Use MPI BETWEEN nodes and OpenMP WITHIN a node. MPI is always going to be slower on a single node than threads are and for HPC type loads it can easily be 100x slower to use processes instead of threads due to communications overhead.
It should not be equal since that makes it seem like the evidence is equal. Maybe under the talking heads there should be some kind of number of bar to indicate the percent support for the view. 97% vs 3% is not an equal debate. Especially when the 97% is from a pretty wide mix of fields that are involved with the environment.
Other viewpoints should be shown but you should have some kind of threshold. Should the media cover the 99.99% vs 0.01% ? At what point can you disregard the other side until it has at least gained traction in the scientific community.
You could even have the media only report scientific consensus on the issues, report that there is still 3% opposition to it within the scientific community and say that research is still being done. There is really no reason that scientific controversy to air in the media since the people watching are completely unqualified to take any part in the issue. Armchair scientist does not work and people massively misunderstand what is said and what it means because scientists don't use words the same way the average person does.
No I am saying that it should be possible for them to get a warrant and perform a search upon probable cause and a warrant but that it is incompatible with end-to-end encryption and end-to-end encryption is more important.
I wish there was a way to do both but I just don't see a way to do it.
The FBI and NSA are right that good default crypto will make it harder to catch criminals and the extremely rare terrorists. It will also make it harder to catch people doing quite a number of other bad things.
However, they also brought this on themselves. Overall this is like the response to ads online. Ads got so extremely bad that people just installed adblockers that block everything. Now many sites are finding it hard to even survive due to ads being blocked. If you unblock the ads on the site though you find out the ads are extreme with sound, video, taking over clicks, and with dozens of ads on a page and so you go back to blocking.
If the Ad industry had stayed to banner ads and maybe one or two small ads on the sidebars of a page and with no music or video then it is likely that people would not have gone to the effort to block them. They created this mess all on their own.
If the NSA had not started watching everyone in a fairly blatant violation of the law and the courts made it so you can't even try to stop them since they rule you have not standing since you can't prove you where watched then this reaction would not be happening. What the NSA did damaged Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and many others along with pissing off average people a lot. When the average person thought the NSA was just going after evil people outside the country they where okay with it. Finding out they go after citizens in the country also is unacceptable.
I have no idea how to deal with the actual legitimate concerns of the NSA and FBI and also deal with their abuse. We all know that they will keep abusing their powers if they can. If you compromise encryption in any way then others will find the backdoors also and use them.
This is not a good situation and in the end I don't know how it will play out. It should be possible for the NSA and FBI to get access to data upon probably cause and with a court order I just don't see any realistic way to do that anymore given what they have done.
This seems like a recipe to have complete stagnation. Developing and getting a new technology made available would be a horrible battle every time.
If our economic system can't survive with our changing technology then it is time to change the economic system and not the technology.
The VAST majority of people fear change and if they voted on allowing laptops, cell phones, genetic engineering, self driving cars, the internet etc it would all be not allowed. If you want to fight change and live the past there are countries that follow that path. Mostly they are not doing very well.
It would be cheaper to pay these people to do nothing with taxes than the current friction they generate in the economy. However, I think that most of them have skills more useful elsewhere or could learn more useful skills. We should be investing in the population to get the greatest return on that investment.
I have no interesting in playing games with price. You charge a fair price and I will buy. You charge an unfair price and I won't. I won't even talk to you about the price. If I think it is unfair compared to a simple internet search I will just go elsewhere.
I care about solving problems related to making drugs for curing things like cancer available. I care about figuring out new ones to optimize a problem. Talking to a human to figure out a price on something just does not make the list of anything I am interested in. If I have to talk to you to figure out a price you already cost too much.
I don't negotiate. I find what I want and order what I want.
When I go back to the USA if I have to have a car I will get a Tesla so I don't deal with any of that crap.
I don't like poker, I don't like bluffing, and I hate haggling. The whole competing thing just to get a car at a reasonable price is insane and a gigantic waste of time across the entire society.
