Dr. John Busch from Schooner Information Technology

You may have already watched some of the videos that were recorded in the Intel booth at OSCON, but if not, you can still catch up on the earlier videos:

• Ken Drachnik from Canonical on Landscape for Ubuntu Systems Management
• Sven Dummer from Wind River on Developing Open Source Mobile Applications
• Joseph Hill from Novell talking about Mono
• Glynn Foster from Sun Discussing OpenSolaris

In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Dr. John Busch, President and CEO of Schooner Information Technology talks about where we are in computing now and gives some perspective on trends for the future in data centers, appliances and technology. He also talks in more detail about web 2.0 applications and the cloud computing infrastructure and the building blocks used to support those applications.

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Moore’s Law, Less Carbon – New Academic Research

Some of my prior blogs have discussed the opportunity for society to solve some of our planet’s environmental challenges, by more effectively harnessing advances in technology. New academic research is emerging which helps clarify some of these opportunities.

I recently had the opportunity to read 3 new whitepapers from Dr. Jonathan Koomey, research scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University, and starting this fall, with Yale University. You should be aware that while Intel and Microsoft provided financial support for this particular set of research, Dr. Koomey’s papers represent his own views. This trilogy of papers is noteworthy in that they discuss 3 inter-related trends, which I think have implications for how society manages its stewardship of both technology and the environment.

Trend #1: Continuous advancement of computational energy efficiency, in terms of Computations per Watt of energy used.

Trend #2: The consolidation of computers into powerful, large scale computing utility centers, which can be accessed anywhere, a.k.a. Cloud Computing.

Trend #3: The effective harnessing of computer technologies to achieve improved net environmental outcomes, including Carbon Reduction and De-materialization.

“Assessing Trends in the Electrical Efficiency of Computation Over Time” outlines the forces that have driven decades of historical, and expected future improvements, in the energy efficiency of computers.

“Assessing Trends Over Time in Performance, Cost, and Energy Use of Servers” outlines the technological and economic forces that are driving the consolidation of computing resources into large scale, highly dense mega-data centers, a.k.a. cloud computing.

“The Energy and Climate Change Impact of Different Music Delivery Methods” studies how society is harnessing new computing technologies, including mega-data centers, for economic and convenience reasons, while creating interesting environmental net outcomes.

Dr, Koomey’s research is both illuminating and provocative. Some questions for continued discussion and ongoing research include: What are the environmental consequences of substituting one type of technology with another? Where is driving the trend towards “cloud computing”? Is technological progress a threat to, or ally of, the environment? How does the answer depend on the technology, and how it is utilized?

Among other places, Dr. Koomey’s latest research can be found here. I encourage you to read all three (or at least one) of the papers, then come back and join the conversation on these topics, by posting a comment below.

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Game development at GDC Europe 2009

In exactly one week the Game Developers Conference 2009 opens its gates and offers a three days agenda regarding development, design, distribution and more of computer games. Here‘s a small abstract what we can expect in Cologne from 17th to 19th of August:

• Monday morning, sessions will be offered from 9:00h am to 6.30h pm. At the same time, you can have conversations with the exhibtors in relaxed atmosphere from 10:00h am to 6:00h pm. This is also valid for Tuesday; however, on Wednesday the last session finishes shortly after 4:00 pm.

• On Monday at 11:20 am it will become really interesting for the first time: Crytek‘s CEO Cevat Yerli holds his keynote presentation with the title "The Future of Gaming Graphics". One part of his speech will strive CryEngine 2, and he will also talk about rendering technologies of complicated 3D subjects.

• On Tuesday you shouldn‘t miss the keynote speech of David Cage. David is CEO of Quantic Dream who is responsible for the 3D game Indigo Prophecy. The title of his talk: "Writing Interactive Narrative for a Mature Audience". Let‘s cross fingers that he will share an insight behind the scene of long awaited Heavy Rain.

• The highlight on Wednesday morning will be the keynote session of Klass Kersting of Gameforge. Klass will talk about business models, at least that‘s what we can expect if we look at the title of his speech: "Changes in the Games Industry – Free-to-play versus Payment Models".

Besides these interesting keynotes there will be plenty of tech sessions where the receptive listener will be informed in detail about new technologies and trends of game development. If you want to know which of these sessions I will attend you should read my tomorrow&aposs GDC‘09 blog post.

BTW: I will not only participate at all these sessions but also blog about them. Moreover I will do live interviews with the help of Tom Papadhimas who will bring his video camera to Cologne. So you can watch and listen to the leading heads of the gaming industry as if you were at GDC’09. We are really looking forward to this event – and hopefully you do as well.

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