Why should we sign? I don't think copyrights need to extend much past 25 let alone 50 years. It's a joke that the US Government allowed disney to extend it's copyrights longer than 50 years. Especially when the hold the trademarks on some the characters in the cartoons anyway.
The problem generally is with the latency of the interconnect and not the bandwidth. Most Ethernet switches have latencies in excess of 50us which just sucks in message passing situations.
If you want lower-latency interconnects for something like CFD, you can get rid of the switch altogether--you just hook up your machines directly to one another with the right topology.
That limits the number of nodes you have unless you use a technology such as Myrinet or Dolphin Wulfkit. Myrinet gets by the switch latency by making the switch just a dumb interconnect. This is similar to what you suggest by with alot more expandability.
Of course, another choice is to just deal with latency algorithmically. It's not too hard for many algorithms to trade off bandwidth and latency against each other.
That's assuming the cluster user wrote the software they are using or understand how to do this. We have sold clusters to lots of Educators that wouldn't know how to do this.
A high-end Beowulf compute node these days typically gives you 2 processors and 2-4 Gigabit Ethernet channels, going into a high-end switch.
It is just getting complicated. The problem generally is with the latency of the interconnect and not the bandwidth. Most Ethernet switches have latencies in excess of 50us which just sucks in message passing situations.
Using a good switch with lowlatencies such as a Force10 will allow you to get pretty good message transferring. Or you could go with something with very low latency such as a myrinet or Dolphin Wulfkit. The Linpack numbers run on a myrinet cluster of n machines are almost n times the linpack score for an individual node.
As long as you use quality media, you find that -RWs play in more commercial DVD players than their +RW counterparts.
For sometime now, pioneer's A0x series has been the best -RW you can get. Now I know toshiba and sony have recently release their -RW's but Pioneer has been doing it for a bit longer. Tests done with the Pioneer A04 showed that DVD movies recorded with it would play in 80% of the commercial DVD players on the market. This was actually a very good result. I believe the tests were run last year by Tom's Hardware.
The only time this computer reboots is when I update the kernel or I have a power failure. It never crashes and has been running steady for 2 years now.
Sure some Linux programs may crash occasionally but a majority of the system is stable and if you choose the right software it won't crash.
Yeah and how do you propose that an accountant is going to determine TCO properly. Budgetary issues like this require some knowledge of the requirements. Do you think my accountant knows how long it takes to install an OS?
How can you say that Intel and AMD are being edged out of the mobile processor market? Intel holds a large major of the market share. Sure AMD doesn't have a large market share but neither does Transmeta or VIA. No matter what Microsoft does, it going to take a lot more than an agreement with Transmeta to knock Intel out of the Majority in the Mobile Market....
even commerical companies can't afford this. CBS Market Watch sends out 10 Million Emails a day and they are legitimate. Can they afford to pay someone $100,000 US on top of their bandwidth costs?
What about legitmate mailing-lists and news letters? I used to working in the field and I know their are legitmate services emailing in excess of a million emails a day even tens of Millions. They can't afford a levy of that size. No solution works a hundred percent but their are some very good spam solutions out there such as spamassassin or evsmail.
A 10M+ mbox file is just asking for trouble. Anyone in there right mind would be using maildirs over mbox for such big files. maildirs also make it much easier to run multiple muas on the same mailboxes without locking problems.
I am reading the article but am having lots of trouble going from one page to the next (several minutes of time outs). I guess that just a little ironic. Are people trying to give them problems this time?
This is complete and other FUD. Any Engineer who designs a pacemaker that can be stopped over the internet needs to be drawn and quartered. They aren't that dumb. It's just Microsoft propaganda machine working up for its push to Palladium, pure and simple. I am getting tired of these baseless fearmongering statements.
I am sick and tired of this. Especially since war of the worlds radio play proved that the general us populance is dumb enough to believe such malarky.
