Look carefully at the wraparound screen, and you can see that the blend between the 3 images isn't particularly impressive.
Barco, Trimension and Panoram do a much better job (admittedly with projectors!).
Is no one interested in scalability then?
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Everyone seems to be worried about competition etc., but at the beginning Linus mentioned that Scalability up with NUMA and down with embedded devices was the most interesting area.
Coming from SGI, I obviously find the NUMA bit interesting, but I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet!
First of all it moaned about the 450% levy on Japanese super computers, but neglected to mention that a fair number of Meteorological or Climate super computers are Cray T3E's! (including the Hadley Centre mentioned in the article).
Next it questioned the reduction in grid size as providing an improvement in accuracy, and then spoke about reducing the grid size as being a good thing!
This article just looks like an attempt to lobby the US government. I can't imagine that 'W' is that keen on climate research!
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Look carefully at the wraparound screen, and you can see that the blend between the 3 images isn't particularly impressive.
Barco, Trimension and Panoram do a much better job (admittedly with projectors!).
Everyone seems to be worried about competition etc., but at the beginning Linus mentioned that Scalability up with NUMA and down with embedded devices was the most interesting area.
Coming from SGI, I obviously find the NUMA bit interesting, but I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet!
Interesting article, but it did ramble a bit.
First of all it moaned about the 450% levy on Japanese super computers, but neglected to mention that a fair number of Meteorological or Climate super computers are Cray T3E's! (including the Hadley Centre mentioned in the article).
Next it questioned the reduction in grid size as providing an improvement in accuracy, and then spoke about reducing the grid size as being a good thing!
This article just looks like an attempt to lobby the US government. I can't imagine that 'W' is that keen on climate research!
And in Europe, we get Digital Terrestrial TV, so we don't need to encode the signal.
Aren't Nokia doing a Digital Terrestrial box with Linux on it?
TiVO is expensive, even before you put the subscription stuff on (and I would refuse to pay for that)
Mark.
Well the Onyx2 at the Hayden Planetarium pumps out 7 1280x1024 images which are projected and blended on a large dome.
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It can play synchronised movies at that resolution, or generate real time graphics at that resolution.
http://www.sgi.com/features/2000/feb/hayden/ind
And pussy means "cat" in English!
What helps more is to write cheats on the chewing gum wrapper!
and now it is available on Linux.
And what about that guff about a kernel compile taking less than 5 seconds!!
How long does an infinite loop take?