The best performing fabric allows all processors to communicate simultaneously with each other. Good fabric design can route data using many different paths, analogous to the World Wide Web. This is bad news if you don't have very good diagnostic tools for the fabric. There are many fabric designs and high-performance switches and adapters that can be classified as commodity parts. For the same reason that it isn't a good idea to design your own microprocessor, don't design your own custom fabric....

On the other hand, Eleksen's new Wireless Fabric Keyboard is smaller and lighter; it rolls up to the size of a mobile phone. It really is made out of fabric so it won't break if you drop it. The Eleksen Wireless Fabric Keyboard; only the battery holder isn't fabric. Calibrate the ElekTex fabric keyboard to make sure your presses hit the right key. The fabric itself is the conductor; there are two layers of fully conductive fabric and a partially conductive layer in the middle....

Racing toward this goal are two entirely different - and incompatible - fully distinguished concepts of virtualization: The Fabric Application Interface Standard (FAIS, often pronounced "face"), an ANSI T11 standard championed by EMC and supported by some (though not all) departments of IBM, concerns the "fabric" of a data storage network. Here, the switches that already hold together the fabric of the storage network, are endowed with data control logic at the port level, managed through a designated network host computer. In direct contrast to the fabric-based approach, TagmaStore introduces a new type of data subsystem controller, as a processor residing completely outside the storage network fabric....

First, consider that virtually every one of the top 500 supercomputers (www.top500.org) is made up of a cluster of microprocessors woven together by an interconnected fabric. Diverse processors are used and even more diverse fabrics are employed. Some use commodity microprocessors and fabrics while others use custom parts....

We look at a small, light, rollup coffee-proof fabric keyboard and one that says bye, bye to QWERTY to see if there's anything new under the sun that you'll actually want to type on.. The plastic case for the two AAA batteries and the Bluetooth radio is the only thing that isn't made of fabric; it's handy for rolling the keyboard up with and it stops it slipping around while you type. Bend it, twist it, spill coffee on it; this fabric keyboard is tough and flexible....