Trojan Mouse

This was a clever hack, they call it a prion, but it is really one of the oldest tricks in the book: Netragard used a trojan horse, or, more correctly, a trojan mouse to get access to a security client’s machine from a supposedly secure firewall. I bet many people would think twice before plugging [...]

An Apples to Oranges Comparision of a Gigabit Ethernet PHY to a General-Purpose CPU

Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition i980EE Broadcom BCM54980 Type 6 core CPU 8 port Gigabit PHY Geometry 32nm 90nm Operations Per Second 127 Billion instructions per second 4,800 Billion operations per second Power 130W 4.0W Operations Per Watt 976 Million Ops/W 1.2 Trillion Ops/W Of course, this is an unfair comparison, but it shows you: [...]

Special Purpose Hardware for the Web

Ashlee Vance wrote an interesting article, Big Web Operations Turn to Tiny Chips describing some new startups using netbook chips as the CPU in webservers. SeaMicro virtualizes the I/O. Several companies have have designed I/O virtualization producs such as Xsigo Systems, Next IO, and Vertensys but these products are top of rack. SeaMicro points out [...]