It's not only where you are, but what part of the industry. From my experience most of the industry (Intel, AMD/ATI, Nvidia, etc) are all Verilog houses. On the other hand anything that interacts with the government (research labs, IBM, defense contractors) are VHDL houses.
But really, it doesn't matter in the long run since there are no fundamental differences between the two. The syntax will take you a month or so to get used to, but the hardware you're designing will be the same. The hard part of hardware design is not typing out the code, but creating a good micro-architectural design with good documentation and diagrams of how all the pieces connect together. Once you have a solid uarch, translating that into either Verilog or VHDL should be very straightforward.
From the C++ prototype guide, which is just the ISA made into a terribly complex C++ wrapper, they support these transcendental functions in the ISA: EXP2_PS - Exponential Base-2 of Float32 Vector LOG2_PS - Logarithm Base-2 of Float32 Vector RECIP_PS - Reciprocal of a Float32 Vector RSQRT_PS - Reciprocal of the Square Root of a Float32 Vector
They also provide library functions that implement everything else you'd want (sin, cos, etc) in software, I assume using Newton-Raphson iteration.
You just described ECC scrubbing and Chipkill. The technology's been around for a while, but it costs >$0 to implement so most people don't bother. As with most RAS features most people don't know anything about it, so would rather pay $50 less than have a strange feature that could end up saving them hours of downtime. At the same time if you actually know what these features are and you need them, you're probably going to be willing to shell out the money to pay for them.
How is a random writeup on a tech blog the "real source"? The true real source is the NV press release and court filing they're hosting on their page. A good secondary source would be a mainstream writeup (Reuters, WSJ, etc). Random blogs like yours are a dime a dozen.
Even years of experience don't mean you'll get a job. I have a friend that dropped out of school in the early 80's, and has been a sysadmin ever since. She knows her specific part of sysadmining (networked file systems) inside and out, and is even friends with a number of the open source developers. However when she was recently looking for a new job a number of universities and companies wouldn't even look at her resume and experience because she didn't get a BS degree 20 years ago. Kinda dumb, but that's what she found.
Only very few tech companies that are huge and have been around forever pay dividends. The only examples I can find in the tech sector that pay dividends are IBM, Intel, Sony and HP.
The entire point of a publicly traded company is to increase shareholder value. One easy way to do this is to simply give the share holders money in the form of dividends. The other choice is to invest back into the company. If the company is still growing then there's a good chance that investing $X million into R&D/employees/capitol improvements/whatever will result in the company improving it's market capitalization by more than $X mill. If that's the case, then that produces more value for the shareholder and is the proper choice.
Basically dividends, and stock buy-backs which are effectively the same thing, are an easy way out when a company has more money than it knows how to make useful investments with.
correction: it's a good photoshop, because it fooled us enough to dig deeper. i think they succeeded in their prank marvelously.
Fooling a/. "editor" doesn't make it a good photoshop. It took me about a second to realize it was a hoax, and less than 30 more to look up the above link. I guess that was a bit too much effort for samzenpus.
The cars on all the side streets and all the shadows are exactly the same. Someone just photoshoped out the cars on the main street and put in the smily. Nothing to see here.
Years ago (like 5 years or something) he got some official info from NV and then turned around and leaked it. In response NV stopped having any official contact with the Inq, Charlie specifically. Charlie took this personally or something and has been on a vendetta against NV ever since.
What on earth are you talking about? 3DFx died because it was horribly mismanaged and ran out of money. There were lawsuits, but 3dfx sued NV first in 1998 and then in 2000 NV counter-sued (source). True NV's countersuit was right before 3dfx died, but a simple lawsuit that's gone nowhere in the courts yet doesn't cause a company to go bankrupt overnight.
Personally I'll believe one of my (ex-3dfx Austin) friend's explanation for their downfall: the fully stocked Tequila bar that was free to all employees. Or there's a whole list of problems leading to their decline on wikipedia.
They might be telling the truth, depending on how they share the hosts and how they have logins setup.
HTTPS is not possible with virtual hosts (where foo.com and bar.com are both running on 1.2.3.4). The reason being is that the HTTP server doesn't know if you're talking to foo.com or bar.com until after the connection has started, but it needs to send out one of their certificates in order to get the connection started.
I'd guess FTPS has the same issue, as the FTP server won't know what to respond as. SFTP/SSH do not have this issue since there are no 3rd party certificates that identify the server.
So basically if they let you SSH into the box, you can do SFTP and it'll just work. If they don't let you SFTP into the box and you're on a shared host with a shared IP address, they can't set it up to login directly to your account. They could setup ftps://ftp.myhost.com/foo.com or something, but that's a completely different infrastructure they might not have.
There is a problem with the chips, there is no doubt about that. However take anything Charlie says about it with a huge truckload of salt. There was a bit of bad blood between Nvidia and Charlie years ago (something like 4 or 5 now), and ever since they've refused to talk to anyone from the Inquirer and Charlie specifically.
