再過幾小時，In-Stat Fall Processor Forum就要開始了....

光是第一天早上的session，就讓我好想馬上飛到San Jose啊～

Session One: New Server Architecture
Many of today's tough design challenges and rewards converge on processors for servers. Their workloads can take advantage of high frequency operation, multiprocessing, and multithreading. The attainment of very high frequency is far from trivial. Moore's Law can be invoked to support multicore configurations and sophisticated cache hierarchies but power consumption and high temperature limitations make designs more complex than ever before. The server session will feature presentations from AMD, Fujitsu, IBM, and Sun. The four presentations will underscore different types of designs employing high frequency operation, multiple cores, and multiple threads with power management and performance tuning to take best advantage of system memory hierarchy.

Fujitsu SPARC64 VI: A State of the Art Dual-Core Processor
presented by Aiichiro Inoue, Chief Scientist, Server Systems Group, Fujitsu Limited

Power6: IBM’s Next Generation Microprocessor
presented by Dr. Brad McCredie, IBM Fellow, POWER6 Chief Engineer, IBM

Niagara2 - A Highly-Threaded Server-on-a-Chip
presented by Robert Golla, Principal Architect, Sun Microsystems

Core Optimizations for System-Level Performance
presented by Ben Sander, Principal Member of Technical Staff, AMD

沒辦法，只能乖乖留在台灣，等某位鬍子大叔寄照片和pdf給我了，唉。每次越想就越恨，In-Stat Processor Forum前年只在新竹煙波辦過一次（和塔麵長輩兩人自費前往），曇花一現，後面就辦到世界的盡頭去了。

到底什麼時候，台灣的自由專欄作家可以擁有自費參加此類活動的收入？我看很難。話說回來，如果真有這一天，我大概也不會幹這行了，追隨鬍子大叔比較實際。