Archive for December, 2009

Lotus Notes 1.0 was released 20 years ago today

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Ed Brill has a post noting the 20th anniverary of the announcement of Lotus Notes 1.0.  Today is also the 25th anniversay of the founding of Iris Associates, the company set up by Ray Ozzie, Tim Halvorsen and Len Kawell to to create notes.

Greg Pfister on Intel’s announcement of a 48 core experimental chip

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Greg Pfister has a terrific post on Intel’s announcement of a 48 core experimental “Single Chip Cloud Computer”.  Apparently this thing has shared memory, but no cache coherence —  building software for this won’t be easy.  According to Greg, this will (unlike Larrabee) be manufactured in very small quantities for experimental use.