I DESPISE haggling. I won't do it under any circumstances. I find it to be a major waste of time and energy.
When I give someone a price that is the price and it is not open to negotiation. If I see a price and I think it is fair I will pay it, if not I will go somewhere else and that is the end of it.
If there is somewhere that only does haggling I would just not go there ever. If there is an item that can only be bought with haggling I will just not buy it or pay someone else to do it.
So out of curiosity how do you think we should develop GMO crops without patents? These things cost billions of dollars in very hard R&D to develop and bring to market. Without a patent then anyone will grow some of your seeds and then sell them next year to compete with your seeds and they had to do none of the work.
If you want to replace this system you must come up with an alternative.
No patents on living organisms would also screw over the biotech industry. What if I make a new tumor supressor gene from scratch that is better than any human gene and would 100% prevent cancer. As soon as I treated the first person someone would just have their DNA read and find the sequence and sell it without doing any of the R&D.
I understand not liking patents on living things but if you want technology developed our current economic system required a profit motive and without that motive the technology won't be created. This is not like computer programming where a few people on no budget can do amazing work and change things. This stuff is insanely expensive and hard to do. Reaction ingredients alone would bankrupt most people.
I have already done some genetic engineering and I am going to be doing a lot more of it in the future since that is part of my profession. There are risks and there will be mistakes but not trying won't help anymore. Imagine how long it would have taken us to make jet airplanes if we didn't even try to learn how to fly until we where completely sure?
There are drugs today that raise cancer survival rates from 5% to 95%. There are diseases caused by a single defective gene that we can cure. Heck we can now build a robotic arm that has a sense of touch and wire it to your BRAIN. 10 years ago the state of the art was still a danged hook.
Technology is changing quickly and biotech/nanotech developments are going to allow us to cure problems we never even imagined would be cureable. Long term I hope to work for Google's biotech company and work on solving human aging.
The best reason ever to climb a mountain is "because it is there" and I feel the same way about this. We have an opportunity that is unlike any other in human history and we can make a real difference and we should find out how to do it safely and accurately. I hope that in 20 years you will be able to go to a doctor and get a security patch shot that upgrades your tumor supressor genes, grants immunity to a wide range of viruses, improves your regeneration capabilities and your lifespan. That is my goal and that is what I am working towards.
I would bet that Editas and other companies switch over to this almost immediately. The problem with Cas9 is the blunt ends and that makes it much harder to do highly specific genome editing but it does work. This method looks vastly better and just as easy to work with. It is hard to explain why the creation of sticky ends is so much better. The old method would be like sawing a piece of wood straight through and the new method a cut half way through, a horizontal cut and then completes it the rest of the way down so you have an overhang. The overhang makes the method far more precise for hooking up new sequences.
I can't wait for us to finally start curing genetic diseases at the source. Biotechnology is progressing so quickly right now and many of the things we have already created are amazing but I don't think this is even the tip of the iceburg yet. Once we can cure genetic problems that will deal with a huge amount of health problems that humans have and these techniques are actually cheap. CRISPR is easy to do and easy to replicate.
It is going to be an interesting next few decades coming up.:)
They are over specific issues. If the USA and EU countries have laws about copyright and DMCA type laws then those would be enforced and it would have nothing to do with data protection laws.
I don't know if the EU and the USA have treaties for data protection laws that cover this kind of issue.
I know I can say things in the USA that are illegal in many EU countries and the USA won't deport for that ever. Very few laws are respected internationally.
Haven't most if not all EU countries signed treaties with the USA that allows the DMCA and equivalent laws in the signatory countries to apply to everyone that signed the treaties? I am pretty sure at least that Germany and the USA have a treaty for that one and if something is taken down by a DMCA complaint in the USA it is also removed for Germany at least because of a treat that the USA and Germany signed.
That is NOT the same as USA law applying world wide.
This one drug has raised cancer survival rates for many types of cancers from 5% to 95% or so by allowing your immune system to be kept strong while undergoing chemotherapy. This drug is temporary only and once you are off chemotherapy as your bone marrow recovers the dosage is lowered until your body fully recovers and it is no longer needed.
