September 2008 - News - Extended64 - The 64-Bit Windows Community

Thecus N2050 External RAID Encolsure Evaluation

The market for external drives is a busy one. It seems like everyone has at least one and they all are about the same in terms of performance. Granted some are better quality than others but they all pretty much fall into the same level of speed, size...

Published Tue, Sep 30 2008 3:01 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

Microsoft Solver Foundation CTP released

A Solver Foundation program is a declarative model embedded in familiar NETfx design patterns and development environments (Visual Studio 2008). The model is embeddable in any supported Solver Foundation context, from Excel 2007 to C#, F#, or any other...

Published Mon, Sep 29 2008 5:35 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Planetx64.com /PlanetAMD64.com Anniversary!!

On September 13th 2003 Carlos Echenique (AKA Guru) registered PlanetAMD64.com; later that same month he launched what would become one of the largest (if not the largest) x64 communities on the Internet. Then in August of 2005 (just 2 years after PlanetAMD64...

Published Mon, Sep 29 2008 4:44 PM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

SAP officially supports Hyper-V

Colleagues over at SAP have done an awesome job and provide a lot of information and guidance on how to take advantage of Virtualizing SAP on Windows with Hyper-V. You find details about SAP on Hyper-V on the SAP on Microsoft Windows webpage. Excellent...

Published Thu, Sep 25 2008 7:04 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Hyper-V

Vuzix VR920 Software Update brings Second Life to life, supports 8 new titles & adds 64-bit ...

Vuzix VR920 Software Update brings Second Life to life, supports 8 new titles and adds 64-bit support New software release v2.3 for Vuzix iWear® VR920 offers expanded game support, native support for Second Life, plus 64-bit support for XP and Vista systems...

Published Thu, Sep 25 2008 7:15 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

Windows HPC Server 2008 for Free

Well, almost. It might have gotten lost in the buzz around the official launch of our V2 product on Monday but you can download a free trial (180 day license of the full product) from Microsoft.

Published Wed, Sep 24 2008 6:45 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Windows HPC Server 2008

Microsoft Employee Transportation

Starting on October 6th the Microsoft Connector bus service will expand its number of lines. In the days of crude oil prices of $120 per barrel and more it is time to think about alternative ways of getting to work. While telecommuting is certainly a...

Published Wed, Sep 24 2008 11:54 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Microsoft

GIGABYTE EP45 Extreme Evaluation

With the P45 possibly being the last of the Intel Socket 775 chipset, many might be wondering if this Intel is selling them short. There are so many Core 2 Duos and Core 2 Quads on the market that it seems that Intel might be selling consumers short....

Published Wed, Sep 24 2008 7:02 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

nVidia Fanbios rejoice....

Ok maybe not, but it would seem that there have been some issues with a very limited number of 38xx series cards coming from one OEM and those made by another company. Diamond Multimedia is the company in question and it seems that perhaps as many as...

Published Wed, Sep 24 2008 3:26 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

Thecus Announces the AMD Technology-based M3800

Thecus Announces the AMD Technology-based M3800 Total Storage and Media Playback Gadget 09/22/2008 Leading storage solution manufacturer Thecus Technology innovates again! This time, Thecus has worked closely with AMD and now introduces the all-new...

Published Wed, Sep 24 2008 2:02 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

meet me in LA

Is the slogan for the Microsoft PDC 2008. I’ll be there and I don’t need any special reason. The shear amount of topics and the relevance for my partners’ businesses is enough. How about you? Do you need another reason to ask your boss for a week in LA...

Published Tue, Sep 23 2008 5:53 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Microsoft

Testdrive Windows HPC Server 2008

As part of the IBM Deep Computing initiative you can now test drive Windows HPC Server 2008 without download/install and all of that. IBM® Computing on Demand For only $99 you can test drive a “scalable 14-16 node environment” via the IBM website . Make...

Published Tue, Sep 23 2008 5:43 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: HPC, Windows HPC Server 2008

One more good reason to go 64-Bit

On Windows. Yesterday Adobe announced that the latest Adobe Creative Suite 4 will come with full 64-bit support to your Windows Vista or XP. The suite is expected to ship next month. I’m a PC or what?

Published Tue, Sep 23 2008 12:57 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: 64-bit for Users

Favorite Posts of Week 38

What’s going on with me. First no favorites in 3 weeks and now one day late for last weeks favorites. Sorry. I promise to become better. Here’s my favorite posts from last week: What Her Eyes Tell Her About Your Business . A post on Wonderbranding: “With...

Published Tue, Sep 23 2008 12:46 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Favorite Posts

Windows HPC Server 2008 is available today

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its latest version of the HPC platform Windows HPC Server 2008. This is the second version of the product. It ships with with some significant enhancements over the previous version. Web services integration...

Published Mon, Sep 22 2008 11:52 AM by VolkerW's WebLog