nVidia prsente Fermi, its new architecture GPU with the performances of supercomputer

Technology – the founder has dvoil his new graphics processor GT300 Fermi grav in 40 Nm and equipped with 3 billion transistors. Available dbut 2010, this GPU is destiny with the high efficiency applications.

C `is the occasion of its GPU Technology Conference that
has prsent Fermi, the new architecture of its new graphics processor
GT300.

Grav in 40 Nm by TSMC, the processor counts 3 billion transistors,
more of the double of the gnration prcdente GT200 (1,4 billion transistors).
A worthy power D `a supercomputer that nVidia precisely intends for
calculations high efficiency (High Computing Performance).

« It is perfectly
empty that the GPU are dsormais processors of calculation parallle
gnralists having incredible graphic capacits, and more only of
graphics processors » , dclare Jen-Hsun Huang, the chairman of nVidia.

To make
GPU plus qu `a GPU, voil thus the mission of the GT300 which would owe tre available
dbut 2010. (Eureka Press)

#

Open Network Invention shows its Microsoft turn to threaten Linux

Legal – At the time of lvnement LinuxCon, the director by far has Microsoft accumulators to davoir essay to rcemment sell rcemment patents of the known socits for tre procdurires and likely D `to attack Linux.

the Linux Foundation and the OIN, two associations of dfense of Linux, do not digrent dfinitivement the rcente sale of 22 patents (lily Linux) by Microsoft. Aprs Jim Zemlin, the director of the Linux Foundation, C `is with the turn of Open Invention Network (OIN) D `to show Microsoft to threaten Linux while resorting as arms the intellectual proprit.

Recall of the facts: dbut September, Microsoft cdait AST, a socit whose activit consists to acqurir patents, to provide its members of the perptuelles licences, then finally the cder D `other companies.

Microsoft forgets to however request the OIN rpute

the OIN S `is then brings closer D `AST for and to prvenir a repurchase by a hostile socit. However, according to Keith Bergelt, which S `is exprim this subject the occasion of LinuxCon de Portland, Microsoft could not be unaware of only association conceals a potential acquror dowry of financial means sufficient.

Pourtant never N `has T contacts by the ditor of Windows, which would have on the other hand approch several other companies, among which some are known to carry out legal actions against Linux in S `supporting on patents.

Keith Bergelt voluntarily shows moreover Microsoft D `to have insist during the ngociations on the bond with Linux of these diffrents patents, when those are on the contrary very often cds naked, load for the acquror D `auditer him-Mrs. the contents of the patent.

the acts of Microsoft in the free one pain to convince

For the leader of the Open Invention Network, the sale ralise by Microsoft had a motivation hiding place: crer a climate of fear, D `uncertainty and of doubt in the communaut. The firm of Redmond has dcidment great difficulty to cause confidence.

During its, the ditor has martel to however want to collaborate with Free the, insistent one for example on its agreements with Red Hat and Novell, the setting provision under licence LPG V2 of source (of the pilots for), or the cration of its Open Source foundation.

But Microsoft will have to further go, S `it wants rellement to convince of associations like the OIN or the Linux Foundation of its volont to collaborate with the free software.

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Red Hat delivers pilots under LPG for the virtual machines Windows

Red Hat, which proposes KVM, a hypervisor for Linux, has just diffused under new drivers for Windows.

Difficult indeed for a ditor of solutions to make the dead end on the optimization of the virtual machines Windows.
# These rseaux pilots, whose Network Driver Interfaces Specification (NDIS), aim amliorer the performances of the machines htes Windows on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine).

the technical dtails and the bonds of tlchargement are available on.
# announces It of Red Hat intervenes a little less D `one month aprs that of Microsoft concerning the setting provision of Windows in Open Source for the virtual authorities Linux in its hypervisor propritaire.

