Author: ProHoster

Hands-free admin = hyperconvergence?

This is a myth that is quite common in the field of server hardware. In practice, hyperconverged solutions (when everything is in one) are needed for many things. Historically, the first architectures were developed by Amazon and Google for their services. Then the idea was to make a computing farm from identical nodes, each of which had its own disks. All this […]

AMD Zen 3 Architecture Will Increase Performance by Over Eight Percent

The development of the Zen 3 architecture has already been completed, as far as can be judged by statements from AMD representatives at industry events. By the third quarter of next year, the company will, in close cooperation with TSMC, launch production of Milan generation EPYC server processors, which will be produced using EUV lithography using the second generation of 7 nm technology. It is already known that third-level cache memory in processors with [...]

Two-year-old Core i7 analogue for $120: Comet Lake-S generation Core i3 will receive Hyper-Threading

Early next year, Intel is due to introduce a new, tenth generation of Core desktop processors, better known under the codename Comet Lake-S. And now, thanks to the SiSoftware performance test database, very interesting details have been revealed about the younger representatives of the new family, Core i3 processors. In the above-mentioned database, a record was found about testing the Core i3-10100 processor, according to which this […]

Features of the Q language and KDB + on the example of a real-time service

You can read about what the KDB+ base is, the Q programming language, what strengths and weaknesses they have in my previous article and briefly in the introduction. In the article, we will implement a service on Q that will process the incoming data stream and calculate various aggregation functions every minute in “real time” (i.e., it will keep up with everything […]

Football Club Management Simulator 2020 Coming November 19th

Publisher Sega has decided on the release date of the football club management simulator Football Manager 2020. The premiere of all versions of the game will take place on November 19 this year. Let us remind you that in addition to the main Football Manager 2020, developed by Sports Interactive for PC (Windows and macOS), there are two more game options: Football Manager 2020 Touch for Steam, iOS and Android, as well as mobile Football […]

The development of tactical RPG Divinity: Fallen Heroes is frozen indefinitely

Larian Studios announced the suspension of development of the tactical role-playing game Divinity: Fallen Heroes, a story-based offshoot of the Divinity: Original Sin series. The project was announced in March of this year. Then we learned that the development was entrusted to the Danish studio Logic Artists: the goal was to cross the tactical RPG component of Original Sin with the deep narrative and extensive system of story choices from Dragon Commander. "In past […]

Redmi clarifies MIUI 11 Global update rollout plans

Back in September, Xiaomi detailed plans to roll out MIUI 11 Global updates, and now its Redmi company has shared the details on its Twitter account. Updates based on MIUI 11 will begin arriving on Redmi devices on October 22 - the most popular and new devices, of course, are in the first wave. During the period from October 22 to October 31 […]

Video: Overwatch is hosting its traditional Halloween Horror Event until November 4th

Blizzard has introduced a new seasonal Halloween Terror event for its competitive shooter Overwatch, which will run from October 15 to November 4. In general, it repeats similar events of previous years, but there will be something new. The latter is the focus of the new trailer: As usual, those who wish will be able to take part in the cooperative mode “Revenge of Junkenstein”, where four […]

Intel showed partners that it is not afraid of losses in the price war with AMD

When it comes to comparing the scale of the business of Intel and AMD, it is usually compared with the size of revenue, capitalization of companies or expenses on research and development. For all these indicators, the difference between Intel and AMD is a multiple, and sometimes an order of magnitude. The balance of power in the market shares occupied by companies has begun to change in recent years, in the retail segment in some […]

dhall-lang v11.0.0

Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as JSON + functions + types + imports. Changes: The notation of expressions where ⫽ is used has been simplified. Simplified writing expressions with attachments, Added support for leading delimiters. Standardized support for indicating completeness of a record. Improved caching support on Windows. Added types to package.dhall files. Added utilities: List.{default,empty}, Map.empty, Optional.default. JSON.key{Text, […]

Perl 6 language renamed to Raku

The Perl 6 repository has officially adopted a change that changes the name of the project to Raku. It is noted that despite the fact that formally the project has already been given a new name, changing the name for the project, which has been developing for 19 years, requires a lot of work and it will take some time until the renaming is completed. For example, replacing Perl with Raku would also require replacing the reference to "perl" […]

VirtualBox 6.0.14 release

Oracle has published a corrective release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.0.14, which notes 13 fixes. Main changes in release 6.0.14: Compatibility with Linux 5.3 kernel is provided; Improved compatibility with guest systems that use the ALSA audio subsystem in AC'97 emulation mode; Flickering, redrawing, and crashing of some […]