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Factual 'Big Mac' Results
danigiri writes "Finally Varadarajan has put some hard facts on the speed of the VT 'Big Mac' G5 cluster. Undoubtedly after some weeks of tuning and optimization, the home-brewn supercluster is happily rolling around at 9.555 TFlops in LINPACK.
The revelations were made by the parallel computing voodoo master himself at the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference. It seems they are expecting and additional 10% speed boost after some more tweaking. Srinidhi received standing ovations from the audience.
Wired news is also running a cool news piece on it. Lots of juicy technical and cost details not revealed before. Myth dispelling redux: yes, VT paid full price, yes, it's running Mac OS X Jaguar (soon Panther), yes, errors in RAM are accounted for, Varadarajan was not an Apple fanboy in the least... read the articles for more booze."
First popular home PC, first post.
Oops.
what about us gay white boys?
And then everything goes back to normal.
The Wachowskis are setting everyone up for a major fucking disappointment.
Suck it up whiners, at least you don't have this particular upgrade and patch cycle...
"Talk minus action equals nothing" - Joey Shithead, D.O.A.
"Talk minus action equals
Ninjas are Mammals.
major fucking disappointment.
Wasn't that Reloaded?
...don't expect the manufacturer to step out on that limb with you.
Obviously that fan/heatsink combo was there for a reason. You removed it, you paid the price.
"I added a superior cooling system to the machine, quietened it, IMPROVED it in every way, and they deny my claim?"
Obviously your modified cooling system was quieter, but I suspect it was actually quite inferior.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
It's common practice to deny claims to non-stock machines in the whole computer industry, we wont even replace a harddrive here if its still under its warranty. It's just not worth the risk of them not taking it in
"Slashdot, where telling the truth is overrated but lying is insightful."
So... like, we're back to the G3 topic icon again? Jeeze, have some balls, the trolls didn't roast ya that bad about it!
Indian Officials Claim Outsourcing is Good for United States
WashTech News
Jobless, Labor Activists Disagree
By D. David Beckman
Akhilesh Mishra is proud of his nation's accomplishments, especially within the past decade.
"India's economy has been growing at a very phenomenal rate," says Mishra who is the acting consul general of the Indian Consulate in San Francisco. Indeed, India's 6 percent growth-rate over the past three years is two to three times that of the sluggish U.S. economy. Mishra claims India's growth may hit 8 percent annually in the next few years, especially as many of the who's who of the world's multinational corporations rush to move work from their North American and European bases to India.
Mishra was one of three panelists at an Oct. 20 WSA program entitled, "Offshore Success Stories: Two Way Trade with India." Sangita Singh of Wipro Technologies and Offshore IT Services, Inc. Director Santosh Kolhatkar joined Mishra in the presentation, armed with recent studies designed to portray India as the world's newest superpower, particularly when it comes to outsourcing.
Slight, soft-spoken and avuncular, Mishra proudly touted a recent Merrill Lynch study which found that one out of every ten U.S. residents of Indian descent -- about 1.7 million, according to U.S. Census figures -- is a millionaire. Mishra says the numbers offer ample evidence of the productivity and capitalistic prowess of his countrymen.
Member companies of the Bellevue, Wash.-based WSA, formerly known as the Washington Software Alliance, appear to have whole-heartedly embraced the practice of hiring foreign workers, either by bringing the workers to the United States on guest visas, or by sending the work offshore to countries like India and China. The WSA claims a membership roster that totals over 1,100 members and counts among its membership IT flagships like Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., and IBM. The panel gave its presentation to a small audience that numbered just over 20 sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in a cramped Days Inn meeting room just outside Seattle on Interstate 90. They presented figures that they say support their contention that outsourcing IT work to India is good for the U.S. economy.
Many in the audience seemed surprised that the IT work U.S. companies are sending to India amounts to only a small amount of the work currently being outsourced to that country.
"On the West Coast of the U.S., we seem to hear IT, IT IT," says Mishra. "Yet it is only 3 percent of our GDP (gross domestic product).
Nonetheless, panel members say that with they expect that amount to grow to 30 percent within a few years.
Just outside the door, however, about a dozen rain-soaked protestors marched and chanted in a storm that at times raged to monsoon proportions. Many, like Terry Morgan, were veterans of high tech, now unemployed.
"The reason why there are so many of us unemployed is cost," says Morgan, 45, a software engineer of 20 years whose resume lists companies such as Eastman Kodak Co., Boeing Co., Microsoft and RealNetworks, Inc. "You can't beat cheap labor."
Morgan says the reason he and other unemployed IT workers cannot find work is that companies can hire foreign tech workers for about half of what they pay U.S. workers. That seems to be one point on which Morgan and panel members can fully agree.
Panel members sometimes cited figures from an August McKinsey Global Institute report. The 18-page report entitled, "Offshoring: Is It a Win-Win Game?" says the economic benefits of "offshoring" are substantial. "As is commonly realized, the prime motivation of offshoring is that it reduces labor costs."
The report cites an example of a software developer who costs $60 an hour in the U.S. costs only $6 an hour in India.
Proponents of offshoring are fond of making the claim that those in countries such as the United States who
One good thing about music, Well, it helps you feel no pain. So hit me with music; Hit me with music now. -- Bob Marley, "Trenchtown Rock"
This quote is bugging me. It's really "When it hits you, you feel no pain."
You are an idiot. I am a computer engineer, and when I need to work on binary data (aka, that inside the machine) I will use hex. However, the real world does not operate on binary data, it operates on base-10 data, because that is the way everyone was taught in school. So, it is real world number given in real world base units.
But, what can you expect from the guy who wants us to use lojban as our language just so computers can understand us better. Hell, we should switch our number system to base 16 of course. While we are at all these radical changes, we should also ban copyright laws. (Check his post history.) Please take your rabid ideology elsewhere. Technology is created to make our lives easier, not the other way around.
-- Fighting mediocrity one bad post at a time.
So will this beat a new 9800XT in doom III?