If all US military spending the last 10 years was put into space, robotics and nanotech research we already be living on mars by now and traveling to Alpha Centauri in anti-matter powered spaceships.
Do you know what GRID or Distributed Computing is? That is what the Cell is basicly for your home. Pooling of CPU, memory, storage, I/O resources. To more effectivly utilize the equipment that you have purchased.
GRID is the future of computing and we are slowly moving into that concept. Todays P2P technology is a part of that concept, but today P2P is very simple compared what we will have in 10 years from now.
Yep, Windows did use BSD stack back in the days of NT 3.5 and 4.0, but the stack has since then been rewritten from scratch, Windows 2000 and XP does not contain BSD stack.
And Linux does not use BSD stack eighter. Linux kernel hackers have written their own stack too.
well, i'm not suprised that Sun tries to hide the "roots" of the software included in its Java Desktop System suite.
I work in the IT department of a big multinational corporation and the general view among my collegies (IT professionals with suite, shirt and tie) is that "free" and "open" software is of lower quality than commercial software.
free/open software = low quality, made by amateurs and hobbyists in their spare time.
commercial/closed software = good quality, made by professionals geting paid to do develop.
Realy sad, but this is how the general view here at my company is. So I think it's chosen decision from Sun to make the software look to IT pros like it is commercial software.
Dont think so, It's as easy to do in C, API calls for Rijndael and MD5 are available in libcrypto.[so,a] (OpenSSL) which should be available in most default Linux OS installs.
Dunno about Java 1.5 platform, if they ship crypto API's as default.
In asian countries (Thailand, Philipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc) you can live on $300 per month, and that include house rent, food, electricity, liquid gas, travel, etc.
I was in Philipines for two months over cristmas/newyear so I know;)
Dunno about the pricelevel in the Caribbean countries, but I guess his $64000 CAD would last for atleast 10 years (!) if he lives a normal life.
I live in a socialist country in north europe, Sweden. Our goverment must be the best at stealing from its people, refined into perfection in many years. For example in my state the minimum income tax is 33% of your salary. If you have a normal average salary your income tax will be somewhere between 40-50%. Yeah how does that feel? the goverment taking away half of the money you earn. The effect of the high income tax on the society is that the people does not want to work more than they have to (your tax will rise), fostering a anti-work mentality among the people becouse it does not pay to work more than you have to.
The goverment is also very good at wasting taxpayers money on non-productive things, like culture and endless and totaly useless goverment projects, bureaucracy, etc. Some examples:
If you are an artist like painter, writer or musican, the goverment will pay your living for the rest of your life! how about that?
If you are unemployed you can live as long as you want on goverment social welfare without any demands.
If you cant afford pay your rental for your appartment/house (too low income or to high rent) the goverment will give you free money each month for your rental.
For each child you have, you get free money each month from the goverment until they are 18 years old.
The goverment here is anti-business. There is alot of bureaucracy, paperwork, rules, laws that make it very hard and bothersome for the citizen to startup their own business to provide their own living. The goverment give unfair support (special tax rules, etc) to a minor number of very large corporates but suppress all mid-size/small companys with high taxes, fees and regularization.
Socialism is a hell and will only lead to doom in the long run, I have been living in it for 28 years so I should know.
As the result of socialism, our country has been deprecating slowly but surely since the middle of 1900. Crime and murder is skyrocketing, medicare is deprecating, education and schools are deprecating, corruption is on the rise (especialy among the polical elite, which use their political power to give their family and relatives advantages, their sons and daughters luxury apartments, free vacations/travel, free cars, etc on taxpayers money). We are soon one of the poorest countries in the europe in terms of salaries and purchasing power, germany, france, belgium, denmark, norway, they have all bypassed us during the last 20 years. We are in the bottom and its only getting worse every year.
By the way, "energy fueled vehicles with zero emisions"? WTF does that mean? I guess it's as opposed to those vehicles we are using now, which don't require energy?
I think he is refering to fuelcell cars, which use hydrogen as energy and output only pure water.
Califonia also has built a couple of hydrogen-powerplants which provide additional electricity to the CA powergrid.
Dont want to start a CPU war here or something. But what is a good design from a engineering point of view is not the same as what is succefull on the market. Good design is mostly expensive due to production costs and cheap designs is well, cheap.
