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GPU vs CPU: wrong battle, wrong war

Intel is out on the road, preaching a new way of looking at processors. Well, it's not so new - it's a repackaging, in shinier polygons, of what has most recently been called the CISC...

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Rupert Goodwins |
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27 November 2008, 7:56 AM

More cloud tales - what happens on rainy days?

Cloud computing has its elephants. One of the biggest is the threat of your cloud provider disappearing overnight, taking your data with it. Right now, that's an elephant with plenty...

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Rupert Goodwins |
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26 November 2008, 10:33 PM

Scaling in the Cloud - the secret pitfalls

As we move into the cloud, new problems are going to occur. That's standard issue for any new technology, as is one important aspect of the problem – we always end up fighting the last...

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Rupert Goodwins |
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25 November 2008, 12:44 PM

Nehalem - encounter at dawn

A little while ago, Intel sent us an evaluation Nehalem board, together with 3GB of memory, an 80GB SSD and a few bits and pieces. Charles and I decided to assemble this beast on camera...

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24 November 2008, 8:08 PM

Giving us the finger

You see it every day - probably every few minutes - online. Monty Python was fond of it, the Victorians found it invaluable, and its history goes back at least to Elizabethan times,...

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