Commentary of the day: Odyssey

UPDATE: Odyssey is a long and difficult affair ...

Only courageous and decisive heroes can go for it - to become like Odyssey! Nevertheless, there were such people among us, we present them to your attention!

1. tangro ( his story )
2. nicolausYes ( his story )
3. omnimod ( his story )
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Thank you all for participating!

Habrazhiteli, attention!

Despite the weather disasters, and completely unbearable in the cold city, we still decided to hold our post-New Year's January competition "Commentary of the Day." This time the theme of the competition will be Odyssey. As a desire for the best, as a brave journey into unprecedented lands in search of the unknown. Like a jump headlong into a hole (well-maintained, and after a bath), as well as the habitual desire for most of us to make something that cannot work by definition, where everyone considers it impossible.

In one of our previous posts, we talked about the HP Odyssey project, designed to erase the boundaries between conventional servers and business-critical systems used, as a rule, by large (and largest) companies, and therefore - largely unexplored. It may seem to someone that the bridge, spanned between these two directions of development of server technologies by the Odyssey project, leads to the transition of business-critical computing to "ordinary" hardware. In fact, this is not entirely true, or rather, not at all.

The essence of the Odyssey project lies in the fact that the business-critical infrastructure built over the years, built on a huge number of advanced engineering solutions, will soon be added to widespread processors and software tools. The legacy of engineers who have built Olympus for highly specialized server systems for decades and developers who have written billions of lines of code for it does not go anywhere. But now, with the launch of the Odyssey project, the same servers will be able to serve both business-critical applications and be used to solve typical tasks related to the operation of a modern enterprise. This will give users and administrators of such systems previously unprecedented flexibility; they will be able to work with applications and operating systems that have long been studied far and wide, without purchasing separate equipment for them. At the same time, the reliability of work will be significantly higher, because the entire infrastructure, including switching facilities and data storage systems, will work exactly the same way as for business-critical environments.

That is why in our today's competition we would like to focus on how you (and we) manage to combine and organize the effective work of systems previously belonging to two different worlds. Maybe you managed to run Linux on the Gameboy DS, get the microwave to regulate the air temperature in the server, or install Windows Server 2008 on iPhone 4S? Yes, and so that then the device blossomed with new colors and began to delight their masters even more. Tell us, and we will be happy to award the authors of the highest-rated comments with our special New Year prizes - models for assembling ships to help you in opening a new one .

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The contest will run until January 31st.