300w ATX is all the computer needs... But I needed 400 for my cigarette lighter mod.
Then again, do any of us use computers for what their original purpose was? I do not think Alan Turing had surfing for pr0n in mind when he thought of logic gates.
And buying Alpha EV67's just to bust seti work units is pretty weird. 3.5 years worth of seti work has been done by EV67s, and they were all done by the same person over the last 2.5 years, so someone bought 2 EV67s @ $22,000 a piece minimum primarily to crunch Seti. Could it have been Compaq themselves? Perhaps - But I expect they could hardly afford it.
Are computers for games? Sure. Games are an 8 billion dollar a year industry. They drive users to seek greater performance machines. Moores law would probably have failed years ago if all we ever needed was a good office suite.
Do I use my 12 by p166 cluster to heat my house? yes. Is there any other reason to have 12 p166s? I never run it in the summer so the primary reason to run it must be for heat. If I was actually using it for production, I would certainly have faster/more machines.
Do I leave the machine in my room while I'm sleeping? No, but I like the white noise it's fans generate to keep me from waking up for every bump in the night.
Do I really need a PC based PBX? no, but it is nice to have a convoluted voicemail script that includes "If you are a telemarketer or if you are placing an unsolicited telephone call, you MUST press 4"
Has anyone else taken apart an old ps2 mouse and hung a piece of paper from one of the rollers to create a clap on monitor (the slightest breeze or moderately loud sound turns my monitor on... I use a usb mouse for actual work).
Can you all reboot your stupid dsl router through power over Ethernet/DC relay?
Anyone else buy 100' of that thick orange cable at home depot with the 2 fibers, 4 CAT5e and a Cable TV coax then use the fiber with a cheap roto rooter sewer pipe inspection camera to spy on other rooms?...
OK, I'm a little weird... but at least I have dead man switched degaussing rings under all my boxes so when the black helicopters come for me, all the incriminating evidence will be erased.
Hubbel was myopic at launch because the design was barowed from a late seventies recon sattelite. Hubbel was perfect for earth surface imaging... Now with 1 meter imaging available on the web to the public, and hubbel being what was possible in the late seventies, how good is current earth imaging? Better than anyone that wants to not live paranoid is willing to belive.
World Opinion "color": Parse the web for specific text strings to determine public opinion. I couuld do a search for "Dogs are great" -vs- "Cats are great" And compare results bar chart style. Some of the neatest information I ever see on google is the Zeitgeist. Now, imagine being able to pick the topics. Used properly it could help predict trends in business, politics and (world) public opinion.
Sorry, I was hopeing for +1 funny not +1 interesting. Rubidium standards cost $4,500 and Cesium beams cost $15k+. Truetime's cards all have accurate local oscilators but refrence external clocks. But it was purely a joke. Buying a weapons grade timing source as a bug fix is funny. Laugh.
As true time was primarily a government contractor, At least a few people in the army thought that was a completely acceptable bug fix.
Nothing beats your very own nuclear clock on a PCI card. The best they can make you is a rubidium standard clock accurate to 10^-13 seconds. Cesium beam clocks accurate to 10^-17 seconds are available in rackmount form. Great for all those Mission Critical Real Time applications like Quake III.
This thing is dieing for GPS. Current GPS handheld's maps are too small and no on likes to mount their laptop to the dash. Imagine Taxis, UPS, and Fire/Police with these including the connection so dispatchers could remotely tag the drivers map.
I pulled the Mac cluster stats from their website. Direct copy and paste. The cost for the Athlon cluster is actually an extreme over estimate.
1.4 Tbird $93
ECS Motherboard: $53
Two 10/100/ nics $40
Power supply $10
1.5 gigs DDR ram $330
Floppy Boot $10
$526 per machine
10 64port 10/100 switches @ $11,360 comprise the rest of my figure
To find my Apple price I downgraded their price as much as possible including using after market memory.
Sorry to offend the Mac Horde But macs are pricey, slow and not in the spirit of Beowulf's goal of supercomputing on cheap commodity hardware.
I know, I know, what did I spend the last $6,500 bucks on? A shiny mac with 22 cinema display "for display perposes" because that shiny preety smoothy eeeeasy glossssy Lame assed user experience is all Mac lovers care about any way.
Oracle Corp. is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel Corp. servers running Linux, Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison said yesterday.
This is a limited time offer!
Act now to reserve this special deal.
Exclusive priority for those that act now!
If I do it soon the recruiter will do it for me.
Sounds like your recruiter used to do infomercials. Perhaps incorperating is a good idea in some cases but you should run-don't-walk away from this "special offer"
robust, temperature-thwarting, easily maintainable, economically viable, fast turnaround times, durable, increases the flight envelope of the vehicle, safer, reliable, less expensive, high flight rates, quick turn-around, three different features, almost a snap, bigger, lower density vehicles, step in the right direction, comprehensive, long-term plan, intentional, step-by-step approach.
