to launch their new generation six-core Xeon server processor next month.
These chips would come loaded with a larger cache to make them faster than the current offerings.
These new processors are currently codenamed Dunnington. They are for servers which can accommodate four or more processors.
Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group had recently said that these processors would provide a major boost in performance for their customers.
Dean McCarron, president of Mercury Research spoke about this new generation of processors: “Here, things like virtualization and Web services and cloud computing come into play, and all of these uses have no problem keeping two, four, six or more cores busy. This is the area we’ll likely see Dunnington make the most impact.”
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August 22nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Kudos to the Cloud Crowd for Re-Inventing the Wheel!
One thing 30 years in the IT industry has taught me is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Another is that the only memory we seem to access is short-term. A third is that techno-marketeers rely on that, so they can put labels like “revolutionary” and “innovative” on platforms, products and services that are mere re-inventions of the wheel … and often poor copies at that.
A good example is all the latest buzz about “Cloud Computing” in general and “SaaS” (software as a service) in particular:
http://tinyurl.com/6let8x
Both terms are bogus. The only true cloud computing takes place in aircraft. What they’re actually referring to by “the cloud” is a large-scale and often remotely and/or centrally managed hardware platform. We have had those since the dawn of automated IT. IBM calls them “mainframes”:
http://tinyurl.com/5kdhcb
The only innovation offered by today’s cloud crowd is actually more of a speculation, i.e. that server farms can deliver the same solid performance as Big Iron. And even that’s not original. Anyone remember Datapoint’s ARCnet, or DEC’s VAXclusters? Whatever happened to those guys, anyway…?
And as for SaaS, selling the sizzle while keeping the steak is a marketing ploy most rightfully accredited to society’s oldest profession. Its first application in IT was (and for many still is) known as the “service bureau”. And I don’t mean the contemporary service bureau (mis)conception labelled “Service 2.0″ by a Wikipedia contributor whose historical perspective is apparently constrained to four years:
http://tinyurl.com/5fpb8e
Instead, I mean the computer service bureau industry that spawned ADAPSO (the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations) in 1960, and whose chronology comprises a notable part of the IEEE’s “Annals of the History of Computing”:
http://tinyurl.com/5lvjdl
So … for any of you slide rule-toting, pocket-protected keypunch-card cowboys who may be just coming out of a fifty-year coma, let me give you a quick IT update:
1. “Mainframe” is now “Cloud” (with concomitant ethereal substance).
2. “Terminal” is now “Web Browser” (with much cooler games, and infinitely more distractions).
3. “Service Bureau” is now “Saas” (but app upgrades are just as painful, and custom mods equally elusive).
4. Most IT buzzwords boil down to techno-hyped BS (just as they always have).
Bruce Arnold, Web Design Miami Florida
http://www.PervasivePersuasion.com