Dell is reassured in the 2nd quarter malgr sales lowers

With a figure D `businesses quarterly in retreat of 22% over one year, 12,76 billion dollars, environment would owe a priori tre plutt morose within the manufacturer amricain. C `is however the opposite feeling which prdomine and the title dimensioned thus in rise of more than 6% aprs announces it quarterly rsultats.
# Indeed, Mrs. if N `cap not, the rsultats are awaited nanmoins better qu `and leaves by consquent esprer a new amlioration during the second half-year 2009. Admittedly the bnfice Net, 472 million dollars, is infrior that enregistr in the 2nd quarter 2008 (616 million dollars), but it is maintained malgr a whole acceptable level taking into account the context conomic.
# the sales with the companies gain 3% between 1st and 2nd quarter
# is hard touch with sales in fall of 32% 3,3 billion dollars. However, enters and the 2nd quarter 2009, the figure D `businesses increases by 3%, thus translating a dbut of recovery. On Mrs. interval, the march of the public sector gains 20% (but 16% lose over one year 3,8 billion dollars).
# the sector of the small and medium-size companies (2,8 billion dollars of CA), on the other hand, delays to find the way of the growth with -29% over one year, and -5% D `one quarter on the other. As for, it dcline of 9% per report/ratio 2008.

iPhone fissurs: Apple affirms new that the incidents are due shocks

Scurit – Aprs to have analys the terminals whose notch S `is breaking, the firm remains on its positions. And reoit the support of the secrtaire D `tat charg of the Trade, Herv Novelli.

The file iPhone is remont with the more high level. This Friday, the secrtaire D `tat charg of the Trade, Herv Novelli, has reu the director gnral D `Apple France, Michel Coulomb. Objective of this meeting: to make light on the multiple cases D `notches fissurs or breaking D `iPhone in France.

And Apple finally left its silence. Before this go, the firm had officially communiqu by underlining once again that these incidents taient due shocks, therefore a misuse of its propritaires.

to advance this explanation, Apple is based on the examination of the terminals that certain users have retourn to him. “; In all the cases which we have examins this day, the cracks are dregs an external pressure exerts on the iPhone”; , explains apple.

No polmic

Apple does not change a speech whereas many users touchs persist in affirming the opposite. The majority explain N `to have made fall the smartphone, nor had made him undergone “; a pressure externe”; …

Return the box dpart thus? In any case, the secrtaire D `State with the Trade supports the Californian firm. “; It N `does not take place aujourd `there today polmiquer but plutt of rpondre to the interrogations of the ones and others: C `is this qu `has commenc to make the direction D `Apple and I thank it. We agreed with the direction D `Apple qu `they hold us perfectly with the current, in time rel in the hours and the days which come, of the rsultats of the others tests”; qu `they will mneront on the others iPhones rcuprs, has it indiqu with leaving its to return to you.

Only certainty in this file, the batteries would be out of cause. One S `doubted it a little since malgr breakings and the cracks, the iPhone touchs continue to function. “; this day, there N `is no incident avr which would be D the overheating of the battery of the iPhone 3GS, and those on which we enqutons count on the fingers of the main”; , Apple affirms.

a thing is sre, the serial is far D `tre termin…

HP estimates that the crisis is derrire him

Business – Malgr of the quarterly rsultats in significant fold, the data-processing glove does better than prvu and estimates that the conomy S `east stabilizes.

HP has rassur the marchs. The numro world of the PC made tat for its troisime tax quarter 2009 of performances in fall but suprieures with waitings. Especially, the glove amricain foresees signs of recovery.

On the priode, the group posts a bnfice Net D `1,6 billion dollar, 67 hundreds
by action against 2,03 billion,
80 hundreds per action, one year before. Except lments exceptional, HP has annonc a bnfice of 91 hundreds per title against a consensus 90 hundreds.

Jump of the services

the figure D `businesses folds up of 2% 27,5 billion dollars whereas the analysts counted on 27,2 billion dollars. All the activits are in the red except the services which leap of 93% (thank you EDS): (- 18%), printers (- 20%), waiters (between -14% and -30%), (- 21%).

According to the director financire Cathie Lesjak, these figures tmoignent D `a stabilization of the conomy. For, chairman, the crisis are derrire the group and the activit could redmarrer in the 4th quarter.

the firm prvoit one
bnfice and a figure D `business annual in the middle of the fork
give at the time of its dernires prvisions. In May, HP had prdit one
bpa ranging between 3,76 and 3,88 dollars.

Total Allianz Investors conomise grce in Thin Provisioning

tude of case – the financial group has virtualis its storage through Thin Provisioning, put in uvre in a top-of-the-range bay. A project which allowed him rduire its cots malgr the increase in its requirements in disk space.

Subsidiary of the group Allianz, Allianz Global Investors gathers the activits management D `active and liking thus 920 billion D `euros D `incur. To ensure these oprations, the computer infrastructure S `avre critical. The sector of finance caractrise galement by requirements in unceasingly increasing terms of capacit for storage. Total Allianz Investors France, which liking 65 billion D `euros, N `cap not the rgle.

