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Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier
Hank Dietz writes "At the University of Kentucky, KASY0,
a Linux cluster of 128+4 AMD Athlon XP 2600+ nodes, achieved 471 GFLOPS on 32-bit HPL. At a cost of less than $39,500, that makes it the first supercomputer to break $100/GFLOPS. It also is the new record holder for POV-Ray 3.5 render speed.
The reason this 'Beowulf' is so cost-effective is a new network architecture that achieves high performance using standard hardware: the asymmetric Sparse Flat Neighborhood Network (SFNN)." Because this was a university project, KASY0 was assembled entirely by unversity students, which while being a source of cheap labor, is also a good way to get a lot of students of involved in a great project.
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This is a terrible system, this moderation done by simians.
A full grown stallion's cock, when fully erect, will measure some two to
three feet long. It can be three to six inches thick at the base, to about
two inches thick at the head. Horses are somewhat different from other
animals in the way their cock head works. When a horse is fully erect and
excited and ready to mount, his cock head is somewhat pointed and not as
thick as might be normally observed. This is to facillatate an easier
entry into the mare. After the horse has entered and reaches a climax the
head swells (though it is more spongy then hard) into a fist sized mass as
he ejacultates. It is thought that this serves as a plug to force the
semen deep into the mare rather then allowing it to leak out. A full grown
stallion can ejaculate about one cup ( 8 ounces ) of semen. It will take
quite a few spurts to accomplish this. Each time his tail will raise and
lower in a brief flick. The first few jets are of a thin to average
consistency of cum. The final few jets are of a thick gelatinous
substance... it is thought that this serves to "seal" the mares pussy so
that the semen has time to do it's thing before leaking out. Horse semen
is extremely viscous, if you touch your finger to a pool of it you can draw
a thin string of it five to six feet long! Horse cum has a nice flat taste
to it...not at all bitter like man's cum. You can easily drink cups of it
with no discomfort.
The Mare - how to do it.
Mares can be quite satisfactory for the average well endowed male. If you
are somewhat less developed you might find better pleasure with a pony or
Miniature Horse. These are also better as they are lower to the ground. A
pony you can fuck standing up. A miniature horse on your knees or
squatting depending on the size. A mare will require something to stand on
or "platform shoes"...(IE mini stilts to raise you a foot off the ground)
so that you can reach her pussy.
Fucking any horse will depend on the horse. Some will be ready right
away...some will take coaxing. Pet the animal, talk to it softly, spend
time with it gaining it's trust. If something you are doing upsets it then
don't force it. Talk to it and calm it. If you work slowly you can make
an animal accept anything. It is just a question of helping it overcome
it's fears. All animals fear man if raised in the wild. How any animal
reacts will depend on it's own experiences. If you haved raised the animal
yourself in a loving enviroment, then you should have no problem
associating with it, if it is a strange animal that you have met in the
wild then you will have to go through an extended "courtship" to learn how
to respond to the beast.
MARES - TRAINING YOUR OWN
When the filly reaches weaning age, seperate her from her dam. If you have
limited time to spend then she should be put to pasture. If you have
plenty of time then you should keep her in a stall. Spend time with her
during the day petting and grooming her and allow her some time to run
free. Limit her access to other horses though and see that she spends at
least 8-12 hours a day in the stall. (Start with more free time and as she
approaches her first birthday confine her more...she is now at the right
age and her confinement will have made her so bored that she is amenable to
any new experience so long as it is not unpleasant)Young fillys have no
objection to someone playing with their pussy's. I have walked up on a pen
full of strange fillys at night and they came right up to me and I petted
them and felt up their pussys and they just lifted their tales and seemed
to enjoy it. These fillys didn't even know me but they were young,
inexperienced and bored...also since they were penned they were used to the
presence of people and did not fear me. Most horses in a large pasture
will run when they scent a strange human in their pasture at night.
If you sit on the ground and wait patiently, they will get downwind of you
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TIA
bellyflop Swimming pool smackdown that will wind the fuck out of you. Measured in splash operations per second (SPLOPS)
I grew up in England at a time when the Government still payed 100% of the tuition fees AND a very sizable grant for living expenses (I got something like $8,000 per year).
Compare that to the US, where students need to excell at sports, or wage-slave themselves between lectures to keep going.
Slavery was "abolished" over 200 years ago. It is time to finish it completely. Students, when they graduate, will often earn better jobs and therefore pay higher taxes. Charging them for learning, then for living, and then charging them yet again for student loans, is to tax them four times over for learning.
