Probably not in the next few months, but vendors will probably have products out in 2008.
I know the/. crowd is primarily concerned with video performance, but there is a lot more to PCIe than just video. The new speeds will probably be more benificial for switch to switch PCIe connections.
There is a lot of cool stuff going on in the PCI-SIG, the SR and MR (single root and multi root) specifications for I/O virtualization are especially cool. SR allows an endpoint (PCIe device) to export virtual functions to a host running a hypervisor. So for example, this means that Xen could use SR to provide physical access to a fibre channel HBA to each guest and the guest would load the native driver for the HBA.
MR is really cool too - it allows multiple hosts to share the same PCIe device. So think of a blade chassis where you have PCIe slots in the back, all the blades could share a single 10Gbps NIC or HBA or whatever. This also has the added advantage of separating the I/O from the blade (currently any expansion devices have to go directly on the blade).
We can assume that people won't speed because if they are being monitored, they are assured of being caught. So that means that police issuing speeding tickets will be totally unecessary. So are they out of a job?
I live in Texas, and in the smaller towns "speed traps" are very common. Suprisingly, a large portion of revenue for these towns comes from the issuing of speeding citations. How much will it cost them if there are no more speeders?
I don't think that the government (state gov.) really wants us to stop speeding, because they would no longer be able to collect revenue from fines.
If they are to associate an ID embeded in a chip with each person that purchases a chip, then they have their work cut out for them. What happens when a person sell's their computer? Does every computer reseller have to make sure and register the people they are selling processors to? It seems to me that after a few years it would become impossible to keep up with all the ID to Person mappings.
I am interested in this as well. I am currently in the process of setting up a 180GB fileserver. I am using dual redundant CMD RAID contollers and 10 - 18GB UltraWide SCSI drives. The RAID provides a mechanism to create partitions that show up to the OS (linux) as individual drives. This is done by giving each partition in the RAID set it's own LUN. The bigest RAID partion I have made is 80GB. I am booting off the RAID set as well(no hard drive in the server box). I have had no problems so far. I also noticed that it takes quite some time to mount the larger partitions. One thing you might want to experiment with is varying the bytes/inode and also the reservered blocks percentage (man mke2fs). On large partitions you can waste alot of space if you keep the default 5% reservered blocks percentage.
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Probably not in the next few months, but vendors will probably have products out in 2008.
/. crowd is primarily concerned with video performance, but there is a lot more to PCIe than just video. The new speeds will probably be more benificial for switch to switch PCIe connections.
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There is a lot of cool stuff going on in the PCI-SIG, the SR and MR (single root and multi root) specifications for I/O virtualization are especially cool. SR allows an endpoint (PCIe device) to export virtual functions to a host running a hypervisor. So for example, this means that Xen could use SR to provide physical access to a fibre channel HBA to each guest and the guest would load the native driver for the HBA.
MR is really cool too - it allows multiple hosts to share the same PCIe device. So think of a blade chassis where you have PCIe slots in the back, all the blades could share a single 10Gbps NIC or HBA or whatever. This also has the added advantage of separating the I/O from the blade (currently any expansion devices have to go directly on the blade).
A small blurb on SR and MR can be found here:
http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/iov/
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/features/index.cfm
Some other folks question their motives as well:
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http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06050832.htm
We can assume that people won't speed because if they are being monitored, they are assured of being caught. So that means that police issuing speeding tickets will be totally unecessary. So are they out of a job?
I live in Texas, and in the smaller towns "speed traps" are very common. Suprisingly, a large portion of revenue for these towns comes from the issuing of speeding citations. How much will it cost them if there are no more speeders?
I don't think that the government (state gov.) really wants us to stop speeding, because they would no longer be able to collect revenue from fines.
If they are to associate an ID embeded in a chip with each person that purchases a chip, then they have their work cut out for them. What happens when a person sell's their computer? Does every computer reseller have to make sure and register the people they are selling processors to? It seems to me that after a few years it would become impossible to keep up with all the ID to Person mappings.
I am interested in this as well. I am currently in the process of setting up a 180GB fileserver. I am using dual redundant CMD RAID contollers and 10 - 18GB UltraWide SCSI drives. The RAID provides a mechanism to create partitions that show up to the OS (linux) as individual drives. This is done by giving each partition in the RAID set it's own LUN. The bigest RAID partion I have made is 80GB. I am booting off the RAID set as well(no hard drive in the server box). I have had no problems so far. I also noticed that it takes quite some time to mount the larger partitions. One thing you might want to experiment with is varying the bytes/inode and also the reservered blocks percentage (man mke2fs). On large partitions you can waste alot of space if you keep the default 5% reservered blocks percentage.