Wow, what an insane year. Looking back on it, a lot of stuff has happened this year for me. Let’s look back: With the help of Patrick Crews and Andrew Hutchings, and building on the work of Jay Pipes, I managed to implement a pretty solid replication solution in Drizzle and made the slave plugin [...] [...more]
I have been following Virident for a long time (e.g. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/06/15/virident-tachion-new-player-on-flash-pci-e-cards-market/). They have great PCIe Flash cards based on SLC NAND. I always thought that Virident needed to come up with an MLC card, and I am happy to see they have finally done so. At Virident’s request, I performed an evaluation of their MLC [...] [...more]
Here are some the links I shared this week on twitter and facebook: Cloud Computing Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2. There were blog posts by Jeff Barr The Cluster GPU Instance and James Hamilton HPC in the Cloud with GPGPUs, as well as my [...] [...more]
Mozilla’s Firefox is one of the best browsers available for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Firefox 3.5, available now for free, is Mozilla’s new version of the browser which improves the experience in all aspects. Browsing speed has been improved with the new tracemonkey JavaScript engine, tab-tearing has been implemented, and geo-location has been added [...] [...more]
Bryan and Chris review the latest and greatest from System76, the Serval Professional laptop! You can find this unit at: system76.com [...more]
