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--==[ Linux in 2010 and beyond: The near-future of FOSS ]==-- http://www.hosef.org/civicspace/opensourcepizza/june2007 http://www.cyberpizzahawaii.com Info: Tue, June 19 @ 5:50-7:30pm - University of Hawaii Manoa Campus: Marine Science Building Auditorium, Room 114 - $8 if you want pizza and drink Speaker: Jim Thompson, CEO, Netgate The roadmaps for both Intel and AMD show that 16 cores will be the norm by 2010, pushed mostly by the continued march of Moore's law, and its rough doubling of transistor count ever 18 months. Physics put an end to selling clock speed, while Intel's NetBurst micro-architecture (found in the Pentium 4) fell flat on its face in front of the steam-roller powered by AMD. Intel re-tooled and is now shipping dual-core and quad-core processors. Fry's (in California) has a 2.4GHz quad-core + motherboard on sale for $499. Meanwhile AMD is shipping its dual core, dual socket designs. Intel has shown an 80 core "technology demonstration" that has 20MB of SRAM for each 3.1GHz core, and a mesh network interconnecting these cores arranged in an 8 x 10 array. Total throughput is 1 trillion floating point operations per second (1 Tflop). Intel says it anticipates shipping a similar part in 2010. Are Free and Open Source operating systems up to the task here? Do C, C ++ and Java have a place in this near-future reality? Can commonly-used "scripting" languages such as Perl, Ruby, PHP and Python 'scale' with the coming onslaught of multi-core CPUs? Join HOSEF and Jim Thompson for a rollicking discussion on these topics and others, including virtualization, ZFS (and the Linux community's NIH), the death of Nvidia, the types of computers you'll be able to buy in 2010 without bruising the budget. About the speaker: Jim Thompson was Director of Product Development at Vivato. Prior to joining Vivato, Jim Thompson founded and served as the chief technology officer at Musenki, a developer of secure, open-source wireless networking products targeted at original equipment manufacturers, wireless Internet service providers, and public access (hot spot) providers. Prior to that, Mr. Thompson was the chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Wayport, where he designed and built Everywire, a series of products created to bring Internet access into public spaces. Prior to leaving Wayport, Jim architected and championed Wayport's move to a 100 percent wireless network. Jim Thompson was also founder and chief technology officer of Smallworks, an Internet security technology supplier to Cisco, Sterling Commerce (acquired by Computer Associates), Quadritek (acquired by Lucent), Competitive Automation (acquired by @Home), Wells Fargo, Cadence and Monsanto; Director of Engineering for Tadpole Technology; and Network Operations Center Manager for Sun Microsystems. _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau