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Want to be the envy of every digital animator and movie producer in a thirty mile radius? At the Siggraph convention in Los Angeles, Texas Memory Systems is showing off a massive rack tower with 64 TB of high-speed flash memory. The rack can perform 800,000 input/output instructions per second and runs on just 2.5 kilowatts of power. Total bandwidth on this beast is 12 GB/s.

The problem with taking advantage of multicore/manycore hardware isn’t (as much) on the server, it’s on the client.

WSO2 adds data services and security features in Mashup Server 1.5

Cloud computing is, at its core, about delivering applications or services in an on-demand environment. Cloud computing providers will need to support hundreds of thousands of users and applications/services and ensure that they are fast, secure, and available. In order to accomplish this goal, they'll need to build a dynamic, intelligent infrastructure with four core properties in mind: transparency, scalability, monitoring/management, and security.

Alan Dean published a flow diagram of the process of an HTTP request inside a webserver, and all the possible status code outcomes.

In Oracle's world nothing changes, everything stays the same and no products ever die. Except those things that get "converged" or downgraded.

While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create a cartoon that you can put on your Facebook friends’ sites.

I woke up this morning and checked TechMeme to see what was happening in the tech world. Three stories jumped out at me. Amazon was down due to a Denial of Service attack. Twitter has been down many times over the past few weeks. Dave Winer says he needs a Plan B for Twitter. Disqus, the blog commenting service, has also been down several times recently.

What does Speed Racer have to do with High-Performance Computing? Find out in this article, which explores the connection between these two hot topics.

After few weeks of beta testing, Google App Engine has opened their signup to everyone. This is significant for several reasons: It makes hosting your web app really simple, cheap and scalable.

When you think of Java, what's the first company that comes to mind? In the past the quick answer would have been Sun, however lately I've been getting the impression that this is changing. I'm feeling a seismic shift in the Java world, and that shift is going away from Sun.

This article attempts to explain how you can minimize your exposure to incompatible changes in the Java EE platform.

Many OSGi advocates have said they wish JSR 277 would "just die". Why? Because 277, as currently defined, seems to thumb its nose at this mature, widely adopted and rapidly growing modularity solution.

In a reply to a post on Multiprocess versus Multithreaded in the (Java) web application world (http://erikengbrecht.blogspot.com/2008/04/multiprocess-versus-multithreaded.html), Martin asks for a programming language concept that allows to define stateless code parts which would allow libraries to be shared by multiple processes while at the same time they could be easily killed, without affecting all the other processes using that library.

Java's package mechanism today, is basically broken, because there is no hierarchical model. Hence, there is no way to completely hide your implementation from the outside world and no true separation of interfaces and implementation.

In the first Groovy Zone podcast, Scott Davis took a few minutes to chat with Graeme Rocher, the lead developer of the popular Grails framework heading up the G2X Conference this month. Listen in as Scott and Graeme talk about the recently released Grails 1.0, the G2X conference, G2One, and the future of Groovy.