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5 load balanced Web servers dedicated to pages
3 load balanced Web servers dedicated to images
1 SQL server
1 NFS Server
That's rather bigger than the 1 web/DB server that Kuro5hin has. Mind you, it's big server, but there are limits as to what one machine can serve. Keep in mind that Kuro5hin hasn't sold out to a big company, so they can't afford gobs of servers. Perhaps you should think about checking out the K5 store and donate some money for more servers?
Teeny little correction there, "dark fiber" is *not* bandwidth. It's just what you'd think, a peice of cable in the ground, with no light (and hence, no packets). To get bandwith, you have to "light" the fiber, and that's the expensive part. So, sure, dark fiber is cheap. It's also usless because you have to light it to use it, and the ends are expensive. (although, that is a one-time cost)
OK, the've gotten the error smaller, but at those figures it's *still* 143 lightyears!! I don't want to have to be the one that tells spaceship crews "You'll be there is 1100 years, give or take 140."
"If this particular probe were
to be dropped into the Internet, it would route itself to the machine at IP address
[ 208.47.125.33 ] which is the United States NSA (National Security Agency). This
NanoProbe asks the machine to verify its existence on the Internet."
Wow! You mean you're writing ICMP? Sounds cool!
Really, "self-routing"? Um, so I guess if I use just these I don't need routers. Sorry, but self-routing doesn't work with dumb media. So he figured out how to cram ICMP type packets into smaller packets. So?
"While you wait, real-time, operation"
Yeah, ping just takes so damn long to run...
It think perhaps this guy should go back to writing his newbie-helpers and quit trying to play in the big leauges.
--Maarken
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I think you have this backwards. The lower end ones (RAQ1-2 and Cube) are MIPS. The RAQ3 is a AMD K6, and I don't know for sure what the new RAQ4 is, but I'd guess atleast x86, probably AMD because of the pricepoint. (AKA, they're cheap chips d00d!;) )
All Xeons are just the base proccessor plus more and faster(??) cache. Hence the size. Compared to the Athlon, the P!!!'s have pitiful FPUs, or shall I say less FPUs. 3 fully piplied FPUs on the Athlon, and only 1.5 on the P3. I think ArsTechnica had a good architecture piece of the diffrence. Also had one for P3 vs G4. (summary:good hardware, crappy OS. LinuxPPC fixes that.)
I'd say right now the Athlon 1000 is _the_ fastest raw chip. Coming down the pipline the fastest will be:Wildcat (Athlon 1000 with cache running at full clock speed, current are 1/2 to 1/3) Then Sledgehammer. (AMD 64bit proc. Gonna rule!)
Since Packet Storm has died (just figured out where I'm not going to collage!) is there any place else that had that kind of thing? It was an invaluble resource, and now it's gone. This bites big time! I think it's time to make a trip to Pittsburg. --Sea
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From the Slashdot FAQ:
5 load balanced Web servers dedicated to pages
3 load balanced Web servers dedicated to images
1 SQL server
1 NFS Server
That's rather bigger than the 1 web/DB server that Kuro5hin has. Mind you, it's big server, but there are limits as to what one machine can serve. Keep in mind that Kuro5hin hasn't sold out to a big company, so they can't afford gobs of servers. Perhaps you should think about checking out the K5 store and donate some money for more servers?
--Maarken
Teeny little correction there, "dark fiber" is *not* bandwidth. It's just what you'd think, a peice of cable in the ground, with no light (and hence, no packets). To get bandwith, you have to "light" the fiber, and that's the expensive part. So, sure, dark fiber is cheap. It's also usless because you have to light it to use it, and the ends are expensive. (although, that is a one-time cost)
--Maarken
OK, the've gotten the error smaller, but at those figures it's *still* 143 lightyears!! I don't want to have to be the one that tells spaceship crews "You'll be there is 1100 years, give or take 140."
--Maarken
"If this particular probe were
to be dropped into the Internet, it would route itself to the machine at IP address
[ 208.47.125.33 ] which is the United States NSA (National Security Agency). This
NanoProbe asks the machine to verify its existence on the Internet."
Wow! You mean you're writing ICMP? Sounds cool!
Really, "self-routing"? Um, so I guess if I use just these I don't need routers. Sorry, but self-routing doesn't work with dumb media. So he figured out how to cram ICMP type packets into smaller packets. So?
"While you wait, real-time, operation"
Yeah, ping just takes so damn long to run...
It think perhaps this guy should go back to writing his newbie-helpers and quit trying to play in the big leauges.
--Maarken
I think you have this backwards. The lower end ones (RAQ1-2 and Cube) are MIPS. The RAQ3 is a AMD K6, and I don't know for sure what the new RAQ4 is, but I'd guess atleast x86, probably AMD because of the pricepoint. (AKA, they're cheap chips d00d! ;) )
That's truly scary!
Oooo, I'm starting to like lawyers again! ;) WAY TO GO! Keep up the good work!
All Xeons are just the base proccessor plus more and faster(??) cache. Hence the size. Compared to the Athlon, the P!!!'s have pitiful FPUs, or shall I say less FPUs. 3 fully piplied FPUs on the Athlon, and only 1.5 on the P3. I think ArsTechnica had a good architecture piece of the diffrence. Also had one for P3 vs G4. (summary:good hardware, crappy OS. LinuxPPC fixes that.)
;)
I'd say right now the Athlon 1000 is _the_ fastest raw chip. Coming down the pipline the fastest will be:Wildcat (Athlon 1000 with cache running at full clock speed, current are 1/2 to 1/3) Then Sledgehammer. (AMD 64bit proc. Gonna rule!)
Hmmm, first usefull post??
--Sea++
How about XFS? sub-second recovery from a power fail. No more "waking up", your just ON!
Since Packet Storm has died (just figured out where I'm not going to collage!) is there any place else that had that kind of thing? It was an invaluble resource, and now it's gone. This bites big time! I think it's time to make a trip to Pittsburg. --Sea