Intel/AMD very is successfull in the market and Alpha/PA-RISC/MIPS/etc is not. But they are still better designs.
You are comparing apples to oranges. This is not Intel "inflate your clockfrequency until you die" Corporation.
500Mhz US-III is equal to 1.5 GHz Intel P4. 1 GHz US-III is equal to 3 GHz Intel P4.
We have purchased many 1U Fire V100 boxes for less than $1000 each, that is cheap for a server with a true RISC CPU (which was designed specificly to run UNIX).
Our research/education network here in Sweden called SUNET (Swedish University NETwork) runs at 10 Gbit/s in the core and providing all connecting nodes with minimum 2 GB/s trunks, all the major universities are directly connected with 10 GB/s trunks.
Well its sunday after all. Dont you thinks its even more gnarley that the ninth Linux kernel pre-release (-pre9) made the frontpage, its not even dot release!:) I thinks its good that important open-source software get their spot in the sun, becouse many of us do not follow all projects closely and its nice to have interesting discussions about the software and the project.
If a CPU gets broken and the OS detects is, it will immediately take of CPU offline (tag it as not available). The same is true for memory banks, if a memory bank or DIMM get a hardware fault the OS will detect is and make it unavailable.
Most modern applications consist of many different processes and threads which are scheduled by the scheduler on the CPU's, thats means the application wont be affected in case of a CPU failure (parts of it may be affected if it had code executing on that particular CPU exact that milliseconds the CPU broke).
This is not only usefull in case of a hardware fault, but also for hardware expansion and upgrades as you easily can add more CPU, memory, I/O boards (Ethernet ports, Fibrechannel storage HBA cards, etc) under full operation without shuting down the server. Enabling 100% true 24/7 operation.
b)
Yes you can just plug it out. You can turn off the power to the boards from inside the OS with the commands poweroff/poweron , then its ok to plug it out.
Not only highend servers E12K/E15K supports this functionality, but also the midrange servern in the SunFire family, from model 3800 and up. The boards are standardized. Exactly the same boards in a small 3800 server as in the E15K top model. This means that you can move psycial hardware resources between your servers if you have one server that need more CPU power for a particular task. I work in the pharmaceutical business and we have scientists who run alot of heavy simulations (genetic and molecular research, etc) on our servers, some of these tasks/jobs may run for weeks in a row without disruption.
Well, as modern Sun servers use hardware/software partition (virtual servers) like in the mainframe world, you simply remove a CPU/memory board (these hotswap boards have 4 cpus and memory banks on em) by removing it from the partition and after that disabling and power it off.
Please see Dynamic Reconfigration User Guide and Service Manual for details.;-)
They have the goverment's support I guess. They are involved in lots of important (both from a military and national security point of view) joint projects with DOD and DOE, and I doubt the gov would allow them to be f**ked around by SCO. For example then Cray still was a SGI business the goverment paid whole cost for the research and development of the Cray SV1 and SV2 vector line of SGI supercomputers.
Is'nt Half Life 2 built using MS technology (ie: Direct 3D)? Then its worthless, its junk, trash, crap, shit, I would'nt even wipe my ass with it. Not worth a dime, so I could care less if someone steals their crappy MS-only game. Everything build using MS tech is crap. Cant be used on Linux, UNIX or even MacOS-X.
But our corporation has >10000 desktops worldwide in 135 different countries which are behind NAT. Do you want to configure a specific port-mapping for each them? give me a break..
Many of us more experienced internet users do IP-telephony and videoconferencing. Which means accepting "any" connection (= any incoming phonecall) from anyone on certain ports.
How are you supposing to call someone who are behind NAT? You cant.
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If all US military spending the last 10 years was put into space, robotics and nanotech research we already be living on mars by now and traveling to Alpha Centauri in anti-matter powered spaceships.
Do you know what GRID or Distributed Computing is?
That is what the Cell is basicly for your home. Pooling of CPU, memory, storage, I/O resources. To more effectivly utilize the equipment that you have purchased.
GRID is the future of computing and we are slowly moving into that concept. Todays P2P technology is a part of that concept, but today P2P is very simple compared what we will have in 10 years from now.
gyrocopters may or may not be dangerous but they certainly do fly - unlike the "Skycar".
