What that rule means is that they can kick someone off the grid if they draw on too much... Which is, in practice, rationing. "This is your alloted amount"
You haven't heard about Dreamhack before? It's been pretty much the biggest since they took the crown from The Gathering back in the early 2000's sometime. They went into Guiness book of world records as the biggest lan party in 2004, and have grown immensely since then.
Since I forgot to add this in the previous post *Sigh*
Volunteering for Dreamhack Crew can actually be a pretty good career move for young network techs/admins, to get some solid high intensity practical work to put on their resume, though it's not the only thing volunteers are required for, volunteers also cover sales, ticket checks, security(together with local police and a security company), fire hazard patrols etc.
Indeed. Dreamhack is a corporate entity nowadays, and the events are run with a small core of employed people, and a large heap of volunteers(Around 450 people at DHW)
Actually, 100/100 Mb/s is pretty nice to have in a fairly normal Swedish family nowadays, many ordinary people put it to practical use(something all the beautiful snowflake geeks wish to pretend they don't, just to justify their torrent leeching), what with people uploading to Youtube, uploading photos in high-res, doing their own streaming, as well as them all watching vids etc.
As for Gigabit, assymetrical is available in some places for residential use here in Sweden. Here in Stockholm it's available in some areas, with Bredbandsbolaget, and it's SEK899/month for 500-1000 down and 60-100 up.
ÃÂÃ 5.3 Each Table Seat may use an average of 275W. Please observe that the effect your power supply can handle is not the same as what it uses! More information on this can be read under the [Information: Electricity and net info] section on DreamHackâ(TM)s website.
Nowadays, the parties are mostly about gaming, but the nordic lan parties, as a nod to their ancestry from the old demo parties, still have non-gaming competitions, such as photo contests, video contests etc etc.
Though I'm a bit mixed about the removal of some competitions, such as speed drinking of soda, printer/disk/monitor throwing etc...
Not many rigs at Dreamhack are like that. Those are mostly in the expo area.
From the rules: ÃÂÃ 5.3 Each Table Seat may use an average of 275W. Please observe that the effect your power supply can handle is not the same as what it uses! More information on this can be read under the [Information: Electricity and net info] section on DreamHackâ(TM)s website.
Actually, monster rigs are discouraged, and in fact, many just bring laptops and a standalone monitor.
In fact, power consumption is rationed at the event:
ÃÂÃ 5.3 Each Table Seat may use an average of 275W. Please observe that the effect your power supply can handle is not the same as what it uses! More information on this can be read under the [Information: Electricity and net info] section on DreamHackâ(TM)s website.
That average covers not just the computer+screen, but also if you charge your cellphone or camera. You're not allowed to bring hot plates, microwave ovens etc.
Your estimate of the Dreamhack "BYOC" population is on the low side. You can be sure that up above 10k of the 13k+ computers connected to the public LAN at this DHW were strictly BYOC.
Evolution is strictly genetic. All the others are merely artificial constructs, abstractions for those to disguise the real world. In a way, it can be summed up as style over substance.
Except that railways carry goods also, not just people, and far more cheaply for mass distribution of goods than air can ever match. Oh, and btw, as a passenger on a train, you can carry on fluids, food, electronics etc, and you can comfortably tap away, you can walk around to stretch your legs etc.
The difference with the Pentium 350 is that it is HT and supports VT-x and ECC. And has a TDP of 15W.
I'm trying to dump the Zacate I bought about a month ago onto someone now, and buy a Pentium 350 instead.... The Zacate gets rather hot(noticed 67 degrees Celsius from on-die sensor) when decoding a movie for example, even with a fan. With the Pentium 350 and a GT 520 for example, I could go completely fanless, and not reach those temperatures.
Was true for earlier generations, but this one has VT-x, which is why I'm beating myself... =(
2 cores/4 threads, 1.2GHz, VT-x... I should have waited for it. Fanless CPU and a low-power GPU that can easily be run fanless, such as a GT520 or something, instead of the fucking Zacate that gets hot as hell even with a fan when you put a slight load on it.... Hitting 67 degrees Celsius when decoding a movie on the GPU.
If you had read the context, you'd have seen that it was how important to count performance/watt.
Unlike CPU power, upgrading cooling, power and physical space can't be made in small increments, it requires massive engineering and physical construction, and takes months, possibly over a year if you have a huge data center. Therefore, it is important to factor in power, cooling and physical space costs.
Anyone who works on the engineering side knows that. System administration and comp.sci weenies tend to be rather clueless about it however... "Oh, just pile in more stuff...."
Pointing out and flaming astroturfers has always been a part of Slashdot. And if you read Unity100's post history, you'll see that it looks like AMD's PR department going at it.
