You stop thinking of computers as individual machines and start thinking of the network as the machine. This has implications for how you manage the systems. If you know what you're doing it actually simplifies almost everything, though this is really a function of the attitude and isn't specific to grids, any network would benefit from the same way of working. A grid fits right into an N tier architecture, it's just one of the layers.
You're paying for official support and services. Presumably 24/7 telephone, onsite if necessary. You're paying for people and their expertise not software.
However, there is a good point. Support is expensive, there's a market out there for lower cost support services.
It's better than just major events. You can apply stats to huge volumes of data, find all sorts of interesting correlations. Such as personals adverts to signal events, stock market rises/falls prior to terrorist events.
And the only reason they're buying the debt is because the dollar is a reserve currency, you need it to buy oil. Almost as good as gold... so they said... Except Mr Bush has recently allowed the dollar to fall. He can't help it, he has a war to finance, he has to keep printing money. But then, the Iraqis and the Iranians were threatening to switch to Euros anyway... No choice there then.
7. It's not a fad. The technology has been around since the 80s IIRC, possibly earlier. The word "grid" is a fad, but not the technology. They started as network or batch queueing systems. The word "grid" is like the word "middleware". It isn't well defined and means a bunch of different things to different people. 8. Off the top of my head, freebies include Torque, GridEngine, Condor. 9. Yes it would be a Beowulf of those. Mwhahaha!
You can have a grid system in place as well as multi core machines.
You can implement a grid in a couple of days worth of sysadmin time. A few wrapper scripts should be able to simplify and manage job submission.
A grid is probably not what you think it is. Current grid technologies are essentially updated network batch queueing systems. You kick a job off, the grid determines the least loaded and fastest machine to run it on. Distributing parts of jobs over the grid essentially requires rewriting the software to take advantage of pvm or mpi, but that can be done later once there's a stable infrastructure in place.
New (super-duper multi-core) machines added to a grid are typically the most utilised, completely automatically, they tend to be the fastest so run through jobs faster, and are therefore the least loaded and are handed correspondingly more jobs to run. You can increase the utilisation of your hardware from around 10% on average to 80%, 90%
Most of the grid software I've seen automatically handles failures of applications or hardware, so you can get redundancy essentially for free.
You can get the software for free(there's several of them), a bit of a no brainer.
Frankly I don't see much of a downside to griding your existing machines, it's simple, low cost and really just a change of the way you look at them. Instead of individual systems, they become components in a coherent network.
Look, increasing the costs of your bandwidth isn't stable proposition in a free market. Someone will come along and be cheaper. The governments should be doing their job to make sure there is a free market in place rather than a cartel. Make sure that anyone who does want to charge more has to make their exchange available to competitors.
Um, *where* is the fingerprint recognition?
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Download OO.o once, stick it on a hundred thousand CDs and sell it for £20 a go to the public. Still I suppose they don't really want to get into the support business themselves if they can delegate that to the supplier.
Nah, it's bollocks. Tesco are big, but their turnover is around 35 billion pounds. If the one in eight figure was correct national spending would be just 280 billion. Clearly utter bullshit.
It doesn't matter so much whether this new system is better or even marginally cheaper. What matters is, the number of people and devices which support it. By being bluetooth compatible, device manufacturers are also compatible with almost every mobile phone, most PCs, earpieces, printers etc.
The network effect is cementing bluetooth in place. I can buy bluetooth keyboards, mice, earpieces already. OTOH, like Sony's memory stick, this may just be a way of locking dumb Nokia customers into a proprietary solution.
When it comes to quality they know what they're doing, the management understand the value of getting it right. Of course by that I mean Japanese companies, rather than specifically japanese workers.
What about a transparent pillow shaped balloon tethered with fishing line, payload being a webcam sized video camera. Very simple, very small, stationary, very cheap. Could be hosted in a shoebox sized enclosure, dropped off at strategic locations.
Sorry, but bollocks it is. A gas turbine is a heat engine, the efficiency is determined by difference between the temperature at combustion and the exhaust gases. 50% would be excellent for a gas turbine.
The whole peak oil hysteria is caused because we humans are lazy and haven't bothered improving our energy production technology significantly in a century or so.