GAG!
The current shuttle tiles may be in need of replacement but the way they are plaintively marketing ARMOR, you would think that it is competeing against a better idea from someone else. Perhaps something with some technical merit.
I don't know that anyone has those simulations in place right now, let alone an observer.
From the next story (conveniently posted after your silly retort)
College Park, MD (January 30, 2002) Predicting the size, location, and timing of natural hazards is virtually impossible, but now, earth scientists are able to forecast hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, and landslides using fractals.
This could be applied to Jupiter's red spot during the upcoming collision with the white spot. That would certainly give insight into Earth's hurricane formation zones and perhaps predict how global warming could aggrevate storm strength.
Like when You introduce a small spinner to a large stable pattern in the game of life, the white spot could destroy the red spot. This interaction is governed by chaos theory, and as such, any predictions about the end result are useless. Better to lay odds than make blanket predictions. Clay Sherrod's lack of objectivity or lack of knowledge of the laws of physics marks him as an amateur. Science by press release. Perhaps that is why he is in Arkansas and not Tucson, Arizona.
This post is mean spirited and might be considered a flame. But if the sientific community has nothing but fawning press, how is sience to advance? Breathy exclamations about perpetual motion energy sources and cloned human kidneys are not good science. They are modern day snake oil salesmen taking reaserch dollars away from real science.
If the conventional press will not place a critical eye on psuedo science, perhaps we should. Perhaps we are the only ones who can.
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I think I'll refrain from turning the unused 3.5" external-accessable bay into an ashtray though.. ;)
That's the coolest Idea! Wonder what make/model of car has a flush, flat ashtray?
300w ATX is all the computer needs... But I needed 400 for my cigarette lighter mod.
Then again, do any of us use computers for what their original purpose was? I do not think Alan Turing had surfing for pr0n in mind when he thought of logic gates.
And buying Alpha EV67's just to bust seti work units is pretty weird. 3.5 years worth of seti work has been done by EV67s, and they were all done by the same person over the last 2.5 years, so someone bought 2 EV67s @ $22,000 a piece minimum primarily to crunch Seti. Could it have been Compaq themselves? Perhaps - But I expect they could hardly afford it.
Are computers for games? Sure. Games are an 8 billion dollar a year industry. They drive users to seek greater performance machines. Moores law would probably have failed years ago if all we ever needed was a good office suite.
Do I use my 12 by p166 cluster to heat my house? yes. Is there any other reason to have 12 p166s? I never run it in the summer so the primary reason to run it must be for heat. If I was actually using it for production, I would certainly have faster/more machines.
Do I leave the machine in my room while I'm sleeping? No, but I like the white noise it's fans generate to keep me from waking up for every bump in the night.
Do I really need a PC based PBX? no, but it is nice to have a convoluted voicemail script that includes "If you are a telemarketer or if you are placing an unsolicited telephone call, you MUST press 4"
Has anyone else taken apart an old ps2 mouse and hung a piece of paper from one of the rollers to create a clap on monitor (the slightest breeze or moderately loud sound turns my monitor on... I use a usb mouse for actual work).
Can you all reboot your stupid dsl router through power over Ethernet/DC relay?
Anyone else buy 100' of that thick orange cable at home depot with the 2 fibers, 4 CAT5e and a Cable TV coax then use the fiber with a cheap roto rooter sewer pipe inspection camera to spy on other rooms?...
OK, I'm a little weird... but at least I have dead man switched degaussing rings under all my boxes so when the black helicopters come for me, all the incriminating evidence will be erased.
Hubbel was myopic at launch because the design was barowed from a late seventies recon sattelite. Hubbel was perfect for earth surface imaging... Now with 1 meter imaging available on the web to the public, and hubbel being what was possible in the late seventies, how good is current earth imaging? Better than anyone that wants to not live paranoid is willing to belive.
World Opinion "color": Parse the web for specific text strings to determine public opinion. I couuld do a search for "Dogs are great" -vs- "Cats are great" And compare results bar chart style. Some of the neatest information I ever see on google is the Zeitgeist. Now, imagine being able to pick the topics. Used properly it could help predict trends in business, politics and (world) public opinion.
Sorry, I was hopeing for +1 funny not +1 interesting. Rubidium standards cost $4,500 and Cesium beams cost $15k+. Truetime's cards all have accurate local oscilators but refrence external clocks. But it was purely a joke. Buying a weapons grade timing source as a bug fix is funny. Laugh.
As true time was primarily a government contractor, At least a few people in the army thought that was a completely acceptable bug fix.
Nothing beats your very own nuclear clock on a PCI card. The best they can make you is a rubidium standard clock accurate to 10^-13 seconds. Cesium beam clocks accurate to 10^-17 seconds are available in rackmount form. Great for all those Mission Critical Real Time applications like Quake III.
