Sachin Tendulkar has completed 17,000 runs in One Day International matches.

We look back at the milestones in the living legend's career, right from the time he scored his first thousand runs in ODIs.

Congratulate Sachin

Milestone: 1000 runs on March 7, 1992

Age: 18

Match: India vs Zimbabwe at Hamilton, New Zealand

At his 36th one-day match, 18-year-old Sachin scored his first thousand runs. Sachin scored 81 runs off 77 balls. India went on to win the match by 55 runs.

Milestone: 2000 runs on April 13, 1994

Age: 20

Match: India vs UAE at Sharjah, UAE

Playing his 73rd one-day match Sachin completed his 2000 runs. He scored 63 runs off 77 balls and helped India win the match by 71 runs.

* Milestone: 3000 runs on April 9, 1995

Age: 21

Match: India vs Sri Lanka at Sharjah, UAE

At his 96th one-day match, Sachin scored 112 runs off 107 balls and remained not out as India won the match by 8 wickets.
*Milestone: 4000 runs on April 17, 1996

Age: 22

Match: India vs South Africa at Sharjah, UAE

Sachin, playing his 115th one-day match, scored 17 runs off 26 balls.  India lost the match by 5 wickets.

Milestone: 5000 runs on February 12, 1997

Age: 23

Match: India vs South Africa, Durban, South Africa

Sachin's 141st ODI was abandoned due to rain but he scored 32 runs off 55 balls to achieve the feat.

* Milestone: 6000 runs on January 14, 1998

Age: 24

Match: India vs Pakistan, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sachin scored 95 runs off 104 balls in his 176th one-day match and contributed to India's 8-wicket victory.

*Milestone: 7000 runs on July 7, 1998 

Age: 25

Match: India vs Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka

In his 196th ODI, Sachin scored a century and made 128 runs off 131 balls as India won the match by 6 runs.

Milestone: 8000 runs on June 8, 1999

Age: 26

Match: India vs Pakistan, Manchester, England

Sachin's knock of 45 runs off 65 balls in his 217th ODI in the World Cup match contributed to India's 47-run victory.

*Milestone: 9000 runs on March 19, 2000

Age: 26

Match: India vs South Africa, Nagpur, India

Sachin completed his 9,000 ODI runs in his 242nd match. He made 93 runs off 89 balls. India lost the match by 10 runs.

* Milestone: 10000 runs on March 31, 2001

Age: 27

Match: India vs Australia, Indore, India

Playing his 266th ODI Sachin made 139 runs off 125 balls. India won the match by 118 runs.

Milestone: 11000 runs on January 28, 2002

Age: 28

Match: India vs England, Kanpur, India

Sachin shone in his 284th ODI for India. He scored 87 runs off 67 balls and remained not out as India won the match by 8 wickets.

* Milestone: 12000 runs on March 1, 2003

Age: 29

Match: India vs Pakistan, Centurion, South Africa

In his 304th ODI in the World Cup in South Africa, the Little Master scored 98 runs off 75 balls. India won the match by 6 wickets.

*Milestone: 13000 runs on March 16, 2004

Age: 30

Match: India vs Pakistan, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

In his 330th ODI, Sachin scored 141 runs off 135 balls. But, India lost the match by 12 runs.

Milestone: 14000 runs on February 6, 2006

Age: 32

Match: India vs Pakistan, Peshawar, Pakistan

At his 359th ODI, Sachin scored 100 runs off 113 balls but India lost the match by 7 runs (D/L method)

* Milestone: 15000 runs on June 29, 2007

Age: 34

Match: India vs South Africa, Belfast, Ireland

Playing his 387th ODI, Sachin made 93 runs off 106 balls as India won the match by 6 wickets.

*Milestone: 16000 runs on February 5, 2008

Age: 34

Match: India vs Sri Lanka, Brisbane, Australia

At his 409th ODI, which was abandoned, Sachin scored 35 runs off 52 balls.