There are also DNA and RNA based drugs and even gene therapies using editing techniques like CRISPR-CAS9. Editas just receiver a little over a hundred million to work on gene editing to correct the gene that causes Huntington's disease and also to work on upgrading tumor suppressor genes.
Most of these are all permanent cures and not treatments. Some are used as treatments short term until we are more confident of their safety since once you change someones DNA is becomes a much bigger problem if you screw up.
I agree that small molecule drugs have a massive number of side effects since the molecules are so non-specific. That is why in the USA at least most research is in biotech drugs. They are highly specific and they usually have almost no side effects since we are not making anything new. Pretty much all of biotech is just artificially creating a natural molecule that for some medical reason your body is not making at the time. It is not some new molecule that is foreign to your body.
It is nice to talk with someone having a civil conversation also.
I find that if I stay to standard c++, MPI and OpenMP my code is just a recompile away from running on a Linux cluster. Most of my code ends up running on Linux clusters it is just the development on a Laptop that is easier under Windows.
In the end I suspect that nothing is ever 100% ideal. It is easier to do development under Linux for python by quite a bit compared to Windows You just end up using what works best given the resources you have at the time.
I pretty much only work on biotech development so protein, RNA and DNA based medications. The problem is that they are so hard to make and in many cases companies do know of drugs to cure some diseases and they are not brought to market because they can't figure out how to make them. When you are talking about making 10^23 molecules of something and each one has 10K atoms and each one has to have every single one of those connected correctly and an error rate of less than.001% it is basically at the limits of our technology. There are things that teams of scientists work on for years in a lab and they come up with only a few doses and attempts to build the same drug on a larger scale just turn out to be failures. Some drugs companies try to make for 5 years or more before finally giving up on them until the technology improves.
My goal is to use computer simulations to figure out how to manufacture the drugs. I like Linux a lot but in the end I care more about the drugs being available and will use whatever tool is the most appropriate at the time. That means Linux, Windows, free and proprietary software.
Hibernation means that I can have my laptop go to zero power usage but also restore the exact state it was at (with all programs running) as it was when I powered it off and it will return in about 5 seconds to full running again.
I can have virtual machines, IDE, profiler all setup and running and hibernate the computer for several hours and then use it again at another location.
I have 2 1TB 850 EVOs in my laptop and it does not boot as fast as it comes out of hibernation. From cold boot to full working desktop is probably 20 seconds and hibernate is 5 seconds.
It has to do with static thread local storage and dynamically loading libraries. I don't know why the error does not occur with Windows ever but it seems to be within the design of glibc. There are ways to work around it but making sure some of the libraries you need the most are loaded first but then other stuff can just fail later.
MATLAB is easy to install and easy to use under Linux but with this bug that it seems there is no realistic way to fix it can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
I know they would like to do more and I understand it is a very hard problem to solve.
I just don't want to deal with the problems anymore. If they figure it out great I will try it and see how it works but if not I will just use Windows 10, Visual Studio, Intel developer tools and MATLAB.
Linux runs on the laptop and all hardware is detected and supported but power management does not work as well as it does under windows by a long shot and GPGPU is a pain in the neck because of optimus support.
By runs slower I mean when I am doing OpenMP applications they are actually running slower under linux. I am not sure how it works but for some reason under Linux I get higher reported temperatures and the CPU does not stay in the higher turbo ranges like it does under windows.
I installed the Linux pstate driver for a Haswell i7 chip and I have it using the performance governnor.
My other issue is when I try to use the dedicated GPU for GPGPU work it is a pain in the ass under Linux. I know it is not Linux's fault that it does not support technology like optimus very well but that doesn't change that it still makes it a pain in the ass.
I used to use Linux as pretty much my only OS. But since going back to school and working on biotech drug process development I have found my goals have changed. I will use free software if it works better but overall for doing very high performance c++ (OpenMP and MPI) it is easier to develop and debug with Visual Studio and the Intel developer tools under windows.
