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The US military has announced plans to buy 2,200 more of the game consoles, so that they can massively beef up the processing power of an existing, PS3-based supercomputer. A “Justification Review Document,” which has oddly been deleted from Google since I found it but is still available at this cache link, explains that, “the new PS3s will be placed in a cluster environment with an existing cluster of 336 PS3s by connecting each of the units’ one gigabit Ethernet port to a common 24 port gigabit hub.”
via arstechnica.com

Distributed, non-relational database systems – DNRDBMS – see

• The Future Is Big Data in the Cloud
• NoSQL – the new wave against RDBMS

Grid Dynamics nominated “2009 Top 150 Cloud Computing Players” by Cloud Computing Journal. Look at letter G – here we are, around Google. .

• Performance Check – EC2 Instance Types vs Virtual Server
• 10 reasons why cloud computing is bad idea
• Dulance returns back and Google’s Special Snippets for Price Comparison Sites
• Running Terracotta on Amazon EC2 ( terracotta.org )
• Using amazon EC2 security groups as tags for instances
• Cloud Hosting Performance – comparing popular cloud providers in real time for last 48 hours
• GoGrid Management Tools and Library – by the way today goGrid officially out of beta

* Cloud Computing makes your IT excessively dependent on the Internet
* Cloud Computing will attract clients mainly from Western markets
* Cloud Computing makes you dependent on the goodwill of your ISP
Continue reading ‘10 reasons why cloud computing is bad idea’ »

If a recent Evans Data study is any indication, private cloud deployments could rise sharply over the next year.

NYC big ideas :

• Realtime data on subway / bus arrivals / locations for use in mobile apps,
• Free WiFi locations in all 5 boroughs
• Mobile app to replace metro cards and kiosks

Recently, I crawl throught amazon.com and found that they have some bugs in their services – in some categories they have wrong stuff counter and also guys have really bad html code for their product pages. Continue reading ‘Amazon.com have about a 10% of waste web-traffic’ »

Stallman dismisses cloud computing as industry bluster. “It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign,” he said – huh, i agree that anything which contain “cloud” keyword have too much marketing stuff , but it’s not really stupid. There’s too much marketing stuff in this area ( and goGrid’s guys are the very first for this ‘too much marketing’ ), but let’s look on amazon ec2 – it’s really great amazing thing – last 7 years my work related with various size cluster’s, and last year my “server provider” is amazon – and I may say that amazon is much convenient than any company-owned-datacenter. For my it’s big deal when I can get 100 servers for 10 mins and run some job on them. There’s too much marketing noise in cloud industry, but it works and it works almost fine.
ps. Another point for cloud computing – it’s Steve Ballmer on defining the cloud.

CppCMS – c++ framework for highloaded web projects and applications. As I can understand CppCMS faster when WordPress + PHP in in 5 times at least, but currently it used only by project owner to support CppCMS blog. To get more info about this project you may look at this links : How to install wiki++ and Wiki++ installation package

Very intersting document – Attacking Russia’s nuclear forces with detailed city maps, described existing nuclear objects and other targets in Russia. Great thanks to _denplusplus_ for this link.

“Have you ever wanting to sell your things on e-bay, but you aren’t knowing?
NOW YOU CAN!!! ” – how to earn a million dollars with e-bay in pictures below
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The very best site is underconstruction I have seen in last year.