SSDs are already in the big show, and have been demonstrated reliable in those applications. The key is choose your vendors carefully, ask how they were qualified, etc.
Most of the enterprise grade SSDs on the market that are outfitted with power-loss protection circuitry fit these capacitors within the 2.5" form factor.
In these situations, I think you have to solve this problem as small as possible, with the program manager themselves. Figure out what that person feels isn't being delivered or executed on, and make sure you address that manager's needs.
Escalating around the chain of command doesn't usually work in these scenarios, especially if you're relatively new.
Each CPU supports 8 lanes of PCIe 2.0 (4GB/s) meaning it can flush and fill its 8GB (max) of main memory from an IO device every 2 seconds, if you actually had that much IO to pump.
These things are meant to live 1000/rack which is ~24 CPUs per 1U. Give each motherboard a pair of 1Gbit/s ethernet pipes, and i'm sure it's sufficient for the scaleout they expect.
These are not intended to build your normal 4U server chassis with 40 PCIe lanes.
Just open it up with a torx wrench, and sand the platters by hand with some 60 grit paper until they're not shiny. The magnetic dipoles only goes a few tens of nanometers deep on the surface of the platter.
6.004 was awesome, both taking it and helping teach and debug other student's projects as a lab assistant. It's was a great introduction to the basic skills required to be a firmware engineer in today's job market, since you really got to figure out, clock by clock, how a CPU operates.
My Comcast Business account explicitly allows servers on the static IP, including mail, web, etc. Anything allowed unless it's against the law in the local jurisdiction. If you go over bandwidth caps, they reserve the right to promote you automatically to the next tier of service. At the top tier, there are no caps.
It costs a little extra, but it seems to me like a business big enough to run it's own mail server should be able to afford the ~$75-100/mo for a business cable modem account.
Yea, the ads disabled is really annoying. I'd be okay with ads that didn't occupy so much real estate, and the inability to maximize stories to fill my browser really drives me nuts.
OpenSolaris was a Solaris kernel with a modern (gnome?) desktop and a relatively-frequently updated package repository. It was actually quite nice to work with, since you could use old Solaris drivers for some hardware, but still get a "modern" system.
This isn't about the government paying more than a private entity.
This is about the government having a contract with oracle guaranteeing a price match with other parties for the duration of the contract, which oracle tried to get around by using obscure pricing practices with new private entity business. Oracle agreed to match the prices, and then lied about what they were charging. That's fraud.
Just upgraded my work computer from a dual-core c2d to a quad-core xeon machine, similar clock rate (both about 2GHz)
New box compiles my code in half the time, saving me about 15 minutes/day, which is very real. (Total compile was about 2 minutes, so I cannot effectively switch to other work while a compile is running.) As a bonus, it consumes significantly less power when cores are idle, which is most of the time when I am debugging or writing code, since only compiling really kicks it out of the lower power C-states.
Based on the above, the new machine will pay for itself in about 3 months time savings alone, probably 2 months if you include power savings.
Finding a job takes a lot of time if you don't already have the connections. You should be applying to hundreds or thousands of jobs.
Also, remember there are a lot of software engineering jobs at companies that do not sell software. If i were a student fresh out of school right now, I'd just go to a list of the fortune 1000 and apply to all of them.
You also want to go to every single career fair you can find within 50-100 miles, and meet people and give them your resume, and tell them how awesome it would be to help them succeed in business. Jobs fairs/career fairs are a great way to start building a network.
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SSDs are way past prototype technology at this point. The products from high quality vendors are both fast and robust.
SSDs are already in the big show, and have been demonstrated reliable in those applications. The key is choose your vendors carefully, ask how they were qualified, etc.
Most of the enterprise grade SSDs on the market that are outfitted with power-loss protection circuitry fit these capacitors within the 2.5" form factor.
In these situations, I think you have to solve this problem as small as possible, with the program manager themselves. Figure out what that person feels isn't being delivered or executed on, and make sure you address that manager's needs.
Escalating around the chain of command doesn't usually work in these scenarios, especially if you're relatively new.
Each CPU supports 8 lanes of PCIe 2.0 (4GB/s) meaning it can flush and fill its 8GB (max) of main memory from an IO device every 2 seconds, if you actually had that much IO to pump.