At this point I just want software that works so I can do my primary work of writing computers simulations to help us manufacture drugs that we can't currently figure out how to manufacture and make cures and treatments available to people that need them. Fiddling with my OS to get it to work is just not worth it anymore. I have not had Windows 8.1 crash on this laptop and the upgrade to Windows 10 went without any problems.
This kind of stuff is why I use Windows as my primary OS now. I have a laptop and I have to be mobile right now. With Linux on my laptop I lose about 25% of the battery life and it also runs slower compared to Windows. Even worse it does not hibernate correctly and even sleep sometimes screws up. Sometimes when it wakes up from sleep under Linux the USB ports don't work.
I have just gotten tired of dealing with these issues and after all this time it is pretty clear that it is not a priority for developers of Linux. It is just easier to have virtualbox with Linux installed under Windows and use that.
Do you really think a highly educated indian male with a masters degree already and applying to a German university for a PhD and probably to stay if accepted is a likely person that supports all the rape that happens in india? So far my experience in Germany is that the Indian students I have met say that the rape culture is evil and they need to find a way to fix it but they have no idea how to do it.
An Indian with a German PhD would end up being a highly productive member of society for any of the EU countries and countries like Germany actively make it easy for people with advanced degrees to get in and find jobs.
In the end the view is definitely racism and unwarranted.
However if would NOT recommend that any woman actually go to India since you would not exactly be around the best at brightest that way.
This is exactly the kind of operation I like seeing. People treated like people with safety standards, rights etc. They come and do the job and stay within the bounds of their visa.
I think we would all be better off if everyone that came into this country (at least to the extent feasible) came in on an actual visa and passed a basic background check. If you have things as big as people making it across your border without knowing then lots of other stuff makes it across also and that is a large security hole that should be dealt with.
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Use MPI BETWEEN nodes and OpenMP WITHIN a node. MPI is always going to be slower on a single node than threads are and for HPC type loads it can easily be 100x slower to use processes instead of threads due to communications overhead.
It should not be equal since that makes it seem like the evidence is equal. Maybe under the talking heads there should be some kind of number of bar to indicate the percent support for the view. 97% vs 3% is not an equal debate. Especially when the 97% is from a pretty wide mix of fields that are involved with the environment.
Other viewpoints should be shown but you should have some kind of threshold. Should the media cover the 99.99% vs 0.01% ? At what point can you disregard the other side until it has at least gained traction in the scientific community.
You could even have the media only report scientific consensus on the issues, report that there is still 3% opposition to it within the scientific community and say that research is still being done. There is really no reason that scientific controversy to air in the media since the people watching are completely unqualified to take any part in the issue. Armchair scientist does not work and people massively misunderstand what is said and what it means because scientists don't use words the same way the average person does.
No I am saying that it should be possible for them to get a warrant and perform a search upon probable cause and a warrant but that it is incompatible with end-to-end encryption and end-to-end encryption is more important.
I wish there was a way to do both but I just don't see a way to do it.
The FBI and NSA are right that good default crypto will make it harder to catch criminals and the extremely rare terrorists. It will also make it harder to catch people doing quite a number of other bad things.
However, they also brought this on themselves. Overall this is like the response to ads online. Ads got so extremely bad that people just installed adblockers that block everything. Now many sites are finding it hard to even survive due to ads being blocked. If you unblock the ads on the site though you find out the ads are extreme with sound, video, taking over clicks, and with dozens of ads on a page and so you go back to blocking.
If the Ad industry had stayed to banner ads and maybe one or two small ads on the sidebars of a page and with no music or video then it is likely that people would not have gone to the effort to block them. They created this mess all on their own.
If the NSA had not started watching everyone in a fairly blatant violation of the law and the courts made it so you can't even try to stop them since they rule you have not standing since you can't prove you where watched then this reaction would not be happening. What the NSA did damaged Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and many others along with pissing off average people a lot. When the average person thought the NSA was just going after evil people outside the country they where okay with it. Finding out they go after citizens in the country also is unacceptable.
