= 2009-09-18 =

== Cloud Computing ==

 * [http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/ appscale] - Open Cloud Platform for Google AppEngine Apps 
  * Google AppEngine (GAE) 的自由軟體版 - 好像有違反 Google 授權的爭議
  * 由加州聖塔芭芭拉分校(UCSB)的 RACELab 維護，可以跑在 Amazon EC2 跟 Eucalyptus 上，支援 Xen 與 KVM 的虛擬化底層。
  * 技術報告: [http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ckrintz/papers/appscale2009-02TR.pdf AppScale: Scalable and Open AppEngine Application Development and Deployment]
  * http://code.google.com/p/appscale/

 * 最近美國政府單位的網雲平台足見成形，唉～國科會卻只會補助"微軟 only"的計畫～失望中～
  * [http://nebula.nasa.gov/ NASA 的 Nenula 網雲平台]
  * https://apps.gov
   * [http://www.techbang.com.tw/?p=18984 美國政府掛保證！安全好用的雲端運算服務大集合]
 　* [http://news.networkmagazine.com.tw/web/2009/09/17/15237/ Google 為美國打造政府專用私有網雲]
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Google即將通過聯邦資訊安全管理法案(Federal Information Security Management Act, FISMA)的IT安全要求認證。
有了 FISMA 認證及 SAS 70 稽核標準，就不用各別政府機關都來和 Google 談不同的規定。
}}}

 * [http://code.google.com/intl/zh-TW/apis/visualization/ Google Visualization API]
  * [http://mmdays.com/2008/03/20/google-docs-gadgets-in-docs-visualization-api/ Google Docs開放新工具，Gadgets-In-Docs與Visualization API]
  * 以後真的會寫程式，可以作出不少網頁效果。

== Purpose-Driven Cloud ==

 * [http://gevaperry.typepad.com/main/2009/08/the-purposedriven-cloud.html The Purpose-Driven Cloud: Introduction]
 * [http://gevaperry.typepad.com/main/2009/08/the-purposedriven-cloud-part-1-usability.html Usability-Driven Clouds]
 * [http://gevaperry.typepad.com/main/2009/09/the-purposedriven-cloud-part-2-technology-frameworks.html Framework-Based Clouds]
 * Domain-Specific Clouds
 * Data-Driven Clouds
 * Industry-Focused Clouds
 * Geographically-Centric Clouds

== Hadoop ==

 * 目前 Hadoop 兩本英文書：
  1. [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521974/index.html Hadoop: The Definitive Guide], Tom White, O'Reilly Media
   * [[Image(http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9780596521981/cat.gif)]]
  2. [http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430219422 Pro Hadoop], Jason Venner, Apress
   * [[Image(http://www.apress.com/resource/bookcover/9781430219422?size=medium)]]
 * [http://www.cascading.org/ Cascading] is a feature rich API for defining and executing complex, scale-free, and fault tolerant data processing workflows on a Hadoop cluster.
  * 定義資料處理工作流程的函式庫
  * [[Image(http://www.cascading.org/documentation/long-pipe-chain.png)]]
  * http://code.google.com/p/cascading/
  * [http://coffeesgone.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/custom-data-sinks-in-cascading-for-hadoop/ Custom Data Sinks in Cascading (for Hadoop)]

 * [http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Chukwa Chukwa] is an open source data collection system for monitoring and analyzing large distributed systems. 
  * 最近把 Ganglia 架起來，再看到 Cloudera 的兩篇 [http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/03/12/hadoop-metrics/ Ganglia] 和 [http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/07/07/hadoop-graphing-with-cacti/ Cacti] 相關的文章，大概比較能理解 Chukwa 這個專案要處理的事情應該頗為類似。比較特殊的是它要處理的是 500 至 2000 台節點的 Log 分析。
  * [http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop-data/attachments/Chukwa/attachments/ChukwaPoster.pdf Chukwa Poster] (PDF) - 設計得蠻乾淨的，可以當做 SC'09 Poster 的參考。

 * [http://news.newhua.com/news1/program_net/2009/99/099914374148D4FHKAFAD4HB77CH4H6IJCB963K89A26AK018J607I6.html Hadoop MapReduce Job 失效模型]

 * [http://www.blogjava.net/Skynet/archive/2009/Skynet/archive/2009/09/04/293914.html hadoop jython ( windows )]

== CDH : Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop ==

 * [http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-manifest Cloudera 的 Hadoop 套件相較於官方 tar ball 的差異]
 * [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1379 An Introduction to Hadoop] - Presented by: Christophe Bisciglia, Tom White

== NoSQL ==

 * [http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ Cassandra] - a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store.
  * [http://www.ethiopianreview.com/scitech/5281 Looking to the future with Cassandra]
  * Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008
  * Cassandra brings together the distributed systems technologies from Dynamo and the data model from Google's BigTable.
 * [http://project-voldemort.com/ Voldemort] - a distributed key-value storage system
  * used at !LinkedIn for certain high-scalability storage problems

