There are a lot of different research that benefits from these kinds of machines. Mind you, the machine will hardly be running a single program at 30 pflops scale, but instead running dozens of smaller jobs at the same time, and economy comes with the scale. It's simpler to scale your job from 10,000 processors to 1 million on the same machine than running the smaller job in one site than porting to the big one. Besides, give 30 pflops and people on the physics, math and biology department will ask for 50:)
Hum, why BSD? He mentioned linux not because is the best solution ever (which might or might not be), but because a lot of petaflop-capable code was written specifically to run on it.. and because the big names (IBM, Crazy) fully support it. In fact, I don't remember ever using a BSD-based supercomputer. The top500 only shows one machine, at 0.1 petaflop, running a bsd-based OS. Search for os here: http://top500.org/statistics/sublist/
For one, it's an ARM processor. Those things are more and more prevalent, and there are already servers using them. As we are heading towards exascale supercomputers during the next years, power consumption is playing a bigger and bigger role, especially on this very high-end scope (which is my area of work). I expect ARM supercomputers to appear on the Top500 on the next few years, and making the news as soon as universities start to assemble clusters of Raspberry Pi and the like, or that Parallella machine.
That being said, arm has its own quirks as any other platform has. To have one in my pocket is an asset: I can do quick tests on it anywhere.
It is about the old saying: "fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you".
Slashdot has a very specific audience, and one that has had to live with all shit microsoft spat on our faces for the last 3 decades. There was hardly a moment where their product was better, more stable or faster than the competition. I will not even mention how many companies microsoft destroyed just because they wanted to, either by releasing half-baked software, or by just announcing vaporware. The would-be competitor would come out of market without microsoft ever releasing anything.
The combination of, for the most part, low-quality software, competition strangling, FUD, plain lies, and press bribing made the software market stall as a whole pretty much the same way church made europe stall in feudalism during the middle ages or the patent system is starting to do to american economy today. It was a drag, and a lot of people are happy to see them lose importance.
Well, I don't know about you, but I don't have a phone. I have a 700 +MFlops computer on my pocket, which I use way more for other things than calling, something I do less and less.
Yet, the numbers are hard to deny. Tomi seems lunatic on his blog, bug he is no fool. If there is another reason other than the stupid choices of Elop (killing their OSes, betting all your coin on the losing horse that windows is, insist on the error), I would more than curious to know.
Venezuela pays for their own fuel, in order to keep people happy. Everybody in their declining oil industry knows that - and everybody else, as it's pretty obvious. One of the promises of Chavez' government before it's first election was to bring the price to a level where companies would be at least even. After he rose to power, he stopped talking about it, as it would mean the end of his popularity.
Wait, so if a 17yo has sex with someone around 20, the older will never be able to have an iPhone or play wow in his/her life? What's wrong with you people?
The main reason, it seems, is cost. While the USA actively scares out people from pursuing a degree, a masters' or a PhD because most don't want to pay that for the rest of their lives, the rest of the world is doing the opposite: stimulating and financing such degrees.
Should I extrapolate that for the future or are you able to guess what happens next?
What are you talking about? Any 16mhz, 2mb ram 386 computer from 1985 is capable of running a multi-user OS. There is no penalty performance AT ALL. This is how Linux was built (and don't forget what runs under Android) from day one.
I second this. I have one of the leather covers from amazon itself on the kindle touch. The kindle stays on my bicycle at all times. Except from water, the hard cover does the trick (it surrounds the kindle in plastic on the back, and hard leather on the front.
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There are a lot of different research that benefits from these kinds of machines. Mind you, the machine will hardly be running a single program at 30 pflops scale, but instead running dozens of smaller jobs at the same time, and economy comes with the scale. It's simpler to scale your job from 10,000 processors to 1 million on the same machine than running the smaller job in one site than porting to the big one. Besides, give 30 pflops and people on the physics, math and biology department will ask for 50 :)
Hum, why BSD? He mentioned linux not because is the best solution ever (which might or might not be), but because a lot of petaflop-capable code was written specifically to run on it.. and because the big names (IBM, Crazy) fully support it. In fact, I don't remember ever using a BSD-based supercomputer. The top500 only shows one machine, at 0.1 petaflop, running a bsd-based OS. Search for os here: http://top500.org/statistics/sublist/
Both.
