With the talk of FPGAs, cosmic rays, and soft upsets, I thought I'd send
this along...
Fourth Annual IEEE-SCV Soft Error Rate (SER) Workshop (Thursday, October
25, 2012)
This is a FREE event, and includes lunch. There is no fee for attending.
The 4th annual IEEE Santa Clara Valley SER
Announcement attached below.
The 3/19/2013 On Demand Archive is stored here
http://mediasite.engr.wisc.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=cb72ddcb-449c-47b6-a128-7dc900cefb04
and is about an hour long.
Sort of basic stuff at the front (targeted at power engineers), then gets
From
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2846009/the-5-smart-stats-that-actually-predict-hard-drive-failure.html
:
Hard drive software that IT administrators use to monitor drive health is
highly inconsistent from drive to drive and manufacturer to manufacturer,
according to data collected
"Engineers at North Carolina State University and at Intel have come up
with a solution to one of the modern microprocessor?s most persistent
problems: communication between the processor?s many cores. Their answer
is a dedicated set of logic circuits they call the Queue Management
Device, or
For those of you who have too much time on your hands (and money), there
is a new Raspberry Pi based crowd funding project open,
"Circumference is a miniaturised datacentre-in-a-box, complete with
programmable power distribution and sequencing, instrumentation, cooling,
networking, and a
Cringely has some interesting observations...
"The deal is a good fit for many reasons explained below. And remember Red
Hat is just down the road from IBM?s huge operation in Raleigh, NC.
"Will Amazon, Google, and Microsoft now run out and buy SUSE, Ubuntu,
Apache, etc? Yes.
"Will there be
Well, this is interesting.
"According to Forced Physics?
