i know i'm a fool for thinking/.ers should try reading an article before ranting (especially one about MS) but...
all ballmer is saying is that people in developing nations will be more likely to pay for software if they have the option of owning a computer. you can't pay for windows if you can't afford a pc! its a valid point, though obvious.
This week, UK particle physicists will demonstrate the world's largest, working computing Grid. With over 6,000 computers at 78 sites internationally, the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) is the first permanent, worldwide Grid for doing real science. The UK is a major part of LCG, providing more than 1,000 computers in 12 sites. At the 2004 UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in Nottingham, particle physicists representing a collaboration of 20 UK institutions will explain to biologists, chemists and computer scientists how they reached this milestone.
Particle physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently under construction at CERN in Geneva will produce around 15 Petabytes of data each year - 15 million, billion bytes. To deal with this vast volume of data, particle physicists worldwide have been building a computing Grid. By 2007, this Grid will have the equivalent of 100,000 of today's fastest computers working together to produce a 'virtual supercomputer', which can be expanded and developed as needed. When the LHC experiments start in 2007, they are expected to reveal new physics processes that were crucial in building the Universe we see today, and shed light on mysteries such as the origin of mass.
Grid computing has been a target for IT developers and scientists for more than five years. It allows scientists to access computer power and data from around the world seamlessly, without needing to know where the computers are. Analysis for particle physics can also be done on conventional supercomputers, but these are expensive and in high demand. Grid computing, in contrast, is constructed from thousands of cheap units that can be increased to meet users' needs. Like the web before it, the Grid has the potential to impact on everyone's computing.
GridPP, the UK's particle physics Grid project, was set up by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council in 2000. On 1 September this year the project reaches its halfway point, with the official end of its first phase and the start of GridPP2. According to Dr Dave Britton, the GridPP project manager, "The first half of the project aimed to create a prototype Grid - which we've done very successfully. Having proved that a Grid can work, we're now focussed on developing a large-scale stable, easy-to-use Grid integrated with other international projects. This will let scientists tackle problems that are much larger than those possible today."
Dr Jeremy Coles of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is the GridPP production manager, responsible for making sure the Grid works on a day-to-day basis. He is giving the main GridPP talk in Nottingham, and stresses, "There are a lot of challenges in front of us as we expand our production Grid. In addition to the technical problems involved in providing a well-monitored, stable Grid, we need to address wider issues, in particular encouraging an open sharing of resources between groups of users."
In Nottingham, conference delegates will be able to see how the particle physics Grid works. GridPP has developed a map that shows computing jobs moving around LCG in real time, as they are distributed to the most suitable sites on the Grid, run their programmes and then return their results home. The map can be seen here. Dr Dave Colling, from Imperial College, London, whose team built the map, said, "It can be difficult for people who have never seen a Grid working to imagine what it does. Our map is an easy way to see how a Grid can let scientists use resources all over the world, from their desktop. It's also useful for experts, who can easily see how well the Grid's working."
Professor Tony Doyle, leader of GridPP, explained, "This is a great achievement for particle physics and for e-Science. We now have a true international working Grid, running more than 5,000 computing jobs at a time. Our next aim is to scale up the computing power available by a factor of ten, so that we'll have 10,000 computers in the UK alone, ready for the Large Hadron Collider in 2007"
a man isn't paying attention to the road and kills someone, and all that slashdot says is "from the now-he'll-never-find-out-how-it-ends dept." how disgustingly insensitive. i put this in the same catagory as driving while talking on a cell phone, which i put in the same category as driving while intoxicated. when you get behind the wheel, you have the responsibility to the rest of mankind to give it your full attention.
Here's a little number I wrote the other day while out duck hunting with a judge.
Fuck you very much the FCC Fuck you very much for fining me Five thousand bucks a fuck So I'm really out of luck That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me
So fuck you very much the FCC for proving that free speech just isn't free Clear Channel's a dear channel So Howard Stern must go Attorney General Ashcroft doesn't like strong words and so He's charging twice as much as all the drugs for Rush Limbaugh So fuck you all so very much
So fuck you very much, Dear Mr. Bush For heroically sitting on your tush For Halliburton, Enron, all the companies who fail Let's send them a clear signal and stick Martha straight in jail She's an uppity rich bitch and at least she isn't male So fuck you all so very much
So fuck you dickhead Mr. Cheney too Fuck you and fuck everything you do Your pacemaker must be a fake You haven't got a heart As far as I'm concerned you're just a pasty-faced old fart And as for Condoleeza she's an intellectual tart So fuck you all so very much
So fuck you very much, the EPA For giving all Alaska's oil away It really is a bummer When I can't fill my hummer The ozone's a nogozone now that Arnold's here to say: "The nuclear winter games are going to take place in LA" So fuck you all so very much
So what the planet fails Let's save the great white males And fuck you all so very much
we all know about the lawsuits slapped on the college kids concerning LAN search engines. at first i figured the RIAA will surely sue Apple. Now i'm not so sure. Anyone familiar with the size of Apple's legal department?
