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Hopefully Dubya won't cut NASA's budget more than it all ready has. Those guys are all ready pretty much running on fumes.
If you want to blame someone for NASA's tiny budget, blame Dan Goldin (NASA Administrator). It's about time Goldin took some responsibility for forcing NASA to operate on an ever-shrinking budget; whenever Congress started talking about budget cuts, Goldin always was happy to oblige them, sometimes even offering bigger cuts than they wanted. Plus he hates the "worm" logo and has tried to eradicate it.
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I don't understand your point? There's still *tons* of untapped CPU power out there. One project should get all of it, and the rest get screwed?
Probably less than 1% of Intel CPUs out there right now are running some idle-time project like this; until 100% are running *something* 100% of the time, I don't see how these projects "water down" each other.
These things have been proposed off and on for years. One of the biggest roadblocks to adopting these is religion; Judeo-Christian doctrine holds that the sabbath repeats every 7 days, but if new year's day becomes "stateless" then you have 8 days between Sunday (or Saturday, or any other day) once per year, which throws everything off; even if the Churches said OK to this plan and kept their own calendar for religous purposes, you suddenly start having the sabbath in the middle of the week.
No, thery're not. Intel management has openly said their dealins with Rambus was a gamble that didnt pay off, etc. Seems the troops are toeing the party line to me.
.web and.wap are dumb. Just imagine how dumb you'd feel now if you registered a.wais or.gopher address 5 years ago. TLDs need to be more permanent than the protocols, http (and hence, the "web") could be replaced by a better protocol at any time, and WAP is already passe. I suppose these TLDs would be OK for a secondary URL, but no one should rely on them for their primary domain names.
I suppose its all going to depend on how good their branch prediction is. Their pipeline is getting pretty big and when they have a break its gonna take forever to flush'n'fill that pipeline. I think the 2-core-per-die design is interesting, but hardly revolutionary.
Also, article's conclusions are pretty badly flawed, esp. regarding the Alpha's future. The supposition that the POWER4 will eclipse the EV68 should be obvious but inconsequential, given how far the POWER4 is behind the EV68 in terms of getting to market, and the POWER4 has yet to convince anyone that it will be able to compete with EV7 in real world performance (of course, everyone's guesses could be wrong and EV7 could end up a big dog, but its unlikely).
Furthermore, considering the article is dated October 16th (2 days ago) I found the following statement interesting:
[Sun] will likely have refreshed its large-scale system products with the UltraSPARC-III by the time the first POWER4 systems ship, Sun's offerings will probably still be clearly outclassed.
Considering that UltraSPARC-III is already shipping, this statement was confusing. But it doesn't really matter, UltraSPARC-III at 900MHz is already outclassed by Alpha EV67 at 667MHz [cite], no one even considers them a contender in the performance race.
And what about HP? They gambled too heavily on IA-64 and cut back development of their PA-RISC, which was just recently getting interesting. Now that IA-64 is delayed and will probably be a dog (notice how Intel hasn't been leaking any spec numbers?), HP is realizing what a mistake they made and has revitalized their own development; it should be enough to keep them from completely being left behind, but just barely.
Sounds good in theory, but failed in practice. The Alpha, when Win NT was available for it, ran IA32 software extremely well with the FX-32 emulator package, and look where that ended up.
the zap station does time shifting of video a la TiVo. However, it doesnt have a serial port, which you need to control a digital cable or satellite box (tivo does have that capability) - if not for that one shortcoming, tivo would be crap compared to zapstation (when it ships).
what are you smoking? The last few years of NASA have been absolutely dominated by a "faster, better, cheaper" mentality. Witness all the bragging about how cheap the last few Mars missions were. Goldin (NASA head honcho) has admitted that this policy (which he was responsible for) was the main reason we had the catastophic losses of those Mars missions [cite]. He went so far as to actually offer NASA budget cuts to Congress...
