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LSI Announces Multicore Network Processor

Last week, in advance of Mobile World Congress, LSI announced its Axxia Communication Processor (ACP) family. Combining multiple PowerPC CPUs with data-plane technology from LSI's APP network processors, the ACP chips represent a hybrid of a multicore processor and an NPU. The chips also include content-inspection technology from LSI's Tarari line.

The top-of-the-line ACP3448 includes four PowerPC 476 CPUs that operate at up to 1.8GHz and each have a 512KB level 2 cache. An IBM/LSI joint development, the new 476 core can issue up to five instructions per cycle and supports out-of-order execution. The 476 does not, however, support multithreading. Using a coherent interconnect, the ACP supports symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).

The ACP data plane uses blocks similar to those in LSI's shipping APP3300/APP650 NPUs. But whereas the APP chips use a fixed pipeline, the new ACP uses what LSI calls a virtual pipeline to enable flexible data flow between these blocks as well as to the PowerPC CPUs. The ACP3448 is rated at 20Gbps of throughput, 10Gbps of security processing (e.g., IPSec), and 3Gbps of regular-expression processing. The data plane integrates eight GbE MACs and a pair of 10GbE MACs. The ACP also includes PCI Express and RapidIO ports to connect external hosts, DSPs, or peripherals.

Built in a 45nm SOI process, the ACP34xx family will begin sampling this month. LSI is offering two other ACP34xx family members: the ACP3442 with four CPUs and a 10Gbps data plane, and the ACP3421 with two CPUs and a 5Gbps data plane. All three ACP34xx family members share a common pinout.

What sets LSI's ACP apart from multicore competitors, such as Cavium's Octeon and NetLogic's XLP, is its autonomous data plane. For many designs, the ACP can perform complete packet processing without any CPU intervention or load. Compared with network processors, such as EZchip's NPA or Wintegra's WinPath, the ACP is first to integrate powerful multicore control-plane processing. LSI must now show this hybrid design can simultaneously deliver deterministic throughput. Depending on pricing and power dissipation, which were not announced, the ACP34xx should be attractive for a variety of designs in wireless infrastructure, network security, and various Layer 4-7 applications. --Bob

Bob Wheeler, senior analyst

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Source: http://blog.linleygroup.com/2010/02/lsi-announces-multicore-network.html

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Truly Freeing our Sources of News #jcarn

This month’s Carnival of Journalism asks “considering your unique circumstances what steps can be taken to increase the number of news sources?” Although I formed the question, I’m going to play a little devil’s advocate and potentially get derailed. I thought about writing on  Spot.Us but that just seems like the obvious thing for me [...]

Source: http://blog.digidave.org/2011/02/truly-freeing-our-sources-of-news-jcarn

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In Jasper Server, you may encounter the following error: org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: could not insert: [com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.metadata.common.service.impl.hibernate.persistent.ContentRepoFileResource] This can be caused by having too many automated reports stored in your Content Files directory. Especially if there are number of large .xls (or any type of file). Just be sure to keep this directory to less than 50 files, and [...]

Source: http://www.daviddietrich.com/2010/02/16/jasper-server-could-not-insert-error/

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Looking to Migrate to Small Business Server 2011?

If you?re looking to migrate to Windows Small Business Server 2011, and aren?t completely sure where to get started, you have your choice of migration options from Microsoft. 

The migration solutions provided are well documented and tested by Microsoft, but do require extra hardware, and do require you to change the computer name of your server.  Additionally, these migration whitepapers are free of charge for you to use.

There are other solutions that you can choose such as the Swing Migration, which at an additional fee you can get a customized migration paper, and access to the Swing migration forums.  Both are valuable resources and you need to determine which is best for your customer?s business.  Both solutions get you from point A to point B, the better place on SBS 2011 Essentials or Standard

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Broadcom Sneaks Out New Ethernet Products

At Broadcom's Analyst Day, Enterprise Group VP Nariman Yousefi spent much of his time discussing market trends and forecasts. The presentation also embedded, without much fanfare, a handful of new products that implement Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), which is being finalized in IEEEE 802.1az work group. EEE reduces energy use by reducing link speed during periods of low link utilization. Broadcom products that support EEE include GbE PHYs, 10GbE PHYs, and controller. The company claims its EEE PHYs will use 70% less power during periods of low traffic utilization compared with a PHY without EEE.

