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Linux-Announce Digest #193
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Linux-Announce Digest #193, Volume #4 Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:13:03 EDT
Contents:
IBM unvelis industry's most powerful blade server ("Stacy Simpson")
aylet 0.3 - a player for Spectrum `.ay' music files (Russell Marks)
Bugfix-Release Konserve v0.7.1 -- A backup application (simnacher@gmx.de)
ANN:JMP Statistical Discovery Software ("Lee Creighton")
Builder Xcessory 6.1 Available - GUI Builder for Linux (Announce) (Mark Hatch)
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From: "Stacy Simpson" <stacysim@us.ibm.com>
Subject: IBM unvelis industry's most powerful blade server
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:25:17 GMT
Stacy Simpson
Media Relations
IBM Corporation
Route 100, Somers, NY 10589
Ph: 914-766-4123 (t/l: 826-4123)
E: stacysim@us.ibm.com
IBM UNVEILS POWERFUL BLADE SERVER FOR ENTERPRISE WORKLOADS
AOL Time Warner Reduces Costs with IBM BladeCenter
Armonk, NY, September 24, 2002, -- IBM today introduced its thinnest server
to date and one of the most powerful blade servers in the industry -- the
IBM eServer BladeCenter based on Intel's fast Xeon processor. It is
designed to help large businesses reduce their total cost of ownership by
adding individual thin servers easily on demand as capacity needs increase.
This blade server category, which is projected to grow to nearly $3.7
billion by 2006, [1] is based on a new server design -- a server on a
removable card that plugs into a chassis (or shared infrastructure) which
plugs into a rack. IBM's eServer BladeCenter supports this unique "plug
and play" design. The BladeCenter combines high performance computing
resources and shared infrastructure to create a cost-effective, high
density solution helping companies address infrastructure needs in a data
center. This architecture enables the system to offer superior performance
at twice the density of most of today's 1U (1.75") Intel Xeon processor
based servers.
IBM BladeCenter with the first dual Xeon powered blade from a major server
vendor and high availability features, can hold 84 blades per rack -- more
than 36 blades per rack than the competing HP ProLiant BL20p system. [2]
Additionally, IBM's base blade configured with one fast Intel Xeon
processor, together with a disk drive, costs up to 23 percent less than a
competing HP blade server configured with an Intel Pentium 3 processor and
an Ultra160 SCSI disk . [3]
Many companies have already evaluated IBM's new modular server design
including AOL Time Warner. The company was looking for a Linux solution
that could help drive down infrastructure costs and simplify its systems
management and used the IBM BladeCenter to power part of the AOL
datacenter.
"You can only achieve significant cost savings with a disruptive
technology, and we see IBM's blade offering as just that," said Dr. Norman
Koo, Executive Director, AOL Time Warner. "We expect to deploy a
considerable number of integrated enterprise blade solutions across AOL
Time Warner in order to maintain our competitive edge and simplify our
infrastructure. IBM BladeCenter looks like a good fit for several of our
applications."
Built with technology from IBM's high-end server product line, the IBM
BladeCenter is one of the only blade systems that offers extra resiliency
by including the ability to purchase redundant hot-swap cooling, power and
management modules as well as other automatic failover components, so there
is no single point of failure. This high availability feature set is
critical since users have hundreds or thousands of servers linked together.
The IBM system also supports integrated features such as optional fibre
switches. The combination of BladeCenter with IBM TotalStorage FAStT
storage can help make SAN infrastructures easy and less costly to manage.
By using BladeCenter's integrated fibre switches to implement a fibre
channel fabric, customers can save up to 25 percent in costs over a typical
IBM rack-optimized server. [4] In addition, with Gigabit Ethernet
connectivity, the BladeCenter and IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage
serves as a powerful file sharing combination. These features simplify the
architecture, deployment, and scaling for SAN storage. IBM's new blade
system will enable future I/O capabilities such as InfiniBand and
networking upgrades.
"Today, customers need to do more with less money. IBM's new enterprise
approach for blades is designed to help customers reduce their total cost
of ownership," said Mark Shearer, vice president, IBM Blade Servers. "Our
BladeCenter systems can integrate storage, applications, and networking,
with IBM service and finance options available -- bringing together the
complete strengths of our company."
