I recently evaluated several linux distros for our beowulf cluster, and we chose Rocks Linux. This OS is designed specifically to make it dead easy to setup clusters. Rocks is built on top of stock redhat. They do some magic with the kickstart installer to automatically setup the compute nodes. All the information about the nodes (MAC, ip address, hostname) goes into a mysql DB.
We are actually using a derivative of rocks, called BioBrew.
BioBrew also comes with software for biologists:
the NCBI toolkit, BLAST, mpiBLAST, HMMER, ClustalW, GROMACS, PHYLIP, WISE, FASTA, and EMBOSS.
michael call it "well-linked," I call it "Link Pollution." I did not read the article, as I have better things to to than figure out which link(s) to visit. Slashdot is very frequently guilty of this practice.
Given the first two lines of a JCL program and a web browser, I found A site with links to a bunch of manuals. I did some more searching, and here is what the first line means:
The first two lines are the 'Job card'.
U890898 - this is the 'Job name'.
REGION=2048K - the amount of memory required.
This item is a submission to a mathematics journal, it has not yet been accepted for publication. The authors claim to have proven the RH by a new method, and the editors of the journal are currently reviewing the article for errors. If they find no major errors, and the minor errors are fixed, then the article will appear in the journal. Then a much larger group of mathematicians will review the article. If, after all this time, the article hasn't been disproved, then it can be accepted as valid.
I don't know where your comment about EROS comes from. EROS stands for Extremely Reliable Operating System, and has cool stuff like transparent persistence for all programs and a pure capability security system. EROS was built from the ground up to run on commodity Intel boxes. The OS is not ready for prime time because it is being re-written in C (from C++). It is GPL'ed, and it has mucho potential.
They're not paying you to make the code pretty - they're paying you to add features, or eliminate bugs. That being said, it is often the case that ugly code can severly impede your progress. This is a perfect time to refactor to make the code better. Refactoring means changing code without changing the behavior of the code, only changing the organization. See the refactoring book (by Martin Fowler) for more information.
It continues to amaze me that people worry about support for free software. Consider Windows: ultimately, there is only one vendor to get bug fixes, kernel enhancements, etc. from. In the Linux realm, nobody has a monopoly on support. There is a free market, and you can pick the support level that you want.
Maybe they will go the Microsoft route, and have 1 box to sell for the whole 7.x series. For 7.1, you would have to download a 'service pack' or buy a 7 --> 7.1 upgrade cd. This is better for retailers, as then they can just sell '7' instead of having to throw away '7.0' cds when '7.1' comes out.
Nobody in this thread seems to understand what this poster is saying about VC++. You can edit your C code while debugging, and recompile it, and continue execution. Thats insanely cool. I use emacs myself, but I am in awe of this feature.
Right now, most computer and internet technology exists in a technological context; I can surf the web, or I can go outside into the "real world". Things will get interesting when this technology is really integrated into consumer products - a fridge that can print out a grocery list (and maybe even automatically order), vacuums that vac without any human intervention, an oven that can download recipes (to be displayed on its LCD, and to set the cooking times).
as *nice* a library? They integrated all the documentation into one index. When I want to know about the javascript top object, I get all sorts of irrelevant results.
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Perhaps if you put a space or two between the integral sign and the function, it would be easier to read.
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Yes, it's called EROS.
We are actually using a derivative of rocks, called BioBrew. BioBrew also comes with software for biologists:
the NCBI toolkit, BLAST, mpiBLAST, HMMER, ClustalW, GROMACS, PHYLIP, WISE, FASTA, and EMBOSS.
michael call it "well-linked," I call it "Link Pollution." I did not read the article, as I have better things to to than figure out which link(s) to visit. Slashdot is very frequently guilty of this practice.
The first two lines are the 'Job card'.
U890898 - this is the 'Job name'.
REGION=2048K - the amount of memory required.
Ein, Zwei, Drei is German for 1,2,3. Hence Einstein, Zweistein, Dreistein.
This item is a submission to a mathematics journal, it has not yet been accepted for publication. The authors claim to have proven the RH by a new method, and the editors of the journal are currently reviewing the article for errors. If they find no major errors, and the minor errors are fixed, then the article will appear in the journal. Then a much larger group of mathematicians will review the article. If, after all this time, the article hasn't been disproved, then it can be accepted as valid.
yeah, my monitor started shaking. (New York City)
lameness filters are lame. Here is something to fill space in this message: How Stuff Works
I don't know where your comment about EROS comes from. EROS stands for Extremely Reliable Operating System, and has cool stuff like transparent persistence for all programs and a pure capability security system. EROS was built from the ground up to run on commodity Intel boxes. The OS is not ready for prime time because it is being re-written in C (from C++). It is GPL'ed, and it has mucho potential.
They're not paying you to make the code pretty - they're paying you to add features, or eliminate bugs. That being said, it is often the case that ugly code can severly impede your progress. This is a perfect time to refactor to make the code better. Refactoring means changing code without changing the behavior of the code, only changing the organization. See the refactoring book (by Martin Fowler) for more information.
It continues to amaze me that people worry about support for free software. Consider Windows: ultimately, there is only one vendor to get bug fixes, kernel enhancements, etc. from. In the Linux realm, nobody has a monopoly on support. There is a free market, and you can pick the support level that you want.
Did you notice anything interesting about the OS that Netcraft is reporting?
Are you sure that RMS runs Hurd?
Maybe they will go the Microsoft route, and have 1 box to sell for the whole 7.x series. For 7.1, you would have to download a 'service pack' or buy a 7 --> 7.1 upgrade cd. This is better for retailers, as then they can just sell '7' instead of having to throw away '7.0' cds when '7.1' comes out.
I thought that the OS would be on the game CD.
There is.
Nobody in this thread seems to understand what this poster is saying about VC++. You can edit your C code while debugging, and recompile it, and continue execution. Thats insanely cool. I use emacs myself, but I am in awe of this feature.
If you know about third-party benchmarks for a whole system based on a transmeta CPU, then please post a link.
Right now, most computer and internet technology exists in a technological context; I can surf the web, or I can go outside into the "real world". Things will get interesting when this technology is really integrated into consumer products - a fridge that can print out a grocery list (and maybe even automatically order), vacuums that vac without any human intervention, an oven that can download recipes (to be displayed on its LCD, and to set the cooking times).
Yeah, thats definitely funnier.
Other than that, it is nicer than the linux docs.
"Give a man a match and he'll be warm for an hour; light him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
No, the VB GUI is great for rapid GUI prototyping. I believe that the interviewee's intent was that the Perl language is superior to the VB language.