At rev. 8929, I have found a good news for OpenID users.

http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/open_id_authentication/CHANGELOG

Tied plugin to ruby-openid 1.1.4 gem until we can make it compatible with 2.x [DHH]

Thanks DHH!

OoO workshop has been successfully held on last Sunday thanks to SGI Japan.

Syoyo, the founder of this event, had predicted the future of GPU in his presentation using a comparison of two charts which are about the Nikkei 225 index and the speed of GPU. Detail is here.

This is the most interesting prediction about GPU I ever met. Nowadays, CPU is speeding up much faster than GPU and its power consumption is still low against GPU's.

I think that FPGA can be a competitor of CPU rather than GPU in near future. The number of gates in FPGA has become very large so that it could be used for development of very complex processor such as Raytracing Processing Unit as known as RPU.

From yesterday to this morning, we had set up two MySQL servers as master-to-master configuration.

One server is located in Tokyo, the other is in Shiga. They are replicated each other in order to get our system redundant and load-balanced. We had used OpenVPN for this purpose. It is very easy to setup by using tunnelling.

Okey, we agree with that the VPN will become the neck of a bottle if our network get heavy traffic. But fortunately or unfortunately, it is not so heavy. So we considered that a performance issue would be still no problem, against a stability issue.