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Intel shows off new cores
PAT GELSINGER'S KEYNOTE at IDF had four notable things to report, Dunnington, Tukwila, Nehalem and Larrabee. That and Monkey Kings, it was horribly exciting.
The Pat Gelsinger Monkey King Drummers
The theme of the keynote was the Monkey King, picked because of the person who delivered it, Pat 'Monkey King' Gelsinger. Insert appropriate howler monkey noises here, along with a few jokes, use Google if you have to, we won't do the work for you.
The exciting news was running Tukwila silicon, shown off in a 4S, 16C 32 thread version. It was so spectacular it needs it's own article. Dunnington was shown running in order to demonstrate VMware flexmigration. VMware migrations are horribly exciting to watch, and let me tell you, it rocked as much as a VMware console can rock. Basically, you can move VMs seamlessly between Intel architectures up to and including Dunnington now.
Nehalem was also nice, they showed off a "32-thread" Nehalem box, followed by a "256-core, 512-thread" version. The reason they are in quotes is that the 32T version was two boxes, the task was spread across multiple machines. Same with the 256C version, Supermicro chassis in 2 racks. If you are going to promote big numbers, don't do it with Infiniband.
The last part talked about was Larrabee. Not much more to say here, they confirmed about 10% of the slides out there, basically that it had multi-cores and 100+ new vector instructions, along with scatter gather.
In the end, the Monkey King was giving out staves to the guests on stage. It was Monkey King-rific and quite touching. ยต
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Hummmm, why does our college VMware run a rubbish tiny-resolution Linux within XP (with no options to resize it any bigger - and Virtual PC ain't any better at that), and despite it is meant to be free, when I went to download it it said I needed a software key?

I very like the sound and promises of virtual machines, but until I'm actually running at least a few OSs within one other OS, and it's really as-if I installed them as true OS boots in use (ie - full-featured (hello - the great Suse screensavers don't work anymore when it's within XP, & other issues, that were fine on a bootable OS on the exact same computer), FULL-SCREEN), then I'll have found my grail as regards virtual machine apps.

Also, don't be fooled.....if you want to run multiple / more than one OS you need the hardware to support it! It's not some magical thing that turns your barely-able-to-run-Vista box into one that can suddenly handle both Vista and another OS, just because you are using a virtual machine.
It saves on space / footprint, not hardware specs.

And it's fun for setting up within-within-within fake networks....

fool people into thinking you run a thriving sprawling network, then they turn up @ the real location and it's one computer and an op with a jesters hat on.
VMware doesn't run the fancy SuSE screen savers because it doesn't officially support 3D acceleration. I forget how, but there's a way to enable experimental 3D for VMs, but I don't know if Linux supports it.

I like virtualization. My main PC at home can run 6 XP VMs and a Server 2003 VM with XP as the host and its specs aren't that impressive, just lots of RAM. Note, however, that I said "run" and not "run well." =P

It would be nice if VMs could support 3D acceleration well. Perhaps just a pass-through that allows only one VM to use it at a time.
Just because you cannot run vmware properly or even set it up for that matter, why go posting on the internet about it like this, you look like an idiot and these new processors are only going to help with things like VM's.
Pat G. isn't dancing in the isles. He dancing on stage. Do I have to tell you who and where the real monkey's are?

SPARKS
Speaking as an expert on the subject, although you can hear a dog talk by running linux on XP, the correct way is to use linux (or some other unix like system) to be the host OS, and run your M$, BSD, linux guests on top of.

The gnome and X screensavers quite definitely work, and u2be videos play and can be heard from the M$ systems.

Vista is 1/2 ass, just like on the physical machine...
Ok this is to the guy who wrote the thread above...

There our loads of versions of vmware, the one they are on about is most likely ESX server. You probably downloaded a trial of vmware workstation or something. If you want something free you need vmware player. You can't create VM's with it by default but look around it is possible. Virtualbox can do it and has a nice seamless mode. Virtual PC can also do it.

No one who cares about VM technology really cares about if screensavers work or not. 3D acceleration doesnt work well with linux guests, but I mean who cares about a guest screensaver? if you want a Screensaver put it on the host OS. 

And yeah if you run 5 guest OS's on the same machine you need the performance to go with it... That is obvious...

"It's not some magical thing that turns your barely-able-to-run-Vista box into one that can suddenly handle both Vista and another OS"
- and no one ever said it was.

Now, you really need to read up about the use of virtualisation, the use in entreprise and think about wether or not you actually understand anything that's written on theinquirer....
What about VMware's assertion that their virtualization will allow "vga & svga" resolution?

On a 2560x1600 panel, that works out to a guest-OS window that is a teensy square, merely 2.5" by 3".

Alright, I've spent the last hour perusing VMware's site & their PDFs, and while I can find that it provides an intel "svga" virtual-chip, I cannot find any resolution-information, either online or in the vmware workstation-6 manual.

Maybe they're hiding it, because they're ashamed of the truth?

Maybe I'll install it ( demo-vers ), to discover the truth. . .