I agree with you. I have been working with Solaris everyday for 8 years. My company is one of the top ten biggest in the world and we have Sun as our primary supplier of UNIX. We have Solaris machines that process money/credit transactions of hundreds of millions of dollars every week to major international banks and suppliers/partners. We have ERP and EAI systems which some handles billions of dollars every month. This is a totaly different world from what your average Linux/BSD weenie is used to, they can not imagine what we do here in major datacenters of large multinational corporations. If I feel like it I can go and just grab a $50,000 SunFire server from one of our store shelves and throw it into a emptry rack space and have it auto deloyed via JumpStart with a pre-defined Solaris 9 build and Oracle 9i from our stageing servers in just 2 hours.
Newer Solaris has alot of heavy duty mainframe functionality like for example it allows you to add and remove hardware (CPU, memory, I/O (FC, GbE, for example) boards) under full operation without taking down the server. You can take CPU and memory online/offline via simple commands from the shell. You can attach and detatch any PCI board under full operation. That is something we cant even do on our $100,000 HP N-class servers.
Solaris has totaly unique enterprise high-availability functions that no other UNIX can fully match today, that is why we run large parts of our business critical services on Solaris.
Yes, but you know that there are tighly coupled clusters with hundreds or thousands of nodes available on the grid that looks/acts like a single resource on the grid. There are also vector supercomputers like Cray's and NEC's available if one need the capabilities these provide.
Here is a link to a cool Java applet that shows all jobs running on the European research grid:
*lol* Reminds me of Sweden where we have this big ugly frankenstein "Telia". It initialy was the goverment run monopoly telecommunication company "Televerket" that was later in the 90's privatized, put on the stockmarket and sold out to investors.
The problem is that it is still a private monopoly and the goverment still has majority controll (owns 51% of it I think) so they in their good memory let it f*ck around with customers and other private run shops with it's good memory. Especially in the xDSL internet access market things are ugly here in Sweden there they are bullying around with the other xDSL ISP's (they own the last-mile copper access network).
yes I agree with you, it's pretty much a mess to install a barebones Globus today, it's a complex installation procedure with a shitload of external dependencies. Hopefully things will get simplier in the future as the new IBM/HP/SUN/Intel collaboration to adopt Globus as the major enterprise Grid standard starts to work on the obstacles for a widespread adoption.
Using Java as the foundation (well, "reference implementation" really) for GT4, I think that's a good thing, then you find yourself on a daily base working in a heterogenious environment with a multitude of platforms like Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, AIX, IRIX and even exotic ones like Cray Unicos you will appreciate the convenience and ability to just execute the darn code without having to fiddle around with recompilations, incompatible librarys, etc. I belive Java was introduced 10 years to early for it's own good, computer technology was'nt ready for it, giving it a bad reputation in most peoples mind as being a slow resource hog (it's all relative right? what does run slow on a 5 year old PII 450 Mhz may run very fast of a brand new P4 3.8 GHz). It's all by design, the designers of the Java language did purposely sacrifice some performance and resource usage to gain hardware and operating system independence and higher level abstraction ("virtualization").
The dependency on MPICH is due to the use of a modified version called MPICH-G3, basicly a bunch of patches to standard MPICH to integrate it with the resource manager GRAM. In order to use a vendor provided MPI, one has to run the jobs thru a batch-job scheduler as LSF/Condor, then the scheduler handles the communication with the RM.
Globus uses proxy certificates much like SSH does for single sign-on. Multicast may work nice inside a specific organization (a university, a research center, etc) but for inter-organizational authtentication I do not think multicast is a viable alternative.
If you want working single-sign on across domains/organisational broders you can use Globus, the defaco open-source Grid framework/toolkit mostly in use in the research, univeristy world.
New reworked version 4.0 scheduled for release this spring will provide for authorization thru firewalls and webproxies using Web Services tech.
So what would it feel like to get hit by matter traveling at 99.9% of light speed? It would probably slice thru the body like a hot knife thru butter and you would not feel a thing, if it's not too big that is.:)
Agree with you. Development/programming is creative artist work, it belonges in the same group at painters, musicans, composers, authors, writers, etc.
