Often times, because email is a global thing and can easily be impersonated, elected officials are not super keen on acting on random emails they get since you may be from outside their district/state.
I've emailed my local reps a few times in Wisconsin, and I've always included my address to attest to my residency. I've even gotten responses (albeit by snail mail).
Yeah, maybe you might think they're old-timers for not adopting the internet, but they've got to make sure they're speaking for their constituents, not just others around the state/country/world.
Maybe I've got a different view on things, but I find it pretty funny when a guy gets all excited about calling a Mandrake cluster a supercomputer, then gives a blech! when he announces they used e-pc's. Does it matter?
So maybe by using e-pc's the peak performance went down some, but anytime you tie anything together in a clustered environment the sustained performance dies (not just takes a hit) too. Only way to make it hit close to peak is assign each node a process that doesn't require any interaction between processes/nodes. In that case, you wouldn't need to tie them together to make a top-500 cluster. Just assign some IP's, cross mount their filesystems and call it a morning.
Besides, government agencies (and scientific companies) are beginning to realize that when you cluster 500 boxes together, you're still administering 500 boxes. When real supercomputer companies make real supercomputers, you've only got to administer one computer. Maybe that's why the term "Supercomputer" isn't plural.
If clusters keep on being called supercomputers, you might as well call "the internet" a supercomputer too since it's an environment where lots of computers are connected and running processes that don't depend on another. "Wow! Look at the sustained power of all 5000 Counter-strike servers out there! It's a super-counter-strike-computer!"
I enjoyed it as well. DS9 and Voyager kept taking place later and later in time, but there's this period of rapid change that takes place closer to our time. I wonder how often the Enterprise will return to Earth, knowing that the warp core only hits warp 5?
Also, wtf is wrong if the theme song is sung instead of being electronically produced?
One of the rights of this country is not "I have the right to be murdered by foreign terrorists in my place of business".
One of the government's primary duties is to protect its citizens. The government must do that.
Is a totalitarian regime required for that? Nope. If the government is going to be able to learn about and stop future terrorism, they must be able to snoop around a bit. I'm actually in favor of that. If dubya finds out that I read/. an hour a day at work, so be it. The only way I could be legally accountable for those actions would be if the Government decided on increasing productivity among employees who work for gov't contractors.
If I have to give up some civil liberties in order to die of natural causes, so be it. I wouldn't fear of a total revocation of freedoms. Cool heads prevail in this country day after day.
There's certain rules that regulate what the gov't can do with information it has. When a search warrant is issued, they can only take items related to the search warrant. It's the same with Carnivore and other items. They can't just search the logs to find 'bad' things, they've got to suspect something before they can search the logs. If they suspect me of terrorism, I authorize them to check my tcp/ip traffic. If they suspect me of wasting time at work reading/., I'd rather them look the other way.:P
If we can stop this madness from ever happening again without turning the US into a military state, I'm all for it. I don't just want action AFTER disaster strikes, I'd like action BEFORE this evil ever happens again.
There's ways to keep our Privacy (really, what do you have to hide? Not all of you are freedom-loving idealists!) and keep a grip on the wack-jobs out there.
Must we wait until a competitor comes out with dual-tuner for our boxes to get the dual-tuner upgrade as well? My understanding is that the hardware is there, it's just not activated. grrr...
Maybe ReplayTV will burst back on the scene and increase their feature-set. It's pretty lame that TiVo only upgrades when they *have* to.
If you want flames painted on the side, you can have it. If you want a white SV1, you can have it. There's the standard colors, and then there's the custom orders. If you want special detailing, I they still sent them to a local (Chippewa Falls, WI) local auto-detailing shop and have them done up. It seems kind of crude, but there's been some pretty unique designs done that way.
The Cray 1/2 were rounded because that was the most optimum (distance-wise) way to route all of the wires. Shorter wires means faster clock speeds, and those machines *came* overclocked. The seats were just pads covering the cooling units. The C shaped Cray 2 was supposed to be a straight circle (again, wire lengths) but they couldn't find techs small enough to crawl down in there to route wires and fix stuff. So, the made an opening, and the resulting C shape was *purely* coincidence. Ok, so I don't believe that either, but that's the official story.
