What a lot of people don't know is that if you want to join a cluster to the Open Science Grid and you are a legit organization more than likely they would let you join. Just be sure you understand your responsibilities as it's more of an active participation. If you are a school or computer user group/club go to the open science grid website and start reading up.
Warning: Although not for this crowd. Joining OSG (http://www.opensciencegrid.org/) is a bit more complicated than loading up BOINC or folding@home. It requires a stack of middleware that is distributed as part of OSG's software. Most of the sites I believe use Condor (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/). If you would like to get Condor up and running quick the best way is using ROCKS (http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/) with a Rocks Condor "Roll" (jargon for Rocks condor cluster). Then after getting your condor flock up and running you can load the Open Science Grid stuff on it.
I'm currently running a small cluster of PC's that were destined to be excessed (P4's 3 or 4 years old) and have seen jobs come in and process on my computers! And...to boot you can configure BOINC to act as a backfill mechanism so that when the systems are not running jobs from OSG they can be running BOINC and whatever project you've joined through that project.
BTW...all of the software mentioned is funded under grants from the National Science Foundation - primarily via the Office of CyberInfrastructure but some through other Directorates within NSF.
I don't disagree with you on the in-house wiring. I've had to face that problem myself.
I'm in Stafford, VA (a former Adelphia area) and my bandwidth has skyrocketed of late. At first I thought something got broke and powerboost was stuck in the "on" position, but it's been sustained for some time now (doing my own iperf tests). So I'm pretty happy (for now).
I feel for people where it sucks, because in some places it REALLY does suck rocks.
They sell the "8meg" tier here but the pipe to the headend cant handle the 8meg so if you do any speed tests OUTSIDE their reccomended you never get more than 4.4-5. Don't know where you are. I subscribe to that service and I've been getting consistent 2MB/s (that's right...2 Megabytes) downstream and a solid 2 Megabit upstream.
The thing with cable is it's all about location. If you are in an area with nobody but you in your local "group" then more than likely you be in sweet bandwidth heaven.
If you are on a street with 10 15 year olds downloading every 720p/1080i movie via bittorrent your bandwidth is probably going to suck.
Thanks for clarifying that for me. Win2k run's better on older systems, but with today's malware in the windows world having available security fixes is really important.
Although I'm no expert, I've been reading that one reason Solar photo-voltaic panels have not dropped in price is due to the fact that much of the silicon used to make them is tied up in chip fabrication.
I wonder if those same silicon wafer production facilities can be converted to make solar panels once the move away from silicon in the microprocessor industry takes place?
If I were NOVELL and IBM I'd be having a party, thats a 100 million dollars that can they can collect in damages. Before there was basically nothing to collect. Now they can win AND get some $$$.
Actually, I think the entire set is under the creative commons license. The first nine are free off of the site, but technically it's legal to get the whole set from somewhere else if you want (please somebody check this as I'm not sure as well)
My first two real jobs were as a Computer operator on an old Burroughs system and Sperry/Unisys system. What I find really interesting is how mainframes have really benefited from the same technology that made microcomputers fast. There was a period where clustering PC's (Servers) really was much more cost effective, but as we move into the future the robustness and bulletproof downtime of those old mainframe OS's have been given new life with lightning fast hardware and I/O subsystems.
People will move and applications will get ported to IPv6, but only when they HAVE To move to IPv6 OR when there is some benefit that outweighs the cost.
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What a lot of people don't know is that if you want to join a cluster to the Open Science Grid and you are a legit organization more than likely they would let you join. Just be sure you understand your responsibilities as it's more of an active participation. If you are a school or computer user group/club go to the open science grid website and start reading up.
Warning: Although not for this crowd. Joining OSG (http://www.opensciencegrid.org/) is a bit more complicated than loading up BOINC or folding@home. It requires a stack of middleware that is distributed as part of OSG's software. Most of the sites I believe use Condor (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/). If you would like to get Condor up and running quick the best way is using ROCKS (http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/) with a Rocks Condor "Roll" (jargon for Rocks condor cluster). Then after getting your condor flock up and running you can load the Open Science Grid stuff on it.
