On the other side of the issue is that it places 4th in the current Top 500 list, which was released in June. We won't really know where it places on this "moving target" until the next list is released in November.
The deadline for submission to the Nov 2003 Top 500 list was Oct. 1st (see call for proposals), so it has already passed. Any further improvements that they make to the scalability of the cluster should not be included. This is true for all the machines.
Even today, the iPod is still the smallest, sleekest, and nicest looking MP3 player you can buy.
It is not the smallest -- there are flash based players that are smaller. There are some very nice harddisk based ones (new Rios) that are comparable (I don't have the specs in front of me). Different things appeal to different people.
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I used to use archie for all my searching needs. Then this newfangled world wide web appeared on the scene, and eventually, yahoo sprouted up. Yahoo filled the need for a while and then I used hotbot, and then onto google.
The FTC has estimated that the list will block about 80 percent of telemarketing calls. Charities, pollsters and political campaigns are exempt. In addition, a company may call a person if he or she has bought, leased or rented from the firm in the previous 18 months or has inquired about or applied for something during the past three months.
Political campaigns?... crap, I can see it now. Hi I'm calling from Ace Windshield Replacement. We're running for California governor, but enough about that, let me tell you about windows. With your appropriate donation to our busine...err, campaign, we can repair any windows in your vehicle...
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Don't be stupid; those are all the exact same equation with the terms on different sides of the equality. It's not three equations; it's one.
Umm... yeah, that's the point, except the undergrads taking the intro physics sequence (mostly pre-Meds) had a really hard time with that point, and insisted that there were 3 equations, and needed them all written down.
but did he find all 3 versions???
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TAing freshman physics, you always had to write down all 3 'versions' of Ohm's law:
March 4th, 1989 was the day set forth that the government would start operating under the Constitution prior to that the government as we know it didn't exist and therefore cannot charge for freedom prior to that date.
1989? really? wow, I didn't think Papa Bush did anything good during his tenure, but I guess I was wrong.
"Hi, my company just came out with a new product and told me that I get a huge stinkin bonus if I managed to get an advertis^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Harticle on it posted on/., so please click on this link..."
It is interesting to note that they used the Portland group compiler instead of the intel compiler. For the CFD code that I work on (which is mostly Fortran), the Intel compiler produces much faster code than the Portland group compiler (as much as 50%).
I appreciate the idea of using the same compiler to look at just the effect of the difference in processor, but the fact is, when buying a computer, you worry about how fast you applications run, which is a function of both the chip and the compiler.
I use the Intel compilers on all the x86 boxes (including Athlons) I run on, because they give me the best performance on my application code (a computational fluid dynamics code). When evaluating a machine, the only thing that matters to me is how fast it runs my code. I will use whatever compilers give me the best performance (while still giving the right answer).
For people not doing high-performance computing, none of this matters. Nor, for that matter, does any chip from the last year or so -- they are all fast enough. But when looking for the fastest platform to run your specialized codes on, everything must be taken into account.
An interesting benchmark I'd like to see if for Intel and Apple to agree on some codes/benchmarks, and then they should be free to trick out machines however they seem fit, and run the codes at the maximum speed (without outright cheating, and still making sure they get the right answer), and submit those numbers for comparison. In the end though, it is whatever code you run personally, and how that performs that matters the most.
Software that enables one to turn a bunch of ordinary off-the-shelf computers into a distributed cluster to run message passing programs on were pretty radial at the time, but now it seems everybody does it. I run my codes just as often of Linux clusters as on big IBM SP/3 machines, and for a lot of tasks, the Linux clusters cannot be beat.
A significant proportion of the country doesn't vote because they have little or no faith in politicians and their constant lies, double standards, corruption and inability to keep promises. Sure, clicking a button will make it easier to vote but you're stilling voting for the same distrustful candidates.
That is why we need a "None of the above" choice on the ballot too. California tried this via referendum, but it didn't go through.
