High Performance Message Passing:
In order to support application-level communication, such as MPI, as well as system-level communication, such as that which occurs between the compute node daemons and the launcher, a flexible, high-performance data movement layer is needed. Much of the work on the Intel MPP machines focused on providing a communication layer that could deliver the highest possible percentage of network resources to these applications. The result of this work are Portals , which are the data movement layer supported on the Intel TFLOPS machine.
don't know why... but does anyone remember in Pulp Fiction when the black guy (Jules) is threatening that guy with the gun and says "English, motherf*cker, do you speak it?" and then almost blows his brains out? Sometimes that's how i feel.
"In the modern age, it's not oil underneath farmland that gives those underground rights a price tag--it's fiber optics. And Ackerson says hundreds of thousands of property owners who have seen data cables laid along railroad tracks just the other side of their backyard fence should have been paid for use of their property, whether they knew it or not. "
so let's see here... these people are willing to have a large, noise, huge moving metal mass move through their property at any time of night, but they think they should be compensated just to run a cable that does not move, does not look any worse than the tracks, does not make noise, does not stop traffic, and does not pollute? I can't believe how selfish these people are. What's the problem with laying a cable?
I think it's sad how i am so used to spam. I don't get any at work, but in my two home email accounts I get over 100 spams a day combined. It's really no different than junkmail. It would be interesting to see a study regarding the ration of legit mail to junk mail, comparing the USPS and email. Of course, SPAM is more prevailent because of it's low cost, but it is also quicker to get rid of.
You are correct, but in theory if you had a limited amount of money to invest, you could invest more in the $5 stock, thus yielding a bigger return because you could buy more shares.
I think we all know portals COULD make money if they did it right. Here's the problems I hate about portals:
1) The ones that try and change your homepage for your browser to go to their portals suck. It doesn't work, just makes me angry to have to change it back.
2) They are going for too wide of an audience.
and 3) banner ads just don't work, which is where the source of the money comes from.
Pretty cool hack, I would have started with something a little bigger and better myself, but at least they did it instead of talking about things like that as most people do.
One thing I would like to see if this little controlled cart unleashed in the BattleBots Arena. That plastic would be chewed up rather quickly. Would be a joy to watch, though.:)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Sun Microsystems Inc. will unveil Tuesday its first Unix (news - web sites) workstation priced less than $1,000 as it tries to regain ground lost to competitors.
does anyone think they will make any money with this? They can't be making much... and why are they trying to regain ground in a market they have never been in before and with many competitors?
I think this is good news for the consumers, but a bad idea for sun.
Pippy will make it easier for companies to build, port, and market new network-interoperable application programs while
complementing other home automation (HAVi) and open services gateway initiative (OSGI) standards initiatives.
Does anyone know when these marketing droids will figure out that buzzwords don't make products more appealing? I know they aren't selling anything, but sheesh. "Gateway initiative standards initiative"?
Better throw something in there about the flux capacitors too...(only if we can generate 1.21 jiggawatts, though)
Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart was given an operator's account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the Materials Research Lab at the University of Illinois.
Anyone know how much computer time that is, or how it was computed? Unfortunately I wasn't alive at the time, and it seems like a weird way to measure time. But if time is money, how much time is 100 million dollars?
When Tucows periodically gets something "wrong" on the BSD site, we receive a barrage of angry user comments. Paradoxically, when we use this advice to make adjustments we receive an equally prolific battering from other BSD factions indicating that we had it correct to begin with. Any attempt to provide a middle ground only results in hostility from all sides.
Boy, this doesn't sound like the Slashdot crowd *I* know...
You must remember your purpose of working in the first place - to make money to live your life, retirement, etc. There is no reason to have to stick with a company that may not provide you with the money (the reason you worked there in the first place).
