Because your giant vehicle pollutes our air, tears up our roads (that we must pay to repair), kills us in our smaller cars or on our bikes, and guzzles gasoline, driving up the cost for the rest of us and sending gazillions of dollars to fascist states that breed terrorists who want to kill us.. Get your head out of your ass, man.
Not true. I work at home so I barely drive. I would gladly trade lower income tax for higher gas taxes. Heck, I'd even settle for keeping my income tax the same and raising gas taxes to pay down some of that federal debt and to see some government investment in r&d for energy.
So all carrot and no stick? I say use a stick too. Tax the petroleum, tax breaks for efficiency. In case you haven't noticed, the US has some serious debt we need to pay down.
I can appreciate your desire to have a big car then. Sorry if I was a little stingy with my weight allowance.
I live in Los Angeles and have lost count of how many times I've nearly been run down by a tiny blonde bimbo in a gigantic SUV talking on her cell phone and barreling down a narrow residential street. It just doesn't make sense here.
Has it occurred to you that your dependence on said travel might be a critical strategic danger for your economy? Or that your dependence on oil from the Middle East might be a critical strategic danger geopolitically?
SUVs are a complete waste of resources (metal, petroleum, etc.) and enormous polluters. Why use a 3-ton vehicle to drag one fat ass around town? The problem as I see it is that folks are choosing what economy they want which means that self-indulgent rich dicks want land barges that pollute *my* environment and their petro dollars go to such enlightened states as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, and Nigeria, all of whom seem to hate Western society which means we have to spend still more dollars propping up one petty dictator after another and then knocking them down. If our fuel economy was twice as good, our geopolitical interest in those dodgy areas would probably cost us a lot less money.
I can appreciate not wanting one's taxes raised. How about we reduce federal income tax and shift the tax burden to a petroleum tax?
I'm currently on GoDaddy and have felt rather dirty ever since I heard about their CEO, Bob Parsons, hunting an elephant. I also hate their interface -- too cluttered and too much marketing/advertising/crap in there. I'd like to know a good, reputable, registrar that I could move to. Anyone have suggestions?
I disagree they have *no* standards. It's apparent that Google wants to make money off content providers and is kissing their giant smelly ass. I think if there is any standard, it's to kiss up to the movie studios, the record labels, and any other big content organization so they can get their itunes/amazon prime equivalent up and running.
I wonder if QuantumMist must take into account the cost of development. To say that the application is "embarassingly parallel" and at the same time that "memory requirements are decently low" suggests that s/he has an existing application that has been run on some box and perhaps belies a bit of ignorance about the nature of parallelism. Last time I checked, more threads required more memory. If the plan is to get the maximum number of threads possible, the amount of memory required could vary enormously. Additionally, the nature of the parallelism is not discussed. What does each thread do? If it's not something a GPU does then GPUs are not going to help. Also, will a GPU even fit in a 1u box that already contains a server? I doubt it.
In my very limited experience in writing multithreaded code, I have found that simply increasing the number of threads spawned doesn't necessarily equate to better performance. On the contrary, spawning too many can bring your application to a halt as an enormous number of threads vie for limited resources (network, disk, memory) and your application gets nothing done because it's too busy context switching between a huge number of resource-starved threads that do nothing while the threads that hold the resources never get scheduled to do valuable work.
I'd also like to point out that simply buying GPUs doesn't mean your application will suddenly spawn an ability to take advantage of even one GPU. The software development effort required to add GPU detection and utilization could easily chew up that $10-15k budget in no time.
If QuantumMist already has this application written and it's running but NOT GPU-enabled, then the best approach might be to just get the hottest multi-socket traditional CPU machine s/he can afford built on a dual LGA 1366 mobo or quad g34 mobo. Or, depending on the nature of this parallelism, it might be better to budget for some CUDA software development and a machine with a couple of GPUs.
Mathematica, used by grad students everywhere. The impact of this software is huge. Grad students everywhere rely on it to visualize equations they otherwise wouldn't understand. It has been a tremendous boon to computer scientists, astronomers, chemists, physicists, etc.
He also wrote some papers on particle physics. And then there's Wolfram-Alpha, which I use at least once a week.
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Because your giant vehicle pollutes our air, tears up our roads (that we must pay to repair), kills us in our smaller cars or on our bikes, and guzzles gasoline, driving up the cost for the rest of us and sending gazillions of dollars to fascist states that breed terrorists who want to kill us.. Get your head out of your ass, man.
This is a must read. It's a perfect example of a "market solution".
Not true. I work at home so I barely drive. I would gladly trade lower income tax for higher gas taxes. Heck, I'd even settle for keeping my income tax the same and raising gas taxes to pay down some of that federal debt and to see some government investment in r&d for energy.
