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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/21

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:13 +0000

The Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest computing system according to the TOP500 rankings. The Jaguar grabbed the number one spot from IBM after upgrading roughly 250,000 processors from quad-core Opterons to six-core Istanbul Opterons. The system, which is used by the US Department of Energy, delivers a performance of 1.75...

In the "Data Path": Dumping the Database

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:45 +0000

Bottlenecks to application scalability are a thorn in many architects' sides. Offloading the database and dumping the impedance mismatch with object caching is one answer, but that may require major changes to a company's data management environment. In an exclusive interview with DZone, Ari Zilka, the CTO and co-founder of Terracotta, Inc., explained how his company can solve scalability...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:43:04 +0000

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today. According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures won't have control-invocation statements as a goal and it won't include non-local returns. Reinhold also indicated that access to non-final variables was unlikely.

Java Scheduling Gets a Shot in the Arm, Courtesy of Terracotta

matt — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:25:02 +0000

Terracotta continues its open source project acquisition tear today, bringing the the Quartz Scheduler project into it's fold. This latest move follows the acquisition of the EhCache project back in August. According to Terracotta, the acquisition of Quartz helps them meet the needs of customers in virtualized environments. Much of the immediate development will be focused on adding more...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:57:25 +0000

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were submitted to Sun over the last few years and now early reports say the starting point for Java closures will be the FCM v0.5 proposa

Azure to Feature App Marketplace

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:58:36 +0000

Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form. The announcement was made at this week's PDC conference where Microsoft is promoting their Azure cloud services. Microsoft says that the Azure cloud will come with marketplaces for online apps

CTO Ari Zilka Says Terracotta is Fast

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:40:47 +0000

Terracotta is having a defining year in 2009. Their Hibernate and EHcache products provide innovative methods for object-relational mapping and distributed caching. The Terracotta 3.1.1 server is already extremely fast, but Terracotta is trying to make it even faster. DZone recently spoke with Ari Zilka, the CTO of Terracotta, Inc., in an exclusive interview about the features and...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open source. The TCP/IP stack and cryptography stack are still closed, however, because a third-party owns the software. The .Net Micro framework is a development and execution environment for small devices.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Mark your calendars! The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. Register here for a chance to present at either conference.

Inside the New Apache Solr

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:32:36 +0000

In 2006, Solr was donated to the Apache Foundation and integrated into the Lucene project. Apache Solr is an enterprise search platform that powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. It harnesses the popular Apache Lucene Java search library, which has over 3,000 installations. With the recent release of Solr 1.4, DZone conducted an exclusive...

Top 6 Open Source Java EE Application Servers

Kalali — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:47:35 +0000

This is a very basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet container (Web containers) to let the community know which active containers are available and what is the general status of each container. The article can simply act as a start point for anyone need to select one of them for later use in development or product. Detailed comparison...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/16

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights. Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple machines. Apparently, Psystar didn't read the Mac OS X end user license agreement, which states that the Mac OS may only be installed on Apple computers.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be? Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. Reporters have been asking Florian Mueller for his prediction for quite a while now and he finally answered: Novell. However, Novell was introduced to open source by a loan from IBM, and it seems Oracle is unlikely to spin off MySQL to a friend...

Introduction to Amazon Cloud Computing

riho — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:41 +0000

Amazon is the current leader of Cloud provider based on the IaaS model. At the heart of its technology stack, they have the virtual machine layer called EC2. Amazon also provides a set of surrounding services for data storage, metadata storage, message queues, payment processing, content cache … etc.EC2 – Elastic ComputingReferences Reference: ...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor? Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card? It drives eight monitors, each at 2560 x 1600 pixels. If eight monitors isn't enough, try combining two for a seamless, 16 monitor desktop.