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Yes. Everyone get busy porting World Wind!
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Everyone keeps talking about K8L. If they can deliver it in the short term (hah!), great, but what they really need is K8 Rev. G.
A current AM2 K8 dual core with 512k+512k cache is similar in size to Conroe with a 15% (roughly) disadvantage in performance (at common price brackets). Moving to 65nm will drastically reduce die sizes, allowing AMD to squeeze more chips on each silicon wafer, even compared to Conroe.
Consequently, AMD will be able to sell their chips to us at really cheap prices while still making a good profit, building a war-chest for when K8L faces off against CxQ. Then we repeat the whole process again when Intel moves to 45nm.
I think having a 4m L2 cache might be a bit of a boat anchor around Intel's neck when it comes to manufacturing. Time will tell.
Some high-speed interconnects like SCI and Dolphin are designed to be deployed in ring based structures (hypercube is based on a bus). The multidimensional analog to the ring is the hypertorus, and many clusters based on SCI and Dolphin use a hypertorus topology.
The 9200 should be well supported, with full 3d acceleration. I know someone with a Compaq machine, Centrino with 9200ish video chip (x1010, I think) where DRI works fine.
Not long after I bought the machine, Sony switched the S-series to use NVidia chips. sigh...
I've also worked with NVidia chips in laptops. The binary NVidia drivers send VESA framebuffer support (stock setup on FC) Tango Uniform -- the results look oddly like what used to happen with an ISA Mach64 card and XFree86 3.1.2 ca. 1997. So it's not all sweet smelling roses:).
I would suspect something like a bad bios image, or maybe poor ram. There are some settings which I can't use, like fast-writes, but enabling fast-writes causes a complete failure when X starts, so I doubt it's that. Do you see instability in non-3d (but intense) apps?
This bullshit with Windows based BIOS flashing is just retarded. If someone cycles the machine mid-flash, your laptop is basically bricked, 'cuz you can't even restore from boot block. Stupid! What's wrong with telling the user to extract an archive to $REMOVABLE, then boot?
What chipset is your laptop using? On my R200 based desktop, I can run Q3, UT2k3, SpecViewPerf, Stellarium, etc. All with the DRI driver, stable as a rock.
The only time I encountered serious problems was when I reflashed the bios of my motherboard with the wrong firmware version, and AGP disappeared.
The speed of light is no longer a measurable fundamental constant. Instead, the vacuum velocity of light is used to determine measures of length in the SI system.
Saying the speed of light has changed is like saying the length of a second has changed. It doesn't make sense.
Nothing like deciding one night to make up a tag team of Kim Jong Il and Osama Bin Laden to wrestle as the "Axis of Evil" in the WWE:-).
That's awesome.
Halo is a good example of a game that took FPS and threw in a few new elements -- vehicle combat is one example -- and rejuvenated it to great success.
I guess you've never played Tribes 2. Clipping people with the Shrike is so fun.
An ethical code of conduct is important for a business. It creates a sense of trust in the client base which stabilizes markets. That trust is also important for strategic relationships with other businesses.
Think of it like a farmer caring for his soil. Sure, he might squeeze a little more yield out in the short term, but he'll pay down the road.
Not all DSL users stick to the CD based install. Some, I'm sure, switch to USB thumb drives for portable operation. A version of DSL designed to fit within 150 megs or so would be perfect for larger thumb drives.
1. Carry more weapons (payload of 40 metric tons, compared to 34 tons)
This would be determined by the carriage capacity of the rotary launcher.
2. Fly faster (Mach 2.05 compared to Mach 1.25)
This is at 30k altitude. Strike profiles for B1-B stipulate low-mach velocity at treetop level.
3. Carry nucular[sic] weapons, including short range nuclear cruise missiles
B1-B was initially tasked with carrying the SRAM missile, in addition to B61 and B83 bombs. The SRAM has since been retired, and the B1-B has been retired from it's SAC role (START reductions). It is still capable of carrying such cruise missiles, should they be available.
