Download - Facebook Unveils Custom Servers, Facility Design A look at the blue-lit servers inside the cold aisle of the new Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon. Facebook today unveiled details of its new technology infrastructure, which features custom-built servers, racks and UPS units that will fill its new data center in Prineville, Oregon. The project is Facebook’s first company-built facility, and is optimized from the two-story structure right down to the servers to reflect the company’s vision for energy efficient data center operations. “Being able to design more efficient servers, both in terms of cost and power usage, is a big part of enabling us to build the features we add,” said Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, in a briefing in Palo Alto, California. Facebook’s servers are powered by chips from both Intel and AMD, with custom-designed motherboards and chassis built by Quanta Computer of Taiwan. The servers use a 1.5U form factor, allowing the use of larger heat sinks and fans to improve cooling efficiency. Racks and Servers
Flash Memory Joint Venture SANTA CLARA, Calif. and BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intel Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC) and Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU), today announced that the companies have entered into agreements to expand their NAND Flash memory joint venture relationship. The agreements, which are designed to improve the flexibility and efficiency of the joint venture, include a NAND Flash supply agreement for Micron to supply NAND products to Intel and agreements for certain joint venture assets to be sold to Micron. Under terms of the agreement, Intel is selling its stake in two wafer factories in exchange for approximately $600 million—the approximate book value of Intel's share. Additionally, Intel will be receiving approximately half of the consideration in cash and the remaining amount will be deposited with Micron, which may be refunded or applied to Intel's future purchases under the NAND Flash supply agreement. Intel (Nasdaq:INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation.
Infomous GitHub finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz GitHub is ready to take a huge step forward. After successfully bootstrapping its operation since 2008, the open-source code hosting site is set to announce Monday that it has accepted $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz in order to improve and expand a platform that has become an industry standard for managing and finding code on the web. The investment is the single largest by legendary venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to date, and is the first source of external funding that GitHub has accepted since it launched in 2008. Peter Levine, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, will join GitHub’s board. The startup will use the funding to hire additional employees and expand to new platforms such as mobile. CEO Tom Preston-Werner said the company hopes to develop new features but also improve existing ones, such as web applications for different operating systems. They had a vision for a new way to develop software and created a new kind of company to pursue it.
Download - SPARQL Protocol for RDF W3C Recommendation 15 January 2008 New Version Available: SPARQL 1.1 (Document Status Update, 26 March 2013) The SPARQL Working Group has produced a W3C Recommendation for a new version of SPARQL which adds features to this 2008 version. Please see SPARQL 1.1 Overview for an introduction to SPARQL 1.1 and a guide to the SPARQL 1.1 document set. This version: Latest published version: Previous version: Editors: Kendall Grant Clark, <kendall@monkeyfist.com>, Clark & Parsia LLC Lee Feigenbaum, <lee@thefigtrees.net>, Invited Expert Elias Torres, <eliast@us.ibm.com>, IBM Corporation Please refer to the errata for this document, which may include some normative corrections. See also translations. Copyright © 2006-2007 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. Abstract Status of This Document This is a W3C Recommendation. 1. 2. <! MalformedQuery
Micron Technology Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Boise, Idaho, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. This includes DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips. Its consumer products are marketed under the brands Crucial Technology and Lexar. Micron and Intel together created IM Flash Technologies, which produces NAND flash memory. Micron was named one of Thomson Reuters top 100 global innovators in 2012 [2] and 2013.[3] Micron Technology is also ranked among the Top 5 Semiconductor producing companies in the world. History[edit] 1978–1999[edit] Micron was founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1978[4] by Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis Wilson, and Doug Pitman as a semiconductor design consulting company.[5] Startup funding was provided by local Idaho businessmen Tom Nicholson, Allen Noble, Rudolph Nelson, and Ron Yanke. In 1994, founder Joe Parkinson retired as CEO and Steve Appleton took over as Chairman, President, and CEO.[4]
Home - The Good Entrepreneur Making an open source software can be more profitable in the long term Rituparna Chatterjee, ET Bureau Nov 15, 2011, 04.05am IST Rituparna Chatterjee from San Francisco tells us how making your software products free can possibly help you earn more profits despite all the bugs and challenges. Imagine what would happen if Coca Cola shared its secret formula, or a popular restaurant shared its secret sauce recipe. After all, many of today's tech rock stars like Google and Facebook follow the open source paradigm. Like Kloudless -- a search engine for all our personal stuff in the cloud -- started by a bunch of University of California at Berkeley students. Many others, even after making billions out of their own technologies, choose to open-source their products, simply to stay competitive in today's hi-tech landscape, which is evolving at a speed never seen before. "With the current economy and technological changes, traditional software itself is changing. Building a community around your product, especially for viral marketing, has become mandatory.
Download - How does easyDNS Compare Against other DNS Providers The way we see it, it's . So we spend it on things that will give you more bang for buck. and will always win our cost/benefit analysis over superbowl ads, junkets or ego-gratifying pep-rallies. Customer Profile #1: You already know all about DNS and you know who we are. If that's the case then it's pointless for us to show up at a conference with an off-duty stripper dolled up in an easy DNS bikini trying to explain how anycast DNS works. You probably know already, the stripper doesn't. Customer Profile #2: All you know is that you need a domain name and somebody you trust told you "just go to easyDNS" Yeah, we get a lot of that around here. In either case you probably clicked on the "About" link in the menu to try and glean exactly just what kind of company we are. We've been in business since 1998. We have no outside investors, no VC funding and no exit plan. If you call us during business hours, you will likely have a real live human pick up the phone after a ring or two.
Micron Technology, Inc. DRAM, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, MCP, Hybrid Memory Cube, SSD, FLCOS Microdisplays