Army comissions 10 teraflop supercomputer using AMD Opterons and Linux

The Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center in Maryland will receive a new supercomputer named Stryker to model the behavior of new weapons materials. Stryker will contain 2304 AMD Opteron 2.2 GHz processors in 1186 separate systems. Capable of a peak performance of 10 teraflops, Stryker will be one of the most powerful Linux computers in the world. Linux Networx currently powers Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Lightning computer with a peak performance of 11 teraflops.

Public Patent Foundation: Linux potentially infringes 283 patents

The Public Patent Foundation has found that version 2.4 and 2.6 of the Linux kernel potentially violate 283 not yet court-validated patents. 98 of the patents are owned by Linux allies such as Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, and Sony. IBM holds 60 patents, HP holds 20 patents and Intel holds 11 patents. The kernel potentially violates 27 Microsoft patents. Open Source Risk Management has a PDF press release on the Public Patent Foundation’s findings.

Kazaa 2.7 promotes user weblogs

Users of Kazaa 2.7 (currently in beta) can promote their weblog or Web site within search result and traffic panes. Once you enter your Web address through the options menu your user name will be hyperlinked in the search results and traffic display. Interesting feature and it adds accountability. I am guessing this feature will be more useful to distributors than end-users. Independent music distributors can direct users to their Web site for more bands or a rich media presentation. Vendors can offer sample clips on Kazaa and link to their sites where a full-length clip is available for purchase.

We the Media introduction

We the Media cover

This Friday is the official launch of Dan Gillmor‘s first book: We the Media. The text will be available under a Creative Commons license.

Currently only the book’s introduction is online. I thought it would be cool to have an audio version of a portion of the book available by the Creative Commons party this Friday.

Tonight I am happy to make available to the online community my reading of the introduction to We the Media by Dan Gillmor in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis audio formats. My reading lasts 19 minutes and 6 seconds. If you are interested in contributing an audio chapter please let me know through comments, trackback, or e-mail; I would like to setup a RSS feed with enclosures containing audio for each chapter.

[Update 8/12: I created a collection for the audio book on the Internet Archive.]