Can anyone give any reasons to switch the the HURD kernel other than those stated on the link? (other than the usual... it's free, it's open source, it's not just developement material, blah blah blah). What are the real advantages of using this replacement kernel when most have already paid for the Unix that is already on their machine, something that has been tested and already works. I am not bashing open source or anything, and I use linux exclusively at home... but knowing sysadmins they would rather leave well enough alone. am i wrong here?
I think most people are influenced too much by the various forms of the media out there. I am not trying to start a flame war, but we don't need less violence in video games or the internet or anything else... this may come as a shocker, but:
we need better parents!
now, I am not blaiming anyone here, but where are the parents at in all of these instances? violence prevention starts at home, with the morals and values that are instilled by our parents and peers.
people need to leave our internet, video games, literature, etc. alone and be responsible for the life they bring into this world.
Newsflash: I predict the world to end on December 17, 2027
I swear, if I had $1000 for everytime someone predicted the end of the earth/mankind/humanity/etc, I would be rich.
The world was SUPPOSED to end in 1700, in 1900, in 1996, in 2000, and many other dates... I think it is pretty clear that most people enjoy talking out of their ass.
This is not flaimbait, but EVERY prediction thus far has been wrong, and we're still here.
"Microsoft has threatened us with litigation due to our support of Linux NTFS development, and we have dissolved our NTFS
licensing agreements with Microsoft...," Merkley wrote in one of his e-mails.
Merkey said he has no idea how it happened, but
their e-mails first were posted on
an Internet weekly Linux newsletter and reposted
Tuesday on Slashdot.org. "
Hmm... Possibly because email is not the secure communications medium that everyone thinks it is. I would consider a cordless phone safer than email for confidential communications - at least its broadcast does not go over a quarter mile or so.
I just think it's funny that emails are often times a culprit for the media to strike. Lord knows Microsoft has sent a few emails that they did not want to get out to the public... All it takes is one person and the forward button...
My lord. I have seen vaporware before, but i'll be damned when this finally happens. i am not saying that it's an imposibility, but think of what it would do to our world as we know it.
who would control access to one of these machines? could consumers buy them?
How much innovation is there, really? It seems like everyone just competes and builds on other's ideas. When was the last time a truly original and earth-shattering idea came out that was successfull? I am personally not to worried that we are not on the 'edge' on technology. We still have Microsoft, the most innovative company in the world. And, Al Gore invented the internet, and he might become president! Move out of the way, Japan, we're coming through!
It is too bad that Big Corportation won this battle. As for the war, that is yet to be determined. I personally never bought many CD's because of their cost, and now I will not buy any any that are not blank (just got the new Plextor 12/10/32x). I think it's a tragedy that an ignorant judge has set such a precedent that can cause a tidal wave of harm and hurt the consumer, while aiding the already greedy recording industry. Such is the price we pay for democracy, I guess. Oh well. You can kill napster, but there is still IRC, Gnutella, etc. - and if they are shut down or hindered., undoubtedly more services will come along. How long does it take people to figure out that you will not be able to stop the trading of data? It WILL happen. This is not the beginning of the end.
I don't know a whole lot about hard drive construction (of course i've take them apart and whatnot), and I was wondering if there is a limit to how much can fit on your typical 3.5" platter and is there a limit to how many platters you can have? I suppose there would be, otherwise it would slow access times quite a bit since all of the arms on the drive move at the same time to the same place. any hard drive experts out there that know the physical limits? For the most part, I just stick them in my machine and plug away. As a matter of fact, I have never had any problems with a hard drive going out, except when I dropped one a while back.
I want to be a bounty hunter to catch those damn spammers. seriously, though, this is definately needed. i think we are all victims of spam, and it's time somehthing is done about it. filter all you want, you can't catch everything. or can you? it would be interesting to know what filters people use and how succesfull they are.
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High Performance Message Passing: In order to support application-level communication, such as MPI, as well as system-level communication, such as that which occurs between the compute node daemons and the launcher, a flexible, high-performance data movement layer is needed. Much of the work on the Intel MPP machines focused on providing a communication layer that could deliver the highest possible percentage of network resources to these applications. The result of this work are Portals , which are the data movement layer supported on the Intel TFLOPS machine.
don't know why... but does anyone remember in Pulp Fiction when the black guy (Jules) is threatening that guy with the gun and says "English, motherf*cker, do you speak it?" and then almost blows his brains out? Sometimes that's how i feel.