40% of/. is spam... if you don't believe me, recall all the dup articles. but at least we know Taco doesn't need a peen enlarger; the current poll even mentions Taco's 10 foot pole!
my big question is about the algorithm... it doesn't seem difficult to parse a document, store the words in (let's say) a tree, then compare it other documents. simple keep counters for each word to track how often it's mentioned. i'd really like to know what this guy did.
To me, this report seems to be the manifestation of a battle going on with Sun between the Java Engineers and the folks who integrate Java with Sun's other products. They went to the Engineers initially to explain the problems, but it didn't change anything. So they wrote a damning memo to management to force them to deal with the situation. This isn't Sun saying to the world that Java sucks, its simply two groups within Sun saying that their official implementation needs to have a few bugs worked out. -jrod5000
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i know i'm a fool for thinking /.ers should try reading an article before ranting (especially one about MS) but...
all ballmer is saying is that people in developing nations will be more likely to pay for software if they have the option of owning a computer. you can't pay for windows if you can't afford a pc! its a valid point, though obvious.
Netcraft confirms: DirectX is dying.
:)
WOOOHOO!!! Man, I've been dying to say it for years.
This week, UK particle physicists will demonstrate the world's largest, working computing Grid. With over 6,000 computers at 78 sites internationally, the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) is the first permanent, worldwide Grid for doing real science. The UK is a major part of LCG, providing more than 1,000 computers in 12 sites. At the 2004 UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in Nottingham, particle physicists representing a collaboration of 20 UK institutions will explain to biologists, chemists and computer scientists how they reached this milestone.
Particle physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently under construction at CERN in Geneva will produce around 15 Petabytes of data each year - 15 million, billion bytes. To deal with this vast volume of data, particle physicists worldwide have been building a computing Grid. By 2007, this Grid will have the equivalent of 100,000 of today's fastest computers working together to produce a 'virtual supercomputer', which can be expanded and developed as needed. When the LHC experiments start in 2007, they are expected to reveal new physics processes that were crucial in building the Universe we see today, and shed light on mysteries such as the origin of mass.
Grid computing has been a target for IT developers and scientists for more than five years. It allows scientists to access computer power and data from around the world seamlessly, without needing to know where the computers are. Analysis for particle physics can also be done on conventional supercomputers, but these are expensive and in high demand. Grid computing, in contrast, is constructed from thousands of cheap units that can be increased to meet users' needs. Like the web before it, the Grid has the potential to impact on everyone's computing.
GridPP, the UK's particle physics Grid project, was set up by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council in 2000. On 1 September this year the project reaches its halfway point, with the official end of its first phase and the start of GridPP2. According to Dr Dave Britton, the GridPP project manager, "The first half of the project aimed to create a prototype Grid - which we've done very successfully. Having proved that a Grid can work, we're now focussed on developing a large-scale stable, easy-to-use Grid integrated with other international projects. This will let scientists tackle problems that are much larger than those possible today."
Dr Jeremy Coles of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is the GridPP production manager, responsible for making sure the Grid works on a day-to-day basis. He is giving the main GridPP talk in Nottingham, and stresses, "There are a lot of challenges in front of us as we expand our production Grid. In addition to the technical problems involved in providing a well-monitored, stable Grid, we need to address wider issues, in particular encouraging an open sharing of resources between groups of users."
In Nottingham, conference delegates will be able to see how the particle physics Grid works. GridPP has developed a map that shows computing jobs moving around LCG in real time, as they are distributed to the most suitable sites on the Grid, run their programmes and then return their results home. The map can be seen here. Dr Dave Colling, from Imperial College, London, whose team built the map, said, "It can be difficult for people who have never seen a Grid working to imagine what it does. Our map is an easy way to see how a Grid can let scientists use resources all over the world, from their desktop. It's also useful for experts, who can easily see how well the Grid's working."