In conjunction with today's announcement, IBM is also delivering its latest
version of IBM Director. This systems management software provides
customers with autonomic blade management including a single point of
deployment and management for blade server architectures. IBM Director
4.1, which ships with the IBM eServer BladeCenter, also includes automated
set-up and configuration wizards to easily deploy and maintain hundreds of
blades and allows for mass configuration of chassis and blades. New
functionality of IBM Director and its Remote Deployment Manager feature is
designed to allow customers to reprovision blade servers in as little as
minutes without human intervention.
In addition, IBM is working with industry leading technology companies to
extend the functionality and application flexibility of the BladeCenter
family. This work will provide customers with choices to create flexible
and custom business solutions. Microsoft Corp. is working with IBM to
support the Microsoft Exchange Platform.
"We're looking forward to Microsoft Exchange 2000 solutions on IBM eServer
BladeCenter later this quarter," said Kevin McCuistion, group product
manager for Exchange at Microsoft. "The BladeCenter architecture is
designed to support enterprise-class Microsoft Exchange 2000 workloads with
a design that can reduce hardware costs when customers scale out their
Microsoft Exchange 2000 solution."
The IBM BladeServer will support Linux, Microsoft Windows and Novell
Netware. IBM will begin shipping the Xeon-based servers in volume worldwide
in November at the base price of $1,879. [5]
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of
leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across
IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services,
solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take
full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about
IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com.
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Corporation in the United States or other countries or both: IBM, the IBM
e-business logo. Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Intel Corporation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Microsoft and Windows, are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the
United States, other countries, or both. All others are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies. Statements concerning
IBM's future development plans and schedules are made for planning purposes
only, and are subject to change or withdrawal without notice.
[1] IDC, "Blade Market Update: The Competitive Landscape in 2002,"
September 2002
[2] IBM's BladeCenter can hold up to 84 blades per rack. The HP ProLiant
BL20p holds up to 48 blades per rack. See
http://www.compaq.com/products/quickspecs/11411_div/11411_div.html for HP
rack information.
[3] HP's ProLiant BL20p with a 1.4GHz Intel Pentium® III processor, 512MB
of SDRAM memory, an Ultra160 SCSI disk drive, RAID 1 support and three
10/100 Ethernet connections costs $2,858. Prices are from www.hp.com as of
September 19, 2002. An IBM eServer BladeCenter server with a 2.0GHz Intel
Xeon processor, 512MB of DDR memory, a 40GB ATA disk drive, and two Gigabit
Ethernet connections costs $2,178. Prices as of September 24, 2002.
[4] A 14 rack-optimized 1U server from IBM with redundant fabric, including
two 16-port external FCA switches, 28 fibre channel optical cables, and 14
fibre channel adapter cards cost $89,240. And, a fully populated IBM
BladeCenter with redundant fabric, including two 2 GB BladeCenter FCA
switches, and 14 fibre channel adapter cards cost $64,000.
[5] Starting price may not include a hard drive, operating system or other
features. Based on U.S. list price for minimum IBM eServerBladeCenter with
a one-way 2GHz processor with 512MB memory, effective September 24, 2002.
Price does not include tax or shipping and is subject to change without
notice. Reseller prices may vary.
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From: Russell Marks <russell.marks@ntlworld.com>
Subject: aylet 0.3 - a player for Spectrum `.ay' music files
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:25:21 GMT
aylet plays music files in the `.ay' format. These files are
essentially wrappers around bits of Z80 code which play music on the
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128's sound hardware - the beeper, or the
AY-3-8912 sound chip, or both. (Files using the Amstrad CPC ports are
also supported.) There are front-ends for curses and X, both with much
the same features.
You can download it from here:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/aylet-0.3.tar.gz
There's also a web page here:
http://rus.members.beeb.net/aylet.html
0.3 is essentially a bugfix release.
* Changes in aylet 0.3
Finally uses accurate AY levels. Thanks to Matthew Westcott for the
measurements these were based on.
Removed beeper fading, which wasn't actually necessary and was causing
problems with some tracks, most noticeably in Trantor. The rest
position is still central for AY-only and CPC tracks, though, so the
change shouldn't affect those.
Added partial port-bitmask to allow for certain less-than-ideal .ay
conversions. Thanks to Vít Hotárek for helping find this one.
Fixed silly typo which meant that L and L' weren't set correctly when
starting up the Z80. (Though curiously, this bug didn't seem to break
any .ay files.) Thanks to Patrik Rak for spotting this.