And it's also "stealth".
Umm, no.
I won't say the Blackjack is a poor aircraft, but it exhibits some typical problems from the Soviet-era aeronautics industry. Namely, the engines are reportedly unreliable, and the avionics are primitive. This tends to make the overall aircraft a bit of a letdown considering the high quality in design of the airframe.
Thus far, there has been little motivation in Russia to modernize their strategic bombers, with current plans focusing on replacing liquid fueled ICBMs (SS-18 and -19) with solid fueled ones (SS-25 and -27), thus lowering long-term maintenance costs and improving response time.
It's not cool if you're making arguments that the rifle is okay to use in certain situations, because it's got a small calibre, and you'll only use it against bad people (promise!). That is not the case in this article however.
The RRW still doesn't make sense, though -- not as it's portrayed (replacing the W-76 in the Trident).
Replacing the zipper in W87 warheads (if they need it) does. Switching W88 warheads to INX and a less powerful upper stage (to increase safety) does. Together, these designs comprise over 900 deliverable warheads with a total yield, in their current configuration, of 347.5 megatons. They also have a minimum of 20 years left on their shelf life (way longer than their delivery systems).
Over 900 warheads, each easily capable of carving the heart out of any city in the world, roughly 30 minutes away from doing so. That's a lot of deterrence. I don't think another 1000 warheads make a qualitative difference.
There is no point to the RRW, that I can see.
Unless a person were to think a quantitative difference is important in nuclear force structure. In which case, I hope said person's opinion doesn't matter.
I've always had my doubts about desktop replacement laptops. Usually, they're absolutely massive beasts with inferior battery life and a large price tag. Even then, they don't have the performance of a much cheaper desktop.
To me, adding SLI to a DR laptop is just another draw on the battery with diminishing returns in performance. Does someone have a contrary opinion they'd like to share?
My observation is that Microsoft has thought through some performance and reliability details to an impressive degree in OpenXML.
While document reliability is of paramount importance, performance (as in speed) is virtually irrelevant. In terms of the overall time required to create or edit a document, a few extra seconds on opening or saving a file is just noise.
Overall, this film was not a bad offender. The clip shown was of Janek's black box, which was the film's McGuffin. The technology behind it is not really described in detail, except that it has encryption cracking technology hard wired in.
Throughout the film, technology behaves properly (pretty well). TV cameras do what TV cameras are supposed to, security systems are bypassed by breaking into wiring closets and such. The worst scene for accuracy, by far, was the telephone trace.
I know that Theo spouting off does him no good with the corporate world. Has he ever thought of getting someone else on his team to do the PR stuff?
Theo is a brilliant engineer, but he has no tact and (seemingly) no restraint. If he allows a more diplomatic member of his team to act as a buffer and sounding board in relations with the press and sponsors, he might avoid burning some bridges in the future.
I'm not saying OpenBSD needs a change in direction, policy, or anything like that. I just think that Theo needs to find a way to stop kicking people in the balls any time he has a knee-jerk reaction.
If I were AMD for example, I'd be playing around with an x86 Niagara.
I think too many existing programs in the x86 world are still course grain multithreaded (at best) for AMD or Intel to make a go of 8 core x 4 smt for an architecture. Certainly for desktop processors, multicore is still of limited utility. Look at the number of games that are not multithreaded. The speed benefits on these games when running dual core are, as yet, limited.
Even in the web area, there's at least as much of a push for blade servers as for multicore. Building a failover/load balancing scheme is at least as easy as building a fine-grain multithreaded application.
A setup like Niagara works for Sun (and IBM, with Power 5) because these customers are already accustomed to working with E10ks and large pSeries servers. The software is designed to scale to these architectures already.
repeated for 256 machines. This is trivial to do on a Linux box. It is hard (although IANAWE) in Windows. Windows needs a simple and secure means of pushing minor configuration changes out to nodes (you don't want to do major changes in production machines). Running a WSUS server is _not an option_.
