Netronome Targets Convergence of Servers and Networking with Industry’s First Network Flow Processors for Unified Computing
Monday, September 28th, 2009Business Wire, May 27, 2009
Fabless Semiconductor Companyâs 40-Core Processors Remove Barriers
between Multicore and NPU Designs by Combining 20Gbps of
Software-Defined I/O, Virtualization, Content and Security Processing
PITTSBURGH — Netronome, a leading developer of highly programmable semiconductor
products that provide intelligent and secure flow processing for
virtualized servers and network equipment, today announced the
availability of the NFP-32xx family of Network Flow Processorsâ¢. The
NFP-32xx is the industryâs first processor to remove the barriers in
unified computing architectures by combining the NFPâs high-performance
network, content and security processing with general purpose
processors, such as Intelâs IA, through I/O virtualization.
Additionally, the NFP-32xx is the only line of processors
backward-compatible with the market-leading Intel® IXP28XX, protecting
customersâ investment in field-proven and network-hardened software.
âWith such a large base of existing IXP28XX customers, the Netronome NFP
is well positioned to intercept the convergence of the network and data
center,â said Bob Wheeler, senior analyst at The Linley Group. âA
programmable dataplane, with hardware-based I/O virtualization and
integrated security goes beyond what L2-L3 NPUs, security processors and
embedded communication processors individually offer to meet the
requirements of next-generation switches, routers, wireless
infrastructure, appliances and servers.â
âThe NFP provides existing IXP28XX customers with a path forward for the
evolution of their high-performance product designs,â said Rose
Schooler, general manager, Performance Products Division, Intel’s
Embedded Computing Group.
High Performance Networking with Power Efficiency
For designers of communications equipment whose network processing
requirements extend beyond simple forwarding, the NFP-32xx provides
intelligent packet processing in a power-efficient design.
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High-Performance: Powered by 40 multi-threaded programmable
networking cores running at 1.4GHz, the NFP delivers over 56 billion
instructions per second with 320 hardware threads that optimize memory
utilization – allowing for 1800 instructions per packet at 30 million
packets per second. This enables 20Gbps of L2-L7 deep packet
processing with line-rate security and I/O virtualization for millions
of simultaneous flows. -
Power Efficiency: Operating at only 15 to 35 watts, the
NFP-32xx revolutionizes green computing by delivering more than four
times the power efficiency of its closest competitor.
âThe NFPâs massively parallel microengine architecture has unique
advantages over traditional technologies,â said Peder Jungck, founder
and CTO at CloudShield Technologies. âThis allows us to achieve a new
level of scalability for our content and network processing platform.â
Software-Defined I/O: Programmable Processing for Ultimate Flexibility
Unlike fixed-function ASICs and configurable NPUs, Netronomeâs NFPs are
the first fully programmable processors capable of addressing the
increasingly complex requirements of unified computing architectures.
Software-defined I/O supports both L2-L3 packet processing and L4-L7
application- and content-aware deep packet inspection. This
programmability, coupled with line rate packet processing, provides the
highest level of inspection and throughput available in the industry for
traditional NPU applications such as high-performance line cards.
âAnagranâs products eliminate network congestion by constantly
maintaining flow state for a large number of dynamic applications and
protocols,â said John Harper, vice president of engineering at Anagran
German naturals company Lavera says it has reworked its Sun Sensitiv mineral sunscreens in line with the recently revised Colipa recommendations.(SUN CARE & SELF TAN)
Monday, September 28th, 2009Cosmetics International Cosmetic Products Report, July, 2009
World: German naturals company Lavera says it has reworked its Sun Sensitiv mineral sunscreens in line with the recently revised Colipa recommendations.
Lavera’s products now contain zinc oxide as well as titanium dioxide. The two mineral UV filters are coated with stearic acid derived from coconut oil, making them unable to penetrate the skin. The lotions also contain cold pressed organic sunflower oil and aloe vera, vitamins A, C and E, organic rose petal and lavender essences and organic almond and jojoba oils
Classic day for car buffs
Monday, September 28th, 20090 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Jun 28, 2009 | by Anonymous
PETROLHEADS are gearing up for a worldclass display of vehicles.