"In the modern age, it's not oil underneath farmland that gives those underground rights a price tag--it's fiber optics. And Ackerson says hundreds of thousands of property owners who have seen data cables laid along railroad tracks just the other side of their backyard fence should have been paid for use of their property, whether they knew it or not. "
so let's see here... these people are willing to have a large, noise, huge moving metal mass move through their property at any time of night, but they think they should be compensated just to run a cable that does not move, does not look any worse than the tracks, does not make noise, does not stop traffic, and does not pollute? I can't believe how selfish these people are. What's the problem with laying a cable?
pretty depressing.
I think it's sad how i am so used to spam. I don't get any at work, but in my two home email accounts I get over 100 spams a day combined. It's really no different than junkmail. It would be interesting to see a study regarding the ration of legit mail to junk mail, comparing the USPS and email. Of course, SPAM is more prevailent because of it's low cost, but it is also quicker to get rid of.
You are correct, but in theory if you had a limited amount of money to invest, you could invest more in the $5 stock, thus yielding a bigger return because you could buy more shares.
I think we all know portals COULD make money if they did it right. Here's the problems I hate about portals:
1) The ones that try and change your homepage for your browser to go to their portals suck. It doesn't work, just makes me angry to have to change it back.
2) They are going for too wide of an audience.
and 3) banner ads just don't work, which is where the source of the money comes from.
Pretty cool hack, I would have started with something a little bigger and better myself, but at least they did it instead of talking about things like that as most people do.
:)
One thing I would like to see if this little controlled cart unleashed in the BattleBots Arena. That plastic would be chewed up rather quickly. Would be a joy to watch, though.
It's an animated GIF, probably used to be cross-platform compatible. Animated GIF's don't have sound.
but really... is sound needed? I liked the primitiveness of it. not all flashy
From Yahoo:
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Sun Microsystems Inc. will unveil Tuesday its first Unix (news - web sites) workstation priced less than $1,000 as it tries to regain ground lost to competitors.
does anyone think they will make any money with this? They can't be making much... and why are they trying to regain ground in a market they have never been in before and with many competitors?
I think this is good news for the consumers, but a bad idea for sun.
From the press release:
Pippy will make it easier for companies to build, port, and market new network-interoperable application programs while complementing other home automation (HAVi) and open services gateway initiative (OSGI) standards initiatives.
Does anyone know when these marketing droids will figure out that buzzwords don't make products more appealing? I know they aren't selling anything, but sheesh. "Gateway initiative standards initiative"?
Better throw something in there about the flux capacitors too...(only if we can generate 1.21 jiggawatts, though)
From the FAQ:
Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart was given an operator's account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the Materials Research Lab at the University of Illinois.
Anyone know how much computer time that is, or how it was computed? Unfortunately I wasn't alive at the time, and it seems like a weird way to measure time. But if time is money, how much time is 100 million dollars?
To quote from Tucows:
When Tucows periodically gets something "wrong" on the BSD site, we receive a barrage of angry user comments. Paradoxically, when we use this advice to make adjustments we receive an equally prolific battering from other BSD factions indicating that we had it correct to begin with. Any attempt to provide a middle ground only results in hostility from all sides.
Boy, this doesn't sound like the Slashdot crowd *I* know...
You must remember your purpose of working in the first place - to make money to live your life, retirement, etc. There is no reason to have to stick with a company that may not provide you with the money (the reason you worked there in the first place).
I work so I can live life as I please.
Mandrake already does this (as an option) and it looks beautiful, and you can see exactly what is going on. You should try it.
