If you'd spend a little time dredging around IBM's Blue Gene/L website you'd find that it is not specifically designed to any one thing and computing folding patterns of protein molecules is sort of their demo task (I suppose because it does take a lot of computational power and you wind up with pretty pictures)
I read a power point sales presentation and the plan seemed to be secure the top spot on the super computer list and then sell little versions to all sorts of folks.
Anyway I read several interesting applications that are already in the works like brain mapping and large scale radio telescope interferometry. So a lot of cool stuff is going to going on in the Blue Gene world.
OK, I know you are just amusing yourself with a tired joke but you should have a look at IBM's Blue Gene site and read up on their networking stratagies (all three of them). It's really interesting and makes Beowulf clustering seem sort of... tired.
That and it's really low power... somwhere in the powerpoint presentations they have a graphic showing the Blue Gene/L uses a little less power than the same volume of IBM thinkpads.
Oh.. and given the costs involved I think idle time will wind up being sort of low.
My point is simple people with hand guns put themselves in situations they wouldn't ordinarily put themselves in. Then I provided one example, what you do expect me to do? list the billions of incidents involving handguns in the last twenty years?
Honestly, I don't see how "all of society would be punished" by limiting the availability of devices designed to kill people. They are extremely restricted where I live and I don't fell "punished".
When I was a in college (in the US) I read that many gun owners put themselves in situations that were dangerous, just because subconsiously they knew they had the gun. I never put much store in it until a friend wound up in trouble for what was essentially road rage (although in 1985 it wasn't called that). I lived with this man for 5 years in school and I thought he was more sedate than I was, I was shocked to learn that he had waved a pistol at a man who had cut him off and then swerved towards him as the driving disagreement escalated.
I've since modified my pregnancy theory to: shooting a gun should be more difficult than getting pregnant, which in turn should be more difficult than solving a rubik's cube
Actually I thought it was the local authorities who said: "Lets use the War on Terror, to unreasonably search all those Goddamned stupid hippies who have been annually gathering to stink up the Georgia countryside lo, this past quarter century?".
Be, inc went out of business because of Microsoft's unethical and illegal business practices. Palm eventually won that law suit a received a tidy settlement from Microsoft.
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I read a power point sales presentation and the plan seemed to be secure the top spot on the super computer list and then sell little versions to all sorts of folks.
Anyway I read several interesting applications that are already in the works like brain mapping and large scale radio telescope interferometry. So a lot of cool stuff is going to going on in the Blue Gene world.
That and it's really low power... somwhere in the powerpoint presentations they have a graphic showing the Blue Gene/L uses a little less power than the same volume of IBM thinkpads.
Oh.. and given the costs involved I think idle time will wind up being sort of low.
Still your point is very valid: It's starting to matter less where you are located and more how connected you are.
Honestly, I don't see how "all of society would be punished" by limiting the availability of devices designed to kill people. They are extremely restricted where I live and I don't fell "punished".
but, yes you're right
When I was a in college (in the US) I read that many gun owners put themselves in situations that were dangerous, just because subconsiously they knew they had the gun. I never put much store in it until a friend wound up in trouble for what was essentially road rage (although in 1985 it wasn't called that). I lived with this man for 5 years in school and I thought he was more sedate than I was, I was shocked to learn that he had waved a pistol at a man who had cut him off and then swerved towards him as the driving disagreement escalated.
I've since modified my pregnancy theory to: shooting a gun should be more difficult than getting pregnant, which in turn should be more difficult than solving a rubik's cube
The BBC had it right! he is gearing his speeches to his average audience.
"Taking on IBM is a little more crazy than taking on entire Chinese Army", with a plastic spoon!
Hah, I now live in the EU and it's almost 2:00 pm!
Oh wait, that sort says something about us doesn't it.
rtfa
That and /. spell checker.
hey, at least it's closer than the 20 years of cold fusion!
BTW... You are a freak if you like the IT colour scheme!
Actually I thought it was the local authorities who said: "Lets use the War on Terror, to unreasonably search all those Goddamned stupid hippies who have been annually gathering to stink up the Georgia countryside lo, this past quarter century?".
Actually, given that I can only put one more drive in my PowerMac, I think Apple could sell a lot of 1/2 sized X-Serve RAID boxes.
Here in Austria there's one that has a singles afternoon type thing, but without the colour coding
It's game???
Yeah, but it's OK if it's inside a balloon.
covered by a thick layer of trolls ;)
I recenty had a short exposure to US forestry... Those guys are savages, I expect them to do whatever yeilds the highest short-medium term profit
So I went to their website and had a look... no foto of the inside but atleast they had a shot of guy ice climbing. :(
I'll keep using my dual G5
Yes, every one is different.
Yes, vendors are inordinately proud of their development software tool
Yes, there is a lot of FOSS and yes it is more time consuming (and painful) to implement.
And, Yes it is punishment for being a CS major rather than EE major.
Still I think FOSS (particularly GCC) is worth it.
Be, inc went out of business because of Microsoft's unethical and illegal business practices. Palm eventually won that law suit a received a tidy settlement from Microsoft.