*lol* Sounds like what I'm doing. Here in my shop, UNIX operations at a Big Cap global corporation it's usualy ok by the bosses to fiddle around on company time with the unused spare UNIX hardware we have lying around (Sun E250, E220R, E420R, E450, Netras, Sun Fire's, HP Visualise, L/N/K-Class, etc) to test out new software and keep our skills and knowledge up to date.
Last month's I've been getting my hands dirty with Oracle 10i, Solaris 10 and hacking code to gain deeper knowledge on Enterprise Java stuff as J2EE, Hibernate, SOAP/WSDL, JXTA, JINI, WebServices, Virtualization/Component design and SOA architecture design, Globus and Grid architecture, etc.
The fun thing is that the screens at my desk are usualy packed with terminal windows full of Java code and running compilations as I'm working on a private project to build a complete Webshop/E-commerce site for an private upstart project I have running with a couple of friends and my co-workers/bosses dont know a slightest shit about what I'm doing, to them it looks like i'm working very hard on important things:).. surf time on Slashdot have gone down the drain too, nowadays I mostly hangout on TheServerSide.com;)
Yes, the wonderful world of component/object (RAD) based development. Nowadays creating a embedded webserver or ftpserver is just a matter of calling an class/object/library, like:
httpd myServer = httpd(80) myServer.start();
Easily done in C and C++ too, libhttpd.so, etc. Look at all the good stuff included in the GNOME and KDE environments. No reason to reinvent the wheel if you dont need to.
Would really like to see Microsoft implement the new Globus 4 in.NET and C# so they can play along with the big boys. The new rewritten Globus 4 standard is build up on W3C standards like SOAP/WSDL and other WS standards so Windows machines can now become equal Grid nodes.
Uh no, that is not how it does work. I have created many torrents and shared them on SuprNova. My local machine at home have always been the initial seed for the.torrent, never the SuprNova tracker.
You could do the encryption/decryption then the complete file has been downloaded. You dont need realtime decrytion of the data chunks right? You can download all encrypted segments to disk and then reassemble the file.
With RIAA/MPAA hunting users with blowtorches and ISP's sniffing users IP packets to collect evidence for law suits, encryption will become a standard feature of P2P platforms in the future i'm pretty sure. Ofcouse there is a performance/bandwidth pentaly involved with encryption, but I think the benefits of secure transfer will be greater than the drawbacks.
But you dont have streaming TV channels on iTunes right?
These are the futures of winamp (v5) that I like most about Winamp. Easy to access and always updated directory of hundreds of TV channels and radio stations. Just tune in, no fuzz..
The big problem with the DVD Forum format is that their suggested new disc's are not encapsulated in a cartridge like Blu-ray. It means the lifespan for a disc will be very short like with current CD and DVD dics which gets destroyed by just after a couple years of continuos usage.
I want a media disc's that still works fine 10-20 years down the road.
Nice, I'm from the small town (~80.000 ppl) Gavle in Sweden (which is Northen Europe for you that dont know) where Gevalia was founded and have its roots, it's only roastery is located here at one side of the river that runs thru the town. It's as you know well known all over the world for its excellent high-quality coffe.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope, but more of british accent.
and dont forget the Koreans.
I agree with you. I have been working with Solaris everyday for 8 years. My company is one of the top ten biggest in the world and we have Sun as our primary supplier of UNIX. We have Solaris machines that process money/credit transactions of hundreds of millions of dollars every week to major international banks and suppliers/partners. We have ERP and EAI systems which some handles billions of dollars every month. This is a totaly different world from what your average Linux/BSD weenie is used to, they can not imagine what we do here in major datacenters of large multinational corporations. If I feel like it I can go and just grab a $50,000 SunFire server from one of our store shelves and throw it into a emptry rack space and have it auto deloyed via JumpStart with a pre-defined Solaris 9 build and Oracle 9i from our stageing servers in just 2 hours.