Intel plans to have their new speed-step Pentium III's out in about a year...
Looks like not even the submitters are reading the articles. In the first paragraph it says they "should ship next year" - that's less than three months away at best.
The first chip is "due in the first half of next year" which means somewhere between 3-9 months, a far cry from the "about a year" the submitter claims.
Plus, he submitted a broken link. Is it too much to ask of the editors that they actually edit the submissions?
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If you want to blame someone for NASA's tiny budget, blame Dan Goldin (NASA Administrator). It's about time Goldin took some responsibility for forcing NASA to operate on an ever-shrinking budget; whenever Congress started talking about budget cuts, Goldin always was happy to oblige them, sometimes even offering bigger cuts than they wanted. Plus he hates the "worm" logo and has tried to eradicate it.
Um, I hope you didn't mean "you wouldn't want to put an alpha in a 1U," because its already been done:
AlphaServer DS10L
Probably less than 1% of Intel CPUs out there right now are running some idle-time project like this; until 100% are running *something* 100% of the time, I don't see how these projects "water down" each other.
These things have been proposed off and on for years. One of the biggest roadblocks to adopting these is religion; Judeo-Christian doctrine holds that the sabbath repeats every 7 days, but if new year's day becomes "stateless" then you have 8 days between Sunday (or Saturday, or any other day) once per year, which throws everything off; even if the Churches said OK to this plan and kept their own calendar for religous purposes, you suddenly start having the sabbath in the middle of the week.
No, thery're not. Intel management has openly said their dealins with Rambus was a gamble that didnt pay off, etc. Seems the troops are toeing the party line to me.
.web and .wap are dumb. Just imagine how dumb you'd feel now if you registered a .wais or .gopher address 5 years ago. TLDs need to be more permanent than the protocols, http (and hence, the "web") could be replaced by a better protocol at any time, and WAP is already passe. I suppose these TLDs would be OK for a secondary URL, but no one should rely on them for their primary domain names.
Also, article's conclusions are pretty badly flawed, esp. regarding the Alpha's future. The supposition that the POWER4 will eclipse the EV68 should be obvious but inconsequential, given how far the POWER4 is behind the EV68 in terms of getting to market, and the POWER4 has yet to convince anyone that it will be able to compete with EV7 in real world performance (of course, everyone's guesses could be wrong and EV7 could end up a big dog, but its unlikely).
Furthermore, considering the article is dated October 16th (2 days ago) I found the following statement interesting:
Considering that UltraSPARC-III is already shipping, this statement was confusing. But it doesn't really matter, UltraSPARC-III at 900MHz is already outclassed by Alpha EV67 at 667MHz [cite], no one even considers them a contender in the performance race.And what about HP? They gambled too heavily on IA-64 and cut back development of their PA-RISC, which was just recently getting interesting. Now that IA-64 is delayed and will probably be a dog (notice how Intel hasn't been leaking any spec numbers?), HP is realizing what a mistake they made and has revitalized their own development; it should be enough to keep them from completely being left behind, but just barely.
Sounds good in theory, but failed in practice. The Alpha, when Win NT was available for it, ran IA32 software extremely well with the FX-32 emulator package, and look where that ended up.
the zap station does time shifting of video a la TiVo. However, it doesnt have a serial port, which you need to control a digital cable or satellite box (tivo does have that capability) - if not for that one shortcoming, tivo would be crap compared to zapstation (when it ships).
what are you smoking? The last few years of NASA have been absolutely dominated by a "faster, better, cheaper" mentality. Witness all the bragging about how cheap the last few Mars missions were. Goldin (NASA head honcho) has admitted that this policy (which he was responsible for) was the main reason we had the catastophic losses of those Mars missions [cite]. He went so far as to actually offer NASA budget cuts to Congress...
Because the kid from jerry maguire is playing the young Dark Helmet in the Spaceballs prequel, duh. Don't you read The Onion?