I have no idea how to deal with the actual legitimate concerns of the NSA and FBI and also deal with their abuse. We all know that they will keep abusing their powers if they can. If you compromise encryption in any way then others will find the backdoors also and use them.
This is not a good situation and in the end I don't know how it will play out. It should be possible for the NSA and FBI to get access to data upon probably cause and with a court order I just don't see any realistic way to do that anymore given what they have done.
This seems like a recipe to have complete stagnation. Developing and getting a new technology made available would be a horrible battle every time.
If our economic system can't survive with our changing technology then it is time to change the economic system and not the technology.
The VAST majority of people fear change and if they voted on allowing laptops, cell phones, genetic engineering, self driving cars, the internet etc it would all be not allowed. If you want to fight change and live the past there are countries that follow that path. Mostly they are not doing very well.
I AGREE with this entirely.
It would be cheaper to pay these people to do nothing with taxes than the current friction they generate in the economy. However, I think that most of them have skills more useful elsewhere or could learn more useful skills. We should be investing in the population to get the greatest return on that investment.
Negotiation is a waste of time and energy.
I have no interesting in playing games with price. You charge a fair price and I will buy. You charge an unfair price and I won't. I won't even talk to you about the price. If I think it is unfair compared to a simple internet search I will just go elsewhere.
I care about solving problems related to making drugs for curing things like cancer available. I care about figuring out new ones to optimize a problem. Talking to a human to figure out a price on something just does not make the list of anything I am interested in. If I have to talk to you to figure out a price you already cost too much.
That is why I do pretty much everything online.
I don't negotiate. I find what I want and order what I want.
When I go back to the USA if I have to have a car I will get a Tesla so I don't deal with any of that crap.
I don't like poker, I don't like bluffing, and I hate haggling. The whole competing thing just to get a car at a reasonable price is insane and a gigantic waste of time across the entire society.
I DESPISE haggling. I won't do it under any circumstances. I find it to be a major waste of time and energy.
When I give someone a price that is the price and it is not open to negotiation. If I see a price and I think it is fair I will pay it, if not I will go somewhere else and that is the end of it.
If there is somewhere that only does haggling I would just not go there ever. If there is an item that can only be bought with haggling I will just not buy it or pay someone else to do it.
So out of curiosity how do you think we should develop GMO crops without patents? These things cost billions of dollars in very hard R&D to develop and bring to market. Without a patent then anyone will grow some of your seeds and then sell them next year to compete with your seeds and they had to do none of the work.
If you want to replace this system you must come up with an alternative.
No patents on living organisms would also screw over the biotech industry. What if I make a new tumor supressor gene from scratch that is better than any human gene and would 100% prevent cancer. As soon as I treated the first person someone would just have their DNA read and find the sequence and sell it without doing any of the R&D.
I understand not liking patents on living things but if you want technology developed our current economic system required a profit motive and without that motive the technology won't be created. This is not like computer programming where a few people on no budget can do amazing work and change things. This stuff is insanely expensive and hard to do. Reaction ingredients alone would bankrupt most people.
You should have looked at my signature. :)
I have already done some genetic engineering and I am going to be doing a lot more of it in the future since that is part of my profession. There are risks and there will be mistakes but not trying won't help anymore. Imagine how long it would have taken us to make jet airplanes if we didn't even try to learn how to fly until we where completely sure?
There are drugs today that raise cancer survival rates from 5% to 95%. There are diseases caused by a single defective gene that we can cure. Heck we can now build a robotic arm that has a sense of touch and wire it to your BRAIN. 10 years ago the state of the art was still a danged hook.
Technology is changing quickly and biotech/nanotech developments are going to allow us to cure problems we never even imagined would be cureable. Long term I hope to work for Google's biotech company and work on solving human aging.
The best reason ever to climb a mountain is "because it is there" and I feel the same way about this. We have an opportunity that is unlike any other in human history and we can make a real difference and we should find out how to do it safely and accurately. I hope that in 20 years you will be able to go to a doctor and get a security patch shot that upgrades your tumor supressor genes, grants immunity to a wide range of viruses, improves your regeneration capabilities and your lifespan. That is my goal and that is what I am working towards.
