I agree with many comments, this seams so not new......on first read it reminded me of "Hypercomputers" by Starbridge systems which [at the time c.2000] had a desktop based on FPGAs boards that matched Cray performance.... and could withstand a Magnum shot through the system (excluding PSU) and still run with minor perf hit.
At the time you could get a demo video of this 'experiment' in action, however I've drawn short on evidence now we're in 2007.... my only trace via Google is this ol'/. article by LordMyren...
*twiddle* any day now gents. honestly, it looks like OpenCores might get there first.;)
One of they're earlier claims was it was so dynamically reconfigurable you should shoot it with a.358 magnum and it'd still function.
I still dont see how even 100% utilization of FPGA's could so much as touch 10% utilization of a good ole cray. They're both massively parallel, sure, but one of em's got like upteen bajillion processors. A system full of as many top of the line FPGA's as you can cram in there still aint going to be that fast.
Either way, it sounds like some really cool vaporware. Myren"
N.B. I don't agree with this point in time synopsis, as there was a perf / cost analysis against the Cray and the differential was massive... again anyone with the access to the old whitepapers etc... would be of interest.
LKP is a kernel based rather than a userspace emulation such as LKP.
I had a meeting with SCO/Caldera last week and as well as LKP they have UKP in the labs which they 'may' release . i.e. A Unixware kernel Personality to hook on as a module into the Linux kernel .
Kinda interesting, but I agree the 'why?' question sticks out kinda large !
In an orgnisation of:- 1000 Win95 PC users split across a 100 WAN sites
20 core application/resource servers - NT domain, Notes, UNIX front & back office servers etc
European and USA WAN infrastructure
we have the following staff:-
6 first line support peeps most bi-lingual 4 second line - 2xNT admin & 2xFront Office DBA 2 Back office first line support 2 Back office developers 4 Front office developers 4 Systems Engineers - NT/UNIX/IOS 1 PC Engineer - configs e.g. ghosting etc..
One last point to minimise M$ support overhead from clients, tie down the configs ! We use Storm Windows and reg hacks to stop users changing the standard config.
For remote support we use Mcafee Remote Desktop (Similar to PC Anywhere) . since our clients are DHCP we give them a link to winipcfg - helps 2nd line determine their IP. From there Storm etc... can be untied if necessary without involving the user.
Anything worse we ship a standard config as a replacement.
Is doesn't take much to support a large user base, however a) you need a good infrastructure & b) (most importantly) people in the department which have the skills.
Okay, everyone has there preference for one or the other distributions. Why can't people use that choice as its intended ? i.e. obtain , try , keep or try another.. All of them have their merits and pitfalls , sometimes I wonder that some people don't wish to put the effort in and expect one install to be the "be all and end all".
"October 1999--It's no big secret that Windows NT isn't an easy operating system to set up and configure (although it's miles ahead of Linux, OS/2, or even BeOS). "
now...take point 3 which has a link to the wonderful world of NTFS and the caption on this page..
"NTFS as you can see, is an excellent file system for the serious Windows NT user. However it has its drawbacks as well. For example, NTFS volumes cannot be seen by any other operating system other than Windows NT. "
Oh dear me !
Such a 'miles behind' o/s as Linux surely couldn't read a magnificent file system as NTFS *end of sarcasm*
Does nobody M$ centric bother to look that "Yep Linux can read NTFS, and is now stabilising on the write issues"
Think themselves lucky that Linux dev peeps bother to think of them in the first place!
We can all see from this c't benchmark that there is a second side to the NT IIS vS Linux Apache debate..... and sure both sides will look at each other and reach different opinions on the validity of the corresponding results.
The main thing as main people have said, is 'Hey, look at these limitations in the scalibility in Linux (most of which we know) and do something about it' .
No-one responds with ' They've won, they have the better product' , and this is a constructive attitude to move forward on.
M$ is not going to vanish into the ether, and yes IIS from my own experience performs well as an intranet/internet server. However we do not have excessive load, and although my own gut reaction (interest) would be to use a L & A combo, I'm yet to be in a real world scenario which would dictate this as an alternative solution.
Regardless on which view point you look at the recent bench marks, it does show the strength of the open source model. And sure if M$ are releasing a revamped personal web server as part of Win 2000, it better be damn good, as even with the usual SP's , Apache & Co. will be developing at a far greater rate.
Let the sun shine, both are going to be around for a long time, those in the know we choose the most appropiate solution.
"It could be the beginning of a huge trend," Brown said. "It's about time that people woke up to new ways of doing business, instead of just making Microsoft and Intel rich."
In a MS sales pitch the practice could become....
"Buy Windows2000, and let us have all/some/what-ever-we-want of your company, and by the way you'll have to put up with beta 3 for a while."
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I agree with many comments, this seams so not new... ...on first read it reminded me of "Hypercomputers" by Starbridge systems which [at the time c.2000] had a desktop based on FPGAs boards that matched Cray performance.... and could withstand a Magnum shot through the system (excluding PSU) and still run with minor perf hit.
/. article by LordMyren...
/ 09/1824253&tid=137
;)
.358 magnum and it'd still function.
At the time you could get a demo video of this 'experiment' in action, however I've drawn short on evidence now we're in 2007.... my only trace via Google is this ol'
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04
"That Star Bridge Systems is still about to unleash a whole new ball game.
