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Here's just a brief search for personal supercomputers of days gone (not too far) by. Most if not all are cheaper than the SGI. Being older they may not stack up spec-wise, and the definition will always be changing anyway. More than one claim to be 'first', and to SGI's credit they only claim it's 'their' first.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/23/068234

http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?fID=569&rID=4263

http://aslab.com/products/workstations/marquisk942.html

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/07/tyan_unveils_typhoon/

http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Cray_Unveils_Personal_Supercomputer.html

If dereverberation is a word, wouldn't the longest left-handed word be dereverberated (14 letters)? Even if you don't count past-tense, it's still 13 letters....

I enjoy the Stanford CS Colloquium.

The article doesn't actually link to the subject sites, so here you are: fora.tv and ResearchChannel.

The official tests of spamfilters were done in last year's TREC conference, you can read the writeup here (or pdf overview).

You can duplicate those tests yourself if you download the evaluation toolkit (GPL). It's a modular system where you can add a mail corpus (either one of the public TREC ones, or you can make your own trivially), and add a spamfilter package (there are 10 or so to download from the web, or create your own as per documentation).

There's also a video talk given at Microsoft research which should cover pretty much the same ground, if text mode is slashdotted :).

There's a new scheduled test towards the end of the year at TREC 2006.

There are some other good resources out there that stream lectures for free, such as the University of Washington (Check out the CSE Colloquia series and their medical programming) and ResearchChannel.

Google is giving a wink and a nod to ... OSS

Erm, they run their multi-bilion dollar business on Linux.

H.264? Pah. Raw SMPTE-292M videoconferencing is where it's at - all you need is a bunch of incredibly expensive equipment and a network capable of sustained 1.5 Gb/s. Each way.

From UWTV.org and the 2002 University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia:

Google Linux Cluster, The
Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime. In this discussion, Google Fellow Urs Holzle will describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible, as well as provide an overview of the main problems facing a web search, software architecture, servers and compact rack hardware designs. For more information about this program, please see the CSE web site.

Watch here using Windows Media Player or compatible:

Modem

DSL (250k)

Cable (1300k)

The video is also available in streaming mpeg2 using IBM VideoCharger. If you are on the UW lan and want to use the VideoCharger link it can be found on the UWTV site.

From UWTV.org and the 2002 University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia:

Google Linux Cluster, The
Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime. In this discussion, Google Fellow Urs Holzle will describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible, as well as provide an overview of the main problems facing a web search, software architecture, servers and compact rack hardware designs. For more information about this program, please see the CSE web site.

Watch here using Windows Media Player or compatible:

Modem

DSL (250k)

Cable (1300k)

The video is also available in streaming mpeg2 using IBM VideoCharger. If you are on the UW lan and want to use the VideoCharger link it can be found on the UWTV site.

From UWTV.org and the 2002 University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia:

Google Linux Cluster, The
Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime. In this discussion, Google Fellow Urs Holzle will describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible, as well as provide an overview of the main problems facing a web search, software architecture, servers and compact rack hardware designs. For more information about this program, please see the CSE web site.

Watch here using Windows Media Player or compatible:

Modem

DSL (250k)

Cable (1300k)

The video is also available in streaming mpeg2 using IBM VideoCharger. If you are on the UW lan and want to use the VideoCharger link it can be found on the UWTV site.

It's available free in the U.S. on Dish Network (channel 9400), many cable networks or direct from Ku-band satellite on Galaxy 10R (11.805GHz, Horizontal, 4580ksym/sec).

Straight from the lab to your living room.

It's available free in the U.S. on Dish Network (channel 9400), many cable networks or direct from Ku-band satellite on Galaxy 10R (11.805GHz, Horizontal, 4580ksym/sec).

Straight from the lab to your living room.

• Comcast:
  • Negative:Gets bad or goes out when it rains hard. (How's that for ironic?)
  • Negative:Every so often they'll update the cable box firmware such that I have to tell the Tivo to use yet another serial port protocol for changing channels.

    (ie, I have it set to one setting, and then it randomly stops working on that setting. I have to switch to another, and it works for a few weeks/months, until the firmware is changed again, and I have to move it back. Calling customer service to ask why they're doing this, or when they'll settle down, or what they're going to settle down to gets you no-where of course, because "they don't support that connector". The customer service people don't see how anything on their end could affect the serial port anyway.)

• Directv:
  • Positive: A DirectTivo will record two streams at once, making scheduling conflicts much easier to resolve. Also, as a big Tivo fan, I can't imagine having a non-Tivo DVR. (Going from a Tivo to something that's effectively a VCR-with-hard-drive-and-scheduling info would represent major losses of functionality and ease of use.)
  • Negative: They're now effectively intimidating people through lawsuits, suing people who merely bought smartcards and related equipment.

    I was cheering them on a few years ago when they were using clever technological methods of disabling outside access to their signals that they didn't approve of, (and I remember the slashdot community being very postitive about that too.)

    I don't like the idea of supporting their current lawsuit-happy behavior.

• Dish Network:
  • Positive:They carry The Research Channel!!! Woohoo!!!
  • Positive:They're not lawsuit-happy, so I have no pangs about sending them money.
  • Negative:However, their PVR's don't have Tivo service, and there's no way to get it, without going standalone. (And then you're back to recording just one thing at a time.)
  • Negative:You can't reliably use a standalone Tivo with them either.

    This part may have changed, but as of a few months ago according to the tivo boards, the Dish Network boxes can get "stuck" on some channels, and require the actual Dish Network remote control to unstick them.

    Apparently this happens when changing to a channel you don't get--so if there's any delay between a Dish Network changing it's channel mappings and Tivo being updated, if your Tivo changes to one of these channels, it will be recording that error message until you happen to notice it, days or weeks later.

    Apparently since Dish Network has their own PVRs, they donn't consider the problem too serious.

I'm still left staying with Comcast for the time being, hoping that at some point there'll be a way to get Dish Network service and have a Tivo PVR recording multiple streams from it directly. So far, it's been a long wait. :-(

I got Dish Network two years ago and have been enjoying The Research Channel, UCTV, and UWTV. They've got university lectures nearly around the clock. Some of the lectures are toned down for a lay scientist (lots of annual faculty lectures), and others are broadcasts of actual university classes. CSN would be a welcome addition to these networks for me.

Might be worth a look if you get the channel. I have it on Dish Network. It appears that it may be broadcast live on the web as well (sadly, in Windows Media).

For our many viewers on cable, direct broadcast satellite, and the Internet, ResearchChannel is the C-SPAN of scientific and medical research.

For our many viewers on cable, direct broadcast satellite, and the Internet, ResearchChannel is the C-SPAN of scientific and medical research.

Visit this link for a very interesting presentation on the google cluster. It's long, but very interesting.

Research Channel