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We were getting worried, we admit it. But the ash has cleared and the planes are flying again. Karen Armstrong will be giving her keynote in person afterall at the Compassionate Seattle: Its Up To Us event this Saturday April 24th.

Watch the webcast, powered by TPN, here http://compassionateseattle.dynamicwebcasting.net/

Get more details about the event here http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/events/compassionate-seattle-its-up

Learn more about Karen here http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/01/27/making-compassion-cool/

Buy your tickets to the event here http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/104534

TPN is proud to be part of such a great event in partnership with Compassionate Action Network. The Compassionate Seattle: It’s Up To Us event is on April 24th at the Center for Spiritual Living. We’ll be webcasting the day’s program, including a keynote by Karen Armstrong, the 2008 TED prize winner.

Here is a link to the organizing website:

http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/

And here is a link to the Charter for Compassion website, to join the conversation and add your name to the Charter:

http://charterforcompassion.org/

Intel launch event at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco

We’re pretty excited about this event, and we know you are too.

Using Musion Eyeliner technology, a lifelike 3D holographic projection system as seen behind the speaker, Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group, TPN helped bring the presentation to life with images seemingly floating on stage…

To satisfy your appetite for all things Intel, we’ve provided some more links below on the launch. Enjoy!

Intel Unveils New Server Chip

By Don Clark

Wall Street Journal

March 30, 2010

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304739104575154212321714670.html?mod=WSJ_business_whatsNews

Intel Corp. completed a broad overhaul of its chips for server systems, vowing to move the technology it helped popularize in personal computers to the very largest machines used by businesses and government agencies.

Intel chip hits 8-core milestone

By Brooke Crothers

CNET

March 30, 2010

http://news.cnet.com/business-tech/?keyword=AND+6100
The Xeon 7500 offers what Intel is saying is the largest performance leap in the history of its Xeon line, with an average three-fold jump in performance. And the feat of putting eight cores on one die–the raw chip–offers practical advantages to data centers. As a yardstick, data centers can replace 20 single core, 4-chip servers with a single new Xeon 7500 processor series-based system, according to Intel.

Why Nehalem-EX matters

By Jonathan Eunice

CNET

March 30, 2010

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31114_3-10471701-258.html

Nehalem-EX (officially, the Intel Xeon 7500) completes the set with a high-end, server version. It ups the feeds and speeds, of course. More cores! More sockets! More memory! More widgets! Most important, it makes it straightforward for server vendors to create extremely powerful x86 servers. 4-socket/32-core servers are easy peasy. 8-socket/64-core servers-enormous by any historical standard-are not much harder. Vendors like IBM and NEC that have majored on scale-up will go even higher. At the same time, Nehalem-EX adds the I/O bandwidth and reliability/availability features needed to feed and care for such large resource pools. Sure, there may be more variants of Nehalem to come (preview: Even more cores! Even higher frequencies! Even more bandwidth!), but the entire range is now in play.

Yesterday TPNers Aaron, Alex, Matt and Robert helped CMD launch Intel’s new Xeon 7500 chip in San Fran using Musion’s Eyeliner technology.  Photos and more event detail coming soon…in the meantime…

View the on-demand webcast:

http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/100330_NHM/index.htm

Read up on the event and technology with these handy-dandy press clippings:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Intel-Elevates-Its-Mainstream-x86-Processors-into-HPC-Space-639577/

“…Intel indicated that it is going both upstream and mainstream at the same time…” Chris Preimesberger for eweek.com

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/03/intel_xeon_7500_8-cores_and_3x_faster.html

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/03/30/xeon.7500.can.handle.1tb.memory.256.chips/

Skype is all the hype

OoVoo’s picking up streams

Dynamic Webcasting transforms events

WooMe makes dating a breeze

A Cisco research report that came out last summer estimated “video communications will increase ten fold from 2008-2013. And so far, their predictions are real – which has Marketers brushing up on the ‘humanizing’ side of their brands. While the implications for advertising are immense, to me, the more interesting story is how new video technologies are changing market research. …continue reading "Video Chat is Where It’s At" ›

one of the many displays in the transformed living room

An article on The Bravern’s “An Evening with Jimmy Choo” event published in the Puget Sound Business Journal this morning. So happy to see TPN …continue reading "got ink?" ›

In the past, most of the big news at E3 has been around games and what new versions of old favorites are coming out. There was plenty of that at today’s Xbox press briefing. Rock Band Beatles, Metal Gear: Rising, and Halo ODST were some of the big games shown onstage today.

Check out this video: http://www.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/DA33AEC8-03F0-442C-BA95-257CB5B761F5/0/vidProjectNatalAnnounceHi.asx

…continue reading "Xbox’s E3 Announcement’s Shows Dedication to the Platform for Years to Come" ›

REALITY

Our client requested a new booth, essentially light boxes 5′x16′. We partnered with three vendors (graphics, structure and wood accents) to produce this booth …continue reading "rendering to reality…" ›