I heard this from one of the mechanical guys... one reason that the shapes more "boxy" is because of shipping concerns, doorways, etc. Not many people wait until the machine arrives to construct the server room anymore.:P
Shhh... don't convince upper management that cache is for losers. I don't need to be looking for another job.:/
BTW, Real Beer is made here too. Leinekugel's Honey Weiss and Red. Good stuff.
Thanks for not siding with the rest of the people who bash stuff just for the sake of bashing. I wasn't expecting some deep movie that would change the way I thought. I just wanted something that would entertain me for a bit, and it did. Worth my $4.50 matinee price.
Well, anytime my cable provider (Charter Communications) changes my schedule, my fee goes up. A few months ago they removed TNT and replaced it with another 'local access' station... and the fee went up!
So, what happens when the TV-on-demand thing hits? Fees will easily double if it's unlimited viewing. If the entire country went to this model, "Must See TV" could occur at 2am so as to not trip over anything else. Moving new programs to Friday night wouldn't mark their death. Moving NYPD Blue to Wednesdays directly opposite Law & Order for fall 2001 wouldn't cause people like me to hate ABC, because they could put Blue after Letterman instead and I'd watch it the next day... you get my point. Suddenly the words "Prime time" lose their luster.
They'd be smarter with having a few dedicated pay-per-view channels, and charging someone to watch a tape-delayed show. Watching it in real time incurs no extra charge, but there's a $1 dollar charge to watch the newest Friends on Friday night... or something like that.
But you know what? I still like my TiVo. Now if they could just enable that second tuner so I could record Blue as well as L&O on Wednesdays this fall...
We use perforce here at work. It's got client binaries for *nix and Windows, and using it is no harder (once your 'view' is setup) than typing "p4 edit {file}" or "p4 submit {file}". Breezer. Cost is, well, I'm not sure, but I just use the tools, I don't really buy 'em.:P Check Perforce for more information. It works well, we've never had problems with it, so based on that I can endorse it.
one culture can't apologize for an obvious accident and the other culture insists that only an apology can end the crisis
Sorry Jon, but I'm not sure you can call this an obvious accident. The US has been leaking information that leads us to believe that the Chinese escorts were dive bombing around it, while the Chinese are saying that the large, propeller driven plane suddenly swerved into the Chinese fighter jets. Until we actually know what happened, this whole thing is an exercise in diplomacy.
It's hard to assess blame in an unknown situation by those who are not intimate with the details.
I would have thought that it would be harder to compare International Politics to software, but I guess that's possible.:)
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People don't buy vector supercomputers so they can run MySQL and Apache. They're for scientific programming. Think of scientific programming as Weather analysis, car crash tests, airflow analysis, etc. There are people and companies who use computers for a lot more things than you've apparantly realized.
Also, would it shock you to let you know that Cray machines have TCP/IP stacks, and ethernet ports, and all that? They don't have video cards, so you have to connect to them somehow...
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So, you mean to say that gigabit ethernet isn't as fast as custom-designed router interconnects? *cough*. T3Es have extremely high bandwidth with low latency. Ethernet has high bandwidth with high latency. Which would your massively parallel codes (the ones that can't be broken up into smaller chunks SETI-style) prefer?
Well, if you call making a next-gen vector machine "rehashing old technologies", then they guy you replied to is probably right. But, the MTA-2 is unlike anything out there, and the SV2 looks very little like a SV1/e/ex. SV2 is designed to be a follow-on to the T3E with it's massively parallel setup, and a follow on to the T90/SV1 series with its vector processing. Also, SV2 has a single system memory image, unlike the T3E. Cray is taking vectors to a whole new performance/organization level.
I used one of those *things* when I had the old SGI in my cube, but I don't know why you've singled them out... They're no different than JoeMama's 104 key $9 replacement keyboard you can pick up at your local shop.
And they look cool? They're gray with white buttons. It's just a standard OEM style keyboard.