Hidden in the EEE press release is a new 10GBase-T product, the BCM84823. This new dual-port PHY appears to be replacing the short-lived BCM84812 dual PHY that was introduced at the April 2009 Interop. We believe most of the EEE operations are incorporated through firmware changes to the existing silicon and thus represent a low risk. Like its predecessor, the BCM84823 is built in 65nm and consumes about the same power (5.5W) when active. Compared with its predecessor, the BCM84823 adds XFI and uses a smaller size package. XFI is popular at Cisco, a Broadcom customer that may have pushed for such a change.

Separately, Broadcom's VP of manufacturing, Neil Kim, stated that the Enterprise Group is sampling a 40nm product. Although he provided no further details on this product, we suspect it to be a high-density (>48 port) 10GbE switch. This switch would compete with Marvell's 65nm Lion silicon, which is also a 48x10GbE switch but has already been sampling for more than nine months, with OEM products expected in 1H10.

Broadcom's goal is to own the Ethernet market by proliferating products into all niches in order to prevent competitors from gaining a foothold. To achieve this goal, Broadcom develops proliferations such as these EEE products, CE products for emerging markets, and FCoE devices for future growth segments as well as acquiring companies such as Dune to plug product-line holes. In Ethernet as a whole, Broadcom has tremendous momentum and an insurmountably large infrastructure. Apart from Marvell, few other companies will be able to challenge Broadcom's Ethernet position, and thus any risks for future downsides to its business are more from poor internal decisions than external factors. --Jag

Jag Bolaria, senior analyst

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Source: http://blog.linleygroup.com/2009/12/broadcom-sneaks-out-new-ethernet.html

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LSI Announces Multicore Network Processor

Last week, in advance of Mobile World Congress, LSI announced its Axxia Communication Processor (ACP) family. Combining multiple PowerPC CPUs with data-plane technology from LSI's APP network processors, the ACP chips represent a hybrid of a multicore processor and an NPU. The chips also include content-inspection technology from LSI's Tarari line.

The top-of-the-line ACP3448 includes four PowerPC 476 CPUs that operate at up to 1.8GHz and each have a 512KB level 2 cache. An IBM/LSI joint development, the new 476 core can issue up to five instructions per cycle and supports out-of-order execution. The 476 does not, however, support multithreading. Using a coherent interconnect, the ACP supports symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).

The ACP data plane uses blocks similar to those in LSI's shipping APP3300/APP650 NPUs. But whereas the APP chips use a fixed pipeline, the new ACP uses what LSI calls a virtual pipeline to enable flexible data flow between these blocks as well as to the PowerPC CPUs. The ACP3448 is rated at 20Gbps of throughput, 10Gbps of security processing (e.g., IPSec), and 3Gbps of regular-expression processing. The data plane integrates eight GbE MACs and a pair of 10GbE MACs. The ACP also includes PCI Express and RapidIO ports to connect external hosts, DSPs, or peripherals.

Built in a 45nm SOI process, the ACP34xx family will begin sampling this month. LSI is offering two other ACP34xx family members: the ACP3442 with four CPUs and a 10Gbps data plane, and the ACP3421 with two CPUs and a 5Gbps data plane. All three ACP34xx family members share a common pinout.

What sets LSI's ACP apart from multicore competitors, such as Cavium's Octeon and NetLogic's XLP, is its autonomous data plane. For many designs, the ACP can perform complete packet processing without any CPU intervention or load. Compared with network processors, such as EZchip's NPA or Wintegra's WinPath, the ACP is first to integrate powerful multicore control-plane processing. LSI must now show this hybrid design can simultaneously deliver deterministic throughput. Depending on pricing and power dissipation, which were not announced, the ACP34xx should be attractive for a variety of designs in wireless infrastructure, network security, and various Layer 4-7 applications. --Bob

Bob Wheeler, senior analyst

For analysis and news on processors for networking and communications, subscribe to our free newsletter, Linley Wire

Source: http://blog.linleygroup.com/2010/02/lsi-announces-multicore-network.html

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HCL Infosystems organizes ?HCL Grand Computer Carnival? with exciting gifts

HCL Infosystems Ltd, India?s premier Hardware, Services and ICT System Integration Company, today announced a special consumer campaign, ?HCL Grand Computer Carnival? in association with Intel Corporation. The carnival featuring exciting offers on HCL?s range of desktops and notebooks is on from May 10 till May 31, 2011. As part of the campaign, with every [...]

