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as seen on Server Fault
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I'm trying to decide which spare server I should use to build a backup file/print server. These are both Dell PE2950 machines that haven't been used in about a year or so. One has 2 2.0 ghz quad core procs, and the other has 2 3.0 ghz dual core procs. None of these are the Nehalem procs since they're…
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as seen on Dr Dobbs
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Provides scalable, compact, lightweight safety-critical platform for ARM processors
Real-time operating system - Operating system - Realtime - Hardware - Embedded system
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as seen on Oracle Blogs
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I've obtained a substantial performance improvement on a SPARC T4-2 Server running a J2EE Application Server Cluster by deploying the cluster members into Oracle Solaris Containers and binding those containers to cores of the SPARC T4 Processor. This is not a surprising result, in fact, it is…
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as seen on SQL Blog
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There seems to be significant confusion about Hyper-Threading. Part of the problem is that vendors like to tout every new feature as the greatest invention since the six-pack, and its follow-on the 12-pack. I used to think the 4-pack was a travesty, but now that I am older and can nolonger finish…
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as seen on How to geek
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If you’re interested in the history of microprocessors, the CPU DB at Stanford is a massive database of microprocessors that covers everything from code names to speed to processor families. Play with their visuals or download the entire database and make your own. CPU DB [Stanford.edu] …
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as seen on Geeks with Blogs
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We just bought a new Web Server, after installing Windows 2008 R2(which is a 64bit OS and IIS7), SQL Server Standard 2008 R2 and IBM Client Access for V5R3 with its Dot Net Data Providers, I tried deploying our new project which is fully functional on an IIS6 Based Web Server, I encountered this Error
The…
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as seen on Super User
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Running some 32 bit applications on a
64 bit OS could actually be slower.
The additional overheads in running 32
bit software in 64 bit mode could
cause a slight degradation in
performance. It will take some time
for 64 bit software to become the
norm.
Source: http://www.w7forums.com/windows-7-64-bit-vs-32-bit-t484…
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as seen on Stack Overflow
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Is there a way to map floats to ints or unsigned ints so that with the exception of NaN, order is preserved?
So if a and b are floats, and F is the mapping function,
a < b implies F(a) < F(b)
and
a == b implies F(a) == F(b)
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as seen on Server Fault
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I have 60 Gb of RAM on server. Windows 2008, 32bit with PAE.
One Sql Server 2008 Express Instance can use 1 Gb of RAM.
So if I install 60 instances, each can use 1 Gb of RAM, right?
And the second question, what will be if I install 64bit system and use many Express instances?
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as seen on Oracle Blogs
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Oracle Secure Global Desktop provides secure access to centralized applications—Microsoft Windows, UNIX, mainframe, and midrange—from a wide variety of popular client devices, including Windows PCs, Oracle Solaris workstations, Linux PCs, and thin clients.
Secure Global Desktop is certified…
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