Depends on the SSD, the database, and the usage pattern. I wouldn't want to run a frequently-updated database on MLC flash, that's for sure. But at work we just put out production database on a Fusion-io ioDrive, which quotes a 24-year lifespan with 5TB of writes a day. The performance is amazing. Of course, now everything is CPU-bound...
The Liberal Party wanted this previously and will unfortunately only vote against it if they want to create mischief.
The Liberals had already reached the conclusion that it was untenable and dropped it. It took a while, but they did come to their senses.
They have a deliberately misleading name
What, since 1944?
remember this is that party that the infamous racist Pauline Hanson was in
No, I don't remember that. Pauline Hanson was kicked out of the Liberal party before even standing for her first election as an MP.
None of which is in any way relevant, because this legislation is being introduced by Labor and has been very publically opposed by the Liberals. You can take your counterfactual grudges elsewhere.
10-second civics lesson for you: America has a president, not a dictator. Congress wields considerably more power. No single person, not Bush or McCain or Palin, not even Obama, has the capacity to wreck the country. Or to fix it, for that matter. Much less the entire world.
The whole point of SSDs is that they have no moving parts, so they don't have the seek time and rotational latency of spinning disks. That translates into faster random access. As the review says:
What was absolutely impressive however, were the random access and seek times, along with the benefits that come with them and Solid State Storage in general.
So what do they measure? Sequential transfer rates.
The one thing the ISPs did get right here in Oz is stating the limits up front. 'Course, some of them only did that after getting kicked around by the regulators.
While things are still expensive here, it's definitely improving. I get 40GB peak, 110GB off-peak for $50 a month. And my ISP is giving me unlimited off-peak downloads right now, because they're doing trials for a forthcoming 500GB plan.
Now if they could just do something about ping times... Damn you, speed of light!
And I don't care whether any soldier likes it or not: when an armed civilian/guerrilla grandmother kills an armed soldier, that's tough, but not exactly unfair -- soldiers have the numbers and the firepower on their side. When an armed soldier kills an unarmed civilian, that's just despicable.
When a civilian kills an armed soldier, that it unfair on the other civilians. A major reason for the rules about combatants wearing recognisable uniforms is to protect civilians. If the solders know that only other uniformed solders will shoot at them, then they have no reason to attack civilians. If the civilians decide to join in the fight, then they're not civilians any more; they're soldiers illegally out of uniform.
Depends on the situation, sure. But if the civilians break the rules intended to protect them, they can't complain if they're no longer protected by those rules.
Exactly right. It's the old "slow down to speed up" rule in orbital mechanics. Slow down so that you can no longer maintain your orbit, and you fall inwards, gaining speed as you go.
I'm no POWER architecture expert ( as can be seen ) but you need at least 1 execution pipeline to support an SMT thread.
No, in fact. A single pipeline can support an arbitrary number of threads, just taking one instruction from one of those threads in any given cycle. From memory, the POWER5 has 8 pipelines, and the POWER6 has 5. I don't think IBM have released details of the POWER7 yet.
Without SMT the execution pipeline represents *1* thread of execution.
Absolutely.
If the processor *also* ( I don't know why you have a problem with this word. How about "in addition to" ?)
How about just saying "has"?
has SMT support, then that gives you support for n additional threads for n execution pipelines.
Not exactly. You can have 2-way SMT on an 8-issue core (POWER5), or 8-way SMT on a 2-issue core. There's no direct relationship between the number of threads and the number of pipelines.
The PPE used in the Cell and the Xbox360's Xenon is an in-order architecture, but other than that every POWER or PowerPC architecture that's on the market now that I know of is scalar, ranging from the low-end embedded variants to the supercomputer chips. A scalar architecture with SMT makes sense because the pipelines for the high-end CPUs are so ridiculously long that there can be over a hundred instructions in-flight (the PPC970/G5/POWER4 can have up to two hundred, the newer architectures likely even more). At this point it becomes a herculean task to wring out more performance out of a single instruction stream, so duplicating the state and processing another thread just makes things simpler!
Huh? Cell and Xenon are in-order superscalar. PPC970/G5/POWER4 are out-of-order superscalar. Some of the low-end embedded PowerPC chips are scalar (single-issue), but all POWER chips from the very beginning have been superscalar.
* that the site should be pre-screened to ensure it's not going to be running ads alongside the content that will harm or impugn the dignity of the congress.