Source: http://onlyhardwareblog.com/2011/05/hcl-infosystems-organizes-%e2%80%98hcl-grand-computer-carnival%e2%80%99-with-exciting-gifts/

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Looking to Migrate to Small Business Server 2011?

If you?re looking to migrate to Windows Small Business Server 2011, and aren?t completely sure where to get started, you have your choice of migration options from Microsoft. 

The migration solutions provided are well documented and tested by Microsoft, but do require extra hardware, and do require you to change the computer name of your server.  Additionally, these migration whitepapers are free of charge for you to use.

There are other solutions that you can choose such as the Swing Migration, which at an additional fee you can get a customized migration paper, and access to the Swing migration forums.  Both are valuable resources and you need to determine which is best for your customer?s business.  Both solutions get you from point A to point B, the better place on SBS 2011 Essentials or Standard

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CloudBerry Backup add-in now supports SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011

CloudBerry Backup, a piece of software I have reviewed for Windows Home Server v1, has recently (February) released an update to support both the new Windows Home Server 2011, as well as the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. 

CloudBerry Online Backup for SBS 2011 Essentials

For the most part, I liked CloudBerry, their software is a pay once, and according to their website, upgrade to the WHS 2011 version for free. 

The biggest problems I had with CloudBerry were

  1. The complexity of setting up the Amazon S3 account
  2. The cost of using Amazon S3

So really I think if you want to use Amazon S3 as your back-end, it?s a great solution.

You can pick up their Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Release Candidate, or their Windows Home Server 2011 Essentials Release Candidate.

I haven?t tried this version yet, but I?m surprised there is a price difference between SBS and WHS Versions.  The UI looks identical, and I know that the SDK they use to develop their version is identical.  The costing is called out on this webpage, but it really doesn?t say what Small Businesses are getting on top of the WHS product for a pretty hefty difference in price.

If anyone knows, drop it in the comments below.

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Cisco Tax Gives Way to IC Opportunities

Compared with today, in 1990 there were many more computer suppliers, including Digital, NCR, Unisys, HP, and IBM. The typical data center of 1990 used computers from different suppliers with each supplier implementing its own network protocol for connectivity. Interworking and routing data among these diverse protocols was a challenging task. Cisco was one of the first to offer routers to support multiple network protocols. By addressing this complex problem, Cisco delivered high value and could charge a premium for its products.

Twenty years later, consolidation has reduced the number of computer manufacturers, and multiple network protocols have given way to IP and MPLS. Instead of multiprotocol routers, enterprises and data centers now only need Ethernet routers. Several vendors supply these standard routers and switches. Cisco, however, continues to charge a premium for its products. Although this premium was justified in 1990, today it is an unsustainable tax--not withstanding the company's leads on pre-standard features.

Large data centers can realize significant savings by using switches from HP instead of Cisco. HP's switches legitimize the use of non-Cisco switches and open the door to low-cost suppliers such as Huawei and ZTE as well as innovative startups such as Arista. Google, one of the largest users of data centers, has gone one step further by developing its own top-of-rack (ToR) switches based on switch chips from Broadcom.

To minimize loss of market share, Cisco must reduce prices on its routers, which will pressure the company to cut R&D spending. While Cisco develops ASICs for switching, most other OEMs use merchant switch chips. By moving to merchant silicon, Cisco could achieve sizable cost savings.

Standardization around Ethernet reduces the barriers to entry for enterprise switches and routers. In this multivendor, standards-based environment, switch pricing becomes more important than before. To reduce R&D and bill-of-materials cost, even the largest OEMs will migrate from ASICs to merchant silicon, expanding the available market and opportunities for Ethernet switch vendors such as Broadcom, Dune, Fulcrum, Marvell, Xelerated, and others. --Jag

Jag Bolaria, senior analyst

Complete coverage of Ethernet switching components from Broadcom and other vendors is available in our new report "A Guide to Ethernet Switch and PHY chips."

Source: http://blog.linleygroup.com/2009/11/cisco-tax-gives-way-to-ic-opportunities.html

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