Can anyone give any reasons to switch the the HURD kernel other than those stated on the link? (other than the usual... it's free, it's open source, it's not just developement material, blah blah blah). What are the real advantages of using this replacement kernel when most have already paid for the Unix that is already on their machine, something that has been tested and already works. I am not bashing open source or anything, and I use linux exclusively at home... but knowing sysadmins they would rather leave well enough alone. am i wrong here?
we need better parents!
now, I am not blaiming anyone here, but where are the parents at in all of these instances? violence prevention starts at home, with the morals and values that are instilled by our parents and peers.
people need to leave our internet, video games, literature, etc. alone and be responsible for the life they bring into this world.
Newsflash: I predict the world to end on December 17, 2027
I swear, if I had $1000 for everytime someone predicted the end of the earth/mankind/humanity/etc, I would be rich.
The world was SUPPOSED to end in 1700, in 1900, in 1996, in 2000, and many other dates... I think it is pretty clear that most people enjoy talking out of their ass.
This is not flaimbait, but EVERY prediction thus far has been wrong, and we're still here.
"Microsoft has threatened us with litigation due to our support of Linux NTFS development, and we have dissolved our NTFS licensing agreements with Microsoft...," Merkley wrote in one of his e-mails. Merkey said he has no idea how it happened, but their e-mails first were posted on an Internet weekly Linux newsletter and reposted Tuesday on Slashdot.org. " Hmm... Possibly because email is not the secure communications medium that everyone thinks it is. I would consider a cordless phone safer than email for confidential communications - at least its broadcast does not go over a quarter mile or so.
I just think it's funny that emails are often times a culprit for the media to strike. Lord knows Microsoft has sent a few emails that they did not want to get out to the public... All it takes is one person and the forward button...
My lord. I have seen vaporware before, but i'll be damned when this finally happens. i am not saying that it's an imposibility, but think of what it would do to our world as we know it.
who would control access to one of these machines? could consumers buy them?
good thing i will never see it in my life time.
Microsoft already has IE running on HP-UX and solaris. last time i used it (about a year ago) it sucked, but it did exist.
To tell you the truth, as much as I dislike Microsoft, Internet Explorer is my browser of choice, and I would be happy to see it on my Linux desktop.
How much innovation is there, really? It seems like everyone just competes and builds on other's ideas. When was the last time a truly original and earth-shattering idea came out that was successfull? I am personally not to worried that we are not on the 'edge' on technology. We still have Microsoft, the most innovative company in the world. And, Al Gore invented the internet, and he might become president! Move out of the way, Japan, we're coming through!
A small correction: Scour.net does have a Unix/Linux client, or 'Media Agent' as they prefer to call it. It is not Windows only.
It is too bad that Big Corportation won this battle. As for the war, that is yet to be determined. I personally never bought many CD's because of their cost, and now I will not buy any any that are not blank (just got the new Plextor 12/10/32x). I think it's a tragedy that an ignorant judge has set such a precedent that can cause a tidal wave of harm and hurt the consumer, while aiding the already greedy recording industry. Such is the price we pay for democracy, I guess. Oh well. You can kill napster, but there is still IRC, Gnutella, etc. - and if they are shut down or hindered., undoubtedly more services will come along. How long does it take people to figure out that you will not be able to stop the trading of data? It WILL happen. This is not the beginning of the end.
I don't know a whole lot about hard drive construction (of course i've take them apart and whatnot), and I was wondering if there is a limit to how much can fit on your typical 3.5" platter and is there a limit to how many platters you can have? I suppose there would be, otherwise it would slow access times quite a bit since all of the arms on the drive move at the same time to the same place. any hard drive experts out there that know the physical limits? For the most part, I just stick them in my machine and plug away. As a matter of fact, I have never had any problems with a hard drive going out, except when I dropped one a while back.
I want to be a bounty hunter to catch those damn spammers.
seriously, though, this is definately needed. i think we are all victims of spam, and it's time somehthing is done about it. filter all you want, you can't catch everything. or can you? it would be interesting to know what filters people use and how succesfull they are.