The 18th Classic and Vintage Motor Show will take place in Terenure College, Dublin, on July 5. It will feature more than 1,000 exhibits ranging from fire engines, through cars – including the world’s first electric car – to scooters.
The event is being run in aid of Cheeverstown House which provides services to people with an intellectual disability.
Cycling
Monday, September 28th, 20090 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jul 14, 2008
TOUR DE FRANCE
Ninth Stage
A 139.2-mile, high-mountain stage through the Pyrenees from Toulouse to Bagneres-de-Bigorre
1. R. Ricco, Italy, Saunier Duval-Scott, 5 hours, 39 minutes, 28 seconds.
2. Vladimir Efimkin, Russia, AG2R-La Mondiale, 1 minute, 4 seconds behind.
3. Cyril Dessel, France, AG2R-La Mondiale, 1:17.
4. Dmitry Fofonov, Kazakhstan, Credit Agricole, same time.
5. Christian Knees, Germany, Team Milram, same time.
6. Maxime Monfort, Belgium, Cofidis, same time.
7. Alejandro Valverde, Spain, Caisse d’Epargne, same time.
8. Roman Kreuziger, Czech Republic, Liquigas, same time.
9. Damiano Cunego, Italy, Lampre, same time.
10. Yaroslav Popovych, Ukraine, Silence-Lotto, same time.
Also
20. Christian Vandevelde, United States, Garmin Chipotle, same time.
60. George Hincapie, United States, Team Columbia, 6:27.
118. Danny Pate, United States, Garmin Chipotle, 18:55.
142. William Frischkorn, United States, Garmin Chipotle, 28:11.
Overall Standings
(After nine stages)
1. Kim Kirchen, Luxembourg, Team Columbia, 38 hours, 7 minutes, 19 seconds.
2. Cadel Evans, Australia, Silence-Lotto, 6 seconds behind.
3
'GO-KARTS' vs. 'TAXICABS'
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Motor, Mar 2009 by Bryan, Pack
NASCAR’s Sprint Cup and the Indy Racing League are this country’s two most popular racing series. While race cars built for the two series look very different, they have one very important thing in common: They’re built for speed.
Indy car fans call the NASCAR racers “taxicabs” while NASCAR fans refer to Indy cars as “GoKarts.” They’ll never race against each other, but it’s an interesting exercise to look at the two kinds of cars and see how they match up running on the same track.
Are we comparing apples and oranges here, or can you really make a side-byside evaluation of the vehicles running in the two most popular forms of racing in the U.S.? That became possible in 1994 when NASCAR added the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis to its event schedule.
When you race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, you’ve reached the top! The name “Indianapolis” is almost synonymous with “auto racing.”
It’s been that way since 1911, when Ray Harroun won the first 500 Mile race at an average speed of 74.602 mph. It took him 6 hours, 42 minutes to do it. In 2008, New Zealander Scott Dixon won the race in 3 hours, 28 minutes, 57 seconds. Average speed: 143.567 mph.
Prior to 1994, only open-wheel cars under a variety of sanctions – including AAA, USAC, CART and IRL- competed at the Speedway. Occasionally, drivers from Europe or other racing circuits in the U.S. would enter, but rarely with any success after the teens.
Frenchmen Jules Goux, driving a Peugeot, and Rene Thomas, in a Delage, won the 1913 and 1914 races. Alltime great American Ralph DePalma won the ‘15 race in a Mercedes and the following year Dario Rasta won in another Peugeot.
Following a two-year break due to World War I, Gaston Chevrolet’s win in a Frontenac in 1920 ended meaningful participation by European cars or drivers, until Wilber Shaw used a Maserati for the first back-to-back wins at the Speedway, in 1939 and 1940.
