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BotchagalupeMarks for July 29th – 19:52
By John | July 30, 2009
These are my links for July 29th from 19:52 to 20:47:
- The Netflix Prize Comes To A Buzzer-Beater, Nailbiting Finish – It’s been a long road to get here. Over the last three years computer science teams around the world have been vying for the Netflix Prize — a competition that invited teams to try to improve on Netflix’s movie recommendation algorithm by 10%, with a reward of $1 million to the best submission. Since then teams have gotten progressively closer to the magical 10% mark, but it wasn’t until last month when a number of top teams joined forces to form BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos that the barrier was finally broken, with a score of 10.08%. However, their announcement kicked off a 30 day last call period where other teams were invited to make their final submissions.
- blog.dsa-research.org » Archives » OpenNebula Tarantula Stable version 1.2.1 – The OpenNebula team is pleased to announce a new Stable version (1.2.1) of the OpenNebula Tarantula (1.2.x) series that is available for download under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. This maintenance release is intended to fix bugs that were either fixed in the development version (1.3.x) or just relevant to the 1.2 release. It aims to provide an even more robust, reliable and scalable version of OpenNebula for efficient management of virtual infrastructures, to be used in production environments.
- PoolParty! – * built-in scaling, self-healing, monitoring, and load-balancing
* support for VMware, for testing clouds
* dependency resolution is based on Chef
* clear and extensible configuration - ‘OpenSim-in-a-box’ pt1: setting it up in the cloud « web3d-blog – So, how do you install the OpenSim-in-a-box into the cloud?
- IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Turbo Charge Your Applications with XTP – With the rapid growth in adoption and application of flexible and scalable ultra-high performance technology solutions, this blog is our fast path to communicating directly with solution architects and developers alike. This blog will discuss various topics for developing and deploying XTP applications and will point out emerging trends, benefits, challenges, and features associated with it. The primary contributors, Lan Vuong and Robert Wisniewski, are Technical Evangelists for XTP technologies and can provide a unique perspective on IBM's adoption and evolution of these concepts.
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