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Slashback: Grids, Netscape, AMD
And Campbell's puts glass marbles in their soup pictures. Roland Piquepaille writes "We saw several grid computing announcements in the last couple of days.Of course, Gateway stole the show. In 'Gateway makes store PCs work overtime,' you can read that 'Gateway's network of 8,000 PCs can deliver 14 teraflops.' This is plain wrong. You all know that this number of 14 teraflops is meaningless. It's just the addition of the peak speed of all the PCs -- never reached anyway on individual PCs. You need specialized software to work efficiently with a grid. And two companies are releasing new products to power grids. Avaki rolled out what it believes is the first Java-based data grid software for enterprise-class IT environments. Kontiki, for its part, on Monday released a grid server that brings its content delivery system into the server realm, whereas previously it was only available for PCs. Check this column for a summary, or this article for more details."
Why aren't those things called 'stick-up' ads, anyhow? Internet Ninja writes "Netscape today released version 7.01 of Netscape based on Mozilla 1.0.2. Back in is popup blocking which they got a lashing for in 7.0 as well as tabs as home pages just like Mozilla. Release notes here and there's a couple articles on Netscape devedge which may be of interest to developers."
And they will continue to have produced my Athlon, too. schnoz writes "And you thought AMD was quitting the PC chip market? Then check out this article on Business Week. Not only are they releasing new chips and plan to continue to do so, they're also still very active research wise, working on new transistor making techniques such as the double gate design as well as metal-rather-than-silicon design. Keep going at it AMD!!"
they built the beowulf cluster we have been talking about for YEARS on /.
Crap, now that they did it, what next? A cluster of clusters, clustering?
i confirmed it on my 3.6 ghtz athlon system (dual 1.8 MPs)...
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Wow, the fastest netscape I've used to date is (IIRC) Netscape 3.x. All subsequent versions have been progressively slower.
Except this one, apparently.
I wonder how they got it so fast? They must have geavily modified the Mozilla 1.0.2 code because, compared to NS 3.x, it runs like a dog with no legs.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
"And you thought AMD was quittingthe PC chip market?"
I didn't think they were quitting the PC Chip market. I actually read the article.
netscape > mozilla > netscape.
is this like when the parents go into the old-folks home and we have to take care of them?
What do you think is going to happen once everyone starts using a pop-up blocking web browser? Something even more annoying like those fullscreen flash ads that appear from nowhere...soon they will be everywhere! I say keep pop-up blocking in Mozilla only, so that the niche that uses it benefits while the mainstream continues to get screwed...
DDR is a dead end, folks.
What does dance, dance revolution have to do with any of this?
Alright, I guess if thats what you really want. Personally, I think it'd hurt but thats just me.
I'll bet you also have an extensive collection of Betamax tapes as well right?
You're new to Slashdot, aren't you?
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
Or this guy. (Warning: many megs, but worth it if you have the bandwidth.)
working on new transistor making techniques such as the double gate design as well as metal-rather-than-silicon design.
This reminds me of one of my favorite IBM stories told to me by an ex-IBMer professor a few years back.
It would appear that some time in the 70s (it's been a few years since I heard this story), IBM was having problems with boules* falling over and breaking, costing a great deal of money. IBM being what it was, put out a solicitation for employee suggestions on how to remedy the problem.
One technician was very disappointed to hear that the boules were made of silicon and suggested using a stronger material. It was his wager that a stainless steel boule would be much more resistant to breaking. So, he suggested replacing all the silicon boules with stainless steel.
True story.
* Boules are very tall cylinders of monocrystalline silicon. They are sliced up into fairly thin, circular wafers. These wafers are then processed through the steps that make chips and lastly diced into the silicon chips we commonly see put on plastic or ceramic packages.
I took a long shower when I got home and scrubbed vigorously.
I believe what you meant to say was "imagine the incredible total overhead wasted by hundreds or thousands of instances on a reference-implementation-quality JVM."
My favorite SRV record is "Couldn't Stand the Weather"...Oh, wait...