Of course, many judges are uncivilized in this country... but what else is new. For some reason, I imagine judges in Canada are much more respectable. hahahaha....
I would like to imagine them being so too. But the reality is that Canadian legal system is better than the american system in some ways but worse in others. We have judges ruling the kiddie porn is an artistic work and letting pervs go free.
Since when was DirectX a response to OpenGL?
I know that some of the parts of DirectX are a response to OpenGL but was DirectX created because the Gaming community was balking at writing windows 95 games because they couldn't talk directly to the hardware. If I remember correctly that was main reason for DirectX. To move game development from DOS to Windows 95, not to fight of OpenGL.
Mostlikely if a computer started a fire it would burn significantly enough to make it hard (if not impossible) to distinguish your clock speed. Besides who says you overclocked your machine and not some cheapskate dealer, you bought it from.
I thought the US Government was starting to learn that Microsoft software was to be avoided. By finding more uses for it, I am afraid that it is obviously not true.
That's fine as long as you install the required updates when the are released. One nice thing about RedHat is that they support older versions really well. Others like our French friends would prefer that you upgrade with every new release.
Evolution, Kde 3 and several other nice programs. Originally it was going to have GCC 3.1 but they backed off and released GCC 2.96 version instead. Explaining why they called it 7.3 instead 8.0.
BTW there are also lots of added drivers in 7.3 and a much new and better kernel.
Replacing Computer Equipment every year because it fails do to the temperature stress of being turned off and on each day or paying an extra couple dollars a month to let it run in suspended mode when you aren't using it.
The fact that you turn your machine on and off every day shows that you know nothing about electronics. So why would I believe when you state that the power supply is good?
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Why should we sign? I don't think copyrights need to extend much past 25 let alone 50 years. It's a joke that the US Government allowed disney to extend it's copyrights longer than 50 years. Especially when the hold the trademarks on some the characters in the cartoons anyway.
The problem generally is with the latency of the interconnect and not the bandwidth. Most Ethernet switches have latencies in excess of 50us which just sucks in message passing situations.
If you want lower-latency interconnects for something like CFD, you can get rid of the switch altogether--you just hook up your machines directly to one another with the right topology.
That limits the number of nodes you have unless you use a technology such as Myrinet or Dolphin Wulfkit. Myrinet gets by the switch latency by making the switch just a dumb interconnect. This is similar to what you suggest by with alot more expandability.
Of course, another choice is to just deal with latency algorithmically. It's not too hard for many algorithms to trade off bandwidth and latency against each other.
That's assuming the cluster user wrote the software they are using or understand how to do this. We have sold clusters to lots of Educators that wouldn't know how to do this.
A high-end Beowulf compute node these days typically gives you 2 processors and 2-4 Gigabit Ethernet channels, going into a high-end switch.
It is just getting complicated. The problem generally is with the latency of the interconnect and not the bandwidth. Most Ethernet switches have latencies in excess of 50us which just sucks in message passing situations.
Using a good switch with lowlatencies such as a Force10 will allow you to get pretty good message transferring. Or you could go with something with very low latency such as a myrinet or Dolphin Wulfkit. The Linpack numbers run on a myrinet cluster of n machines are almost n times the linpack score for an individual node.
As long as you use quality media, you find that -RWs play in more commercial DVD players than their +RW counterparts.
For sometime now, pioneer's A0x series has been the best -RW you can get. Now I know toshiba and sony have recently release their -RW's but Pioneer has been doing it for a bit longer. Tests done with the Pioneer A04 showed that DVD movies recorded with it would play in 80% of the commercial DVD players on the market. This was actually a very good result. I believe the tests were run last year by Tom's Hardware.
[mark@mail mark]$ uptime
3:19pm up 57 days, 5:56, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01
The only time this computer reboots is when I update the kernel or I have a power failure. It never crashes and has been running steady for 2 years now.
Sure some Linux programs may crash occasionally but a majority of the system is stable and if you choose the right software it won't crash.