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Often times, because email is a global thing and can easily be impersonated, elected officials are not super keen on acting on random emails they get since you may be from outside their district/state.
I've emailed my local reps a few times in Wisconsin, and I've always included my address to attest to my residency. I've even gotten responses (albeit by snail mail).
Yeah, maybe you might think they're old-timers for not adopting the internet, but they've got to make sure they're speaking for their constituents, not just others around the state/country/world.
So did you just advocate making a beowulf cluster of sat phones without actually saying the word? :P
So maybe by using e-pc's the peak performance went down some, but anytime you tie anything together in a clustered environment the sustained performance dies (not just takes a hit) too. Only way to make it hit close to peak is assign each node a process that doesn't require any interaction between processes/nodes. In that case, you wouldn't need to tie them together to make a top-500 cluster. Just assign some IP's, cross mount their filesystems and call it a morning.
Besides, government agencies (and scientific companies) are beginning to realize that when you cluster 500 boxes together, you're still administering 500 boxes. When real supercomputer companies make real supercomputers, you've only got to administer one computer. Maybe that's why the term "Supercomputer" isn't plural.
If clusters keep on being called supercomputers, you might as well call "the internet" a supercomputer too since it's an environment where lots of computers are connected and running processes that don't depend on another. "Wow! Look at the sustained power of all 5000 Counter-strike servers out there! It's a super-counter-strike-computer!"
I enjoyed it as well. DS9 and Voyager kept taking place later and later in time, but there's this period of rapid change that takes place closer to our time. I wonder how often the Enterprise will return to Earth, knowing that the warp core only hits warp 5?
Also, wtf is wrong if the theme song is sung instead of being electronically produced?
Sorry, I think it fits. 2151 is still a time of military rule, and exploration is just starting, not well underway.
I like it.
"Why does this remind me of that Simpsons episode where Troy McClure is teaching a Pepsi-sponsored class?"
Why does the Submitter remind me of a few friends of mine who can relate *any* event to a Simpsons episode?
All this means is that I've got to wait another week before PS2 drops to $199. *sigh*
One of the rights of this country is not "I have the right to be murdered by foreign terrorists in my place of business".
/. an hour a day at work, so be it. The only way I could be legally accountable for those actions would be if the Government decided on increasing productivity among employees who work for gov't contractors.
One of the government's primary duties is to protect its citizens. The government must do that.
Is a totalitarian regime required for that? Nope. If the government is going to be able to learn about and stop future terrorism, they must be able to snoop around a bit. I'm actually in favor of that. If dubya finds out that I read
If I have to give up some civil liberties in order to die of natural causes, so be it. I wouldn't fear of a total revocation of freedoms. Cool heads prevail in this country day after day.
There's certain rules that regulate what the gov't can do with information it has. When a search warrant is issued, they can only take items related to the search warrant. It's the same with Carnivore and other items. They can't just search the logs to find 'bad' things, they've got to suspect something before they can search the logs. If they suspect me of terrorism, I authorize them to check my tcp/ip traffic. If they suspect me of wasting time at work reading /., I'd rather them look the other way. :P
If we can stop this madness from ever happening again without turning the US into a military state, I'm all for it. I don't just want action AFTER disaster strikes, I'd like action BEFORE this evil ever happens again.
There's ways to keep our Privacy (really, what do you have to hide? Not all of you are freedom-loving idealists!) and keep a grip on the wack-jobs out there.
Must we wait until a competitor comes out with dual-tuner for our boxes to get the dual-tuner upgrade as well? My understanding is that the hardware is there, it's just not activated. grrr...
Maybe ReplayTV will burst back on the scene and increase their feature-set. It's pretty lame that TiVo only upgrades when they *have* to.
Looks like I won't have to be donating $$ to my alma mater anytime soon. :)
Let's Go Red!
If you want flames painted on the side, you can have it. If you want a white SV1, you can have it. There's the standard colors, and then there's the custom orders. If you want special detailing, I they still sent them to a local (Chippewa Falls, WI) local auto-detailing shop and have them done up. It seems kind of crude, but there's been some pretty unique designs done that way.
