Reno (NV) – Internet2 said it will provide some insight at future tiered network capacities by demonstrating its Dynamic Circuit technology at the supercomputing conference SC07.
Application-tailored bandwidths within closed and open networks are making a huge step forward with dynamic circuit networks (DCN), a technology that is currently being rolled for the Internet2. Rather than traditional IP networks that equally divide the capacity of a network to all requesting applications, a DCN can provide on-demand or scheduled dedicated point-to-point bandwidth to specific applications with specific bandwidth requirements.
At SC07, Internet2 representatives plan to demonstrate the interoperability of its DCN with other DCNs using the Inter-Domain Controller (IDC) protocol, which was developed by Internet2 in collaboration with GEANT2, and ESnet and is considered as the standard for interoperable dynamic circuit networking today.
Mario fans have no doubt heard the expression that Super Mario Galaxy is the first "spiritual sequel" to Super Mario 64, originally released in 1996. That's quite a promise. After all, the Nintendo 64 title wrote the book on 3D platforming. Unfortunately, since then the platformer genre has been uninspiring and kind of pathetic.
Enter Super Mario Galaxy. This is the first Mario platformer since Super Mario Sunshine came out more than five years ago. But even Nintendo has said that Sunshine, a Gamecube title, wasn't a "true sequel" to Super Mario 64. In other words, hardcore fans have been waiting over 11 years for a new 3D Mario game that goes back to its roots.
That's a long time to wait, but Nintendo has come through in an unimaginable way with Super Mario Galaxy.
New York (NY) – Sandisk announced a new NAND flash PCI Express card that is designed to hold operating system and frequently accessed files to speed up a PC.
The new “Vaulter” card comes with relatively modest capacities of either 8 GB or 16 GB and therefore is not suited to be used as a mass storage device. According to Sandisk, the device is designed to work in conjunction with a hard drive, which will hold the bulk of the data stored on a PC, while the Vaulter is used speed up the boot process of the operating system and applications.
