I've been trying to develop software to do it... unfortunately, my amazing abilities at procrastination and wanting to constant redesign the project have left it languishing for nine years.
Then I keep seeing articles on archiving projects and think I really should get back to work on it...
You're basically saying the web is a passing fad, then.
And your arguement of Rails killing Ruby when it stops being the flavour-of-the-week doesn't hold much water... Perl was associated quite closely with CGI programming back in the day, and its grown beyond it.
We do that here... although instead of 'stick', its 'the helmet' (its an old department in-joke... don't ask.) It works, assuming that you can train/break your user herd to:
- Use your ticketing system instead of filing requests via email - Use your ticketing system instead of walking up to your cube and bothering you - Not walk up to your cube at all - Not mail specific/favourite admins specifically for specific requests
*sigh* If only HR wouldn't throw a fit if I replaced the plastic battleaxe on my cube wall with real one...
Yay for the rest of New Jersey. Hunterdon County and its surrounds are still boned, thanks to having United Telephone/Sprint/whatever locked in for their service. I was amazed when my dad could get DSL a year ago...
No, I don't live there anymore. But I'm still bitter.:)
...when they decide to try a Mars shot, they do it on a true interplanetary craft (i.e. something built in and made for nothing but interplanetary space) instead of trying to cram it into a shuttle-alike (i.e. something built for ground to orbit transfer).
Going to the moon first and setting up permanent residence there, and setting up mining and construction facilities, would certainly make it a lot more feasible.
Its amazing how the virtues have rooted themselves in my brain.
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What I personally would like to see is a resurgance of RAMdisk cards. Full-length PCI cards chock full of DIMM sockets, or even SIMM sockets to make use of all that old memory you have hanging around.
Have an IDE or SCSI socket on the top edge (or a SCSI connector on the back plate) to plug it directly into your disk system. Looks like a disk, acts like a disk, runs like a demon. I'd like to have my swap file on it.:)
It only makes sense, really. I know that AT&T still uses some Long-Line sites... the Cherryville, NJ site, for one, is still very much in use for other purposes.
Actually, I would say that replication and some form of tablespace/datafile system are the only hurdles to the enterprise. The ability to add more space to the database on the fly is very handy and important in a 24/7 environment.
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Indeed, I remember seeing an article in a recent Popular Science (I think it was PopSci, anyway), that there's significant quantity near the shores along the Gulf of Mexico.
Of course, it ain't renewable, but...
I'd hardly say that Seymour Cray would be proud. My feeling is that Mr. Cray was about innovations and pushing the limits of what computers can do. Today's Cray is doing little more, in my view, than simply rehashing the same old technologies with higher clock speeds and more CPUs thrown at the problem.
If Cray was alive today, I like to think that he'd be directing research into quantum computers, and maybe technologies like Starbridge Systems is working on.
You know, NASA and research labs and universities can be spending time and resources on developing new ways of throwing ourselves around the solar system... but it doesn't solve that nagging little problem of the annoying gravity well we call home.
I say start pouring money into new launch systems and bring down the cost of putting things into Earth orbit. Once orbital access is cheap and readily available... maybe have a moonbase or three established... then interplanetary travel research will do us a lot more good.
Just a comment on the distributed.net comment written by the Slashdot monkey. I've compiled the stock testing core on the C90 at my work. Single processor, it did something pathetic... ~12kkeys/sec. The Sparc-1s we have do better than that.
Yes, if someone wants to try vectorising the core and implement MPI (rather than running 16 seperate clients at once), it might do better. But I doubt it. These are built for math, not bit-shifting.
On that note, the Seti client, I could see doing a LOT better. Again, after vector optimisations. But you can't get any code for that client...
Uh... running a supercomputer from a less-powerful computer is nothing new, and certainly doesn't make it 'specialised'. Historically, the Cray T3D used a Cray Y-MP as a front-end, and the Thinking Machines CM-5 (and CM-200, I think) used Sun servers. I'm sure there are others that used less-powerful system to run mathematical behemoths.
...that's its just the chip, right? $95 per 1000 of 'em. After design costs, board production, company overhead and profit, etc. etc., you'll probably be paying $400 a pop for a card.
Developing new, efficient, safe, convenient, and CHEAP Earth-to-orbit systems is a realistic goal. Developing a self-sufficient moon base (one big chunk of fuel, oxygen, and building material ready for exploitation there) is a realistic goal.
Blowing billions of dollars just so we can say "We were on Mars, neener" isn't very useful.
This patent is on _remote_ systems networked to process large computations... but what about _local_ systems?
I.e. does anyone have the patent on Beowulf clustering? Theoretically, NASA should, since they built the first one, and ergo should be public domain... but one never knows, do they?
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I've been trying to develop software to do it... unfortunately, my amazing abilities at procrastination and wanting to constant redesign the project have left it languishing for nine years.
Then I keep seeing articles on archiving projects and think I really should get back to work on it...
Wake me when they create a Ruby/Rails section.
Guido! Let my whitespace go!
You're basically saying the web is a passing fad, then.