:P
The Cray 1/2 were rounded because that was the most optimum (distance-wise) way to route all of the wires. Shorter wires means faster clock speeds, and those machines *came* overclocked. The seats were just pads covering the cooling units. The C shaped Cray 2 was supposed to be a straight circle (again, wire lengths) but they couldn't find techs small enough to crawl down in there to route wires and fix stuff. So, the made an opening, and the resulting C shape was *purely* coincidence. Ok, so I don't believe that either, but that's the official story.
I heard this from one of the mechanical guys... one reason that the shapes more "boxy" is because of shipping concerns, doorways, etc. Not many people wait until the machine arrives to construct the server room anymore.
Shhh... don't convince upper management that cache is for losers. I don't need to be looking for another job. :/
BTW, Real Beer is made here too. Leinekugel's Honey Weiss and Red. Good stuff.
Thanks for not siding with the rest of the people who bash stuff just for the sake of bashing. I wasn't expecting some deep movie that would change the way I thought. I just wanted something that would entertain me for a bit, and it did. Worth my $4.50 matinee price.
So, what happens when the TV-on-demand thing hits? Fees will easily double if it's unlimited viewing. If the entire country went to this model, "Must See TV" could occur at 2am so as to not trip over anything else. Moving new programs to Friday night wouldn't mark their death. Moving NYPD Blue to Wednesdays directly opposite Law & Order for fall 2001 wouldn't cause people like me to hate ABC, because they could put Blue after Letterman instead and I'd watch it the next day... you get my point. Suddenly the words "Prime time" lose their luster.
They'd be smarter with having a few dedicated pay-per-view channels, and charging someone to watch a tape-delayed show. Watching it in real time incurs no extra charge, but there's a $1 dollar charge to watch the newest Friends on Friday night... or something like that.
But you know what? I still like my TiVo. Now if they could just enable that second tuner so I could record Blue as well as L&O on Wednesdays this fall...
That $200 lifetime fee expired at the end of April, I believe. It's now $250.
We use perforce here at work. It's got client binaries for *nix and Windows, and using it is no harder (once your 'view' is setup) than typing "p4 edit {file}" or "p4 submit {file}". Breezer. Cost is, well, I'm not sure, but I just use the tools, I don't really buy 'em. :P Check Perforce for more information. It works well, we've never had problems with it, so based on that I can endorse it.
Sorry Jon, but I'm not sure you can call this an obvious accident. The US has been leaking information that leads us to believe that the Chinese escorts were dive bombing around it, while the Chinese are saying that the large, propeller driven plane suddenly swerved into the Chinese fighter jets. Until we actually know what happened, this whole thing is an exercise in diplomacy.
It's hard to assess blame in an unknown situation by those who are not intimate with the details.
I would have thought that it would be harder to compare International Politics to software, but I guess that's possible. :)
Also, would it shock you to let you know that Cray machines have TCP/IP stacks, and ethernet ports, and all that? They don't have video cards, so you have to connect to them somehow...
So, you mean to say that gigabit ethernet isn't as fast as custom-designed router interconnects? *cough*. T3Es have extremely high bandwidth with low latency. Ethernet has high bandwidth with high latency. Which would your massively parallel codes (the ones that can't be broken up into smaller chunks SETI-style) prefer?
Or you could look at their employment page here: http://www.cray.com/company/employment/openings/ea gan/index.html
Well, if you call making a next-gen vector machine "rehashing old technologies", then they guy you replied to is probably right. But, the MTA-2 is unlike anything out there, and the SV2 looks very little like a SV1/e/ex. SV2 is designed to be a follow-on to the T3E with it's massively parallel setup, and a follow on to the T90/SV1 series with its vector processing. Also, SV2 has a single system memory image, unlike the T3E. Cray is taking vectors to a whole new performance/organization level.
Heh, yeah, the Suns can perform, but isn't it possible that the lone specification for the I/O cabinet was that it Isn't made by SGI?
And they look cool? They're gray with white buttons. It's just a standard OEM style keyboard.