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Intel Parallel Studio Beta Available Now
ntel® Parallel Studio includes Parallel Composer, Parallel Inspector, and Parallel Amplifier, providing the most comprehensive set of development tools for parallelism.Without hardware support for parallelism available in Intel® multicore processors—there was little or no benefit to writing parallel programs. Now, Intel brings 25 years of parallelism experience in high performance computing to more developers with products that complement and extend Microsoft Visual Studio* for parallelism.
MidpSSH - Java Client for mobile devices
The client is called MidpSSH and it is available in various versions that support telnet,ssh1 and ssh2. A full version that contains all the three versions is also available and it is only 119kBytes in size. This was the choice I made. I was able to establish an ssh2 connection with a remote server in no time.
Intel Core i7
QuickPath reminds me of the revolutionary Hypertransport bus used by AMD. The initial models of Core i7 only have a single QuickPath link, which means they are not meant for
Zilog’s Crimzon Connects - Ultimate Home Automation
I have always respected Zilog as the Z80 was the first microprocessor that I got to learn. Zilog has been quite actively working in the embedded domain for a long time. For example, the eZ80 was one of the first few microprocessors to offer a hardware TCP/IP stack.
gOS - Lightweight Ubuntu for Netbooks
Recently we have been seeing a lot of netbook and netPC vendors adapt various light-weight versions of different Linux distributions for use as the Netbook OS. gOS provides a very good alternative for Windows CE and Symbian. It can do much more than these operating systems. Everex and Sylvania have come up with the most prominent products that make use of this cute little OS.
Hifn 5NP4G Network Processor
The exceptional processing capability of the Hifn 5NP4G is enabled from its embedded processor complex, which is made up of 16 picoprocessors, multiple hardware accelerators, and a PowerPC™ microprocessor. A pair of picoprocessors share hardware accelerators in a configuration that can process up to 32 frames in parallel and provide an aggregate 2,128 MIPS.
TreeMark™ Tree Rating - A fresh perspective to green computing
Centaur semiconductors have come up with a very interesting way of evaluating the energy efficiency of micoprocessor products. It is called the TreeMark™ Tree Rating. Centaur defines it as “The number of trees that need to be planted to counter the amount of carbon dioxide created as a by-product of the electricity generated to power the processor over its operational lifetime”.
IPv6 around the corner - APNIC 26
Whether you’re just beginning to think about IPv6 or have been rolling it out for a couple of years, there’s IPv6 content at APNIC 26 to suit you. APNIC is holding their 26thopen standards summit that starts today at Christchurch in New Zealand.
Cuil - The Elegant Search Engine
I was amazed at the relevance of the results. Although the number of results shown at once is lesser than the contemporary search engines, it makes up for it by ensuring two things.
32 bit Floating Point for Micro Controllers
MicroMegacorp have created an FPU that comes in two versions an 8-pin DIP and an 18-pin DIP package. They can be connected via an I²C or SPI interface with virtually any micro controller that supports either of these interfaces.