Enrico Fermi was asking questions like this to physics grad students taking their candidacy exam at UC in the 1950s. Microsoft didn't start this. Fermi liked the questions because it showed how you would go about solving the problem, making estimates, using logic,... all the things a physicist should do.
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The deadline for submission to the Nov 2003 Top 500 list was Oct. 1st (see call for proposals), so it has already passed. Any further improvements that they make to the scalability of the cluster should not be included. This is true for all the machines.
...guess that means that BSD supports it?
It is not the smallest -- there are flash based players that are smaller. There are some very nice harddisk based ones (new Rios) that are comparable (I don't have the specs in front of me). Different things appeal to different people.
Wait, is that $259 million or $272 million? I smell a lawsuit...
No, you are looking for this
I used to use archie for all my searching needs. Then this newfangled world wide web appeared on the scene, and eventually, yahoo sprouted up. Yahoo filled the need for a while and then I used hotbot, and then onto google.
Political campaigns?... crap, I can see it now. Hi I'm calling from Ace Windshield Replacement. We're running for California governor, but enough about that, let me tell you about windows. With your appropriate donation to our busine...err, campaign, we can repair any windows in your vehicle...
Oh! He card reads good.
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Wow, this must be an old virus if it is written in Fortran.
They don't need a sane person -- they just need a jury, made up of all their peers who were unable to get out of jury duty.
Umm... yeah, that's the point, except the undergrads taking the intro physics sequence (mostly pre-Meds) had a really hard time with that point, and insisted that there were 3 equations, and needed them all written down.
V=IR
I=V/R
R=V/I
The biggest Linux annoyance is that $699 licensing fee / node that you have to pay.
1989? really? wow, I didn't think Papa Bush did anything good during his tenure, but I guess I was wrong.
Luckily, that federal agent put its name on the national 'do not sue' list.
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It is interesting to note that they used the Portland group compiler instead of the intel compiler. For the CFD code that I work on (which is mostly Fortran), the Intel compiler produces much faster code than the Portland group compiler (as much as 50%).
I use the Intel compilers on all the x86 boxes (including Athlons) I run on, because they give me the best performance on my application code (a computational fluid dynamics code). When evaluating a machine, the only thing that matters to me is how fast it runs my code. I will use whatever compilers give me the best performance (while still giving the right answer).
For people not doing high-performance computing, none of this matters. Nor, for that matter, does any chip from the last year or so -- they are all fast enough. But when looking for the fastest platform to run your specialized codes on, everything must be taken into account.
An interesting benchmark I'd like to see if for Intel and Apple to agree on some codes/benchmarks, and then they should be free to trick out machines however they seem fit, and run the codes at the maximum speed (without outright cheating, and still making sure they get the right answer), and submit those numbers for comparison. In the end though, it is whatever code you run personally, and how that performs that matters the most.
In terms of number of processors, ASCI Red at Sandia has had > 9000 Intel pentium pro (and them pentium II Xeon) procesors since the late 1990s.
It's still # 15 on the top 500 list
54 Mpbs =? 54 mega-petabits / second?
sign me up.
since the link is horribly /.'d already, this has a lot of detailed info:
Intel persional server PDF
6 processors delivering a staggering 500 megaflops?!? Are they using 486s?
Software that enables one to turn a bunch of ordinary off-the-shelf computers into a distributed cluster to run message passing programs on were pretty radial at the time, but now it seems everybody does it. I run my codes just as often of Linux clusters as on big IBM SP/3 machines, and for a lot of tasks, the Linux clusters cannot be beat.
That is why we need a "None of the above" choice on the ballot too. California tried this via referendum, but it didn't go through.
Enrico Fermi was asking questions like this to physics grad students taking their candidacy exam at UC in the 1950s. Microsoft didn't start this. Fermi liked the questions because it showed how you would go about solving the problem, making estimates, using logic, ... all the things a physicist should do.