It's not inside the chip. They've said it's in the die/packaging. You use solder to connect the die to the packaging, and then again solder the packaging to the board.
Every single person in the media village is attached to one of the media organizations covering the Olympics. That means every penny they spend will be 100% reimbursed by the corporation that has them out there. The company's already spending millions to send the manpower and equipment over there, what's an extra $1k here or there? And of course it's only for 1 month, that's how long the Olympics are.
This is the same as all business hotels. Your run of the mill Best Western, Days Inn, etc family chains all have free Wifi internet. Minute you go to any "business class" hotel or go within a block of a convention center, you start getting charged $10/day to $10/hr. It's all reimbursed through their company so the person staying doesn't care, and a company's not going to reasonably tell employees not to pay $10 to access their e-mail and work an extra hour from the hotel when they're paying $200/night anyway.
He is survived by his wife, Jai, and three children: Chloe, Dylan and Logan. The family requests that donations on his behalf be directed to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, 2141 Rosecrans Ave., Suite 7000, El Segundo, CA 90245, or to Carnegie Mellons Randy Pausch Memorial Fund, which the university will use primarily to support continued work on the Alice project.
Drivers don't make the difference between the high- and low- end cards anymore. It used to be that the card would report a device ID, and then the driver would enable/disable features based on that device ID. This allowed both software mods and simple board mods to switch device ID in order to enable Quadro / FireGL features on GeForce / Radeon cards.
That's not the case anymore, which is why you can't find any mods for recent cards.
The only problem with this, and any other multi-picture stitching, is that you get obvious stitching problems when there is any movement in the scene, like the trolley in the middle of this scene.
Wow, getting hit by a 7.9 sucks. An immediate aftershock of 6.0 sucks even more. Having an additional 32 (as of this post) aftershocks in the 4.5-5.5ish range?! That's just insane, I can't imagine the trouble rescue workers are having from them.
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It's not only where you are, but what part of the industry. From my experience most of the industry (Intel, AMD/ATI, Nvidia, etc) are all Verilog houses. On the other hand anything that interacts with the government (research labs, IBM, defense contractors) are VHDL houses.
But really, it doesn't matter in the long run since there are no fundamental differences between the two. The syntax will take you a month or so to get used to, but the hardware you're designing will be the same. The hard part of hardware design is not typing out the code, but creating a good micro-architectural design with good documentation and diagrams of how all the pieces connect together. Once you have a solid uarch, translating that into either Verilog or VHDL should be very straightforward.
From the C++ prototype guide, which is just the ISA made into a terribly complex C++ wrapper, they support these transcendental functions in the ISA:
EXP2_PS - Exponential Base-2 of Float32 Vector
LOG2_PS - Logarithm Base-2 of Float32 Vector
RECIP_PS - Reciprocal of a Float32 Vector
RSQRT_PS - Reciprocal of the Square Root of a Float32 Vector
They also provide library functions that implement everything else you'd want (sin, cos, etc) in software, I assume using Newton-Raphson iteration.
You just described ECC scrubbing and Chipkill. The technology's been around for a while, but it costs >$0 to implement so most people don't bother. As with most RAS features most people don't know anything about it, so would rather pay $50 less than have a strange feature that could end up saving them hours of downtime. At the same time if you actually know what these features are and you need them, you're probably going to be willing to shell out the money to pay for them.
How is a random writeup on a tech blog the "real source"? The true real source is the NV press release and court filing they're hosting on their page. A good secondary source would be a mainstream writeup (Reuters, WSJ, etc). Random blogs like yours are a dime a dozen.
Oh no, not batteries. You mean like the things that are in ps3/360 remotes that have to be recharged by simply plugging them in? The horror!
I thought they were normally called 3dmarks, but I guess Epeens would work.
Even years of experience don't mean you'll get a job. I have a friend that dropped out of school in the early 80's, and has been a sysadmin ever since. She knows her specific part of sysadmining (networked file systems) inside and out, and is even friends with a number of the open source developers. However when she was recently looking for a new job a number of universities and companies wouldn't even look at her resume and experience because she didn't get a BS degree 20 years ago. Kinda dumb, but that's what she found.
Only very few tech companies that are huge and have been around forever pay dividends. The only examples I can find in the tech sector that pay dividends are IBM, Intel, Sony and HP.
The entire point of a publicly traded company is to increase shareholder value. One easy way to do this is to simply give the share holders money in the form of dividends. The other choice is to invest back into the company. If the company is still growing then there's a good chance that investing $X million into R&D/employees/capitol improvements/whatever will result in the company improving it's market capitalization by more than $X mill. If that's the case, then that produces more value for the shareholder and is the proper choice.
Basically dividends, and stock buy-backs which are effectively the same thing, are an easy way out when a company has more money than it knows how to make useful investments with.
Fooling a /. "editor" doesn't make it a good photoshop. It took me about a second to realize it was a hoax, and less than 30 more to look up the above link. I guess that was a bit too much effort for samzenpus.