I would bet that Editas and other companies switch over to this almost immediately. The problem with Cas9 is the blunt ends and that makes it much harder to do highly specific genome editing but it does work. This method looks vastly better and just as easy to work with. It is hard to explain why the creation of sticky ends is so much better. The old method would be like sawing a piece of wood straight through and the new method a cut half way through, a horizontal cut and then completes it the rest of the way down so you have an overhang. The overhang makes the method far more precise for hooking up new sequences.
I can't wait for us to finally start curing genetic diseases at the source. Biotechnology is progressing so quickly right now and many of the things we have already created are amazing but I don't think this is even the tip of the iceburg yet. Once we can cure genetic problems that will deal with a huge amount of health problems that humans have and these techniques are actually cheap. CRISPR is easy to do and easy to replicate.
It is going to be an interesting next few decades coming up. :)
This is not how laws and treaties work.
They are over specific issues. If the USA and EU countries have laws about copyright and DMCA type laws then those would be enforced and it would have nothing to do with data protection laws.
I don't know if the EU and the USA have treaties for data protection laws that cover this kind of issue.
I know I can say things in the USA that are illegal in many EU countries and the USA won't deport for that ever. Very few laws are respected internationally.
Haven't most if not all EU countries signed treaties with the USA that allows the DMCA and equivalent laws in the signatory countries to apply to everyone that signed the treaties? I am pretty sure at least that Germany and the USA have a treaty for that one and if something is taken down by a DMCA complaint in the USA it is also removed for Germany at least because of a treat that the USA and Germany signed.
That is NOT the same as USA law applying world wide.
I have 24G of ram and resuming from hibernation and having my apps all working again is MUCH faster than a cold boot to apps working.
I only work with biotech drugs. I do not do ANYTHING with small molecule drugs and those are the kinds that have all the nasty side effects.
Biotech drugs are things like Filgrastim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This one drug has raised cancer survival rates for many types of cancers from 5% to 95% or so by allowing your immune system to be kept strong while undergoing chemotherapy. This drug is temporary only and once you are off chemotherapy as your bone marrow recovers the dosage is lowered until your body fully recovers and it is no longer needed.
There are also DNA and RNA based drugs and even gene therapies using editing techniques like CRISPR-CAS9. Editas just receiver a little over a hundred million to work on gene editing to correct the gene that causes Huntington's disease and also to work on upgrading tumor suppressor genes.
Most of these are all permanent cures and not treatments. Some are used as treatments short term until we are more confident of their safety since once you change someones DNA is becomes a much bigger problem if you screw up.
I agree that small molecule drugs have a massive number of side effects since the molecules are so non-specific. That is why in the USA at least most research is in biotech drugs. They are highly specific and they usually have almost no side effects since we are not making anything new. Pretty much all of biotech is just artificially creating a natural molecule that for some medical reason your body is not making at the time. It is not some new molecule that is foreign to your body.
It is nice to talk with someone having a civil conversation also.
I find that if I stay to standard c++, MPI and OpenMP my code is just a recompile away from running on a Linux cluster. Most of my code ends up running on Linux clusters it is just the development on a Laptop that is easier under Windows.
In the end I suspect that nothing is ever 100% ideal. It is easier to do development under Linux for python by quite a bit compared to Windows You just end up using what works best given the resources you have at the time.
I pretty much only work on biotech development so protein, RNA and DNA based medications. The problem is that they are so hard to make and in many cases companies do know of drugs to cure some diseases and they are not brought to market because they can't figure out how to make them. When you are talking about making 10^23 molecules of something and each one has 10K atoms and each one has to have every single one of those connected correctly and an error rate of less than .001% it is basically at the limits of our technology. There are things that teams of scientists work on for years in a lab and they come up with only a few doses and attempts to build the same drug on a larger scale just turn out to be failures. Some drugs companies try to make for 5 years or more before finally giving up on them until the technology improves.