Newer Solaris has alot of heavy duty mainframe functionality like for example it allows you to add and remove hardware (CPU, memory, I/O (FC, GbE, for example) boards) under full operation without taking down the server. You can take CPU and memory online/offline via simple commands from the shell. You can attach and detatch any PCI board under full operation. That is something we cant even do on our $100,000 HP N-class servers.
Solaris has totaly unique enterprise high-availability functions that no other UNIX can fully match today, that is why we run large parts of our business critical services on Solaris.
*lol* Yeah I also got a good laugh then I looked at that list of "high quality" Mono software.
So where are all the big iron industrial strenght enterprise applications?, like what Apache project is doing with Java.
Yes, but you know that there are tighly coupled clusters with hundreds or thousands of nodes available on the grid that looks/acts like a single resource on the grid. There are also vector supercomputers like Cray's and NEC's available if one need the capabilities these provide.
Here is a link to a cool Java applet that shows all jobs running on the European research grid:
LCG2 Real Time Grid Monitor
*lol* Reminds me of Sweden where we have this big ugly frankenstein "Telia". It initialy was the goverment run monopoly telecommunication company "Televerket" that was later in the 90's privatized, put on the stockmarket and sold out to investors.
The problem is that it is still a private monopoly and the goverment still has majority controll (owns 51% of it I think) so they in their good memory let it f*ck around with customers and other private run shops with it's good memory. Especially in the xDSL internet access market things are ugly here in Sweden there they are bullying around with the other xDSL ISP's (they own the last-mile copper access network).
yes I agree with you, it's pretty much a mess to install a barebones Globus today, it's a complex installation procedure with a shitload of external dependencies. Hopefully things will get simplier in the future as the new IBM/HP/SUN/Intel collaboration to adopt Globus as the major enterprise Grid standard starts to work on the obstacles for a widespread adoption.
Using Java as the foundation (well, "reference implementation" really) for GT4, I think that's a good thing, then you find yourself on a daily base working in a heterogenious environment with a multitude of platforms like Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, AIX, IRIX and even exotic ones like Cray Unicos you will appreciate the convenience and ability to just execute the darn code without having to fiddle around with recompilations, incompatible librarys, etc. I belive Java was introduced 10 years to early for it's own good, computer technology was'nt ready for it, giving it a bad reputation in most peoples mind as being a slow resource hog (it's all relative right? what does run slow on a 5 year old PII 450 Mhz may run very fast of a brand new P4 3.8 GHz). It's all by design, the designers of the Java language did purposely sacrifice some performance and resource usage to gain hardware and operating system independence and higher level abstraction ("virtualization").
The dependency on MPICH is due to the use of a modified version called MPICH-G3, basicly a bunch of patches to standard MPICH to integrate it with the resource manager GRAM. In order to use a vendor provided MPI, one has to run the jobs thru a batch-job scheduler as LSF/Condor, then the scheduler handles the communication with the RM.
Globus uses proxy certificates much like SSH does for single sign-on. Multicast may work nice inside a specific organization (a university, a research center, etc) but for inter-organizational authtentication I do not think multicast is a viable alternative.
Sorry the links got screwed up, remove the trailing slash (*ugh* wheres the edit function then you need it!).
If you want working single-sign on across domains/organisational broders you can use Globus, the defaco open-source Grid framework/toolkit mostly in use in the research, univeristy world.
n t/4.0-drafts/GT4Facts/index.html/ n t/4.0-drafts/security/authzframe/index.html/ . html#security/
New reworked version 4.0 scheduled for release this spring will provide for authorization thru firewalls and webproxies using Web Services tech.
http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/docs/developme
http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/docs/developme
http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/docs/3.2/index
http://www.globus.org/
So what would it feel like to get hit by matter traveling at 99.9% of light speed? It would probably slice thru the body like a hot knife thru butter and you would not feel a thing, if it's not too big that is. :)
Agree with you. Development/programming is creative artist work, it belonges in the same group at painters, musicans, composers, authors, writers, etc.