Professor Tony Doyle, leader of GridPP, explained, "This is a great achievement for particle physics and for e-Science. We now have a true international working Grid, running more than 5,000 computing jobs at a time. Our next aim is to scale up the computing power available by a factor of ten, so that we'll have 10,000 computers in the UK alone, ready for the Large Hadron Collider in 2007"
kid to teacher: "he stole my lunch money!"
teacher: "who did?"
kid: "that lawyer over there!"
mount a tiny camera in there and think of all the new kinds of pr0n this thing could generate!
i for one welcome our new hidden camera flying robobug overlords!
yeah, sure, if you measure your entire life in terms of how much pr0n you've downloaded... as if anyone around here would *cough* do that...
a man isn't paying attention to the road and kills someone, and all that slashdot says is "from the now-he'll-never-find-out-how-it-ends dept."
how disgustingly insensitive.
i put this in the same catagory as driving while talking on a cell phone, which i put in the same category as driving while intoxicated.
when you get behind the wheel, you have the responsibility to the rest of mankind to give it your full attention.
it's easy! afraid of losing a broadcast? simply submit a duplicate broadcast! if both get through, blame Taco!
I mean what the hell, it works for slashdot!
has this ever been more applicable!
1. build a beowulf networking monster
2. ???
3. profit!!1
incidentally,
in soviet russia, olympics broadcast j00!
Intelligence Guy: "We have top men working on it right now."
Indy: "Who?"
Intelligence Guy: "Top... Men..."
Here's a little number I wrote the other day while out duck hunting with a judge.
Fuck you very much the FCC
Fuck you very much for fining me
Five thousand bucks a fuck
So I'm really out of luck
That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me
So fuck you very much the FCC
for proving that free speech just isn't free
Clear Channel's a dear channel
So Howard Stern must go
Attorney General Ashcroft doesn't like strong words and so
He's charging twice as much as all the drugs for Rush Limbaugh
So fuck you all so very much
So fuck you very much, Dear Mr. Bush
For heroically sitting on your tush
For Halliburton, Enron, all the companies who fail
Let's send them a clear signal and stick Martha straight in jail
She's an uppity rich bitch
and at least she isn't male
So fuck you all so very much
So fuck you dickhead Mr. Cheney too
Fuck you and fuck everything you do
Your pacemaker must be a fake
You haven't got a heart
As far as I'm concerned you're just a pasty-faced old fart
And as for Condoleeza she's an intellectual tart
So fuck you all so very much
So fuck you very much, the EPA
For giving all Alaska's oil away
It really is a bummer
When I can't fill my hummer
The ozone's a nogozone now that Arnold's here to say:
"The nuclear winter games are going to take place in LA"
So fuck you all so very much
So what the planet fails
Let's save the great white males
And fuck you all so very much
is PEOPLE!!
no i didn't RTFA (i'm at work, can't browse the web) ... does it run linux??
c'mon, i don't care what you say... if it's 1/3 as large no woman on earth would believe it performs as well! :p
there is a spam-bomb onboard, and if the boat goes slower than 10 knots an hour, it will explode!!
it'll be one more thing they'll make you learn in school! :D
huh? what are you talking about?
i am bender insert girder
we all know about the lawsuits slapped on the college kids concerning LAN search engines. at first i figured the RIAA will surely sue Apple. Now i'm not so sure. Anyone familiar with the size of Apple's legal department?
No, YOU are stupid and FEW people are more stupid.
that depends. sure some people do drawing, music, and painting as hobbies, but many people profit from them too.
"What? No! We can't stop here! This is bat country!"
and
"One toke? Poor fool! Wait till you see those goddamn bats."
anon works just fine for me... unfortunately its gonna take over a half hour to download the album.
i'm dying to hear what their music sounds like.
40% of /. is spam... if you don't believe me, recall all the dup articles.
but at least we know Taco doesn't need a peen enlarger; the current poll even mentions Taco's 10 foot pole!
my big question is about the algorithm... it doesn't seem difficult to parse a document, store the words in (let's say) a tree, then compare it other documents. simple keep counters for each word to track how often it's mentioned.
i'd really like to know what this guy did.
To me, this report seems to be the manifestation of a battle going on with Sun between the Java Engineers and the folks who integrate Java with Sun's other products. They went to the Engineers initially to explain the problems, but it didn't change anything. So they wrote a damning memo to management to force them to deal with the situation.
This isn't Sun saying to the world that Java sucks, its simply two groups within Sun saying that their official implementation needs to have a few bugs worked out.
-jrod5000