The super poor people I'm familiar with don't have cars. They take the bus or the subway.
So all carrot and no stick? I say use a stick too. Tax the petroleum, tax breaks for efficiency. In case you haven't noticed, the US has some serious debt we need to pay down.
That's like asking "why stop an addict from taking heroin because he chooses to take it." Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away.
I can appreciate your desire to have a big car then. Sorry if I was a little stingy with my weight allowance.
I live in Los Angeles and have lost count of how many times I've nearly been run down by a tiny blonde bimbo in a gigantic SUV talking on her cell phone and barreling down a narrow residential street. It just doesn't make sense here.
Yeah, get a Subaru.
Mod parent up.
Has it occurred to you that your dependence on said travel might be a critical strategic danger for your economy? Or that your dependence on oil from the Middle East might be a critical strategic danger geopolitically?
SUVs are a complete waste of resources (metal, petroleum, etc.) and enormous polluters. Why use a 3-ton vehicle to drag one fat ass around town? The problem as I see it is that folks are choosing what economy they want which means that self-indulgent rich dicks want land barges that pollute *my* environment and their petro dollars go to such enlightened states as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, and Nigeria, all of whom seem to hate Western society which means we have to spend still more dollars propping up one petty dictator after another and then knocking them down. If our fuel economy was twice as good, our geopolitical interest in those dodgy areas would probably cost us a lot less money.
I can appreciate not wanting one's taxes raised. How about we reduce federal income tax and shift the tax burden to a petroleum tax?
Not strictly true:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/intro.pcntl.php
I've written a multi-threaded PHP program that runs from the command line. Works like a charm.
mod parent up.
I'm currently on GoDaddy and have felt rather dirty ever since I heard about their CEO, Bob Parsons, hunting an elephant. I also hate their interface -- too cluttered and too much marketing/advertising/crap in there. I'd like to know a good, reputable, registrar that I could move to. Anyone have suggestions?
I can't believe it's taken this long.
I disagree they have *no* standards. It's apparent that Google wants to make money off content providers and is kissing their giant smelly ass. I think if there is any standard, it's to kiss up to the movie studios, the record labels, and any other big content organization so they can get their itunes/amazon prime equivalent up and running.
Yep. I call shenanigans. I doubt there's a commercially available AA battery that'll reliably keep its charge for 10 years, much less power something.
I just noticed there's no "spam" option for modding posts. /. should add that.
Finally someone talking sense. You go darkjedi.
MOD PARENT UP. Parallel processing is tricky stuff and performance depends on so many things -- not just the cost of a bunch of GPUs.
I wonder if QuantumMist must take into account the cost of development. To say that the application is "embarassingly parallel" and at the same time that "memory requirements are decently low" suggests that s/he has an existing application that has been run on some box and perhaps belies a bit of ignorance about the nature of parallelism. Last time I checked, more threads required more memory. If the plan is to get the maximum number of threads possible, the amount of memory required could vary enormously. Additionally, the nature of the parallelism is not discussed. What does each thread do? If it's not something a GPU does then GPUs are not going to help. Also, will a GPU even fit in a 1u box that already contains a server? I doubt it.
In my very limited experience in writing multithreaded code, I have found that simply increasing the number of threads spawned doesn't necessarily equate to better performance. On the contrary, spawning too many can bring your application to a halt as an enormous number of threads vie for limited resources (network, disk, memory) and your application gets nothing done because it's too busy context switching between a huge number of resource-starved threads that do nothing while the threads that hold the resources never get scheduled to do valuable work.
I'd also like to point out that simply buying GPUs doesn't mean your application will suddenly spawn an ability to take advantage of even one GPU. The software development effort required to add GPU detection and utilization could easily chew up that $10-15k budget in no time.
If QuantumMist already has this application written and it's running but NOT GPU-enabled, then the best approach might be to just get the hottest multi-socket traditional CPU machine s/he can afford built on a dual LGA 1366 mobo or quad g34 mobo. Or, depending on the nature of this parallelism, it might be better to budget for some CUDA software development and a machine with a couple of GPUs.
We see them trollin' / we be hatin'
Yeah they can use that $39B to pay for a gigantic waaaaahmbulance.
Mod parent up. One of the girls always gets mad.
Mathematica, used by grad students everywhere. The impact of this software is huge. Grad students everywhere rely on it to visualize equations they otherwise wouldn't understand. It has been a tremendous boon to computer scientists, astronomers, chemists, physicists, etc.
He also wrote some papers on particle physics. And then there's Wolfram-Alpha, which I use at least once a week.