Previously, when a track stopped and happened to do so leaving
high/low level `silence' (e.g. a few AY tracks and, given the
beeper-fade removal, all beeper tracks), if this change happened
during a fade the fading level would screw up the silence detection
and give (with default settings) up to ten seconds of extra `silence'.
Now fixed.
In xaylet, long file details (e.g. track name) no longer expand the
window to fit, but are clipped. You can still manually resize the
window to see the rest of the text, if you like.
-Rus.
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From: simnacher@gmx.de
Subject: Bugfix-Release Konserve v0.7.1 -- A backup application
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:25:24 GMT
Hello,
Konserve is a small backup application for the KDE 3.x environment.
It lives in the system tray and is able to create backups of several
directories or files periodically.
This is just a bugfix release.
You can get it on:
http://www.eikon.tum.de/~hermes/konserve.html.
There is also a link to the documentation and screenshots.
Enjoy!
Florian Simnacher
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From: "Lee Creighton" <Lee.Creighton@sas.com>
Subject: ANN:JMP Statistical Discovery Software
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:25:28 GMT
CARY, N.C. (September 26, 2002) - JMP, a business unit of SAS, today
announced plans to launch a Linux version of its statistical analysis
software in early 2003. Currently available for both Windows XP and MacOS X,
JMP? software dynamically links statistics and graphics, allowing users to
explore data, make discoveries and gain knowledge for better decision
making. The JMP port to Linux provides the Linux community with an
opportunity to take part in a user-oriented development process.
"The JMP development team is eager to provide a Linux version of its
statistical software," said Richard Potter, lead developer for JMP host
platforms. In an effort to incorporate the capabilities most needed by the
Linux audience, JMP has developed a survey that asks users for feedback on
topics such as database support, real-time data capture and preferred
packaging for a statistical application, just to name a few examples. The
survey can be found at www.jmp.com/linux.
"Linux addresses a unique market that JMP is now beginning to explore," said
John Sall, co-founder and executive vice president of SAS. "The open source
philosophy of sharing information has inspired us to solicit user input on
the front end of product development and incorporate those features needed
to advance statistical data analysis for the Linux operating system."
The latest version of JMP provides exploratory modeling options that help
users get to the root cause of a problem, even when there is no model
identified, when there are multiple variables with non-linear relationships
or when there are underlying factors not measured in the data. JMP
integrates visualization into these modeling tools to make it easy for users
to understand the relationships found in their data. Cause-and-effect
diagrams help manufacturing and Six Sigma professionals understand key
factors that affect processes, so that Design of Experiments (DOE) can be
used to optimize the process surrounding those key factors.
If you have additional questions about the Linux version of JMP, email us at
jmplinux@sas.com. You can also sign up for JMP Newswire, our bi-monthly
eNewsletter that keeps you updated on the latest JMP news. Join today at
http://www.jmp.com/news/newsletter/subscribe.shtml.
About JMP
For more than 12 years, JMP has helped organizations make valuable
discoveries by dynamically linking statistics with interactive graphics to
explore, understand and visualize their data. Backed by SAS, the leader in
business intelligence, JMP helps users analyze data from all angles to
uncover relationships and outliers in that data, which unveils valuable
discoveries and supports better decision-making. JMP is the premier
statistical analysis software tool for exploiting new methods to boost the
performance of an organization and increase overall profitability. Visit us
at www.jmp.com or call 1-877-59GO JMP.
Backed by SAS, the industry leader
SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business
intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence.
SAS solutions are used at more than 38,000 sites - including 98 of the top
100 businesses on the Fortune 500 - to develop more profitable relationships
with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed
decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that
completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI
applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For 25
years, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know?.
Visit us at www.sas.com.
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From: Mark Hatch <mhatch@ics.com>
Subject: Builder Xcessory 6.1 Available - GUI Builder for Linux (Announce)
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:25:31 GMT
Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS), announces the general
availability of Builder Xcessory PRO 6.1. This upgrade provides
developers with the choice of using either Motif 1.2 or Motif 2.1 for
building user interfaces for their applications. Evaluation copies of BX
PRO are available free at http://www.ics.com/getbxpro.
BX PRO consists of Builder Xcessory(tm), the industry's most advanced
graphical interface builder for Motif and Java; ViewKit(tm), a flexible
and mature C++ reuse framework that can be tailored to accommodate the
specific needs of individual businesses; and EnhancementPak(tm), a
library of 30 reusable components including business graphs and
sophisticated user interface controls. More detailed product information
is available at http://www.ics.com/.
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