I moved to Pittsburgh in 1990 to teach at CMU, and my family found the town very provincial.
It is hard to get around because of the geography. Pittsburgh is crisscrossed by rivers and hills. The maps need to be 3D. You follow a road and look for a road that you want that crosses it and when you get there you see it is a bridge 200 feet up connecting two hills and you are in the valley. There are neighborhoods that you can only find by being born in them. This tends to create a very insular mentality.
When we wanted to sign the kids up for softball we never heard about it until we saw games being played in the park. We asked when and where sign up was announced and we told that it wasn't. Everyone knows when signup is.
You are expected to know about what goes on in town from your parents who learned from their parents. Many of the young people who do stay in town live down the street from their parents.
I do not see Pitsburgh ever attracting a critical mass of any type of newcomers, unless they pay them to. Compared to this basic problem I think evrything else is unimportant.
When I saw Toy Story 2 it was preceeded by a long preview of Dinosaur a new CGI film coming out next spring. It was also quite impressive looking. From what I saw, I think are going for a more photorealistic look and do not think the dinosaurs are going to talk.
I do not know how well the story will work without dialog but it looked quite impressive.
If the government could require people to communicate with it by open standards, this could break some of the market standardization on Microsoft Office. Many people buy MSoffice so they can exchange documents. If people who need to submit documents to or recieve documents from are forced to use open standards such as HTML, XML, or something new. Then people could buy what they like and no need to upgrade just tostay compatible.
The only question is the government big enough to provide the critical mass around some open standards for a variety of documents. Oh for the days of Big Government again;-).
Typical high energy physics experiments do not need the fine grained parallism supplied by systems like Beowolf. An interaction is recorded with 5Kbytes to 100Kbytes of information which is called an event. All of the data for one event is sent to one processor. The next event is taken and sent to the next processor. There is no need for direct communication between those processors, so the network topology is simple. The new experiments could use 2000 nodes profitably. The compute time for many types of jobs is large compared to the time to get data into the processors. It may take seconds to finish one event so bandwidth into one machine only needs to be 100's kbytes per second. What is needed is a queuing system to send events to processors as they become available.
High energy theory calculations can use the fine grained parallism of Beowulf but I doubt they would try to build a cluster as big as 2000 nodes.
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I moved to Pittsburgh in 1990 to teach at CMU, and my family found the town very provincial.
It is hard to get around because of the geography. Pittsburgh is crisscrossed by rivers and hills. The maps need to be 3D. You follow a road and look for a road that you want that crosses it and when you get there you see it is a bridge 200 feet up connecting two hills and you are in the valley. There are neighborhoods that you can only find by being born in them. This tends to create a very insular mentality.
When we wanted to sign the kids up for softball we never heard about it until we saw games being played in the park. We asked when and where sign up was announced and we told that it wasn't. Everyone knows when signup is.
You are expected to know about what goes on in town from your parents who learned from their parents. Many of the young people who do stay in town live down the street from their parents.
I do not see Pitsburgh ever attracting a critical mass of any type of newcomers, unless they pay them to. Compared to this basic problem I think evrything else is unimportant.
I wonder how much SGI paid to be told they should change their name from Silicon Graphics to SGI. When I saw that press release I cracked up.
When I saw Toy Story 2 it was preceeded by a long preview of Dinosaur a new CGI film coming out next spring. It was also quite impressive looking. From what I saw, I think are going for a more photorealistic look and do not think the dinosaurs are going to talk.
I do not know how well the story will work without dialog but it looked quite impressive.
If the government could require people to communicate with it by open standards, this could break some of the market standardization on Microsoft Office. Many people buy MSoffice so they can exchange documents. If people who need to submit documents to or recieve documents from are forced to use open standards such as HTML, XML, or something new. Then people could buy what they like and no need to upgrade just tostay compatible.
;-).
The only question is the government big enough to provide the critical mass around some open standards for a variety of documents. Oh for the days of Big Government again
Typical high energy physics experiments do not need the fine grained parallism supplied by systems like Beowolf. An interaction is recorded with 5Kbytes to 100Kbytes of information which is called an event. All of the data for one event is sent to one processor. The next event is taken and sent to the next processor. There is no need for direct communication between those processors, so the network topology is simple. The new experiments could use 2000 nodes profitably. The compute time for many types of jobs is large compared to the time to get data into the processors. It may take seconds to finish one event so bandwidth into one machine only needs to be 100's kbytes per second. What is needed is a
queuing system to send events to processors as they become available.
High energy theory calculations can use the fine grained parallism of Beowulf but I doubt they would try to build a cluster as big as 2000 nodes.
The link worked. The media are 29.95. When will Linux suport this is the better question. They claim support for Windows, Mac, OS/2.
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