And your arguement of Rails killing Ruby when it stops being the flavour-of-the-week doesn't hold much water... Perl was associated quite closely with CGI programming back in the day, and its grown beyond it.
We do that here... although instead of 'stick', its 'the helmet' (its an old department in-joke... don't ask.) It works, assuming that you can train/break your user herd to:
- Use your ticketing system instead of filing requests via email
- Use your ticketing system instead of walking up to your cube and bothering you
- Not walk up to your cube at all
- Not mail specific/favourite admins specifically for specific requests
*sigh* If only HR wouldn't throw a fit if I replaced the plastic battleaxe on my cube wall with real one...
Yay for the rest of New Jersey. Hunterdon County and its surrounds are still boned, thanks to having United Telephone/Sprint/whatever locked in for their service. I was amazed when my dad could get DSL a year ago...
:)
No, I don't live there anymore. But I'm still bitter.
Its like trying to talk into a lumpy brick. Worse $300 I spent...
Ah, hell... I didn't see the link in the story. Is my face red now...
Nice plaguarism with submitting that story... not even a mention of The Register, who had that text word for word.
DVD-Labhttp://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/index.htm l -- Windows shareware software. $99, $128 if you get the TMPGEnc engine with it.
I use this for making my DVDs, and I'm quite happy with it... well worth the money.
...when they decide to try a Mars shot, they do it on a true interplanetary craft (i.e. something built in and made for nothing but interplanetary space) instead of trying to cram it into a shuttle-alike (i.e. something built for ground to orbit transfer).
Going to the moon first and setting up permanent residence there, and setting up mining and construction facilities, would certainly make it a lot more feasible.
Its amazing how the virtues have rooted themselves in my brain.
What I personally would like to see is a resurgance of RAMdisk cards. Full-length PCI cards chock full of DIMM sockets, or even SIMM sockets to make use of all that old memory you have hanging around.
:)
Have an IDE or SCSI socket on the top edge (or a SCSI connector on the back plate) to plug it directly into your disk system. Looks like a disk, acts like a disk, runs like a demon. I'd like to have my swap file on it.
It only makes sense, really. I know that AT&T still uses some Long-Line sites... the Cherryville, NJ site, for one, is still very much in use for other purposes.
Actually, I would say that replication and some form of tablespace/datafile system are the only hurdles to the enterprise. The ability to add more space to the database on the fly is very handy and important in a 24/7 environment.
Indeed, I remember seeing an article in a recent Popular Science (I think it was PopSci, anyway), that there's significant quantity near the shores along the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, it ain't renewable, but...
I'd hardly say that Seymour Cray would be proud. My feeling is that Mr. Cray was about innovations and pushing the limits of what computers can do. Today's Cray is doing little more, in my view, than simply rehashing the same old technologies with higher clock speeds and more CPUs thrown at the problem.
If Cray was alive today, I like to think that he'd be directing research into quantum computers, and maybe technologies like Starbridge Systems is working on.
I say start pouring money into new launch systems and bring down the cost of putting things into Earth orbit. Once orbital access is cheap and readily available... maybe have a moonbase or three established... then interplanetary travel research will do us a lot more good.
You want reactionless propulsion, I refer you to James Woodward's application of Mach's Principle. A good rundown can be found at http://inetarena.com/~noetic/pls/woodward.html.
Just a comment on the distributed.net comment written by the Slashdot monkey. I've compiled the stock testing core on the C90 at my work. Single processor, it did something pathetic... ~12kkeys/sec. The Sparc-1s we have do better than that.
Yes, if someone wants to try vectorising the core and implement MPI (rather than running 16 seperate clients at once), it might do better. But I doubt it. These are built for math, not bit-shifting.
On that note, the Seti client, I could see doing a LOT better. Again, after vector optimisations. But you can't get any code for that client...
And another item... A FLOP is a FLOP is a FLOP. If it can do a floating-point operation for one thing, it can do it for another.
Uh... running a supercomputer from a less-powerful computer is nothing new, and certainly doesn't make it 'specialised'. Historically, the Cray T3D used a Cray Y-MP as a front-end, and the Thinking Machines CM-5 (and CM-200, I think) used Sun servers. I'm sure there are others that used less-powerful system to run mathematical behemoths.
What is your opinion of Eiffel (www.elj.com, or www.elj.com/eiffel/intro) as a language? Object-oriented without C-like syntax.
...that's its just the chip, right? $95 per 1000 of 'em. After design costs, board production, company overhead and profit, etc. etc., you'll probably be paying $400 a pop for a card.
Mars is not a realistic goal.
Developing new, efficient, safe, convenient, and CHEAP Earth-to-orbit systems is a realistic goal. Developing a self-sufficient moon base (one big chunk of fuel, oxygen, and building material ready for exploitation there) is a realistic goal.
Blowing billions of dollars just so we can say "We were on Mars, neener" isn't very useful.
My not-so-humble opinion, anyway.
This patent is on _remote_ systems networked to process large computations... but what about _local_ systems?
I.e. does anyone have the patent on Beowulf clustering? Theoretically, NASA should, since they built the first one, and ergo should be public domain... but one never knows, do they?