By Paul Boutin, May 12, 2009
Google's Chrome browser has a market share that rounds down to zero. Yet Microsoft plans to argue to the European Commission that bundling Chrome into Windows -- an anti-trust decree the EC wants to impose -- will potentially give Google a monopoly hold on the Internet. The claim seems laughable to anyone who hasn't used Chrome. But those who try the largely unknown application almost unanimously rave about its speed and ease of use. Never mind the arcane software benchmark charts all over the 'Net: Chrome is fast. Google knows speed is addictive -- search queen Marissa Mayer has repeatedly said that a few hundred milliseconds per page makes a 20 percent difference in how often users type a search into Google. One of the company's major goals with Chrome is to effectively speed up the Internet for end users.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Computers Powering Computable Knowledge
by WolframAlpha Infrastructure Team May 12, 2009
When WolframAlpha launches, it will be one of the most computationally intensive websites on the internet. There is no way to know exactly how much traffic to expect, especially during the initial period immediately following our launch, but we’re working hard to put reasonable capacity in place. Will we have enough computing power to provide computable knowledge for everyone who visits? We hope so. We’ll service WolframAlpha from five distributed colocation facilities, which we somewhat unimaginatively call locations 0, 2, 3, 4, 5 (1 as a backup). What computing power have we gathered in these facilities for launch day? Two supercomputers, just about 10,000 processor cores, hundreds of terabytes of disks, a heck of a lot of bandwidth, and what seems like enough air conditioning for the Sahara to host a ski resort.
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When WolframAlpha launches, it will be one of the most computationally intensive websites on the internet. There is no way to know exactly how much traffic to expect, especially during the initial period immediately following our launch, but we’re working hard to put reasonable capacity in place. Will we have enough computing power to provide computable knowledge for everyone who visits? We hope so. We’ll service WolframAlpha from five distributed colocation facilities, which we somewhat unimaginatively call locations 0, 2, 3, 4, 5 (1 as a backup). What computing power have we gathered in these facilities for launch day? Two supercomputers, just about 10,000 processor cores, hundreds of terabytes of disks, a heck of a lot of bandwidth, and what seems like enough air conditioning for the Sahara to host a ski resort.
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Apple, Dell and HP owners sue Nvidia
Want failing graphics chips replaced
By Nick Farrell Tuesday, 12 May 2009
APPLE, DELL and HP notebook owners have combined their lawsuits against Nvidia in an attempt to force the graphics chip maker to replace its dodgy chips. According to CIO, the case, for which the plaintiffs have applied for class action status, could involve millions of computer owners who have suffered at the hands of Nvidia. Nvidia admitted to the problem in July 2008, when it said some older chipsets that had shipped in "significant quantities" of notebooks were flawed. Later it blamed its suppliers, manufacturers and even consumers and said it would take a $196 million charge to pay for replacing the graphics processors. Apple claimed it had been misled and said it was told that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, when Apple carried out its own investigation it discovered that some of the dodgy chips had ended up under the bonnets of its shiny MacBook Pro notebooks.
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By Nick Farrell Tuesday, 12 May 2009
APPLE, DELL and HP notebook owners have combined their lawsuits against Nvidia in an attempt to force the graphics chip maker to replace its dodgy chips. According to CIO, the case, for which the plaintiffs have applied for class action status, could involve millions of computer owners who have suffered at the hands of Nvidia. Nvidia admitted to the problem in July 2008, when it said some older chipsets that had shipped in "significant quantities" of notebooks were flawed. Later it blamed its suppliers, manufacturers and even consumers and said it would take a $196 million charge to pay for replacing the graphics processors. Apple claimed it had been misled and said it was told that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, when Apple carried out its own investigation it discovered that some of the dodgy chips had ended up under the bonnets of its shiny MacBook Pro notebooks.
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