This is why only the rich can learn in the US. Very very few poor people have degrees, unless they are on a sponsorship trip, in which case they are likely to be spending too much time on the game field to be really learning a damn thing. Sure, it gets them out of the ghetto, but it still ain't learning. Don't mistake the two.
I regard the Thatcher years as the latter-day "Dark Ages" of Britain, but I think she got a few things right. She wanted to increase the number of people getting into University, and aimed to make it practical for everyone to make the choice of going, if they wished.
These days, I believe the estimates place the number of people who have the option of going to University in the UK at around 60%. We're not talking vocational colleges, or unaccredited e-mail spamiversities. We're talking real, established, often hundreds of years old, centers of learning with a proven track record.
The US doesn't even come close. Many kids can't even get through high school, because their parents can't afford it. Public schools in the US are a joke - assuming you survive the endemic violence in them.
There is no possibility of a "reneissance" in the US, as it is utterly counter to the existing system. Power is held by the rich, the rats are kept by the poor. The US, far from being classless, is an excellent example of a fiefdom.
Yes, I resent that. I resent the fact that students are cheap "slave labor". I resent the fact that those who do the most are paid the least and get the least credit. I resent the fact that the "land of opportunity" exists only in the minds and pockets of the rich elite.
Why all this resentment? Because I come from a land which had learned the errors of this way of life. It learned the hard way, by becoming virtually bankrupt, by destroying virtually the entire of its own society, that what happens to the poor in society will eventually happen to the whole of society. You can run, but you can't hide from the monsters you create.
So why am I in the US at all? Because the US is still better off than the UK. The UK learned, but too little and too late. It is still decaying, as evidenced by the expulsions of tourists for not knowing who Yoko Ono was. The spy cameras, the paranoia - these things are proof positive that the UK is still in a state of decay. The better education will help, eventually, but it'll take time. The UK won't recover in my lifetime, though.
The US, on the other hand, is not yet in that same state of total ruin. It's a lot bigger, and a lot richer, which helps stave off these problems. The continuing evidence of yet more accounting fraud, the fragility of the power networks and the total absence of any serious mass transit for most of the country means that further decay is inevitable, and may be irreversible by this point. Nonetheless, the US is still a country you can live in. The UK really is not.
So if I dislike the US this badly, why stay here at all? What are the alternatives? New Zealand has a low crime rate, true, but getting in is next to impossible and there's no industry there, to speak of. Australia is set firmly on the same course of self-destruction as the UK and US. Most of Europe is in bad shape
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I'm glad you're proud of the fact that there are hundreds of thousands (conservative estimate) cheating the system and being allowed to be leeches when they could be working. Actually, since you're so glad about supporting deadbeats, I'll be more than happy to let you pay my taxes. I'll make a deal with you.. Just give me your checking account number and I'll let you pay for my groceries too.
I'm not just being an asshole either, I've honestly had to work with people collecting government funds, and I'll tell you.. For every hard luck case, single mother gets laid off and is really looking for a job, there are at least 3 deadbeats and 2 crackheads who have found ways of cheating the system to collect good money. The way our system is now, why NOT cheat it? I'm not totally against government support, I don't want to see that single mother get kicked out of her apartment, but I'm certainly not proud of the deadbeats in this country. Welfare and foodstamps aren't preventing muggers and beggers one bit, and I'd wager that most 'muggers' (>50%) are already on government support.
The minority you speak of is huge. They're sucking billions out of our economy, and the able bodied free loaders should be stopped. The working man and woman, no matter what they're doing as long as it's legal, should be proud of themselves. Just think of the programs which could be funded by spending the welfare/foodstamps/etc money on them instead of giving it away to people who do nothing to deserve it. Think of the extra tax money that would even be generated by the thousands of people that could be employed instead of freeloading.
That's such a stupid comment.. It's like saying after I build and maintain a successful business I shouldn't be allowed in the building because people want to smoke inside and I don't want them to.
1) I can protect myself if allowed. I don't want to have to use one, but I'd use a gun, baseball bat, kitchen knife, or pencil if I had to.
2) Uhm.. I already have to pay full price to go to the doctor, what's going to change? I'll still just walk into one and pay the price.
3) Okay you got me, if I fall into a well I'll just hope some good person walks by to save me.. It's a risk I'm willing to take
Don't buy into the garbage of if you want protection you have to have welfare for deadbeats, it just doesn't make sense. I'm tempted to ask if you even have a job and what it is..