Basically, everything you've said so far was that you treated the GPU like a slot-in general purpose processor, which it's not. Take a look at what's been done in the INDUSTRY, not academia, to see how effective GPU's are at image recognition and processing.
Games push boundaries that academia has yet to reach.
In special effects, multi-object motion path detection, tracking and compensation is done on GPU's nowadays, because a cheap GPU can do it more efficiently than an expensive multi-core Xeon or Opteron.
In military use, low-power GPU's are used over heavy duty multi-core CPU's, because they offer better performance for their image recognition and processing tasks and can be packed into a smaller more heat and power efficient package.(For example, UAV's, most modern ones just encode the data streams, send it back to operators console, where a GPU decodes and processes it.
Even with the Crays or the IBM Power series or Mainframes, despite their hardware costs, the big focus over the lifetime of the systems is the triangle relationship of power, cooling and physical space costs, which all affect each other btw.
In the HPC facilities I work with, they consider any yearly average utilization rate below 90% to be abysmal, and anything below 95% is still really bad.(And that doesn't just factor in compute jobs, but also system maintenance, replacement of dead nodes etc. Only exceptions are when a cluster is being majorly upgraded/rebuilt).
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What that rule means is that they can kick someone off the grid if they draw on too much... Which is, in practice, rationing. "This is your alloted amount"
You haven't heard about Dreamhack before? It's been pretty much the biggest since they took the crown from The Gathering back in the early 2000's sometime. They went into Guiness book of world records as the biggest lan party in 2004, and have grown immensely since then.
Since I forgot to add this in the previous post *Sigh*
Volunteering for Dreamhack Crew can actually be a pretty good career move for young network techs/admins, to get some solid high intensity practical work to put on their resume, though it's not the only thing volunteers are required for, volunteers also cover sales, ticket checks, security(together with local police and a security company), fire hazard patrols etc.
Indeed. Dreamhack is a corporate entity nowadays, and the events are run with a small core of employed people, and a large heap of volunteers(Around 450 people at DHW)
Everyone with a table seat got 100Mb/s except those seated at Telia's VIP tables, who got 1000Mb/s.
The traffic from the LAN to the WAN on the router, as was seen on the public dashboard, was pretty low in RELATIVE terms... often it was below 1Gb/s :p
Actually, 100/100 Mb/s is pretty nice to have in a fairly normal Swedish family nowadays, many ordinary people put it to practical use(something all the beautiful snowflake geeks wish to pretend they don't, just to justify their torrent leeching), what with people uploading to Youtube, uploading photos in high-res, doing their own streaming, as well as them all watching vids etc.
As for Gigabit, assymetrical is available in some places for residential use here in Sweden. Here in Stockholm it's available in some areas, with Bredbandsbolaget, and it's SEK899/month for 500-1000 down and 60-100 up.
SMB/CIFS is often blocked at events like this.
As I've posted elsewhere:
The electricity is rationed.
ÃÂÃ 5.3 Each Table Seat may use an average of 275W. Please observe that the effect your power supply can handle is not the same as what it uses! More information on this can be read under the [Information: Electricity and net info] section on DreamHackâ(TM)s website.
Nowadays, the parties are mostly about gaming, but the nordic lan parties, as a nod to their ancestry from the old demo parties, still have non-gaming competitions, such as photo contests, video contests etc etc.
Though I'm a bit mixed about the removal of some competitions, such as speed drinking of soda, printer/disk/monitor throwing etc...
Not many rigs at Dreamhack are like that. Those are mostly in the expo area.
From the rules:
ÃÂÃ 5.3 Each Table Seat may use an average of 275W. Please observe that the effect your power supply can handle is not the same as what it uses! More information on this can be read under the [Information: Electricity and net info] section on DreamHackâ(TM)s website.
Actually, monster rigs are discouraged, and in fact, many just bring laptops and a standalone monitor.
In fact, power consumption is rationed at the event:
ÃÂÃ 5.3 Each Table Seat may use an average of 275W. Please observe that the effect your power supply can handle is not the same as what it uses! More information on this can be read under the [Information: Electricity and net info] section on DreamHackâ(TM)s website.
That average covers not just the computer+screen, but also if you charge your cellphone or camera. You're not allowed to bring hot plates, microwave ovens etc.
Then there's the fire hazard rules....
Your estimate of the Dreamhack "BYOC" population is on the low side. You can be sure that up above 10k of the 13k+ computers connected to the public LAN at this DHW were strictly BYOC.
Evolution is strictly genetic. All the others are merely artificial constructs, abstractions for those to disguise the real world. In a way, it can be summed up as style over substance.
