They are creatilng an unauthorized derivative work for commercial gain: this is criminal copyright infringement;
see the relevant chunk of the Copyright Act: US Code Title 17, Section 506 (here courtesy of the Cornel Legal Information Institute, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506)
Neither is it fair that Disney stole Osamu Tezuka's Kimba for use in The Lion King.
The Constitutional requirement is: (1) to authors and inventors, (2) for a limited time, (3) in order to promote progress in the sciences and arts.
It is impossible that extending the copyright term for works of a fifty-year-dead author can encourage him to produce more work.
Nor is the resulting term "limited" in either in mathematical or human terms. And the current Mickey Mouse "copyright owners" are certainly NOT that author nor inventor.
You've never run CFD,have you?...and don't know its message-patterns, either.
That's what the OP said he was doing (though he didn't say whether he was running someone else's "canned" code, or was compiling his own). Unless it's specifically compiled for Haswell (which is unlikely,but sad), the "canned" code will not take proper advantage of the Haswell AVX2 instruction-set.
I would go with Haswell-EP Xeons -- probably 2697v3 (14 cores @ 2.6-3.6): a two-socket motherboard gives you 28 physical cores per board, for prices in the $12K range. Just one of these is quite a powerful system. If you can get by with a 2-node system, then 10GE interconnect is good enough (AND MUCH CHEAPER); for more nodes, you will need Infiniband (since 10GE does not scale well). The 4-node/IB cluster will be on the order of $60K, and will offer more performance than a $160K solution of a couple of years ago.
These will offer far better performance than the Opteron solution.
Can you compile your own application? If so, use the Intel compilers, and make sure you compile targeting the Haswell instruction set (-O3 -Xhost -march=corei7-avx2 -mtune=corei7-avx2 if I recall correctly): the full AVX2 Haswell instruction set is rather more powerful for your app than the predecessor "AVX" SandyBridge/IvyBridge instruction set, which is far more powerful than the previous
Nehalem/Westmere SSE4.2 instruction-set, which is somewhat more powerful than a simple "-O3". If you can't compile on your own, try to make sure the vendor's executables target AVX2; the right compile-flags will double your performance over "-O3"...
For example, with a search of Computers for "2560x1600 monitor" on Amazon, the first three results and ten of the first eleven results are *not*
2560x1600.
Intel compilers install their documentation as local HTML (on that server), so you need a browser of some sort to read it. And firefox won't do that job on RH servers, because RH puts in that ancient and rude "use the Firefox on the client machine, not the one local to the server" hack to the firefox it supplies. So you need either konqueror, chrome, or opera on the server;-(
contact lenses + "tuned" computer glasses (below) + reading glasses, for normal use: the lack of peripheral vision with any eyeglasses is a serious problem for things that need it -- and builds bad habits, in the process (I'm an avid ballroom dancer, and you really need peripheral vision for floorcraft!
"computer" glasses for your computer work -- and make sure you measure distance-to-screen and have the prescription tuned for that distance.
"progressives" for one-day-a-week "off" from the contacts.
I *would* really like working for someone like Linus -- really sharp, really on-the-ball, really high expectations, really willing to listen to well-though-out "it might be better to..." (see his response to Ted T'so later in this thread).
Much better than working for some bureaucrat or politician who *thinks* he knows what he is doing.
It is known that boot times for Windows grow exponentially in the number of Windows-updates performed;-( (This is true for at least XP, Vista, 7, and 8.)
If the original plugins-team follow the Scientology copyright-action precedent and show up with an ex parte seizure order, a Federal Marshall, and an 18-wheeler to seize the evidence of copyright infringement (i.e., every computer in the place), it might serve as an example pour les autres.
Read what Heinlein said about his grandfather's (public-school) education as compared with what he had. And then compare with what is happening in this country right now.
Gates, Bryant, et al. think that the problem is the presence of parental participation. They don't want to school citizens; they want to condition sheep.
I've been running near-4K (3200x2400, actually) virtual resolution on
physical 2560x1600 for several years. It gives me roughly a 20% boost in productivity
over the previous 1920x1200 (which was more productive than its prececessor...)
