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Comment Re:Irony (Score 1) 86

by fjordboy on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:26AM (#57255784) Attached to: Microsoft Azure's Southern US Data Center Goes Down For Hours, Impacting Office365 and Active Directory Customers

ETAs are so helpful. When this first started yesterday morning, I assumed maybe a couple of hours of downtime - AT MOST. Now we're nearly 30 hours in, with no ETA, and my builds for alternative systems started hours behind. Learning experience for me I guess.

Submission + - Microsoft Azure's tough morning continues to heat up (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by fjordboy on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:00PM

fjordboy writes: Microsoft's cloud computing service, Azure, faced a setback this morning, as a south-central datacenter struggled with its cooling system, as indicated by @AzureSupport at 0600EST today. The problems, at first assumed to be regional, soon began to affect Azure users worldwide and have continued throughout the morning. Conceptually, the redundancy and benefits of cloud computing are being tested by this type of outage, and Microsoft especially is struggling not only to limit downtime, but also to clearly communicate the scope of the challenges to customers. The problems have been minimally reported outside of tech circles so far, but even Microsoft's own customer portals and status page were impacted by this update. No doubt AWS is watching this closely.

Wolfenstein Gets Ray Traced 184

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @03:42AM from the ach-mein-framen dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After showcasing Quake Wars: Ray Traced a few years ago, Intel is now showing their latest graphics research project using Wolfenstein game content. The new and cool special effects are actually displayed on a laptop using a cloud-based gaming approach with servers that have an Intel Knights Ferry card (many-core) inside. Their blog post has a video and screenshots."

First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life 241

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 17, 2010 @12:27PM from the emergent-gameplay dept.

Calopteryx writes "New Scientist has a story on a self-replicating entity which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life. 'Dubbed Gemini, [Andrew Wade's] creature is made of two sets of identical structures, which sit at either end of the instruction tape. Each is a fraction of the size of the tape's length but, made up of two constructor arms and one "destructor," play a key role. Gemini's initial state contains three of these structures, plus a fourth that is incomplete. As the simulation progresses the incomplete structure begins to grow, while the structure at the start of the tape is demolished. The original Gemini continues to disassemble as the new one emerges, until after nearly 34 million generations, new life is born.'"

US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update 349

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 13, 2010 @06:45AM from the sounds-like-an-act-of-terrorism-to-me dept.

tlhIngan writes "The US Air Force, having purchased PS3s for supercomputing research, is now the latest victim of Sony's removal of the Install Other OS feature. It turns out that while their PS3s don't need the firmware update, it will be impossible to replace PS3s that fail. PS3s with the Other OS feature are no longer produced since the Slim was introduced, so replacements will have to come from the existing stock of used PS3s. However, as most gamers have probably updated their PS3s, that used stock is no longer suitable for the USAF's research. In addition, smaller educational clusters using PS3s will share the same fate — unable to replace machines that die in their clusters." In related news, Sony has been hit with two more lawsuits over this issue.

How Nintendo's Mario Got His Name 103

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 26, 2010 @01:13PM from the can't-wait-for-the-origin-movie dept.

harrymcc writes "In 1981, tiny Nintendo of America was getting ready to release Donkey Kong. When the company's landlord, Mario Segale, demanded back rent, Nintendo staffers named the game's barrel-jumping protagonist after him. Almost thirty years later, neither Nintendo — which continues to crank out Mario games — nor Segale — now a wealthy, secretive Washington State real estate developer — like to talk about how one of video games' iconic characters got his name and Italian heritage. Technologizer's Benj Edwards has researched the story for years and provides the most detailed account to date."

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