So you're an evolutionary dead-end in other words.
Except that railways carry goods also, not just people, and far more cheaply for mass distribution of goods than air can ever match. Oh, and btw, as a passenger on a train, you can carry on fluids, food, electronics etc, and you can comfortably tap away, you can walk around to stretch your legs etc.
And often, the longer travel time of a train doesn't matter that much, it can actually be beneficial health wise and performance wise. For example, when I've had meetings with clients up in Luleå here in Sweden(about 725km between them straight line, more like 900km if you travel by rail) at 09:00, I've always preferred to travel by train. That means I take the subway to the train station, board the night train, spend a couple of hours reading the material for the meeting, then sleep. Arrive in the middle of Luleå in time to get a decent breakfast at a café, and then the meeting. In contrast, if I were to travel by air: Wake up at 04:00 AT BEST, travel to airport(and at this time of the morning, it's cab, nearest airport is 6.5km away), go through all the airport stuff, wait a while at the airport... And sure, the travel is shorter, but then I have to take a cab from the airport I arrived at in worst case, I won't really have time to get a decent breakfast(and airport cafés and restaurants are pretty damn shite), and will arrive at the meeting already slightly frazzled. Adding in the cab fares, even with a budget ticket for air travel, it will be more expensive than the train+local mass transit, the train will be more comfortable, and less stressful. If I fly up the evening before, I also need to factor in the cost of a night at a hotel, making air travel even more expensive.
Don't know about the others, but for the 350 it's 76 degrees Celsius.
http://ark.intel.com/products/61272/Intel-Pentium-Processor-350-(3M-Cache-1_2-GHz)
The difference with the Pentium 350 is that it is HT and supports VT-x and ECC. And has a TDP of 15W.
I'm trying to dump the Zacate I bought about a month ago onto someone now, and buy a Pentium 350 instead.... The Zacate gets rather hot(noticed 67 degrees Celsius from on-die sensor) when decoding a movie for example, even with a fan. With the Pentium 350 and a GT 520 for example, I could go completely fanless, and not reach those temperatures.
Wrong, socialization is important for the mental health of all people, even people with autism spectrum disorders.
Forgot to add this btw:
It also supports ECC, so if you find a mobo that supports it...
It's the Intel Pentium 350 btw.
Was true for earlier generations, but this one has VT-x, which is why I'm beating myself... =(
2 cores/4 threads, 1.2GHz, VT-x... I should have waited for it. Fanless CPU and a low-power GPU that can easily be run fanless, such as a GT520 or something, instead of the fucking Zacate that gets hot as hell even with a fan when you put a slight load on it.... Hitting 67 degrees Celsius when decoding a movie on the GPU.
If you had read the context, you'd have seen that it was how important to count performance/watt.
Unlike CPU power, upgrading cooling, power and physical space can't be made in small increments, it requires massive engineering and physical construction, and takes months, possibly over a year if you have a huge data center. Therefore, it is important to factor in power, cooling and physical space costs.
Anyone who works on the engineering side knows that. System administration and comp.sci weenies tend to be rather clueless about it however... "Oh, just pile in more stuff...."
Pointing out and flaming astroturfers has always been a part of Slashdot. And if you read Unity100's post history, you'll see that it looks like AMD's PR department going at it.
The yield issues comes from Global Foundries problems with the 32nm process.
Oh, it was an academic project. No wonder then.
Basically, everything you've said so far was that you treated the GPU like a slot-in general purpose processor, which it's not. Take a look at what's been done in the INDUSTRY, not academia, to see how effective GPU's are at image recognition and processing.
Games push boundaries that academia has yet to reach.
In special effects, multi-object motion path detection, tracking and compensation is done on GPU's nowadays, because a cheap GPU can do it more efficiently than an expensive multi-core Xeon or Opteron.
In military use, low-power GPU's are used over heavy duty multi-core CPU's, because they offer better performance for their image recognition and processing tasks and can be packed into a smaller more heat and power efficient package.(For example, UAV's, most modern ones just encode the data streams, send it back to operators console, where a GPU decodes and processes it.
Every data center that is even remotely serious:
Even with the Crays or the IBM Power series or Mainframes, despite their hardware costs, the big focus over the lifetime of the systems is the triangle relationship of power, cooling and physical space costs, which all affect each other btw.
In the HPC facilities I work with, they consider any yearly average utilization rate below 90% to be abysmal, and anything below 95% is still really bad.(And that doesn't just factor in compute jobs, but also system maintenance, replacement of dead nodes etc. Only exceptions are when a cluster is being majorly upgraded/rebuilt).