[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux and the pending new "Cell" Processor

[Robert Pearson]

Fred Hensley wrote:
> I just finished reading the article link below announcing a new multicore
> processor in joint development by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba.
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> ...[snip]... but more importantly how this consortium is describing future
> application and OS support.

I'm wondering if iWARP will be the Enabling Technology for Cell processors?
IWARP will certainly be a very Enabling Technology for Information for
any processor. Here are a couple of articles about iWARP.
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http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2005/013105techupdate.html?nlt
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My long term project of documenting the "Speed Limit of the
Information Universe" has become very interesting lately. Particularly
for the internal Speed Limit of Enabling Technology. Network Speed is
no longer the bottleneck. It is the internal Speed Limit of the
Enabling Technology.

> If I were a Microsoft executive in Redmond, now might be an excellent
> opportunity to quietly start exercising some stock options.

Cockroaches are still with us. Microsoft may be the cockroach of IT.

Thanks,

Robert