This thing is dieing for GPS. Current GPS handheld's maps are too small and no on likes to mount their laptop to the dash. Imagine Taxis, UPS, and Fire/Police with these including the connection so dispatchers could remotely tag the drivers map.
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If my dog is under the covers when I wake up in the morning, I wear a coat to work.
If the dog is outside the covers, No need for the coat.
If the dog is outside when I wake up, I consider taking the day off it's so nice.
If the dog is under the covers and there is a wet spot at the foot of the bed, I'm not going to work because it must be snowing.
Or run linux on the airport itself.
Counter Strike and halflife are Quake engined
Can you send them code? Can you name it metallica.mp3.com or .scr? if so.... :)
NASA Will fund Carmack.
I pulled the Mac cluster stats from their website. Direct copy and paste. The cost for the Athlon cluster is actually an extreme over estimate.
1.4 Tbird $93
ECS Motherboard: $53
Two 10/100/ nics $40
Power supply $10
1.5 gigs DDR ram $330
Floppy Boot $10
$526 per machine
10 64port 10/100 switches @ $11,360 comprise the rest of my figure
To find my Apple price I downgraded their price as much as possible including using after market memory.
Sorry to offend the Mac Horde But macs are pricey, slow and not in the spirit of Beowulf's goal of supercomputing on cheap commodity hardware.
I know, I know, what did I spend the last $6,500 bucks on? A shiny mac with 22 cinema display "for display perposes" because that shiny preety smoothy eeeeasy glossssy Lame assed user experience is all Mac lovers care about any way.
I"m sure these guys could help. Still in Dev so you could prolly get it fairly cheap and insure that they incorporated the exact features you want.
Like fordreallysucks is going to be the pinnacle of unbiased journalism for this story.
They came, they saw, they CONQUERED.
Short, sweet and bullshit.
Oracle Corp. is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel Corp. servers running Linux, Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison said yesterday.
I think we can chalk this up as a win.
GO LINUX!
This is a limited time offer!
Act now to reserve this special deal.
Exclusive priority for those that act now!
If I do it soon the recruiter will do it for me.
Sounds like your recruiter used to do infomercials. Perhaps incorperating is a good idea in some cases but you should run-don't-walk away from this "special offer"
Not "Science"
"Marketing"
You have to look for the key words.
robust, temperature-thwarting, easily maintainable, economically viable, fast turnaround times, durable, increases the flight envelope of the vehicle, safer, reliable, less expensive, high flight rates, quick turn-around, three different features, almost a snap, bigger, lower density vehicles, step in the right direction, comprehensive, long-term plan, intentional, step-by-step approach.
GAG!
The current shuttle tiles may be in need of replacement but the way they are plaintively marketing ARMOR, you would think that it is competeing against a better idea from someone else. Perhaps something with some technical merit.
I don't know that anyone has those simulations in place right now, let alone an observer.
From the next story (conveniently posted after your silly retort)
College Park, MD (January 30, 2002) Predicting the size, location, and timing of natural hazards is virtually impossible, but now, earth scientists are able to forecast hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, and landslides using fractals.
This could be applied to Jupiter's red spot during the upcoming collision with the white spot. That would certainly give insight into Earth's hurricane formation zones and perhaps predict how global warming could aggrevate storm strength.
You think the P4 price/performance is bad, G4's are insane
USC Macintosh Cluster Running the AltiVec Fractal Benchmark achieves over 1/5 TeraFlop on 152 G4's and demonstrates excellent scalability.
KLAT2's complete results are: Rmax=64.459 GFLOPS with 64 Athlon 700MHz with 128MB PC100 CAS2 SDRAM
So a 1 tflop apple machine would cost about $440,000 in hardware for 152 G4 1000mhz -vs- 270 Tbird 1400mhz at about $160,000.
The difference, $280,000 could certainly hire someone literate enough to read the long linux manual.
Like when You introduce a small spinner to a large stable pattern in the game of life, the white spot could destroy the red spot. This interaction is governed by chaos theory, and as such, any predictions about the end result are useless. Better to lay odds than make blanket predictions. Clay Sherrod's lack of objectivity or lack of knowledge of the laws of physics marks him as an amateur. Science by press release. Perhaps that is why he is in Arkansas and not Tucson, Arizona.
This post is mean spirited and might be considered a flame. But if the sientific community has nothing but fawning press, how is sience to advance? Breathy exclamations about perpetual motion energy sources and cloned human kidneys are not good science. They are modern day snake oil salesmen taking reaserch dollars away from real science.
If the conventional press will not place a critical eye on psuedo science, perhaps we should. Perhaps we are the only ones who can.
At first I thought your sig was just a troll.. but it's true!