Compare these two:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IeJHb-2CVGM/SNUFiyTlEHI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/shQMNh5h89o/s1600-h/smiley-1000.jpg
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tscheljabinsk+russland&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=iceweasel-a&t=h&ll=55.160037,61.403425&spn=0.004793,0.011179&z=17
The cars on all the side streets and all the shadows are exactly the same. Someone just photoshoped out the cars on the main street and put in the smily. Nothing to see here.
Years ago (like 5 years or something) he got some official info from NV and then turned around and leaked it. In response NV stopped having any official contact with the Inq, Charlie specifically. Charlie took this personally or something and has been on a vendetta against NV ever since.
What on earth are you talking about? 3DFx died because it was horribly mismanaged and ran out of money. There were lawsuits, but 3dfx sued NV first in 1998 and then in 2000 NV counter-sued (source). True NV's countersuit was right before 3dfx died, but a simple lawsuit that's gone nowhere in the courts yet doesn't cause a company to go bankrupt overnight.
Personally I'll believe one of my (ex-3dfx Austin) friend's explanation for their downfall: the fully stocked Tequila bar that was free to all employees. Or there's a whole list of problems leading to their decline on wikipedia.
They might be telling the truth, depending on how they share the hosts and how they have logins setup.
HTTPS is not possible with virtual hosts (where foo.com and bar.com are both running on 1.2.3.4). The reason being is that the HTTP server doesn't know if you're talking to foo.com or bar.com until after the connection has started, but it needs to send out one of their certificates in order to get the connection started.
I'd guess FTPS has the same issue, as the FTP server won't know what to respond as. SFTP/SSH do not have this issue since there are no 3rd party certificates that identify the server.
So basically if they let you SSH into the box, you can do SFTP and it'll just work. If they don't let you SFTP into the box and you're on a shared host with a shared IP address, they can't set it up to login directly to your account. They could setup ftps://ftp.myhost.com/foo.com or something, but that's a completely different infrastructure they might not have.
There is a problem with the chips, there is no doubt about that. However take anything Charlie says about it with a huge truckload of salt. There was a bit of bad blood between Nvidia and Charlie years ago (something like 4 or 5 now), and ever since they've refused to talk to anyone from the Inquirer and Charlie specifically.
It seems these days that all Charlie does is write long article bashing Nvidia. That is unless he's writing an article that's so over the top that his editor has to pull it (yes, believe it or not, there actually is an editor in charge of all those pieces).
Go read dell or HP forums and EE times. Read The Inq only if you want some amusement to see how amazingly slanted of a story can be produced.
It's not inside the chip. They've said it's in the die/packaging. You use solder to connect the die to the packaging, and then again solder the packaging to the board.
Every single person in the media village is attached to one of the media organizations covering the Olympics. That means every penny they spend will be 100% reimbursed by the corporation that has them out there. The company's already spending millions to send the manpower and equipment over there, what's an extra $1k here or there? And of course it's only for 1 month, that's how long the Olympics are.
This is the same as all business hotels. Your run of the mill Best Western, Days Inn, etc family chains all have free Wifi internet. Minute you go to any "business class" hotel or go within a block of a convention center, you start getting charged $10/day to $10/hr. It's all reimbursed through their company so the person staying doesn't care, and a company's not going to reasonably tell employees not to pay $10 to access their e-mail and work an extra hour from the hotel when they're paying $200/night anyway.
Hrm, better links:
News release
Homepage story
http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/beyond/2008/summer/an-enduring-legacy.shtml
Drivers don't make the difference between the high- and low- end cards anymore. It used to be that the card would report a device ID, and then the driver would enable/disable features based on that device ID. This allowed both software mods and simple board mods to switch device ID in order to enable Quadro / FireGL features on GeForce / Radeon cards.
That's not the case anymore, which is why you can't find any mods for recent cards.
You know he's at Nvidia now:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/slusallek
I love this picture: http://fastra.ua.ac.be/en/images.html
Between the massive brick of GPUs and the massive CPU heatsink/fan, you can't see the mobo at all.
I just get a "Temporarily Closed" page when loading GamePolitics...great timing to move your host.
Ars has a writeup that's a summary of GP's: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080520-judges-report-in-jack-thompson-case-guilty-on-27-charges.html
This is a pretty cool project, and I actually saw it when I was at CMU a bit ago (and was wondering what the hell it was).
There's a CMU press release about it.
The site with all the pictures is http://www.gigapan.org/
You can see the hardware here.
The only problem with this, and any other multi-picture stitching, is that you get obvious stitching problems when there is any movement in the scene, like the trolley in the middle of this scene.
You mean like dslreports has been doing forever and a day?
It's too bad they don't have the results broken down in a more useful manner, and don't ask where you are when you do the speed test.
Wow, getting hit by a 7.9 sucks. An immediate aftershock of 6.0 sucks even more. Having an additional 32 (as of this post) aftershocks in the 4.5-5.5ish range?! That's just insane, I can't imagine the trouble rescue workers are having from them.
list and map from USGS.