May 8th, 2007
Didn’t have time to post about all the buzz generated by the “Gameframe” announce by IBM:
IBM today disclosed a cross-company project to integrate the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) with the IBM mainframe for the purpose of creating a hybrid that is blazingly fast and powerful, with security features designed to handle a new generation of “virtual world” applications, such as the 3D Internet.
The other company involved in the project is Hoplon Infotainment, who runs its massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) Taikodom on an IBM zSeries Server. If you are looking for another great MMOG game then try out destiny, its a very popular game around the world. If you have a hard time completing the missions then check out this destiny 2 boost. But the news is not that IBM is getting involved in the game industry nor the virtual worlds. As reported by the eightbar team, this is not the first time that IBM tries to run MMOG in its hardware, as back in 2005, IBM Eve-Online.
The real innovation is that IBM is going to integrate CELL engines within IBM mainframes. Previous integrations were zIIP and zAAP specialty engines, but this time, CELL will be the first specialty engine to actually feature different hardware. The combination of the power of the CELL chips with the high-performance mainframes will result in a single system that can can run complex online games and virtual worlds.
BTW, last day, I was exploring the IBM SOA Hub in Second Life when I found an ATM connected to a real mainframe. Kareltje Krasher, one of the IBM guys, told me that this ATM is connected to the Smartbank zSeries infrastructure, a live banking operating environment running CICS and DB2:
Nice to see how IBM is reinventing mainframes. Long Life The Mainframe!
May 7th, 2007
If you are near Barcelona these days, you don’t want to miss the computer vintage exhibition organized by the Barcelona School of Informatics to mark it’s 30 anniversary.
The exhibition will include some pieces related to calculus and automatic data processing (abacus, slide rules, vintage desktop and laptop computer, …), covering a period between the 2nd half of the XIX century and principles of the 90-s of the XX century, as well as an original Charles Babbage book.
Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona
B6 Building 1st – Floor (Sala de Juntes)
UPC – North Campus
Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona
From April, 18 To May, 31
Exhibition hours: Monday to Friday, 10 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 8 pm
The official announce (in Spanish) is here.
May 7th, 2007
Conan O’Brien visits the Intel Headquarters in Santa Clara, CA:
May 3th, 2007
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Patrick points out two qualities we desire and look for in our own jobs and in potential new hires: essence and passion. The problem is how to maintain the passion? Ken Beck provides some suggestions in “Ease at Work”
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Eclipse Live is your source of multi-media material about Eclipse projects and Eclipse-based products
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TheServerSide and BEA have come together to offer TSS readers BEA Workshop Studio 3.3, normally $899 USD, for $99 USD until May 31, 2007. This is part of what will become integrated with Workshop for WebLogic 10
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EclipseZone (in conjunction with the Eclipse Foundation) proudly presents the Europa Podcast Series! This sort of hearkens back to last year with Riyad Kalla and his 10 interviews with the heads of various project heads.
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Will OSGi become a tool of choice for enabling component development for Java development? OSGi can also be an architectural asset to promote component oriented software development in organizations.
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The IMS™ Newsletter is published three times a year
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This chapter covers the history of IBM’s Information Management System (IMS) from its beginnings at NASA in 1969 to its current incarnation, and explains why IMS is still relevant to customers today.
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Don Ferguson interview at the 11th issue of the Microsoft Architecture Journal: He doesn’t explain what he is doing at MS, just explains his earlier career as IBM Fellow
Hi Ferran,
First, thanks for the link to my blog at virtual-generations.com, I really appreciate it! 🙂
Second, I saw you implemented OpenID! That’s great! I’m trying myself for a long time to implement it. Hope you can help me out and give me some tips on how to implement it,is it a plugin?
Jaap Steinvoorte
Hi Jaap, Thanks for your comment!
About OpenID, I’m actually using the Versata WordPress OpenID Plugin. It works pretty well and it’s easy to install.
And if you need an OpenID host, check MyOpenID. They’ll host an ID for you free of charge. 🙂
If you need more information, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Apr 26th, 2007
LogicaCMG has created a new site, called EPF Wiki, aimed to contain free software process descriptions, created using the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) Composer, that everyone can edit using Wiki technology.
EPF Wiki is Wiki technology designed to be used together with Eclipse Process Framework (EPF). This offers the best of two distinct worlds: the worlds of powerful process frameworks and Wikis. It offers an process engineering infrastructure that combines a modular method construction approach and the flexibility and ease of use that is the defining characteristic of a Wiki.
EPF Wiki is an innovation that adds Wiki features to the hypertext process descriptions created with EPF Composer.
There is a discussion in epf-dev maillist about how Wikis can be accepted as a means of contributing as expected by the Eclipse organization, similar to Bugzilla and the official discussions lists.
This new site is considered an unofficial EPF community site, as this technology is still under Eclipse Legal Review, and it is not available as a download. It is planned to become available in the third quarter of 2007.
