New things to try

I’ve been fairly busy lately, and thus I don’t have any time to test new things.

So here’s my list of interesting things that I want to try:

• Notion Ink Adam

A new tablet, it looks very very interesting (not like the iPad), it features an ARM processor by nVidia, the nVidia Tegra 2. It is a Dual Core ARM Cortex with integrated video controller, it must be pretty good as it supports HDMI.

I want to get my hands into one of those processors! And I have a new personal project, writing the device simulators of the nVidia Tegra for armycreator (part of my thesis project). It will go very slowly but hopefuly someday I’ll be able to run Android on armycreator.

• HTC Desire

Another device which I’m very interested in because of my obsession with ARM processors. It has an awesome ui, based on Android. I must admit.. I didn’t believe in Android at first, but at least to me it looks very very interesting.

• Cassandra

As it looks to me the future of databases. Cassandra is an apache project which aims to build a distributed database,  it features high availability, and it reduces bottlenecks as every node of the cassandra cluster has the same information.

Based on Amazon’s Dynamo and Google’s BigTable it looks like a very good option for a high available, high performance database.

• Lustre

Sun’s distributed fs, the wikipedia states that 15 of 30 of the fastest clusters in the world use lustre. I looks promising and a major improve over older distributed fs.

Maybe I’ll get an opportunity to work with lustre and cassandra in a project here at javanes, if so.. I’m looking forward to it!

As for the ARM projects… I don’t think I’ll have enough time, if you want to help you’re free to do it, contact me and I’ll help you too.