== Virtualization ==

 * [http://www.citrix.com/English/aboutCitrix/caseStudies/caseStudy.asp?storyID=1690121 Citrix Case study: HSBC Bank]

 * [http://www.virtualization.info/2009/09/tucloud-challenges-ibm-on-who-delivers.html tuCloud challenges IBM on who delivers the first Desktop-as-a-Service cloud] - Desktop-as-a-Service cloud ，嗯!! VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) 衍伸出來的服務。

== Debian ==

 * 用來畫套件相依性的 [http://packages.debian.org/debtree debtree] 終於進入 sid 套件庫了

 * 在 Linux Foundation 的每週影片中介紹到 [http://packages.debian.org/gdebi gdebi] 這個可以在 command line 安裝 deb 套件，並幫你解決相依性問題的工具，看來還真不錯呀!!

== Green Computing ==

 * [http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2009/07/energy_efficient_hadoop.html Yanpei Chen & Laura Keys: Energy Efficient Hadoop]
  * [http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ychen2/ Yanpei Chen]
  * [http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~laurak/ Laura Keys]
  * 指導教授：[http://eecs.berkeley.edu/~randy Randy H. Katz]
  * 演講投影片 - [http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ychen2/professional/EEMRHadoopSummit2009.ppt Towards Energy Efficient Hadoop]
  * 介紹中提到 datacenter 多數使用 Power Utilization Efficiency (PUE) 跟 Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) 兩個指標來看節能[http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/06/15/PUEAndTotalPowerUsageEfficiencyTPUE.aspx 1]
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PUE = Total Facility Power / IT Equipment Power
DCiE = IT Equipment Power / Total Facility Power * 100%
}}}
  * [參考][http://www.thegreengrid.org/en/Global/Content/white-papers/The-Green-Grid-Data-Center-Power-Efficiency-Metrics-PUE-and-DCiE The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE]
  * 在 IBM 的 White Paper 中有提到 Sun 的另一個評量標準　[http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/swap/ SWaP (Space, Watts and Performance) Metric]
  * [http://www.spec.org/ Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation] 也有　[http://www.spec.org/specpower/ SPECpower] 的能源監控軟體，或許未來可以看一下它能量些什麼。
  * http://www.energystar.gov/ - 能源之星(Energy Star)標章的網站
 * [http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10352944-54.html IBM data center gets deep energy retrofit]

== Screencast ==

 * [ ] - Windows 錄桌面的 GPL 軟體 - 還有出[http://portableapps.com/node/11985 可攜式版本]
 
== Open Source ==

 * [http://sourceforge.net/community/potm/ SourceForge Project of the Month] - 能夠榮登 Source Forge 每月專案，應該也代表有其獨到之處了。
  * 會注意到這個是因為[http://medical.sf.net medical]這個專案
  * [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9137376/Open_source_software_may_unify_the_medical_records_realm?taxonomyName=Open+Source&taxonomyId=88 Open-source software may unify the medical-records realm] - 電子病例應該也是一個未來的趨勢，如果自由軟體可以在這方面發揮也算是功德無量啊!!

 * [http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/html5_js_future_open_education.html HTML5 + JS: The Future of Open Education]
  * OLPC 的新發展 - http://karmaeducation.org/ - Karma = 宿命 = 業
  * 這個專案的 Logo 還真有趣啊，應該是梵文吧!! (讓我想起三隻眼的漫畫)
   * [[Image(http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/a/af/Karma.png)]]
  * [http://www.slideshare.net/bryanwb/html5-js-the-future-of-open-education slideshare 投影片]
  * 這一張真是深得我心啊!!! 為什麼不用 PyGTK 而要用 HTML5+JS 呢??
  * [[Image(wiki:jazz/09-09-18:karma-presentationweb-090911041248-phpapp02.png)]]

== User Interface ==

 * [http://wami.csail.mit.edu/  WAMI: Web-Accessible Multimodal Applications]
  * 這玩意讓 Flash 直接作語音辨識，操控介面 - MIT 多媒體實驗室的寶藏真多啊!!

== 生活 ==

 * 我不喜歡戴耳機就是因為塞住耳朵，不習慣也很難過。這種耳機戴起來應該比較舒服，創意無所不在啊!! - [http://www.mobile01.com/shopping.php?c=67 敗家連結]
  * [[Image(http://www.eyoung.com.tw/upload/harddisc/4000611263_file_79905.jpg,width=600)]]
  * [[Image(http://attach2.mobile01.com/image/product/mobile01-379d7416a4b013a05608f8cf02e7f7a2.jpg,width=600)]]