These things are meant to live 1000/rack which is ~24 CPUs per 1U. Give each motherboard a pair of 1Gbit/s ethernet pipes, and i'm sure it's sufficient for the scaleout they expect.
These are not intended to build your normal 4U server chassis with 40 PCIe lanes.
And for the first time in 20 years of slashdot, a beowulf cluster joke was actually appropriate.
If they did that, they couldn't charge the thief for a new contract, and you for early termination.
Intel has a 5 year warranty on their 320 SSDs, longevity/reliability seem pretty good if you believe the data being published by various 3rd parties.
The above is the easiest way to do it.
Just open it up with a torx wrench, and sand the platters by hand with some 60 grit paper until they're not shiny. The magnetic dipoles only goes a few tens of nanometers deep on the surface of the platter.
6.004 was awesome, both taking it and helping teach and debug other student's projects as a lab assistant. It's was a great introduction to the basic skills required to be a firmware engineer in today's job market, since you really got to figure out, clock by clock, how a CPU operates.
Doesn't this make most operating systems illegal? Who doesn't store the password as a hashed copy?
The DDRDrive X1 almost fits your design. It's not on the memory bus, but on the PCI-e bus as a storage device. Bit pricey though per gigabyte.
My Comcast Business account explicitly allows servers on the static IP, including mail, web, etc. Anything allowed unless it's against the law in the local jurisdiction. If you go over bandwidth caps, they reserve the right to promote you automatically to the next tier of service. At the top tier, there are no caps.
It costs a little extra, but it seems to me like a business big enough to run it's own mail server should be able to afford the ~$75-100/mo for a business cable modem account.
If 100% failure rate were common, I'm pretty sure they would have long ago stopped selling SSDs. Maybe you're doing it wrong?
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Yea, the ads disabled is really annoying. I'd be okay with ads that didn't occupy so much real estate, and the inability to maximize stories to fill my browser really drives me nuts.
I think you mean artificial RI
If by mature, you mean old, wrinkly, and sun-spotted.
OpenSolaris was a Solaris kernel with a modern (gnome?) desktop and a relatively-frequently updated package repository. It was actually quite nice to work with, since you could use old Solaris drivers for some hardware, but still get a "modern" system.
How are they supposed to practice due diligence, when Oracle is lying in the data they provide?
This isn't about the government paying more than a private entity.
This is about the government having a contract with oracle guaranteeing a price match with other parties for the duration of the contract, which oracle tried to get around by using obscure pricing practices with new private entity business. Oracle agreed to match the prices, and then lied about what they were charging. That's fraud.
Not sure I agree.
Just upgraded my work computer from a dual-core c2d to a quad-core xeon machine, similar clock rate (both about 2GHz)
New box compiles my code in half the time, saving me about 15 minutes/day, which is very real. (Total compile was about 2 minutes, so I cannot effectively switch to other work while a compile is running.) As a bonus, it consumes significantly less power when cores are idle, which is most of the time when I am debugging or writing code, since only compiling really kicks it out of the lower power C-states.
Based on the above, the new machine will pay for itself in about 3 months time savings alone, probably 2 months if you include power savings.
I'm guessing the 1GB DIMM is the cheapest memory you can attach to an Atom motherboard these days. Not cheapest per GB, but overall cheapest.
Remember that the older/smaller/slower parts become more expensive after production has stopped and the technology moves on.
While the concept is legitimate, your machine would have to spit out 250 bills/second to equal WalMart's revenue ($400B)
Um, Mac servers running OS X are already Intel servers. Apple has been shipping Nehalem XServe boxes for over a year.
Finding a job takes a lot of time if you don't already have the connections. You should be applying to hundreds or thousands of jobs.
Also, remember there are a lot of software engineering jobs at companies that do not sell software. If i were a student fresh out of school right now, I'd just go to a list of the fortune 1000 and apply to all of them.
You also want to go to every single career fair you can find within 50-100 miles, and meet people and give them your resume, and tell them how awesome it would be to help them succeed in business. Jobs fairs/career fairs are a great way to start building a network.