With real books, I can donate them to charity when I'm done with them. Given that the general retail rate for used books is 60% of face value, that means the donation is worth about 30% (taking both state and federal tax deductions into account), so my effective printed book-price is 70% of face value. E-books need to be priced fairly against that.
Nor what flags he means by "full optimization". Nor what the hardware really is -
for some problems, with the right flags Haswell performance is very different from Core-2.
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They are creatilng an unauthorized derivative work for commercial gain: this is criminal copyright infringement; see the relevant chunk of the Copyright Act: US Code Title 17, Section 506 (here courtesy of the Cornel Legal Information Institute, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506)
Neither is it fair that Disney stole Osamu Tezuka's Kimba for use in The Lion King.
The Constitutional requirement is: (1) to authors and inventors, (2) for a limited time, (3) in order to promote progress in the sciences and arts.
It is impossible that extending the copyright term for works of a fifty-year-dead author can encourage him to produce more work. Nor is the resulting term "limited" in either in mathematical or human terms. And the current Mickey Mouse "copyright owners" are certainly NOT that author nor inventor.
You've never run CFD,have you? ...and don't know its message-patterns, either.
That's what the OP said he was doing (though he didn't say whether he was running someone else's "canned" code, or was compiling his own). Unless it's specifically compiled for Haswell (which is unlikely,but sad), the "canned" code will not take proper advantage of the Haswell AVX2 instruction-set.
These will offer far better performance than the Opteron solution.
Can you compile your own application? If so, use the Intel compilers, and make sure you compile targeting the Haswell instruction set (-O3 -Xhost -march=corei7-avx2 -mtune=corei7-avx2 if I recall correctly): the full AVX2 Haswell instruction set is rather more powerful for your app than the predecessor "AVX" SandyBridge/IvyBridge instruction set, which is far more powerful than the previous Nehalem/Westmere SSE4.2 instruction-set, which is somewhat more powerful than a simple "-O3". If you can't compile on your own, try to make sure the vendor's executables target AVX2; the right compile-flags will double your performance over "-O3"...
Idiots.
Really annoying idiots.
Intel compilers install their documentation as local HTML (on that server), so you need a browser of some sort to read it. And firefox won't do that job on RH servers, because RH puts in that ancient and rude "use the Firefox on the client machine, not the one local to the server" hack to the firefox it supplies. So you need either konqueror, chrome, or opera on the server ;-(
Especially if sent certified, return receipt requested. I've found that always has put things into the "Urgent!" bin on the receiving end.
PCLinuxOS
Much better than working for some bureaucrat or politician who *thinks* he knows what he is doing.
It is known that boot times for Windows grow exponentially in the number of Windows-updates performed ;-( (This is true for at least XP, Vista, 7, and 8.)
Or PCLinuxOS (or Mageia) with KDE...
If the original plugins-team follow the Scientology copyright-action precedent and show up with an ex parte seizure order, a Federal Marshall, and an 18-wheeler to seize the evidence of copyright infringement (i.e., every computer in the place), it might serve as an example pour les autres.
Read what Heinlein said about his grandfather's (public-school) education as compared with what he had. And then compare with what is happening in this country right now.
Gates, Bryant, et al. think that the problem is the presence of parental participation. They don't want to school citizens; they want to condition sheep.
Here, we're hearing from the jailers, who are afraid their control is in danger.
To H)(&*$#* with these Hollywood types that have forced us into 16x9 aspect ratio monitors!
You can drive 4K@30Hz off the on-chip graphics in a Haswell CPU!
FWIW
"Price they sell at" is how big a tax deduction you can claim. Which was the point.
60% of face value is the going retail rate at used bookstores in Raleigh NC, Durham NC, and Charleston SC. At least for paperback SF.
With real books, I can donate them to charity when I'm done with them. Given that the general retail rate for used books is 60% of face value, that means the donation is worth about 30% (taking both state and federal tax deductions into account), so my effective printed book-price is 70% of face value. E-books need to be priced fairly against that.
Nor what flags he means by "full optimization". Nor what the hardware really is - for some problems, with the right flags Haswell performance is very different from Core-2.
Mount Vernon, which is actually owned by a private foundation. The Feds are part-owners of the *parking* *lot*.