Anyone out there using Infiniband in production?I’m curious if this stuff is coming down in price when compared to 10gE. The switch costs for 10gE are just insane so I imagine Infiniband is in a similar situation.Another major advantage of...
Topics: linux

{"title":"Experience with Infiniband","post_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/2008\/10\/30\/experience-with-infiniband\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/feed\/","author":"burtonator","date":"2008-10-30 09:57:16","summary":"Anyone out there using Infiniband in production?I’m curious if this stuff is coming down in price when compared to 10gE. The switch costs for 10gE are just insane so I imagine Infiniband is in a similar situation.Another major advantage of..."}

We have a number of other pending announcements of researchers building cool applications with Spinn3r but this one was just too awesome to hold back. Researchers at Cornell have developed a new memetracker (cleverly named MemeTracker) powered by...
Topics: google, spinn3r

{"title":"Cornell Researchers Launch Memetracker Powered by Spinn3r","post_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/2008\/10\/23\/cornell-researchers-launch-memetracker-powered-by-spinn3r\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/feed\/","author":"burtonator","date":"2008-10-23 13:42:44","summary":"We have a number of other pending announcements of researchers building cool applications with Spinn3r but this one was just too awesome to hold back. Researchers at Cornell have developed a new memetracker (cleverly named MemeTracker) powered by..."}

Apparently, Linus has a new Intel drive he’s happy with:In contrast, the Intel SSD does about 8,500 4kB random writes per second. Yeah, that’s over eight thousand IOps on random write accesses with a relevant block size, rather than some...
Topics: linux

{"title":"Linux and SSD @ 5k Random 4k Writes","post_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/2008\/10\/09\/linux-and-ssd-5k-random-4k-writes\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/feed\/","author":"burtonator","date":"2008-10-09 18:41:02","summary":"Apparently, Linus has a new Intel drive he’s happy with:In contrast, the Intel SSD does about 8,500 4kB random writes per second. Yeah, that’s over eight thousand IOps on random write accesses with a relevant block size, rather than some..."}

Google is showing Feedburner redirect URLs in their search results.They’re using the link:http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/topoftheticket/~3/408704356/palin-couric.htmlwhich is a Feedburner redirect URL which they use in RSS feeds to help in...
Topics: feedburner, google, rojo

{"title":"Google Showing Feedburner Redirect URLs in Search Results","post_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/2008\/10\/02\/google-showing-feedburner-redirect-urls-in-search-results\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/feed\/","author":"burtonator","date":"2008-10-02 15:28:16","summary":"Google is showing Feedburner redirect URLs in their search results.They’re using the link:http:\/\/feeds.latimes.com\/~r\/topoftheticket\/~3\/408704356\/palin-couric.htmlwhich is a Feedburner redirect URL which they use in RSS feeds to help in..."}

We’re migrating from MySQL 4.1.x to 5.0.x at work and one of the key features we need is the ability to freeze InnoDB and prevent it from writing to disk.We do this to aid in syncing masters and slaves and performing backups.Basically we freeze a...
Topics: mysql

{"title":"MySQL InnoDB Isolated Patches for 5.0.37, 5.0.67 and Percona\u2019s 5.0.68 Branch.","post_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/2008\/10\/02\/mysql-innodb-isolated-patches-for-5037-5067-and-perconas-5068-branch\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feedblog.org\/feed\/","author":"burtonator","date":"2008-10-02 11:30:57","summary":"We’re migrating from MySQL 4.1.x to 5.0.x at work and one of the key features we need is the ability to freeze InnoDB and prevent it from writing to disk.We do this to aid in syncing masters and slaves and performing backups.Basically we freeze a..."}