Given that Congress currently has an approval rating slightly above child molesters and just below viagra spammers, I'm not sure this is even possible.
Also - though they aren't canonically part of the juvenile list - The Door into Summer, Podkayne of Mars, and Double Star should be fine for pre-teens.
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Dune II was awesome until you got clobbered by those goddam ornithopters. Never did work out the right tactics for that one scenario.
Depends on the SSD, the database, and the usage pattern. I wouldn't want to run a frequently-updated database on MLC flash, that's for sure. But at work we just put out production database on a Fusion-io ioDrive, which quotes a 24-year lifespan with 5TB of writes a day. The performance is amazing. Of course, now everything is CPU-bound...
No.
The Liberals had already reached the conclusion that it was untenable and dropped it. It took a while, but they did come to their senses.
What, since 1944?
No, I don't remember that. Pauline Hanson was kicked out of the Liberal party before even standing for her first election as an MP.
None of which is in any way relevant, because this legislation is being introduced by Labor and has been very publically opposed by the Liberals. You can take your counterfactual grudges elsewhere.
10-second civics lesson for you: America has a president, not a dictator. Congress wields considerably more power. No single person, not Bush or McCain or Palin, not even Obama, has the capacity to wreck the country. Or to fix it, for that matter. Much less the entire world.
If you look at those results, you'll find they only ran sequential tests. They talk about random access, but don't run any random access benchmarks.
Yet another SSD review by clueless PC dweebs.
The whole point of SSDs is that they have no moving parts, so they don't have the seek time and rotational latency of spinning disks. That translates into faster random access. As the review says:
So what do they measure? Sequential transfer rates.
Gah.
TFTFY.
TPG.
They're not the best ISP in the world, or even in Australia, but they're cheap.
The one thing the ISPs did get right here in Oz is stating the limits up front. 'Course, some of them only did that after getting kicked around by the regulators.
While things are still expensive here, it's definitely improving. I get 40GB peak, 110GB off-peak for $50 a month. And my ISP is giving me unlimited off-peak downloads right now, because they're doing trials for a forthcoming 500GB plan.
Now if they could just do something about ping times... Damn you, speed of light!
I'm sure he'll not be missed.
Tesla wanted to do this on a large scale over a hundred years ago, and was prevented by the laws of physics.
When a civilian kills an armed soldier, that it unfair on the other civilians. A major reason for the rules about combatants wearing recognisable uniforms is to protect civilians. If the solders know that only other uniformed solders will shoot at them, then they have no reason to attack civilians. If the civilians decide to join in the fight, then they're not civilians any more; they're soldiers illegally out of uniform.
Depends on the situation, sure. But if the civilians break the rules intended to protect them, they can't complain if they're no longer protected by those rules.
Exactly right. It's the old "slow down to speed up" rule in orbital mechanics. Slow down so that you can no longer maintain your orbit, and you fall inwards, gaining speed as you go.
I think he's probably thinking of Fluorinert, which was used to cool the Cray 2.
No, in fact. A single pipeline can support an arbitrary number of threads, just taking one instruction from one of those threads in any given cycle. From memory, the POWER5 has 8 pipelines, and the POWER6 has 5. I don't think IBM have released details of the POWER7 yet.
Absolutely.
How about just saying "has"?
Not exactly. You can have 2-way SMT on an 8-issue core (POWER5), or 8-way SMT on a 2-issue core. There's no direct relationship between the number of threads and the number of pipelines.
Huh? Cell and Xenon are in-order superscalar. PPC970/G5/POWER4 are out-of-order superscalar. Some of the low-end embedded PowerPC chips are scalar (single-issue), but all POWER chips from the very beginning have been superscalar.
Which can be very useful.
[cough]Nehalem[/cough]
Correct.
No, they do not "also" have SMT. It is the SMT that gives them 2 threads per core in the first place.
Power 5 & 6 have 2-way SMT. Power 7 has 4-way SMT.
Given that Congress currently has an approval rating slightly above child molesters and just below viagra spammers, I'm not sure this is even possible.
Also - though they aren't canonically part of the juvenile list - The Door into Summer, Podkayne of Mars, and Double Star should be fine for pre-teens.
Yes.
Where is Lisp today? Smalltalk?
On the other hand, languages that offered the same features with a familiar syntax have taken over the market.
And landfills will become valuable commercial property.
Second biggest, at best.
Multiple dies stacked in a single package. Very common in the flash business.