Neurofunk

Artists

Neurofunk in its pure form can be said to have begun with the Audio Blueprint label and artists like Stakka & Skynet (and their numerous aliases, such as Psion, Sublogics, Kraken, etc.) and K. Tee. Typical for its science-fiction flavour, the track Reverse Engineering is sampled by Psion from the movie The Fifth Element.

Artists in a list below are grouped in clusters by label:

Audio Blueprint, Underfire, Violence Recordings: Stakka & Skynet (Audio Blueprint, Underfire); K. Tee (Audio Blueprint, Underfire); Gridlok (Nerve Recordings, Audio Blueprint, Violence Recordings); Kemal & Rob Data (Audio Blueprint, Moving Shadow, DSCI4)

Science, Certificate 18, Subtitles Recordings, Photek Productions: Photek (Science, Astralwerks, Photek Productions); Source Direct (Science, Source Direct Recordings, Certificate 18); Teebee (Certificate 18, Subtitles Recordings, Photek Productions); Polar (Certificate 18, Subtitles Recordings, Levitated); Klute (Certificate 18, Commercial Suicide); Phace (Subtitles Recordings)

DSCI4, Nerve Recordings, Black Sun Empire Recordings: Black Sun Empire (DSCI4, Black Sun Empire Recordings); Noisia (Subtitles Recordings, Nerve Recordings); Matrix (Moving Shadow, DSCI4, Virus Recordings); SKC (DSCI4, Nerve Recordings, Commercial Suicide); Chris.Su (DSCI4, Commercial Suicide, Black Sun Empire Recordings); Pyro (Nerve Recordings)

Other neurofunk artists are BaD RoBoT and Sunchase, Break, Calyx, Cause 4 Concern, Corrupt Souls, Desimal, Identity, Implex, Mayhem, N.phect & Diz:play, Optiv, Pacific, Psidream, Robot Death Squad, Silent Witness, Sinthetix and Vector Burn.

History of (possibly) neurofunk releases

This timeline is just for fun. It's not an evidence of something. Release dates are based on Discogs.com info. Feel free to edit it. — Anrie Nord 2006-02-03 14:05Z

1995

METH016 Source Direct — A Made Up Sound / The Cult 12"

First neurofunk release as mentioned by Simon Reynolds.

PTK06 Photek — UFO / Rings Around Saturn 12"

In my opinion Photek's UFO is one of the first neurofunk releases. — Anrie Nord 2006-02-03 14:01Z

Yeh ok fair enuff.. forgot about this one :) --Static 07:47, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

1996

QEDT3DJ Source Direct — Two Masks / Black Domina 12"

CERT1818 Lexis — Criminal Elements / Hypnotise 12"

NIR12001 Matrix - The Message / Seabreeze 12"

Co-Produced by Optical

1997

METH027 Optical - To Shape The Future / Raging Calm 12"

ASW06207-2 Photek — Modus Operandi CD

ASW06225-2 Source Direct — Controlled Developments CD

MTRR001 Matrix — Double Vision / Sedation 12"

First Metro Recordings release.

ABPR001 Psion (aka Stakka & Skynet) — Black Dawn / S4 12"

First Audio Blueprint release.

1998

HIGH0-44903 Ram Jam World - Bluesy Baby (Ed Rush & Optical Remix)

V026 Ed Rush & Optical — Funktion / Naked Lunch 12"

Not sure which of these were Ed Rush/Op's first release together --Static 07:47, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

VRS001 Ed Rush & Optical — The Medicine / Punchbag 12"

First Virus Recordings release.

HIGH6LP Grooverider — Mysteries of Funk LP"

Produced by Grooverider and Optical

CERT1829 Black Science Labs (aka Teebee) — Son Of Silence / Exogenesis 12"

VRSCD001 Ed Rush & Optical — Wormhole CD

ABPRCD01 Stakka & Skynet — Voyager CD

1999: CERT18CD004 Various Artists — Hidden Rooms 02 CD; VRS 004 Ed Rush & Optical — Watermelon / Sick Note 12 "

2000: VRS003LP Ed Rush & Optical — Creeps LP; CERT1842 Polar — Mind Of A Killer 12"; VRSCD002 Matrix — Sleepwalk CD; CERT18CD007 Teebee — Black Science Labs CD; 1210 001 Ryme Tyme & DJ Trace - Move VIP / Frogger 12"

Signature test

It's a test. — Anrie Nord 2006-01-29 14:34Z

It's another test. — <a href='wiki/User:Anrie Nord'>Anrie Nord</a> 2006-01-29 14:36Z

Test again. — Anrie Nord 2006-01-29 14:38Z

Test 2. — Anrie Nord (talk • contribs) 2007-04-17 22:46Z

Web-Based Enterprise Management

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a set of systems management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments. Other system management approaches are remote shells, proprietary solutions and network management adoptations (like SNMP). WBEM is based on DMTF open standards: CIM infrastructure and schema, CIM-XML and CIM operations over HTTP.

Architecture

A figure (e. g. a UML deployment diagram) with the WBEM architecture overview and its structural and behavioral description:

Enterprise computer systems joined into network
- Managed systems
  - CIMOM, CIM Repository, CIM providers and resources
- Management point
  - Management console that has access to managed systems via CIM API and underlying stack of protocols
- A number of logical links and dependencies between components

Advantages and disadvantages

Example

A walk through WBEM stack from an action on management point to response from managed system (e. g. system administrator uses management console (some kind of user interface) to get a list of deployed software on the remote host):

On the management point host
1. Management console
  1. CIM API for some language (C++, Java, etc.)
    1. Get a list of CIM_SoftwareElements
  2. CIM-XML encoded message with request
  3. HTTP message that contains CIM-XML message is sent to managed host
2. Operating system sockets interface
On the managed host
1. Operating system sockets interface
2. CIMOM
  1. CIMOM acts like HTTP server and receives the message from management console
  2. CIMOM selects an appropriate CIM Provider according to the CIM Repository
3. CIM Provider
  1. Receives a message via some sort of provider interface (like CMPI)
  2. Selects a list of deployed software components from its own management information base
  3. Returns it to CIMOM via provider interface
4. CIMOM again
  1. Creates the response in CIM-XML and sends it back via HTTP

Implementations

WBEM in operating systems

Novell has adopted the OpenWBEM open source implementation of WBEM and includes it in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Sun Microsystems includes its own Java WBEM Services in Solaris
Microsoft has developed the WMI technology and includes it in Windows

CIMOM implementations

WBEM clients

UltimateCIM is an eclipse plugin that enables you to connect to a running WBEM server and explore CIMOM in real time. You can explore classes and instances, walk associations, execute WQL queries, view a graphical representation of the class hierarchy, and much more. This tool is essential for CIM (WBEM) client development, quality assurance, debugging, and troubleshooting.

It is developed and maintained by Ultimate Technology, Inc ([1]) and is available for download from SourceForge ([2])