The original surface was made up of 3.2 million paving bricks (hence the nickname “The Brickyard,” and two of which are now embedded in my patio), but over the years since the 1930s, the bricks have been covered with asphalt many times. Only a three-foot section of brick at the starting line remains, in a bow to tradition.
The two front and back straight stretches are each 5/8 mi. long, separated by a pair of short 1/8-mi
Scrub out stains with baking soda
Sunday, September 27th, 20090 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), May 26, 2007 | by Hints
Dear Readers: If a budding artist in your house has decided to try decorating your kitchen/office chalkboard with a crayon, don’t stress out! It can be fixed. Put a brown grocery bag over the crayon marks and carefully iron them with a warm iron, but don’t get the iron too hot.
You can also try sprinkling baking soda on a damp sponge or cloth and scrubbing until the marks are gone. If a stain still remains, you can buy chalkboard paint to make the surface new again. Call a few paint stores to find one that carries it. And while you’re in the kitchen, use baking soda to clean and deodorize a butcher block, microwave, sink drain, refrigerator and a zillion other things!
I have all the recipes for these and many other cleaning hints using baking soda in my six-page Baking Soda Hints and Recipes pamphlet, which you can have by sending $4 and a long, self- addressed, stamped (58 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001.
In fact, you may never have to buy scouring powder again! Baking soda is nontoxic, nonabrasive on most hard surfaces (when dampened with water), and, best of all, it’s safe and inexpensive. –Heloise
P.S.: For easy use, transfer the baking soda to a clean, dry, plastic Parmesan bottle with a shaker top!
Dear Heloise: I use my floor cleaner with disposable pads along with a bucket containing a light amount of ammonia mixed with water to clean the outside window surfaces. The long handle makes it easy to reach all the way to the top of the window. Then I rinse with the hose.
For inside windows, I use a light spritz of my homemade cleaner, and the wonderful flat surface of the floor pad makes the inside window cleaning almost no work at all. Of course, the disposable cloths are reused time after time. –Jo Migliavacca, Houston
Dear Heloise: My luggage has never been lost. When I check in at the airline counter, the ticket agents always give me a thumbs-up! Why? On plain paper, I print the date, my name, the airport, departing flight, connection flight and destination city. I use clear packing tape and entirely cover the information paper. I also type up directions for my return trip and slip it inside my suitcase with a small roll of packing tape
Term Living – Merrimack County Nursing Home Boscowen, New Hampshire: all-aluminum exterior gives a ‘residential’ feel
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Long-Term Living, June, 2009 by Toy Henson
How do you replace a 291-bed nursing home with a building that actually looks like a series of homes rather than an institution? It’s no small challenge, suggests architect Jonathan Smith whose design firm, Warrenstreet Architects of Concord, New Hampshire, recently completed a $40 million replacement for the 143-year-old Merrimack County Nursing Home in Boscowan, New Hampshire.
The key to success, he says, is selecting materials and colors that project a warm, residential feel, while providing the durability that will yield a strong return on investment over the long haul. To underscore his point, Smith specified some 100,000 square feet of architectural aluminum panels in a custom yellow to clad the exterior of the new nursing home, which opened in March 2008. Rigid foam insulation 1 1/2-inches thick fills the wall cavity directly behind the metal panels to give the wall system an insulating value of R-24.
“With metal, we were able to simulate the residential look of oversized clapboard and board and batten panels,” Smith says, adding that the styling was further reinforced through the use of a custom yellow finish and some 34,500 square feet of patina green aluminum roofing. The roofing panels are used exclusively as accent pieces, primarily as cladding for the gables and eaves.
Metal versus other materials
“While metal gives us the look we want, we initially analyzed 25 different exterior wall systems, including concrete block, ceramic tile, and brick,” Smith recalls. “We considered factors such as installed cost, service life, maintenance, and design flexibility. Metal scored well in all categories. We estimated the cost of the metal cladding and insulation at about $11.50 per square feet, a bargain for a system we expect will provide reliable service for 60 to 100 years.”