Okey, you implies Mollers Skycar is a fad and does not fly at all, can you please tell me what you see on this picture then.
Is this Dark Matter the same thing as or related to anti-matter or something whole different?
Yep, Windows did use BSD stack back in the days of NT 3.5 and 4.0, but the stack has since then been rewritten from scratch, Windows 2000 and XP does not contain BSD stack.
And Linux does not use BSD stack eighter. Linux kernel hackers have written their own stack too.
well, i'm not suprised that Sun tries to hide the "roots" of the software included in its Java Desktop System suite.
I work in the IT department of a big multinational corporation and the general view among my collegies (IT professionals with suite, shirt and tie) is that "free" and "open" software is of lower quality than commercial software.
free/open software = low quality, made by amateurs and hobbyists in their spare time.
commercial/closed software = good quality, made by professionals geting paid to do develop.
Realy sad, but this is how the general view here at my company is. So I think it's chosen decision from Sun to make the software look to IT pros like it is commercial software.
or maybe shave the mouse.
Dont think so, It's as easy to do in C, API calls for Rijndael and MD5 are available in libcrypto.[so,a] (OpenSSL) which should be available in most default Linux OS installs.
Dunno about Java 1.5 platform, if they ship crypto API's as default.
There only exists a limited quanity of it on earth, that is what gives it value.
Platinum is more rare and scarse than gold and silver, which gives it a much higher value per ounce.
Prices are defined by supply and demand on the open market. Latest prices can be seen here:
Metals
In asian countries (Thailand, Philipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc) you can live on $300 per month, and that include house rent, food, electricity, liquid gas, travel, etc.
;)
I was in Philipines for two months over cristmas/newyear so I know
Dunno about the pricelevel in the Caribbean countries, but I guess his $64000 CAD would last for atleast 10 years (!) if he lives a normal life.
Amen to that
I live in a socialist country in north europe, Sweden. Our goverment must be the best at stealing from its people, refined into perfection in many years. For example in my state the minimum income tax is 33% of your salary. If you have a normal average salary your income tax will be somewhere between 40-50%. Yeah how does that feel? the goverment taking away half of the money you earn. The effect of the high income tax on the society is that the people does not want to work more than they have to (your tax will rise), fostering a anti-work mentality among the people becouse it does not pay to work more than you have to.
The goverment is also very good at wasting taxpayers money on non-productive things, like culture and endless and totaly useless goverment projects, bureaucracy, etc. Some examples:
If you are an artist like painter, writer or musican, the goverment will pay your living for the rest of your life! how about that?
If you are unemployed you can live as long as you want on goverment social welfare without any demands.
If you cant afford pay your rental for your appartment/house (too low income or to high rent) the goverment will give you free money each month for your rental.
For each child you have, you get free money each month from the goverment until they are 18 years old.
The goverment here is anti-business. There is alot of bureaucracy, paperwork, rules, laws that make it very hard and bothersome for the citizen to startup their own business to provide their own living. The goverment give unfair support (special tax rules, etc) to a minor number of very large corporates but suppress all mid-size/small companys with high taxes, fees and regularization.
Socialism is a hell and will only lead to doom in the long run, I have been living in it for 28 years so I should know.
As the result of socialism, our country has been deprecating slowly but surely since the middle of 1900. Crime and murder is skyrocketing, medicare is deprecating, education and schools are deprecating, corruption is on the rise (especialy among the polical elite, which use their political power to give their family and relatives advantages, their sons and daughters luxury apartments, free vacations/travel, free cars, etc on taxpayers money). We are soon one of the poorest countries in the europe in terms of salaries and purchasing power, germany, france, belgium, denmark, norway, they have all bypassed us during the last 20 years. We are in the bottom and its only getting worse every year.
By the way, "energy fueled vehicles with zero emisions"? WTF does that mean? I guess it's as opposed to those vehicles we are using now, which don't require energy?
I think he is refering to fuelcell cars, which use hydrogen as energy and output only pure water.
Califonia also has built a couple of hydrogen-powerplants which provide additional electricity to the CA powergrid.
Yes,I think newer sats use the 10 GHz band. But then you need a dish to receive the signal.
