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  1. Re:What happened to the isreali's? by shaitand · · Score: 1 · on Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test

    I actually posted hoping someone else would chime in with that info but after poking around I found it.

    Apparently the company is named "Artificial Intelligence" and they call the program "Hal" which doesn't make it easy to google them.

    Here is a link to an old story:

    http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,2085638,00.htm

    http://www.taborcommunications.com/archives/100855.html

  2. Re:Actually... Microwulf might well be revolutiona by forkazoo · · Score: 5, Informative · on Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer

    One of the problems with supercomputers is that there aren't really very many of them, because of the size and cost. It means that the tools you use to run your supercomputing applications are similarly unusual. The skills to use and develop on parallel systems are then equally scarce. Access to a supercomputer isn't exactly common.


    Revolutionary? Everything old is new again...

    http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/
    http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid =494184&xsl=story.xsl -- 8 way parallel cluster that fits on an airplane for under 3 grand
    http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/ -- a 7U chassis that holds 14 blades, and is a bit spendy, but not completely unreasonable for some situations
    http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8177 -- My personal favorite, this page talks about several small portable miniclusters that have been made over the last six or seven years...

    Yes, 8 cores of Athlon64 is faster than 8 cores of low power VIA CPU's from several years ago, but the concept isn't revolutionary, and there isn't a lot of headline worthy engineering that goes into a project like this... I'm sure it's a very handy tool, and I'm not suggested it shouldn't have been built, or that it was entirely trivial to build, but in the end, it's just four ordinary motherboards and ethernet.
  3. More tech info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Japan's Petaflop Supercomputer

    From their 2004 press releases:

    http://www.taborcommunications.com/hpcwire/hpcwire WWW/04/0827/108259.html
    http://news.com.com/Japan+designers+shoot+for+supe rcomputer+on+a+chip/2100-1008_3-5322558.html
    http://www.peta.co.jp/md2/faq_en.html
    http://grape.astron.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/grape/computer .htm
    http://www.primidi.com/2004/09/01.html

  4. Re:Virtu. Linux/Windows Dual Boot by BrainInAJar · · Score: 1 · on OS Virtualization Interview

    xen 3 and an amd pacifica/intel VT chip?

    wouldn't be the first time

  5. Re:Pulling out early. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on U of Wisconsin's Mac OS X Security Challenge

    I am sure I won't be rushing off and buying them for homeland defense.

    That's all right. The Army already did.

    http://www.taborcommunications.com/hpcwire/hpcwire WWW/04/0625/107903.html/

  6. Re:Guitar Strings by WindBourne · · Score: 1 · on Linux Desktop Deployment Postmortems?

    I can understand you wanting to avoid criminals. I guess that would make Microsoft the prefered choice. After all they never screw over partners or customers

    Except for the fact that Ball had spent all sorts of money to be in compliance and found out that they were still able to miss a few packages. Yeah, Ball is a good example of what companies should not be.

  7. Cray CTO recent left as well by slyfox · · Score: 1 · on Cray Co-Founder Joins Microsoft
    Steve Scott, Cray's CTO, also left Cray recently. Dr. Scott's bio from Cray's management team web page:

    Steve Scott serves as Chief Technology Officer responsible for designing the integrated infrastructure that will drive Cray's next generation of supercomputer. Dr. Scott, who joined Cray in 1992, was formerly the chief architect of the Cray X1 scalable vector supercomputer and was instrumental in the design of the Cray/Sandia Red Storm supercomputer system. Dr. Scott holds fourteen US patents in the areas of interconnection networks, cache coherence, synchronization mechanisms, and scalable parallel architectures. He received his Ph.D. in computer architecture from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1992, where he was a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Hertz Foundation Fellow. Dr. Scott has served on numerous program committees and as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is a noted expert in high performance computer architecture and interconnection networks, and was the recipient of the 2005 ACM Maurice Wilkes Award.

    Burton Smith and Steve Scott were considered the two most important technical leaders at Cray, and now both of them are gone. Seems like Cray might be a sinking ship...
  8. Quote 11.10.2004... 'One More Thing' by djupedal · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Cray Co-Founder Joins Microsoft

    Smith: "One more thing" is that the uniprocessor has pretty well run out of steam. Parallelism to date has been a nice strategy for HPC users and an afterthought for microprocessor vendors. Now, it is becoming a matter of business survival for all processor vendors. Parallelism is going to be taken more seriously, starting with the idea of exploiting multi-threading and multiple cores on a single problem. This is a major change. Imagine if Microsoft wanted to write Office in a parallel language. What would that language be, and what would be the architecture to support it? We don't have good answers to these questions yet'

    Imagine if you got paid to answer that question? Which, by the way comes out as 'parallel' and 'parallel language' (don't mix them up) ...the other shoe drops.

  9. Flops/Watt, Altivec FP performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Yellow Dog Linux Finds New PPC Hardware Vendor

    We buy 6U VME single-slot boards with four 1.2GHz PowerPC 7454, 2Gb 133Mhz DDR RAM that disipate 60W for the whole board. I can stuff a rack full of them and buy ruggedized cards that operate to 14G shock and -40-85 degrees C. Toss in Altivec for signal processing and these things kick some ass.

    We generally use Linux when the systems are not combat critical (trainers, etc.m which is what my company largely works with). Requirements are more stringent for combat-ready, but I know of at least a few fielded systems that use Linux -- although they are not strictly combat systems.

    Check out one board we've used recently:

    http://www.taborcommunications.com/hpcwire/hpcwire WWW/04/0227/107103.html

    We've used others from DY4, Mercury Computers, etc. that have similar performance curves.