Fun Friday - Jim Gray Tribute Scheduled
Jim Gray was lost at sea a year ago, but he is not forgotten. His family has joined with UC Berkeley, the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society to hold a day of technical sessions in his memory on Saturday, May 31, 2008 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley.......Posted by lynne at 12:09
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On the Road Again with Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research had its annual "Roadshow" event to demo all their new ideas. After the usual introduction in the traditional Klingon style (how big they are, how many battles they've won and enemies they've killed, and so on), Jim Gray said a few ......Posted by lynne at 11:20
Strange Friday - Anna Nicole, Jim Gray, Nowak
The last few weeks have had such a bizarre series of news items that I must admit have distracted me. Some of these items involve people I actually know or things I really care about. Others are simply too strange to ignore, especially when they make......Posted by lynne at 11:00
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Shrek II blows away TerraServer
Wow. It's official. Shrek II took a whopping 20 Terabytes of storage to create according to Benny Evangelista of the SF Chronicle, using "...a 3,000-processor render farm of Hewlett-Packard servers and more than 300 HP workstations equipped with dual......Posted by lynne at 21:52
Speed Stunts
Of course, never assume what the PR office of a university releases makes any real sense, as this SLAC press release demonstrates. Looks like a commonplace database search trick to throttle flow control in a faster than exp backoff by probing for the...Posted by lynne at 22:17
FastTCP and SSC - A Short Meditation
While we're all oohing and ahhing over CalTech's FastTCP bulk transfers and record busting using their new TCP congestion control - interesting paper (finally) by Jin/Wei/Low - contrast this with friendly rival Stanford's protocol high-speed TCP that...Posted by lynne at 11:25