Dont want to start a CPU war here or something. But what is a good design from a engineering point of view is not the same as what is succefull on the market. Good design is mostly expensive due to production costs and cheap designs is well, cheap.
Intel/AMD very is successfull in the market and Alpha/PA-RISC/MIPS/etc is not. But they are still better designs.
Well, theres lots of differencies between Power and PowerPC. Power4 is a dual-core design, PowerPC 970 (G5) has how many cores?
And yes we have 10-15 iSeries running OS/400.
$2000 for a 500 MHz machine
You are comparing apples to oranges. This is not Intel "inflate your clockfrequency until you die" Corporation.
500Mhz US-III is equal to 1.5 GHz Intel P4.
1 GHz US-III is equal to 3 GHz Intel P4.
We have purchased many 1U Fire V100 boxes for less than $1000 each, that is cheap for a server with a true RISC CPU (which was designed specificly to run UNIX).
Professional gear:
SPARC
MIPS
Alpha
Power
Itanium
Toys:
Intel P3/P4/XEON
AMD 32/64B
Transmeta
Cyrix
PowerPC
(yeah go ahead and mod me to hell for my that, could care less becouse I was born to run UNIX)
Yep, been there, done that. :)
Our research/education network here in Sweden called SUNET (Swedish University NETwork) runs at 10 Gbit/s in the core and providing all connecting nodes with minimum 2 GB/s trunks, all the major universities are directly connected with 10 GB/s trunks.
Well its sunday after all. Dont you thinks its even more gnarley that the ninth Linux kernel pre-release (-pre9) made the frontpage, its not even dot release! :) I thinks its good that important open-source software get their spot in the sun, becouse many of us do not follow all projects closely and its nice to have interesting discussions about the software and the project.
Yep it will, if Carmack do a port to MPI/MPICH.
Ok, I give it a try to answer the questions.
a)
If a CPU gets broken and the OS detects is, it will immediately take of CPU offline (tag it as not available). The same is true for memory banks, if a memory bank or DIMM get a hardware fault the OS will detect is and make it unavailable.
Most modern applications consist of many different processes and threads which are scheduled by the scheduler on the CPU's, thats means the application wont be affected in case of a CPU failure (parts of it may be affected if it had code executing on that particular CPU exact that milliseconds the CPU broke).
This is not only usefull in case of a hardware fault, but also for hardware expansion and upgrades as you easily can add more CPU, memory, I/O boards (Ethernet ports, Fibrechannel storage HBA cards, etc) under full operation without shuting down the server. Enabling 100% true 24/7 operation.
b)
Yes you can just plug it out. You can turn off the power to the boards from inside the OS with the commands poweroff/poweron , then its ok to plug it out.
Not only highend servers E12K/E15K supports this functionality, but also the midrange servern in the SunFire family, from model 3800 and up. The boards are standardized. Exactly the same boards in a small 3800 server as in the E15K top model. This means that you can move psycial hardware resources between your servers if you have one server that need more CPU power for a particular task. I work in the pharmaceutical business and we have scientists who run alot of heavy simulations (genetic and molecular research, etc) on our servers, some of these tasks/jobs may run for weeks in a row without disruption.
Please see Dynamic Reconfigration User Guide and Service Manual for details.
Dynamic Reconfiguraion User Guide
SunFire 12K/15K Service Manual
They have the goverment's support I guess. They are involved in lots of important (both from a military and national security point of view) joint projects with DOD and DOE, and I doubt the gov would allow them to be f**ked around by SCO. For example then Cray still was a SGI business the goverment paid whole cost for the research and development of the Cray SV1 and SV2 vector line of SGI supercomputers.
Is'nt Half Life 2 built using MS technology (ie: Direct 3D)? Then its worthless, its junk, trash, crap, shit, I would'nt even wipe my ass with it. Not worth a dime, so I could care less if someone steals their crappy MS-only game. Everything build using MS tech is crap. Cant be used on Linux, UNIX or even MacOS-X.
But our corporation has >10000 desktops worldwide in 135 different countries which are behind NAT. Do you want to configure a specific port-mapping for each them? give me a break..
Many of us more experienced internet users do IP-telephony and videoconferencing. Which means accepting "any" connection (= any incoming phonecall) from anyone on certain ports.
How are you supposing to call someone who are behind NAT? You cant.