Meet the experts: John McCalpin
Read a cool interview with John McCalpin. He is one of the many people working on IBM POWER processors. In the interview he talks about:
POWER6, POWER7, and 128-bit processing
Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT), Hypervisor, and virtualization
Automatically laid-out versus hand-tuned circuits
Operating systems
Supercomputing
Lots of interesting items. Worth the read.
Pushing Ahead
Didn’t get much done yesterday. To many meetings
Today I’m working on getting all the various parts of Sussen to talk to each other. Right now I’ve got a small client that uses remoting to connect to sussen-server. In turn, the sussen-server then uses remoting to talk to a sussen-scanner.
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