Comment Require 40 years of experience? (Score 2) 199
30 year old OS. Is the recruiter asking for 40 years of experience?
Submission + - ARM in the Datacenter isn't Dead Yet! (theregister.co.uk)
prpplague writes: Despite Linus Torvald's recent claims ARM won’t win in the server space, there are very specific use cases where ARM is making advances into the datacenter. One of those is for use with software defined storage with open source projects like CEPH (https://ceph.com/). In a recent The Register article, Softiron's CTO states about their ARM based CEPH appliances that "It's a totally shitty computer, but what we are trying to do here is storage, and not compute, so when you look at the IO, when you look at the buffering, when you look at the data paths, there's amazing performance – we can approach something like a quarter of a petabyte, at 200Gbps wireline throughput." and " claimed that, on average, SoftIron servers run 25C cooler than a comparable system powered by Xeons." So... ARM in datacenter might be saying "I’m not quite dead yet!"
Submission + - new humanoid robot announced (pal-robotics.com)
Davide writes: "Many of us think that all the humanoid robots are Japanese or Korean.
Actually, there is a quite interesting human size robot that comes from UAE, REEM-A.
It has some interesting skills as dynamic walking (of course), object recognition, voice recognition, self localization and mapping, long battery life and face recognition ("where have I seen you before?").
Recently, the development team announced that the second prototype, REEM-B, will be presented in February 2008.
The second prototype got many improvements: a fingered hand with 12 motors, the ability to go up and down stairs, additional force sensors on the arms, ultrasonic range finders to avoid obstacles and a completely new look (but we must wait 2 more months to find out how REEM-B looks like)."
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