Eric Borisch

"And so it begins: Facebook CTO and mobile guru Bret Taylor is leaving Facebook this summer, Kara Swisher is reporting, off to do a startup with Google App Engine founder Kevin Gibbs. Taylor confirmed the news in (of course) a Facebook update." - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

"Tim Mattson: I think OpenCL is perhaps the most important development in the last five, if not the last ten years. The reason I make such an over-the-top statement is that I believe the core to solving the parallel programming challenge is standards. Only an idiot software developer would write code using a propriety API." - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

"You all expected it, and now it has come to pass: Oracle has killed off the OpenSolaris development project." - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

"So at the end of the day, isn’t it time to look hard at the alternatives, which aren’t owned/controlled/under patent protection, and drop the encumbered hot potato? The risk reward equation just got badly biased in favor of risk, with no corresponding increase in reward." - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

"Call this the Benchmark Significance Ratio, or BS Ratio for short. Define BS Ratio as BS Ratio = (what they claim) / (what you measure)" - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

"NetApp is going after ZFS storage vendors, folks who use ZFS in their products, as infringing upon NetApp patents. Yes Virginia, this includes open source vendors" - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

"In particular, we argue that, for a moderately complex class of “irregular” computations, even well-tuned GPGPU accelerated implementations on currently available systems will deliver performance that is, roughly speaking, only comparable to well-tuned code for general-purpose multicore CPU systems, within a roughly comparable power footprint." - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

"The best performing versions on the Power7, Nehalem, and GTX 285 run in 1.02s, 1.82s, and 1.75s, respectively. These results conclusively demonstrate that, under certain conditions, it is possible for a FLOP-intensive structured application running on a multi-core processor to match or even beat the performance of an equivalent GPU version." - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

Are they in denial? Do they know something we don't know? - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

Yes, but you'd think some mention of their scheduled demise might be included... - Eric Borisch from iPod

"Your mom doesn’t need a new widescreen computer with HDMI output and an open development process. Your mom needs a computer that does what she wants to do quickly and easily. That’s why she wants an iPad. And she’s not alone." - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet

"Here is the really cool thing about this idea. If you want to write software for this new gizmo, use MPI. Oh, that is right, you already do. It is comforting to know that your investment in cluster software will keep paying dividends. Cluster computing is scalable parallel computing, which is the only way we can keep pushing the performance curve both at the server level and now at the processor level. You will have to excuse me if I don’t call it the “Single-chip Cloud Computer”, but rather the “Single-chip Cluster Computer.” The acronym is the same and somehow I have to think it is more what the designers had in mind." - Eric Borisch from Bookmarklet