*Milestone: 17000 runs on November 5, 2009

Age: 36

Match: India vs Australia, Hyderabad, India

Playing in his 435th ODI, Sachin played a fantastic innings, scoring 141-ball 175, but India lost the match by 3 runs.

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Tilera Corporation has launched what it claims to be the world's first 100-core processor -- the TILE-Gx100. Part of the company's new four-member TILE-Gx family, the TILE-Gx100 is said to offer the highest performance of any microprocessor yet announced by a factor of four. "Moreover, the entire TILE-Gx family raises the bar for performance-per-watt to new levels with 10 times better compute efficiency compared to Intel's next-generation Westmere processor," Tilera claims.

The TILE-Gx family -- available with 16, 36, 64 and 100 cores -- employs Tilera's architecture that scales well beyond the core count of traditional microprocessors. The company's two-dimensional iMesh interconnect eliminates the need for an on-chip bus and its Dynamic Distributed Cache (DDC) system allows each cores' local cache to be shared coherently across the entire chip. These two key technologies enable the TILE Architecture performance to scale linearly with the number of cores on the chip.

The TILE-Gx processor family is ideal for a wide range of markets including enterprise networking, cloud computing, multimedia and wireless infrastructure, with the TILE-Gx16 targeting more cost-sensitive applications and the TILE-Gx100 targeting performance applications.

"The launch of the TILE-Gx family, including the world's first 100-core microprocessor, ushers in a new era of many-core processing. We believe this next generation of high-core count, ultra high-performance chips will open completely new computing possibilities," said Omid Tahernia, chief executive officer, Tilera. "Customers will be able to replace an entire board presently using a dozen or more chips with just one of our TILE-Gx processors, greatly simplifying the system architecture and resulting in reduced cost, power consumption, and PC board area. This is truly a remarkable technology achievement."

The TILE-Gx family, fabricated in TSMC's 40-nm process, operates at up to 1.5 GHz with power consumption ranging from 10 to 55 watts. The TILE-Gx family incorporates many cores on a single chip together with integrated memory controllers and a rich set of I/O.

The family also features next-generation 64-bit core, each core includes 32KB L1 I-cache, 32KB L1 D-cache and 256KB L2 cache, with up to 26MB total L3 coherent cache across the device; improved signal processing performance with a 4 MAC/cycle multiplier unit delivering up to 600 billion MACs per second, more than 12x the fastest commercial DSP; two or four 72-bit controllers running up to 2133 MHz speeds with ECC support; and up to 1TB total capacity and memory striping modes for maximum utilisation.

The on-chip MiCA (Multistream iMesh Crypto Accelerator) system delivers up to 40Gbps encryption and 20Gbps full duplex compression processing, coupled to the iMesh for extremely low latency and wire-speed small packet throughput, according to the company. In addition, a high-performance random number generator (RNG) and public key accelerator enable up to 50,000 RSA handshakes per second.

The mPIPE (multicore Programmable Intelligent Packet Engine) system provides wire-speed packet classification, load balancing and buffer management. This C-programmable engine delivers 80 Gbps and 120 million packets-per-second of throughput for packets with multiple layers of encapsulation.

The TILE-Gx36 processor will be sampling in Q4 of 2010 with the other processors rolling out in the following two quarters.

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Putting rest to all speculations, Google announced this week that it is developing a new operating system for personal computers, Google Chrome OS. With Chrome OS, Google launches a direct attack on Microsoft Corp’s golden goose — its long-dominant Windows franchise.

The new operating system will be based on Google’s 9-month-old Web browser, Chrome. Google intends to rely on help from the community of open-source programmers to develop Chrome operating system. Taking a minimalist view, Google argues that operating software only needs to do what can’t be done externally on the web. It is promising that users will be able to fire up their computers and get on the web in a few seconds.

The rivals have spent years attacking each other, but with Chrome OS, Google makes it entry into Microsoft’s core territory, its lair. So, is it time for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to get worried? Not really, feel many analysts. Here’s why.

