= 2010-11-09 =

== Cloud Computing ==

 * [http://www.cornelios.org/ ComeliOS] - 感覺上很像 Google Chrome OS 的 Web OS

 * [http://ratcatcher.titaniumcrowbar.com/RatCatcher/NewUserTutorialStart.aspx Rat Catcher] - 捕鼠器？！這個雲端服務是讓你可以搜尋別人的網站是否囊括了你的著作（PDF, WORD, PPT, etc）。感覺上背後是基於 Nutch 跟 Hadoop。

 * [http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/hardware/utility_ondemand/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702931&pgno=11&isPrev= Slideshow: Amazon's Case For Enterprise Cloud Computing]
   * [[Image(http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweek/galleries/automated/463/11-Server-Cost_full.JPG)]]
   * 電力與冷卻所產生的成本約佔 34% （電力 13%,配電與冷卻 21%），僅次於採購硬體的成本 54%。
   * [[Image(http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweek/galleries/automated/463/7-Top-Myths-II_full.JPG)]]
   * 雲端的六大迷思

 * [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/209632/hopkins_to_build_data_analysis_super_machine.html Hopkins to Build Data Analysis Super Machine] - 約翰霍普金斯大學打造資料探勘專屬超級電腦，而且獲得[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1040114 美國國科會（NSF）挹注美金兩百萬（$2,087,760）]。現在著重的將不再只是 FLOPS，還要講究 IOPS。
{{{
Disregarding the supercomputing community's insatiable thirst for FLOPS 
(floating point operations per second), the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins 
University is configuring its new machine to achieve the maximum number of 
IOPS (I/O operations per second) instead.
}}}

 * [http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/cloud-raining-money-on-apache-developers/7737 Cloud raining money on Apache developers] - 最近覺得 Apache 專案對於雲端的影響蠻大的，這篇文章提到了像是 Doug Cutting 跟 Paul Querna 原本都是作 Apache 專案，像 Doug Cutting 最近不僅是 Cloudera 的架構師，也變成了 Apache 基金會的主席（chairman）。而 Paul Querna 寫了很多跟雲端相關的軟體，其中比較特別的是 [http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/ libcloud]。
   * [[Image(jazz/10-11-09:libcloud_python.png)]]

 * 一張圖勝過千言萬語 - [http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-in-the-telecoms-trade/ Who’s Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade?（電信產業誰告誰）]
   * [[Image(http://infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/whos_suing_whom.png)]]
   * 能夠花時間整理這份[https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqe2P9sYhZ2ndEhVeTQzd2llcWxwajN6bVJ6Mzl3eGc&hl=en_GB#gid=0 原始資料]也已經很不簡單了～