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Yes. Everyone get busy porting World Wind!
Everyone keeps talking about K8L. If they can deliver it in the short term (hah!), great, but what they really need is K8 Rev. G.
A current AM2 K8 dual core with 512k+512k cache is similar in size to Conroe with a 15% (roughly) disadvantage in performance (at common price brackets). Moving to 65nm will drastically reduce die sizes, allowing AMD to squeeze more chips on each silicon wafer, even compared to Conroe.
Consequently, AMD will be able to sell their chips to us at really cheap prices while still making a good profit, building a war-chest for when K8L faces off against CxQ. Then we repeat the whole process again when Intel moves to 45nm.
I think having a 4m L2 cache might be a bit of a boat anchor around Intel's neck when it comes to manufacturing. Time will tell.
Poor choice of word. I mean a bi-directional, linear arrangement of nodes.
It doesn't have to be p2p, I believe. One could implement a hypercube using ethernet switches.
Some high-speed interconnects like SCI and Dolphin are designed to be deployed in ring based structures (hypercube is based on a bus). The multidimensional analog to the ring is the hypertorus, and many clusters based on SCI and Dolphin use a hypertorus topology.
For instance:
http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~stadel/zbox/start
I've also worked with NVidia chips in laptops. The binary NVidia drivers send VESA framebuffer support (stock setup on FC) Tango Uniform -- the results look oddly like what used to happen with an ISA Mach64 card and XFree86 3.1.2 ca. 1997. So it's not all sweet smelling roses
I would suspect something like a bad bios image, or maybe poor ram. There are some settings which I can't use, like fast-writes, but enabling fast-writes causes a complete failure when X starts, so I doubt it's that. Do you see instability in non-3d (but intense) apps?
This bullshit with Windows based BIOS flashing is just retarded. If someone cycles the machine mid-flash, your laptop is basically bricked, 'cuz you can't even restore from boot block. Stupid! What's wrong with telling the user to extract an archive to $REMOVABLE, then boot?
What chipset is your laptop using? On my R200 based desktop, I can run Q3, UT2k3, SpecViewPerf, Stellarium, etc. All with the DRI driver, stable as a rock.
The only time I encountered serious problems was when I reflashed the bios of my motherboard with the wrong firmware version, and AGP disappeared.
The speed of light is no longer a measurable fundamental constant. Instead, the vacuum velocity of light is used to determine measures of length in the SI system.
Saying the speed of light has changed is like saying the length of a second has changed. It doesn't make sense.
That's awesome.
I guess you've never played Tribes 2. Clipping people with the Shrike is so fun.
Or the SDIO rigging missile defence testing?
More like doing the fall work with a match.
An ethical code of conduct is important for a business. It creates a sense of trust in the client base which stabilizes markets. That trust is also important for strategic relationships with other businesses.
Think of it like a farmer caring for his soil. Sure, he might squeeze a little more yield out in the short term, but he'll pay down the road.
Not all DSL users stick to the CD based install. Some, I'm sure, switch to USB thumb drives for portable operation. A version of DSL designed to fit within 150 megs or so would be perfect for larger thumb drives.
This would be determined by the carriage capacity of the rotary launcher.
This is at 30k altitude. Strike profiles for B1-B stipulate low-mach velocity at treetop level.
B1-B was initially tasked with carrying the SRAM missile, in addition to B61 and B83 bombs. The SRAM has since been retired, and the B1-B has been retired from it's SAC role (START reductions). It is still capable of carrying such cruise missiles, should they be available.
Umm, no.
I won't say the Blackjack is a poor aircraft, but it exhibits some typical problems from the Soviet-era aeronautics industry. Namely, the engines are reportedly unreliable, and the avionics are primitive. This tends to make the overall aircraft a bit of a letdown considering the high quality in design of the airframe.