« We tions parties there are some anuses on bays of the midrange type. Two catgories of waiters, Solaris and Windows, attack bay. We reached a premire limit in I/O on the part Unix, rsolue while passing on matriel HP EVA8000. Six months later, we reached another block on the waiters Windows » , explains Pierre-Yves Bouchard, responsible production and infrastructure D `Allianz GI France.

Thin Provisioning: mutualiser free space on bay of storage

With problmatic of safeguard S `adds moreover that of the acceptable limit of physical storage. A project is thus amorc in April 2008. Six manufacturers rpondent the call D `offers, of which the amricain 3Par. Meanwhile, the crisis S `invites and with it the constraints budgtaires. The project complte thus D `a need for rduction of the cots.

« In practice, a ingnior systme tends to take a margin in matire D `disk space, just like the ingnior bases give or the applicatif ingnior. On the whole, surface request is thus always suprieure usable surface. We had ds at the time need D `a solution allowing us D `conomiser on surface disc proposes while preserving flexibility on the assignment » , clarifies Pierre-Yves Bouchard.

Alternate reserve: of storage through. The principle consists mutualiser free space on bay of storage between all the waiters, plutt that D `to affect strict spaces each one. Storage can thus tre optimis grce a hot allowance D `space, thus rpondant the problmatique one of saturation or underutilization of the discs.

to prvenir overconsumption by an application and to preserve a margin of scurit, diffrents thresholds D `alarm is paramtrs. The mcanisms of Thin Provisioning at Allianz GI France are implemented in a bay of top-of-the-range storage of the manufacturer 3Par.

the cot of bay deadened ds the premire Anne

Concrtement, the project has consist prsenter with the waiters 26 To of volumtrie for a total space rel of 15 To, and 11 To of give concrtement useful. With a traditional bay, Allianz GI France would have D to acqurir the 26 To.

As the bay, redonde on a deuxime computer room in synchronous rplication, it includes/understands four contrleurs and of the discs of high qualit in attachment Fibre Chanel. But Thin Provisioning allowed D `to deaden the cot bay ds the premire Anne, grce also at the prices comptitifs matter by 3Par, including with regard to the maintenance contract over three years.

With the volution of the volumtrie, it undertaken still will be able …

Book lectronic: Sony passes to the open format ePub

Technology – the Japanese glove has annonc Thursday quil adopted the format of file ePub for its book lectronic and its virtual bookshop. Will LePub be the MP3 of the book?

Sony seems to have a got prononc for the battles of
standards. Aprs lost that of Betamax but rcemment gagn that of
Blu-ray vis-a-vis the HD-DVD, the Japanese glove tries D `to impose its views on the march
book lectronic.

It comes D `to announce to adopt the format ePub for its book
lectronic, the Reader, as for numric pounds qu `it sells on its
platform. This way, the books will not be exclusively lily in Sony
Reader and this one will be able to read contents in source D `other sources.

MP3 of the book

the ePub is an open format recognized by International the DIGITAL Publishing Forum
and of the diteurs. C `is a little the MP3 of the book, C `is in any case what Sony
try to cause. The ide is to take the advantage on competition and in
Amazon private individual who has bti an exclusive technical modle his Kindle.

Sony has also annonc qu `it gave up its systme DRM with the profit D `one
solution dveloppe by Adobe. Two must arrive the 25 aot including one 199 dollars. Remain that much
glances turn to Apple which could announce its returns and to make a e-book of it more
tendency. (Eureka Press)

Toshiba passes to Blu-ray

Technology – Promoter of competitor format HD-DVD quil has abandonment dbut 2008, Toshiba should finally market readers Blu-ray ds this Anne.

complete Reversal of situation for Toshiba which would have, according to the Japanese press, throw a range of readers Blu-ray D `here end of the Anne.

During long months, and with dtriment of the consumer, Toshiba has Sony affront in a war of the formats by dveloppant the HD-DVD vis-a-vis Blu-ray. And C `is finally this last which has it carrying when studios of cinma, whose Warner, are rows of sound ct.

As a fvrier 2008, and annonait. This scnario points out that of Sony in asses 80 with its format Betamax balay by the VHS.

the march of Blu-ray amorant a vritable dcollage since the end of the Anne dernire, Toshiba could be with difficulty allowed to boycott it. D `as much as the last figures publis for the march amricain confirm one. (Eureka Press)