Meeting notes by Michael Olson ,
http://PleiadesTechnologyFutures.com,
blog http://PleiadesTechnologyFutures.blogspot.com
The Cool Tech Club meeting on 27 March 2008 was attended by an exceptionally large number of members and visitors who came to hear from six Israeli entrepreneurs described their companies and their clever products. The meeting room seemed to be filled to near capacity as member interest in the presenters and their topics was electric.
Here is a quick overview of the presentations (with some information from their websites).
ScaleMP is the leader in virtualization for high-end computing, providing higher performance and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The innovative Versatile SMPTM (vSMP) architecture aggregates multiple x86 systems into a single virtual x86 system, delivering an industry-standard, high-end symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) computer. Using software to replace custom hardware and components, ScaleMP offers a new, revolutionary computing paradigm. vSMP Foundation is a software-only solution that eliminates the need for extensive R&D or proprietary hardware components in developing high-end x86 systems, and reduces overall end-user system cost and operational expenditures. vSMP Foundation aggregates up to 16 x86 systems to create a single system with 4 to 32 processors (128 cores) and up to 1 TB of shared memory.
One notable example of using the ScaleMP product was to enable the large memory requirements for engineering simulations. See more at http://www.scalemp.com/
Of course any massively parallel system can benefit from better parallel software development tools. Note that UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign are being funded to pioneer new software architectures and development tools for the coming wave of massively multicore processors.
See http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-183.pdf and http://science.officeisp.net/ManycoreComputingWorkshop07/Presentations/David%20Patterson.pdf and
http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/wiki/RAD_Lab
PageOnce provides an aggregation of your preferred websites in one web page.
This looked like a useful product worth trying out. It was claimed to have bank
level security so supporting your financial web transactions was part of the
capability.
From their website:
Are
you frustrated with navigating multiple websites and managing too many
passwords?
Are
you experiencing difficulty accessing your information?
Simply
select your personal accounts from social networking, email and travel to
entertainment, banking, credit cards and much more and add them to your
personal page
See
what's new in your social networks
facebook,
MySpace, LinkedIn and Friendster, all in one page
Track
your cell phone usage
Never
exceed your minutes, Pay bills on time
Manage
your finances
Watch
your credit limit, track your investment portfolio
Maximize
your travel rewards
View
miles from all airlines, never miss expiration dates
All
your email accounts come to you
Read
hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and more
And
much more...
Give it a try. ;-)
From their website:
Your Visual Assets Always Come First. PicScout deploys advanced technologies to improve business of visual assets owners and users. Since introducing its Image Tracker service in 2003, the company has established itself as a market leader for content monitoring, serving the world's most prestigious visual collections.They support Getty Images and Bill Gate's Corbis image collection. The provide copyright owners with the ability to track use of their images on the web and identify non-compliant copyright use. They support B2B commercial content licensing and have another service called Picapp. Picaap offers free access to publishers and bloggers for online ads.
We expertise in the field of image and text analysis, content management, web crawling and filtering. Based on these capabilities, we offer specialized solutions for content owners to manage their distribution channels over various media and simultaneously provide innovative applications for new media content users.
From the Dapper blog
(http://dapper.wordpress.com/2006/06/23/dapper-unleash-your-%20%20creativity/):
"Dapper's mission is to allow you to use any web based content in any way you can imagine. And by use, we mean going beyond just reading or viewing a webpage. You may want to create an RSS feed or a Google Gadget for a site, take a site's content and put it on a map, receive an email alert when your site's Alexa's ranking goes below 5000, or create a mashup of your favorite band's tour dates and a camping locations reservation website to organize your musical camping vacation. Whatever you want to do, however you want to mold the web, Dapper can help you do it."
From the "about us" page on Tripwiser: