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<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I'm
really glad you were able to come, Phillip. I also had a great time, and
enjoyed the conversations. Since I also promised something -- here's the
link to the DBSchema project:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://dbschema.sf.net/">http://dbschema.sf.net/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You'll
probably learn more about the project at this point by browsing the CVS
repository, especially the DBSchema subdirectory:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dbschema/">http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dbschema/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
noticed some files are missing from the repository that might help with
understanding things a little (test files and examples). I'll see if I can
track those down. However, the SQLServer.pm file has a good example of how
the drivers were meant to work. You'll see the methods they are meant to
implement and the objects they are supposed to create if you check the source
code.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Later
on, I'll send a list of tasks for us to take on.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>jpt</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421441115-13062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Phillip Tyre
[mailto:phillip.tyre@fcul.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 13, 2003 11:07
AM<BR><B>To:</B> tallahassee-pm@mail.pm.org<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Tallahassee-pm] Things I did a bad job of explaining in the meeting last
night:<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wanted to say that I had a great
time last night, and it was good to finally link some names to faces. The
discussions were all over the place giving us a veritable smorgasbord of
topics to digest.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I've included some links about a
few things I promised to mail the list about. I opened my mouth about Hyper
Threading, and then realized I really didn't fully understand the subject. No
one else seems to have heard of it, so here it is. I actually didn't realize
RH9 supported it, so now I have to figure out how to get one of my new P4ht
boxes going with it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Subject
1: Hyper Threading<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The bunk from
Intel<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">List of supported <SPAN
class=SpellE>OS's</SPAN> <A
href="http://www.intel.com/support/platform/ht/os.htm">http://www.intel.com/support/platform/ht/os.htm</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Summary: You need one of the
following <SPAN class=SpellE>OS's</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Red Hat
Linux* 9 (Professional and Personal versions<SPAN class=GramE>) <BR><SPAN
class=SpellE>SuSE</SPAN></SPAN> Linux* 8.2 (Professional and Personal
versions) <BR>Red Flag Linux* Desktop 4.0</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Microsoft* Windows*
XP Professional Edition </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Microsoft* Windows*
XP Home Edition <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.intel.com/homepage/land/hyperthreading_more.htm">http://www.intel.com/homepage/land/hyperthreading_more.htm</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Summary: You need
the following hardware:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">An
IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4 processor supporting HT Technology
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">An
IntelŪ chipset that supports HT Technology <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">System
BIOS supporting HT Technology and has it enabled <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.intel.com/eBusiness/products/server/processor/xeon/wp020901_sum.htm?iid=Homepage+htland_ebizxeon&">http://www.intel.com/eBusiness/products/server/processor/xeon/wp020901_sum.htm?iid=Homepage+htland_ebizxeon&</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Summary: How it
works:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hyper-Threading Technology allows
multi-threaded server software applications to execute threads in parallel
within each processor in a server platform.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hyper-Threading technology enables
this thread-level parallelism (TLP) by duplicating the architectural state on
each processor, while sharing one set of processor execution resources. When
scheduling threads, the operating system treats the two distinct architectural
states as separate "logical" processors. This allows multi-processor capable
software to run unmodified on twice as many logical processors. While
Hyper-Threading technology will not provide the level of performance scaling
achieved by adding a second processor, benchmark tests show some server
applications can experience 30 percent gain in
performance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.intel.com/eBusiness/pdf/prod/server/xeon/wp020901.pdf">http://www.intel.com/eBusiness/pdf/prod/server/xeon/wp020901.pdf</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Summary: It's
complicated. It's not exactly like I described it, on closer reading, but it's
<SPAN class=SpellE>sorta</SPAN>...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Some comments from
people besides Intel:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://arstechnica.com/paedia/h/hyperthreading/hyperthreading-1.html">http://arstechnica.com/paedia/h/hyperthreading/hyperthreading-1.html</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=ppso&page=3">http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=ppso&page=3</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face=Arial
color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Subject
2: Virtual Databases<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face=Arial
color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A
href="http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,1111900,00.asp">http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,1111900,00.asp</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is the actual
article that crossed my desk the other day. Explains why I read it in like 15
<SPAN class=SpellE>secs</SPAN>, and why most of it didn't stick. But here it
is, as promised.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Phillip<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
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