Thus far, there has been little motivation in Russia to modernize their strategic bombers, with current plans focusing on replacing liquid fueled ICBMs (SS-18 and -19) with solid fueled ones (SS-25 and -27), thus lowering long-term maintenance costs and improving response time.
I seem to recall a similar situation:/ embarrassing-memo.html
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix
More precisely, miniturized lightweight H-bombs that can fit in an RV are hard to develop and require a critical test. Which is what the RRW will be.
It's not cool if you're making arguments that the rifle is okay to use in certain situations, because it's got a small calibre, and you'll only use it against bad people (promise!). That is not the case in this article however.
The RRW still doesn't make sense, though -- not as it's portrayed (replacing the W-76 in the Trident).
Replacing the zipper in W87 warheads (if they need it) does. Switching W88 warheads to INX and a less powerful upper stage (to increase safety) does. Together, these designs comprise over 900 deliverable warheads with a total yield, in their current configuration, of 347.5 megatons. They also have a minimum of 20 years left on their shelf life (way longer than their delivery systems).
Over 900 warheads, each easily capable of carving the heart out of any city in the world, roughly 30 minutes away from doing so. That's a lot of deterrence. I don't think another 1000 warheads make a qualitative difference.
There is no point to the RRW, that I can see.
Unless a person were to think a quantitative difference is important in nuclear force structure. In which case, I hope said person's opinion doesn't matter.
The intersection between the skill-sets of Win32 app programming and HPC programming is approximately 0.
I've always had my doubts about desktop replacement laptops. Usually, they're absolutely massive beasts with inferior battery life and a large price tag. Even then, they don't have the performance of a much cheaper desktop.
To me, adding SLI to a DR laptop is just another draw on the battery with diminishing returns in performance. Does someone have a contrary opinion they'd like to share?
The OpenBSD installer, for the most part, is tolerable.
Partitioning, though... *shudder*
Point taken. Let it be a lesson on perspective.
While document reliability is of paramount importance, performance (as in speed) is virtually irrelevant. In terms of the overall time required to create or edit a document, a few extra seconds on opening or saving a file is just noise.
Overall, this film was not a bad offender. The clip shown was of Janek's black box, which was the film's McGuffin. The technology behind it is not really described in detail, except that it has encryption cracking technology hard wired in.
Throughout the film, technology behaves properly (pretty well). TV cameras do what TV cameras are supposed to, security systems are bypassed by breaking into wiring closets and such. The worst scene for accuracy, by far, was the telephone trace.
I know that Theo spouting off does him no good with the corporate world. Has he ever thought of getting someone else on his team to do the PR stuff?
Theo is a brilliant engineer, but he has no tact and (seemingly) no restraint. If he allows a more diplomatic member of his team to act as a buffer and sounding board in relations with the press and sponsors, he might avoid burning some bridges in the future.
I'm not saying OpenBSD needs a change in direction, policy, or anything like that. I just think that Theo needs to find a way to stop kicking people in the balls any time he has a knee-jerk reaction.
I think too many existing programs in the x86 world are still course grain multithreaded (at best) for AMD or Intel to make a go of 8 core x 4 smt for an architecture. Certainly for desktop processors, multicore is still of limited utility. Look at the number of games that are not multithreaded. The speed benefits on these games when running dual core are, as yet, limited.
Even in the web area, there's at least as much of a push for blade servers as for multicore. Building a failover/load balancing scheme is at least as easy as building a fine-grain multithreaded application.
A setup like Niagara works for Sun (and IBM, with Power 5) because these customers are already accustomed to working with E10ks and large pSeries servers. The software is designed to scale to these architectures already.
This distinction (grid cluster) can become very fuzzy when you have a diverse base of users.
By remote batch management, I mean
$ scp
$ ssh 192.168.0.1 killall -HUP inetd
repeated for 256 machines. This is trivial to do on a Linux box. It is hard (although IANAWE) in Windows. Windows needs a simple and secure means of pushing minor configuration changes out to nodes (you don't want to do major changes in production machines). Running a WSUS server is _not an option_.