Rarely used muscle group. Hold your arms out at 90 degrees to get over the check signing table, palms down, and see how much you can lift. Then try it when you are 70+ years old.
SGI Altix. they have a 1024 box at ARL or NASA I think. They are claiming scalable > 2048. These are Itanic boxes with numalink, single system image, running red hat. And they do kick butt. I had a 12 p loaner for a few months.
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Heh, I was sitting next to one of them today (yes, seriously) and thought about wringing it's neck when it beeped at me. Dumb bots.
You nailed it in one. That is exactly it. This is the first concise argument I have seen on this never ending topic. And I gave up even bothering to pay attention to this topic years ago as it is such a case of reality vs a head in butt industry.
When I sued my former landlord a few months ago, the only reply I got from her lawyer was a form type letter threatening removal to general district court. It seems to me that this is the first thing lawyers do when contending with laymen. I did not reply. Two days before the court date the lawyer called me and we settled out of court. While talking to him I was given the distinct impression that they cannot interfere with the small claims case (indeed, in VA they cannot even enter the court), but of course can counter sue in general district court. Go for a settlement.
I think you are missing an important point. "PC"s are converging on the old RISC chips and taking over in the HPC world. And yes, architecture does matter for these applications; being limited to 3.5 GB of memory on current x86 machines is a problem. You can bet that when these processors become viable there will be massive orders from DOE and the like. You also seem to miss that IBM, Sun, and HPQ make a significant amount of their revenue from selling 64 bit hardware which will come under intense pressure from commodity ia64.
I was driving to work in Nova Scotia a few years ago and the Halifax station about 60 miles away seemed to be coming very clearly... then I heard the DJ identify it as an Augusta station. Hmmm, I thought, that's cool, Augusta Maine. Nope, it was Austa Georgia, very authentic as they had a local news story about fishing someone out of a river who had been fitted with concrete shoes:-)
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Rarely used muscle group. Hold your arms out at 90 degrees to get over the check signing table, palms down, and see how much you can lift. Then try it when you are 70+ years old.
SGI Altix. they have a 1024 box at ARL or NASA I think. They are claiming scalable > 2048. These are Itanic boxes with numalink, single system image, running red hat. And they do kick butt. I had a 12 p loaner for a few months.
Heh, I was sitting next to one of them today (yes, seriously) and thought about wringing it's neck when it beeped at me. Dumb bots.
You nailed it in one. That is exactly it. This is the first concise argument I have seen on this never ending topic. And I gave up even bothering to pay attention to this topic years ago as it is such a case of reality vs a head in butt industry.
> (I still sneaker when I hear that title)
Oh, is "sneaker" a new verb? Do you have problems with shells scripts complaining about "run" or have problems with memory footprints?
When I sued my former landlord a few months ago, the only reply I got from her lawyer was a form type letter threatening removal to general district court. It seems to me that this is the first thing lawyers do when contending with laymen. I did not reply. Two days before the court date the lawyer called me and we settled out of court. While talking to him I was given the distinct impression that they cannot interfere with the small claims case (indeed, in VA they cannot even enter the court), but of course can counter sue in general district court. Go for a settlement.
Point taken. As far as I'm concerned, once x86 hit about 500 MHz, desktop performance became largely irrelevant.
It will be interesting to see what happens with research type clusters and ia64. I'll be watching PNNL with interest.
I think you are missing an important point. "PC"s are converging on the old RISC chips and taking over in the HPC world. And yes, architecture does matter for these applications; being limited to 3.5 GB of memory on current x86 machines is a problem. You can bet that when these processors become viable there will be massive orders from DOE and the like. You also seem to miss that IBM, Sun, and HPQ make a significant amount of their revenue from selling 64 bit hardware which will come under intense pressure from commodity ia64.
I aware of at least one company that has done this.
http://www.rlxtechnologies.com
They are SX-5's. Big, honkin' vector machines. A far cry from PC's.
I was driving to work in Nova Scotia a few years ago and the Halifax station about 60 miles away seemed to be coming very clearly... then I heard the DJ identify it as an Augusta station. Hmmm, I thought, that's cool, Augusta Maine. Nope, it was Austa Georgia, very authentic as they had a local news story about fishing someone out of a river who had been fitted with concrete shoes :-)