*lol* Sounds like what I'm doing. Here in my shop, UNIX operations at a Big Cap global corporation it's usualy ok by the bosses to fiddle around on company time with the unused spare UNIX hardware we have lying around (Sun E250, E220R, E420R, E450, Netras, Sun Fire's, HP Visualise, L/N/K-Class, etc) to test out new software and keep our skills and knowledge up to date.
:) .. surf time on Slashdot have gone down the drain too, nowadays I mostly hangout on TheServerSide.com ;)
Last month's I've been getting my hands dirty with Oracle 10i, Solaris 10 and hacking code to gain deeper knowledge on Enterprise Java stuff as J2EE, Hibernate, SOAP/WSDL, JXTA, JINI, WebServices, Virtualization/Component design and SOA architecture design, Globus and Grid architecture, etc.
The fun thing is that the screens at my desk are usualy packed with terminal windows full of Java code and running compilations as I'm working on a private project to build a complete Webshop/E-commerce site for an private upstart project I have running with a couple of friends and my co-workers/bosses dont know a slightest shit about what I'm doing, to them it looks like i'm working very hard on important things
Yes, the wonderful world of component/object (RAD) based development. Nowadays creating a embedded webserver or ftpserver is just a matter of calling an class/object/library, like:
httpd myServer = httpd(80)
myServer.start();
Easily done in C and C++ too, libhttpd.so, etc. Look at all the good stuff included in the GNOME and KDE environments. No reason to reinvent the wheel if you dont need to.
Would really like to see Microsoft implement the new Globus 4 in .NET and C# so they can play along with the big boys. The new rewritten Globus 4 standard is build up on W3C standards like SOAP/WSDL and other WS standards so Windows machines can now become equal Grid nodes.
www.globus.org
Uh no, that is not how it does work. I have created many torrents and shared them on SuprNova. My local machine at home have always been the initial seed for the .torrent, never the SuprNova tracker.
Two key pairs is generated for each bi-directional peer connection, one for each direction.
Your local machine generates keys for key pair A, the secret key resides localy on your peer and the public key is sent to the remote peer.
Remote peer does the same, it generates key pair B and sends its public key to you.
You could do the encryption/decryption then the complete file has been downloaded. You dont need realtime decrytion of the data chunks right? You can download all encrypted segments to disk and then reassemble the file.
With RIAA/MPAA hunting users with blowtorches and ISP's sniffing users IP packets to collect evidence for law suits, encryption will become a standard feature of P2P platforms in the future i'm pretty sure. Ofcouse there is a performance/bandwidth pentaly involved with encryption, but I think the benefits of secure transfer will be greater than the drawbacks.
Yes, I have run native Windows on DEC Alpha, and NT4 was also available for MIPS aswell.
Win CE and PocketPC runs on MIPS, ARM and StrongARM. Dont know about Embedded Win but i guess it runs on other arch's than x86.
Norweigan Ibas can help you, but expect to shell up $10,000 to have the contents of one harddisk recovered.
They are world's number one data recovery labratory.
www.ibas.com
Impressive! Vic 20 is cool..
But you dont have streaming TV channels on iTunes right?
These are the futures of winamp (v5) that I like most about Winamp. Easy to access and always updated directory of hundreds of TV channels and radio stations. Just tune in, no fuzz..
gzip -9 hugh_m*_f*ing_simulation_of_the_universe.dat
The big problem with the DVD Forum format is that their suggested new disc's are not encapsulated in a cartridge like Blu-ray. It means the lifespan for a disc will be very short like with current CD and DVD dics which gets destroyed by just after a couple years of continuos usage.
I want a media disc's that still works fine 10-20 years down the road.
Sure, would like to be invited. :)
nr (at) c64.org
Thanks.
Nice, I'm from the small town (~80.000 ppl) Gavle in Sweden (which is Northen Europe for you that dont know) where Gevalia was founded and have its roots, it's only roastery is located here at one side of the river that runs thru the town. It's as you know well known all over the world for its excellent high-quality coffe.
Gävle / Sweden