*twiddle* any day now gents. honestly, it looks like OpenCores might get there first.
One of they're earlier claims was it was so dynamically reconfigurable you should shoot it with a
I still dont see how even 100% utilization of FPGA's could so much as touch 10% utilization of a good ole cray. They're both massively parallel, sure, but one of em's got like upteen bajillion processors. A system full of as many top of the line FPGA's as you can cram in there still aint going to be that fast.
Either way, it sounds like some really cool vaporware.
Myren"
N.B. I don't agree with this point in time synopsis, as there was a perf / cost analysis against the Cray and the differential was massive... again anyone with the access to the old whitepapers etc... would be of interest.
Regards,
TheBrit
LKP is a kernel based rather than a userspace emulation such as LKP.
I had a meeting with SCO/Caldera last week and as well as LKP they have UKP in the labs which they 'may' release . i.e. A Unixware kernel Personality to hook on as a module into the Linux kernel .
Kinda interesting, but I agree the 'why?' question sticks out kinda large !
Check out www.e2p.com that reckon you can have .whateveryouwant as an extended TLD..
Not sure how it works but they're registering requests now.
Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03e9'
Out of memory
/include/globalnavigation.asp, line 14
Sub ShowGlobalNavigation()
^
or is that a human type reply ? :-)
In an orgnisation of :-
:-
1000 Win95 PC users split across a 100 WAN sites
20 core application/resource servers - NT domain, Notes, UNIX front & back office servers etc
European and USA WAN infrastructure
we have the following staff
6 first line support peeps most bi-lingual
4 second line - 2xNT admin & 2xFront Office DBA
2 Back office first line support
2 Back office developers
4 Front office developers
4 Systems Engineers - NT/UNIX/IOS
1 PC Engineer - configs e.g. ghosting etc..
One last point to minimise M$ support overhead from clients, tie down the configs ! We use Storm Windows and reg hacks to stop users changing the standard config.
For remote support we use Mcafee Remote Desktop (Similar to PC Anywhere) . since our clients are DHCP we give them a link to winipcfg - helps 2nd line determine their IP. From there Storm etc... can be untied if necessary without involving the user.
Anything worse we ship a standard config as a replacement.
Is doesn't take much to support a large user base, however a) you need a good infrastructure & b) (most importantly) people in the department which have the skills.
Okay, everyone has there preference for one or the other distributions. Why can't people use that choice as its intended ? i.e. obtain , try , keep or try another .. All of them have their merits and pitfalls , sometimes I wonder that some people don't wish to put the effort in and expect one install to be the "be all and end all".
Okay so in the given link they start by saying ...
"October 1999--It's no big secret that Windows NT isn't an easy operating system to set up and configure (although it's miles ahead of Linux, OS/2, or even BeOS). "
now...take point 3 which has a link to the wonderful world of NTFS and the caption on this page..
"NTFS as you can see, is an excellent file system for the serious Windows NT user. However it has its drawbacks as well. For example, NTFS volumes cannot be seen by any other operating system other than Windows NT. "
Oh dear me !
Such a 'miles behind' o/s as Linux surely couldn't read a magnificent file system as NTFS
*end of sarcasm*
Does nobody M$ centric bother to look that "Yep Linux can read NTFS, and is now stabilising on the write issues"
Think themselves lucky that Linux dev peeps bother to think of them in the first place!
Alex
ps. M$ pay people to write this sort of dross ??
Just a quickie, do you still have any contact with Romero, either socially or professionally ?
Is it possible ID may join Ion Storm for a future project together , or are the 'artistic' differences between you too great ?
Regards
Alex
How does he expect to port the VB apps , ask M$ for VB Runtime for Linux ??? ;-)
Would be perhaps the biggest plug for Linux in '99 if GM took it on board to show other copmanies what it has to offer.
If you were that well in with the main sys-admin who you hosted your site/server...surely you would ask for your own backup image once a month !!!
3Gb is a shit load to lose, all for the cost of a DAT/DLT etc.... and for your own peace of mind its always nice to have .
poor guy
....or preferably go for RAID1
My $.02....
..... and sure both sides will look at each other and reach different opinions on the validity of the corresponding results.
We can all see from this c't benchmark that there is a second side to the NT IIS vS Linux Apache debate
The main thing as main people have said, is 'Hey, look at these limitations in the scalibility in Linux (most of which we know) and do something about it' .
No-one responds with ' They've won, they have the better product' , and this is a constructive attitude to move forward on.
M$ is not going to vanish into the ether, and yes IIS from my own experience performs well as an intranet/internet server. However we do not have excessive load, and although my own gut reaction (interest) would be to use a L & A combo, I'm yet to be in a real world scenario which would dictate this as an alternative solution.
Regardless on which view point you look at the recent bench marks, it does show the strength of the open source model. And sure if M$ are releasing a revamped personal web server as part of Win 2000, it better be damn good, as even with the usual SP's , Apache & Co. will be developing at a far greater rate.
Let the sun shine, both are going to be around for a long time, those in the know we choose the most appropiate solution.
"It could be the beginning of a huge trend," Brown said. "It's about time that people woke up to new ways of doing business, instead of just making Microsoft and Intel rich."
....
In a MS sales pitch the practice could become
"Buy Windows2000, and let us have all/some/what-ever-we-want of your company, and by the way you'll have to put up with beta 3 for a while."
Eeek !