The Merrimack County Nursing Home traces its origins to the Alms House, which was built on an adjacent site in 1865. In the ensuing years, the facility expanded seven times, and, in the process, earned a reputation for providing excellent care. The complex, which had served as a skilled nursing facility until March 2008, is being converted into an assisted living center
In 2005, Merrimack County opted to build a new nursing home that projects a more open, residential facade, according to Smith. “The process,” he says, “grew out of the design of the typical resident room and the desire to provide residents with a strong sense of community.”
The 235,000-square-foot building features seven L-shaped residential areas, each with its own dining room, serving kiosk, and a large public community room with direct access to resident rooms. The nursing support areas were placed in “discreet” locations to ensure they wouldn’t be “the dominant feature in resident life,” while allowing the staff to function efficiently, Smith says.
Centralized services
A central atrium provides the “Main Street” for the entire nursing home, while the community room serves as the “neighborhood” or cul-de-sac within each twin-wing cluster. Food is distributed to the seven serving areas from a central kitchen on the first floor
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For sale: Home building slows
Saturday, September 26th, 20090 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jun 20, 2007 | by Martin Crutsinger Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Construction of new homes fell in May as the nation’s homebuilders were battered by the crisis in subprime lending and rising mortgage rates.
Housing, which is struggling through its biggest downturn in 16 years, is expected to continue to face troubles in the months ahead before starting to stage a sustained rebound in 2008.
The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that construction of new homes and apartments dropped by 2.1 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.474 million units, 24.2 percent below the level of a year ago.
The May decline was in line with expectations and reflected weakness in the South and West, which offset construction gains in the Northeast and Midwest.
Permits, considered a good barometer of future activity, rose by 3 percent in May, but that followed a huge 7.1 percent plunge in April. The strength last month came from a rebound in permits for apartment construction, which can be volatile. Applications for single-family homes fell by 1.8 percent and have been down four of the past five months.
“The downward trend remains firmly in place, and there is no prospect of any near-term relief, given the huge inventory overhang in the new home market,” said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist for High Frequency Economics.
On Wall Street, stocks eked out a modest gain. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 22.44 points to close at 13,635.42.
Homebuilders, struggling to reduce record levels of unsold homes, are slashing prices and offering a variety of sales incentives, such as kitchen upgrades and free decks, to do so.
However, they are facing new problems with the recent spike in mortgage delinquencies, which means more homes are being dumped on the market, and a steady rise in mortgage rates general contractor malibu over the past month, with Freddie Mac’s national survey for 30-year mortgages hitting an 11-month high of 6.74 percent last week.
The National Association of Home Builders reported its survey of builder sentiment sank in June to the lowest level in 16 years, a reading of 28, down from 30 in May. The three major components of the index — sales, sales expectations and buyer traffic — all posted declines. It was the lowest showing since February 1991, a period that covered the last major housing recession.
“The tightening in lending standards is having quite an impact,” said David Seiders, chief economist for the home builders
GROUPE SEB OUTBIDS LIFETIME FOR WEAREVER, CHANCE FOR BIGGER ROLE IN MASS CHANNEL.
Friday, September 25th, 2009HFN: The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network, August, 2006
Byline: Carla Webb O’Connor
WILMINGTON, Del.-Groupe SEB’s bid to acquire WearEver from Global Home Products would give the company a big push further into the mass channel in cookware and an entry into the bakeware category.
The acquisition by the French company, whose bid of $36.5 million was approved by the bankruptcy court here last week, includes all of WearEver’s inventories, trade receivables, equipment in Mexico-where it manufactures a large portion of its products-and trademarks, including its Mirro, Regal, WearEver and AirBake brands. A final decision is expected to be made by the bankruptcy court by the end of this week.
Groupe SEB’s bid was more than $15 million over the $21 million Lifetime Brands bid for the brand last month,…