I can't say the same about windows.
Yeah and how do you propose that an accountant is going to determine TCO properly. Budgetary issues like this require some knowledge of the requirements. Do you think my accountant knows how long it takes to install an OS?
"--a move that further edges out AMD and Intel from the mobile processor marketplace."
Check out this link
How can you say that Intel and AMD are being edged out of the mobile processor market? Intel holds a large major of the market share. Sure AMD doesn't have a large market share but neither does Transmeta or VIA. No matter what Microsoft does, it going to take a lot more than an agreement with Transmeta to knock Intel out of the Majority in the Mobile Market....
even commerical companies can't afford this. CBS Market Watch sends out 10 Million Emails a day and they are legitimate. Can they afford to pay someone $100,000 US on top of their bandwidth costs?
What about legitmate mailing-lists and news letters?
I used to working in the field and I know their are legitmate services emailing in excess of a million emails a day even tens of Millions. They can't afford a levy of that size. No solution works a hundred percent but their are some very good spam solutions out there such as spamassassin or evsmail.
evsmail
10M+ mailbox
A 10M+ mbox file is just asking for trouble. Anyone in there right mind would be using maildirs over mbox for such big files. maildirs also make it much easier to run multiple muas on the same mailboxes without locking problems.
I am reading the article but am having lots of trouble going from one page to the next (several minutes of time outs). I guess that just a little ironic. Are people trying to give them problems this time?
I am capable of making up a word definition as well you coward. That doesn't make it a word.
Ain't (v) - meaning are not.
What is Photoshopping suppose to mean? I am sure they are not using Adobe Photoshop to clean up a finger print image.
That's fair too kind. We need to draw and quarter them. (Just Joking of Course)
This is complete and other FUD. Any Engineer who designs a pacemaker that can be stopped over the internet needs to be drawn and quartered. They aren't that dumb. It's just Microsoft propaganda machine working up for its push to Palladium, pure and simple. I am getting tired of these baseless fearmongering statements.
I am sick and tired of this. Especially since war of the worlds radio play proved that the general us populance is dumb enough to believe such malarky.
It was kiddie porn for sure the judge was just being a show off.
Of course, many judges are uncivilized in this country... but what else is new. For some reason, I imagine judges in Canada are much more respectable. hahahaha....
I would like to imagine them being so too. But the reality is that Canadian legal system is better than the american system in some ways but worse in others. We have judges ruling the kiddie porn is an artistic work and letting pervs go free.
Since when was DirectX a response to OpenGL?
I know that some of the parts of DirectX are a response to OpenGL but was DirectX created because the Gaming community was balking at writing windows 95 games because they couldn't talk directly to the hardware. If I remember correctly that was main reason for DirectX. To move game development from DOS to Windows 95, not to fight of OpenGL.
Your ignorant!!!!
Mostlikely if a computer started a fire it would burn significantly enough to make it hard (if not impossible) to distinguish your clock speed. Besides who says you overclocked your machine and not some cheapskate dealer, you bought it from.
Slashdot slashdot's itself all the time by refering to old articles.
I thought the US Government was starting to learn that Microsoft software was to be avoided. By finding more uses for it, I am afraid that it is obviously not true.
That's fine as long as you install the required updates when the are released. One nice thing about RedHat is that they support older versions really well. Others like our French friends would prefer that you upgrade with every new release.
Evolution, Kde 3 and several other nice programs. Originally it was going to have GCC 3.1 but they backed off and released GCC 2.96 version instead. Explaining why they called it 7.3 instead 8.0.
BTW there are also lots of added drivers in 7.3 and a much new and better kernel.
Well what is more expensive?
Replacing Computer Equipment every year because it fails do to the temperature stress of being turned off and on each day or paying an extra couple dollars a month to let it run in suspended mode when you aren't using it.
The fact that you turn your machine on and off every day shows that you know nothing about electronics. So why would I believe when you state that the power supply is good?