My goal is to use computer simulations to figure out how to manufacture the drugs. I like Linux a lot but in the end I care more about the drugs being available and will use whatever tool is the most appropriate at the time. That means Linux, Windows, free and proprietary software.
Hibernation means that I can have my laptop go to zero power usage but also restore the exact state it was at (with all programs running) as it was when I powered it off and it will return in about 5 seconds to full running again.
I can have virtual machines, IDE, profiler all setup and running and hibernate the computer for several hours and then use it again at another location.
I have 2 1TB 850 EVOs in my laptop and it does not boot as fast as it comes out of hibernation. From cold boot to full working desktop is probably 20 seconds and hibernate is 5 seconds.
MATLAB is cross platform but if you have a lot of toolboxes you can start to run into errors under Linux with it.
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
It has to do with static thread local storage and dynamically loading libraries. I don't know why the error does not occur with Windows ever but it seems to be within the design of glibc. There are ways to work around it but making sure some of the libraries you need the most are loaded first but then other stuff can just fail later.
MATLAB is easy to install and easy to use under Linux but with this bug that it seems there is no realistic way to fix it can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
I know they would like to do more and I understand it is a very hard problem to solve.
I just don't want to deal with the problems anymore. If they figure it out great I will try it and see how it works but if not I will just use Windows 10, Visual Studio, Intel developer tools and MATLAB.
Linux runs on the laptop and all hardware is detected and supported but power management does not work as well as it does under windows by a long shot and GPGPU is a pain in the neck because of optimus support.
By runs slower I mean when I am doing OpenMP applications they are actually running slower under linux. I am not sure how it works but for some reason under Linux I get higher reported temperatures and the CPU does not stay in the higher turbo ranges like it does under windows.
I installed the Linux pstate driver for a Haswell i7 chip and I have it using the performance governnor.
My other issue is when I try to use the dedicated GPU for GPGPU work it is a pain in the ass under Linux. I know it is not Linux's fault that it does not support technology like optimus very well but that doesn't change that it still makes it a pain in the ass.
I used to use Linux as pretty much my only OS. But since going back to school and working on biotech drug process development I have found my goals have changed. I will use free software if it works better but overall for doing very high performance c++ (OpenMP and MPI) it is easier to develop and debug with Visual Studio and the Intel developer tools under windows.
At this point I just want software that works so I can do my primary work of writing computers simulations to help us manufacture drugs that we can't currently figure out how to manufacture and make cures and treatments available to people that need them. Fiddling with my OS to get it to work is just not worth it anymore. I have not had Windows 8.1 crash on this laptop and the upgrade to Windows 10 went without any problems.
This kind of stuff is why I use Windows as my primary OS now. I have a laptop and I have to be mobile right now. With Linux on my laptop I lose about 25% of the battery life and it also runs slower compared to Windows. Even worse it does not hibernate correctly and even sleep sometimes screws up. Sometimes when it wakes up from sleep under Linux the USB ports don't work.
I have just gotten tired of dealing with these issues and after all this time it is pretty clear that it is not a priority for developers of Linux. It is just easier to have virtualbox with Linux installed under Windows and use that.
Do you really think a highly educated indian male with a masters degree already and applying to a German university for a PhD and probably to stay if accepted is a likely person that supports all the rape that happens in india? So far my experience in Germany is that the Indian students I have met say that the rape culture is evil and they need to find a way to fix it but they have no idea how to do it.
An Indian with a German PhD would end up being a highly productive member of society for any of the EU countries and countries like Germany actively make it easy for people with advanced degrees to get in and find jobs.
In the end the view is definitely racism and unwarranted.
However if would NOT recommend that any woman actually go to India since you would not exactly be around the best at brightest that way.
This is exactly the kind of operation I like seeing. People treated like people with safety standards, rights etc. They come and do the job and stay within the bounds of their visa.
I think we would all be better off if everyone that came into this country (at least to the extent feasible) came in on an actual visa and passed a basic background check. If you have things as big as people making it across your border without knowing then lots of other stuff makes it across also and that is a large security hole that should be dealt with.