IBM's x86 server brainiac starts blogging
Tom Bradicich, chief technology officer of IBM's System x business selling servers using x86 processors such as Intel's Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, has begun a blog.
Bradicich's posts so far show a slant toward blade servers, not surprisingly given their importance to the server market and IBM's product specifically. Also up his alley is a discussion of the Geneseo initiative to let special-purpose accelerator chips use the PCI bus to boost mainstream processors.
But there's other food for thought as well.
"I was thinking a while back about what a great invention putting things in alphabetical order is. That guy ought to get an award or something," Bradicich wrote. "Think of what a great time-saver that is. You go up to vote, give you name, and 'bam,' they find it. Imagine how long you'd be standing there if putting things in alphabetical order was not invented."
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