Windows in Netbooks

The early versions of the Chrome operating system will be tailored for Netbooks, a breed of low-cost, less powerful laptop computers that are becoming increasingly popular. However, a vast majority of Netbooks already run on Windows, and that is unlikely to change unless Google can demonstrate the Chrome operating system is a significant improvement, said Forrester Research analyst Paul Jackson.

He pointed out that many customers had returned the original Netbooks that used open-source alternatives to Windows. “It was not what people expected,” he said. “People wanted Windows because they knew how to use it and knew how applications worked.”

Hardware and app support

One major challenge that could delay adoption is getting makers of printers, networking gear, cameras and other devices to develop software that lets their equipment work with the new Google system. There are more than 2 million software drivers that connect devices to Windows PCs.

The success of the Chrome operating system will likely hinge on its acceptance among computer manufacturers that have been loyal Windows customers for years, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst for the research group Directions on Microsoft. “Most people, when they get a new operating system, they get it with their PC,” he said. “I don’t think most people think much about their operating systems.”

If enough computer manufacturers embrace the Chrome operating system, it could weaken Microsoft while opening up new avenues for Google to persuade consumers and businesses to use its suite of online applications and other Internet services, generating more opportunities for Google to sell lucrative Internet ads.

Getting consumers and businesses to switch to computers powered by a new operating system won’t be easy, as Google has learned from the introduction of Chrome.

Windows’ user base

Microsoft’s Windows operating system has been even more dominant for a longer period time despite challenges from Apple Inc and various systems based on Linux, the same type of open-source software that Google plans to use. Analysts feel that people may bitch about Windows, but they are used to it. Windows is almost habit for many. And it is tough to change habits.

“It’s going to be tough,” Standard & Poor’s equity analyst Scott Kessler said of Google’s foray into PC operating systems. “The reality is that as the importance of a device or task increases, people have a much lower inclination to consider a change.”

Businesses will be especially reluctant to abandon Windows because, on average, about 70 per cent of their applications are designed to run on that, said Gartner Inc analyst Michael Silver.

Chrome’s ‘limited’ success

The new operating system is based on a product from Google that has had limited success: the Chrome browser. As of February, it claimed 1.2 per cent market share, compared to nearly 70 per cent for Microsoft’s browser, according to researcher Net Applications.

Microsoft Bing and more…

Analysts also had a warning for Google, cautioning the company’s executives against letting their foray into the PC desktop distract them from the company’s core search and advertising business, where Microsoft is making progress.

Bing, launched June 3 to generally positive reviews, handled 8.23 per cent of US Web searches in June, up from 7.21 per cent in April, according to Internet data firm StatCounter. “They have been making all these attempts at Microsoft. They have been doing nothing with their search,” said Fred Hickey, editor of the High-Tech Strategist Newsletter.

Web as backbone

Similarly, analysts wonder if applications that could once only run on local computers will reliably work on the Web. For, as everyone knows Web has been a disruptive technology, but then it is not always reliable. Network connections can be slow, or non-existent, and any functions that require frequent connections have the possibility of letting users down.

Google has tried to work round this by allowing users to store functions offline. But it remains to be seen Web does pose risk.

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The official website for the White House is now powered by the free and open source Drupal content management system.

WhiteHouse.gov, the official website for the White House and President Barack Obama, now runs on open source. The White House has launched a new version of its website, powered by the open source Drupal content management system and Apache Solr search server.

"We wanted to improve the tools used by thousands of people who come to whitehouse.gov to engage with White House officials, and each other, in meaningful ways," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said in an e-mail to InformationWeek. "We now have a technology platform to get more and more voices on the site. This is state-of-the-art technology, and the government is a participant in it."

Whitehouse.gov going open source means the programming language will be visible to the public and will also allow them to use or insert their own improvements.

The Associated Press quoted Terri Molini, Open Source for America, as saying, "Security is fundamentally built into the development process because the community is made up of people from all across the world, and they look at the source code from the very start of the process until it's deployed and after."

Now, this is a testing time for Drupal in terms of security as the White House website has always been a target for cybercriminals. Drupal is a free content management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

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