Um, it's because oil is much much cheaper than the alternatives. Said alternatives will come online as oil gets more expensive. However, they will still take up a significantly larger proportion of the economy than oil has over the last century.
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I go away for a couple of weeks and my fridge grows green slime without any aid from sunlight at all.
You stop thinking of computers as individual machines and start thinking of the network as the machine. This has implications for how you manage the systems. If you know what you're doing it actually simplifies almost everything, though this is really a function of the attitude and isn't specific to grids, any network would benefit from the same way of working. A grid fits right into an N tier architecture, it's just one of the layers.
Pretty clearly. That bit's available for free.
You're paying for official support and services. Presumably 24/7 telephone, onsite if necessary. You're paying for people and their expertise not software.
However, there is a good point. Support is expensive, there's a market out there for lower cost support services.
Nope, but this is their site.
http://www.nbi.ku.dk/side39251.htm
It's better than just major events. You can apply stats to huge volumes of data, find all sorts of interesting correlations. Such as personals adverts to signal events, stock market rises/falls prior to terrorist events.
And the only reason they're buying the debt is because the dollar is a reserve currency, you need it to buy oil. Almost as good as gold... so they said... Except Mr Bush has recently allowed the dollar to fall. He can't help it, he has a war to finance, he has to keep printing money. But then, the Iraqis and the Iranians were threatening to switch to Euros anyway... No choice there then.
There may be trouble ahead.
Quiet... The Highlands are FULL damnit!
7. It's not a fad. The technology has been around since the 80s IIRC, possibly earlier. The word "grid" is a fad, but not the technology. They started as network or batch queueing systems. The word "grid" is like the word "middleware". It isn't well defined and means a bunch of different things to different people.
8. Off the top of my head, freebies include Torque, GridEngine, Condor.
9. Yes it would be a Beowulf of those. Mwhahaha!
Frankly I don't see much of a downside to griding your existing machines, it's simple, low cost and really just a change of the way you look at them. Instead of individual systems, they become components in a coherent network.
Look, increasing the costs of your bandwidth isn't stable proposition in a free market. Someone will come along and be cheaper. The governments should be doing their job to make sure there is a free market in place rather than a cartel. Make sure that anyone who does want to charge more has to make their exchange available to competitors.
Very disappointed...
Download OO.o once, stick it on a hundred thousand CDs and sell it for £20 a go to the public. Still I suppose they don't really want to get into the support business themselves if they can delegate that to the supplier.
Nah, it's bollocks. Tesco are big, but their turnover is around 35 billion pounds. If the one in eight figure was correct national spending would be just 280 billion. Clearly utter bullshit.
Read up on the Network Effect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
It also happens to be a standard:
http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/TG1.html
It doesn't matter so much whether this new system is better or even marginally cheaper. What matters is, the number of people and devices which support it. By being bluetooth compatible, device manufacturers are also compatible with almost every mobile phone, most PCs, earpieces, printers etc.
The network effect is cementing bluetooth in place. I can buy bluetooth keyboards, mice, earpieces already. OTOH, like Sony's memory stick, this may just be a way of locking dumb Nokia customers into a proprietary solution.
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Free open source windows accounts package. Replace quicken no bother.
When it comes to quality they know what they're doing, the management understand the value of getting it right. Of course by that I mean Japanese companies, rather than specifically japanese workers.
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http://www.reliabilityindex.co.uk/tophundred.html
What about a transparent pillow shaped balloon tethered with fishing line, payload being a webcam sized video camera. Very simple, very small, stationary, very cheap. Could be hosted in a shoebox sized enclosure, dropped off at strategic locations.
It just isn't the network's job to handle security. Or at least, those layers of the network...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
Sorry, but bollocks it is. A gas turbine is a heat engine, the efficiency is determined by difference between the temperature at combustion and the exhaust gases. 50% would be excellent for a gas turbine.
50% if you're lucky, with corresponding 50% heat to get rid of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_(economics)
When you dance with the devil...
Doesn't seem very clever to me. All very secret, all very hush hush, giving responsibility to a chosen few.
With paper, it's open to hundreds of eyes.
Um, it's because oil is much much cheaper than the alternatives. Said alternatives will come online as oil gets more expensive. However, they will still take up a significantly larger proportion of the economy than oil has over the last century.
Btw, money making, is the rational choice.