I'm currently running a small cluster of PC's that were destined to be excessed (P4's 3 or 4 years old) and have seen jobs come in and process on my computers! And...to boot you can configure BOINC to act as a backfill mechanism so that when the systems are not running jobs from OSG they can be running BOINC and whatever project you've joined through that project.
BTW...all of the software mentioned is funded under grants from the National Science Foundation - primarily via the Office of CyberInfrastructure but some through other Directorates within NSF.
With a lot of the principals more or less still around the BEST thing to do would be to have a REAL story asking about stuff on the hard drive.
I mean, email is NOT that hard.
The heck with criminals...where do I sign up if I want to submitt my DNA to DHS?
I can just see it now, a Terror attack where they drop radioactive cocanuts on to unsuspecting American cities from planes....
I watched that TV Show too :)
You are not entirely correct that there have been NO visible deformations, just far less than expected.
In most cases no, but if you graduated at the top of your class from MIT that probably would help you.
I'd concentrate on the strength of the program first and the notability of the college somewhere beneath.
I don't disagree with you on the in-house wiring. I've had to face that problem myself.
I'm in Stafford, VA (a former Adelphia area) and my bandwidth has skyrocketed of late. At first I thought something got broke and powerboost was stuck in the "on" position, but it's been sustained for some time now (doing my own iperf tests). So I'm pretty happy (for now).
I feel for people where it sucks, because in some places it REALLY does suck rocks.
More than likely they up the cap for the higher speeds. From what I've read they do that with each of the other tiered plans.
They sell the "8meg" tier here but the pipe to the headend cant handle the 8meg so if you do any speed tests OUTSIDE their reccomended you never get more than 4.4-5. Don't know where you are. I subscribe to that service and I've been getting consistent 2MB/s (that's right...2 Megabytes) downstream and a solid 2 Megabit upstream.
The thing with cable is it's all about location. If you are in an area with nobody but you in your local "group" then more than likely you be in sweet bandwidth heaven.
If you are on a street with 10 15 year olds downloading every 720p/1080i movie via bittorrent your bandwidth is probably going to suck.
Thanks for clarifying that for me. Win2k run's better on older systems, but with today's malware in the windows world having available security fixes is really important.
I thought you can't get security updates for win2000 any more? If so that's a BAD upgrade path.
Although I'm no expert, I've been reading that one reason Solar photo-voltaic panels have not dropped in price is due to the fact that much of the silicon used to make them is tied up in chip fabrication.
I wonder if those same silicon wafer production facilities can be converted to make solar panels once the move away from silicon in the microprocessor industry takes place?
Actually the drug is "Methylphenidate" (Ritalin, Concerta, Daytrana, Methylin, etc)
So I guess this means we should wait for SP1 of SP1 before applying the first SP1?
Nah. They probably realize they can't stop it.
But they CAN by "trying" attempt to keep off of the radar of those who would firebomb their building(s) based on their action/inaction.
It's spineless I agree but it's just the sort of thing a business with money grubbing people in charge would do.
That the pirates did'nt contribute a dime to.
If that project could ever get some network performance (speed) it could really help in places like China.
The blue ray encryption geniuses should read my subject line over and over and over and over.
dead + 15% is still dead.
If I were NOVELL and IBM I'd be having a party, thats a 100 million dollars that can they can collect in damages. Before there was basically nothing to collect. Now they can win AND get some $$$.
Actually, I think the entire set is under the creative commons license. The first nine are free off of the site, but technically it's legal to get the whole set from somewhere else if you want (please somebody check this as I'm not sure as well)
My first two real jobs were as a Computer operator on an old Burroughs system and Sperry/Unisys system. What I find really interesting is how mainframes have really benefited from the same technology that made microcomputers fast. There was a period where clustering PC's (Servers) really was much more cost effective, but as we move into the future the robustness and bulletproof downtime of those old mainframe OS's have been given new life with lightning fast hardware and I/O subsystems.
NAT is not supported because it's not needed under IPv6.
There is no shortage of addresses, and if you want to "protect" your network you just firewall like in IPv4.
People will move and applications will get ported to IPv6, but only when they HAVE To move to IPv6 OR when there is some benefit that outweighs the cost.
Simple.
PSC = Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (At Carnegie Mellon).
They are a node on the Teragrid which has throughput over some segments of around 100Gb/s