For one, it's an ARM processor. Those things are more and more prevalent, and there are already servers using them. As we are heading towards exascale supercomputers during the next years, power consumption is playing a bigger and bigger role, especially on this very high-end scope (which is my area of work). I expect ARM supercomputers to appear on the Top500 on the next few years, and making the news as soon as universities start to assemble clusters of Raspberry Pi and the like, or that Parallella machine.
That being said, arm has its own quirks as any other platform has. To have one in my pocket is an asset: I can do quick tests on it anywhere.
It is about the old saying: "fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you".
Slashdot has a very specific audience, and one that has had to live with all shit microsoft spat on our faces for the last 3 decades. There was hardly a moment where their product was better, more stable or faster than the competition. I will not even mention how many companies microsoft destroyed just because they wanted to, either by releasing half-baked software, or by just announcing vaporware. The would-be competitor would come out of market without microsoft ever releasing anything.
The combination of, for the most part, low-quality software, competition strangling, FUD, plain lies, and press bribing made the software market stall as a whole pretty much the same way church made europe stall in feudalism during the middle ages or the patent system is starting to do to american economy today. It was a drag, and a lot of people are happy to see them lose importance.
Well, I don't know about you, but I don't have a phone. I have a 700 +MFlops computer on my pocket, which I use way more for other things than calling, something I do less and less.
I consider the battery tradeoff acceptable.
Yet, the numbers are hard to deny. Tomi seems lunatic on his blog, bug he is no fool. If there is another reason other than the stupid choices of Elop (killing their OSes, betting all your coin on the losing horse that windows is, insist on the error), I would more than curious to know.
Which they already have with Tizen, Bada, Windows phone etc etc
Their development is being as closed as Android is, so far. Or am I wrong and I can just to a bzr checkout? If so, how? Where?
Russia and Brazil have FAR higher gas prices than US. I'd call this bollocks.
Venezuela pays for their own fuel, in order to keep people happy. Everybody in their declining oil industry knows that - and everybody else, as it's pretty obvious. One of the promises of Chavez' government before it's first election was to bring the price to a level where companies would be at least even. After he rose to power, he stopped talking about it, as it would mean the end of his popularity.
Was I the only one who thought about this?
http://onscreencars.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/TheHomer.jpg
Wait, so if a 17yo has sex with someone around 20, the older will never be able to have an iPhone or play wow in his/her life? What's wrong with you people?
The article mentions windows rt. So it's not closed, but will go through windows app store.
And from samsung. And from this other company on the comments:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2117493/Samsungs-latest-TV-sets-built-cameras-spark-concerns.html
The main reason, it seems, is cost. While the USA actively scares out people from pursuing a degree, a masters' or a PhD because most don't want to pay that for the rest of their lives, the rest of the world is doing the opposite: stimulating and financing such degrees.
Should I extrapolate that for the future or are you able to guess what happens next?
Sorry, which NATO countries had Iraq attacked, again?
What are you talking about? Any 16mhz, 2mb ram 386 computer from 1985 is capable of running a multi-user OS. There is no penalty performance AT ALL. This is how Linux was built (and don't forget what runs under Android) from day one.
This looks like windows xp for me. In theory, it was multiuser-capable, in practice, because of some very obvious design flaws, not quite so....
Seriously, what is so difficult about having a multi-user phone OS when Linux or Darwin is running the underpinnings?
So, where did it go?
'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers'
Henry VI, Shakespeare
It was old before you were young.
That's probably their lawyer's costs per hour, the only ones who always win.
64 GIGABYTES A DAY? Unless you are doing NASA imagery that will be analyzed for the next years, you are doing it wrong. Seriously.
I second this. I have one of the leather covers from amazon itself on the kindle touch. The kindle stays on my bicycle at all times. Except from water, the hard cover does the trick (it surrounds the kindle in plastic on the back, and hard leather on the front.