With the engine still running and engaged the emergency brake will have little effect. Even yanking the brake up with super human strength would not lock the wheels. Surely you have (or know someone who has) driven off with the brake still engaged.
The primary effect is a lot of heat and eventually smoke & a nasty smell. Continuing can warp the drum, wear the shoes prematurely and make you look stupid.
There are machines that do all of these things already ( I develop them).
While the actual sensors are quite small, all of the things required to support these sensors wind up being quite large. Reagents to calibrate and wash the sensor. A complete fluidics system (Tubing, Valves &tc.) to move these reagents (and the sample) around. Then you need a micro controller to control all of these and provide a UI to the user. So you wind up with something that can range from 4 times the size of a laptop all the way to something about the size of a station wagon.
There are some single sensor applications that come close to what you describe that work by wicking the sample up on filter paper which contains antibodies and enzymes which reacts to what ever you're looking for (Think home pregnancy and blood glucose tests) but such devices are fairly limited and using a computer to read them is overkill.
A few years ago I was getting to know a nice young lass in marketing. One afternoon she was preparing a mailing to some segment of our customers which literaly took up 7 US Post mailing bins. She was using an automated folder, stuffer, address labeler and sealer (all in one device that would fit on you desk) and it took her longer to decide not to go out with me than to process the mail...
So no, I don't think it would be eaiser or cheaper.
I suppose it depends on how well you can control the rats and how much you pay them.
Seriously though, I some problems are well solved with clusters and some with vector processors. So I suppose Cray is trying to find out just how many fall into each camp... either that or how much their name is worth.
Just thinking about that, I guess I would buy a mini Cray deskside thing if I had to replace my Onyx 2 but not a cluster as my application doesn't do well with them. Shame really, I like the Blue Gene/L.
On the their page they say... "In an average month, 1-5 well-located, high-frequency earthquakes are recorded near the summit of Mt. Rainier. In addition, small swarms of 5-10 earthquakes over a 2-3-day time period sometimes occur. All of these earthquakes are shallow, with most locating near sea level (~4 km below the summit), and are interpreted by Moran (1997) to be occurring in response to stresses associated with the circulation of hot fluids beneath Mount Rainier. These fluids are thought to be the source for the hot springs and steam vents found at the summit and at various points within Mount Rainier National Park (e.g. Frank, 1995)."
For quite sometime I have had this idea running about in my head...
I am a huge Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Who fan and I really have enjoyed the audio files I've listened to. My issue is this most of the non-BBC audio are abridged and are mono.
I would love to create a 5.1 Audio file of the original text of the books I own.
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And I do love the voices in the Sherlock Holmes series
OK now that I'm not a work lets try this again as I misspoke in my first post and then totally misunderstood your reply.
The example Blue Gene/L implementation begins with dual PPC440 chips (each die with dual FPUs), A Compute Card contains 2 of these chips, some number of Link Nodes and 512 meg of DDR RAM. There are 16 Cards to a Compute Node. Each Compute Node contains a IO Node. There are 32 Compute Nodes to a cabinet.
Each Compute Card runs "CNK", an IBM in house kernel written in C++ and is connected to an IO Node
Each IO Node runs Linux, is networked to the outside via Ethernet and the inside network is in a tree configuration.
The interesting network configuration are handeled by the link nodes
And to top it all off there is a JTAG connection to each die.
So Blue Gene/L is running both some home rolled thing of IBM's (CNK) and Linux simultaneously. They also use both XLC & GCC for the Compute Nodes and IO Nodes respectively.
What I also find interesting is that IBM is pitching these things to the "hundreds of TF/s" folks but also to the "ten TF/s" folks (as in just one or two cabinets).
I don't see anything wrong with embedded & non-preemptive it's not like the entire embedded world runs hard real time kernels, I don't on the PPC I use.
Actually being that lifted every single fact from IBM's blue gene website (which I linked to) I feel comfortable saying there is no contradiction and that IBM is running a custom non-preemptive kernel, just like they said they did.
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The "The Road to Serfdom" is good, but it has little to do with Socialist or Marxist thinking and has much to do with Fascist thinking
Man... You've been watching too many movies!
The primary effect is a lot of heat and eventually smoke & a nasty smell. Continuing can warp the drum, wear the shoes prematurely and make you look stupid.
exactly!!!
Aids changes too much for this stratagem to work
Well that predated the Star Wars prequels and I remember a lot more blushing and stammering that "hey cool chick"
But the machine is fast and has enough moving parts to be interesting.
"Hentai-anime Delivery Bots", how interesting I only have a stoner dude that delivers my mail on bicycle.
While the actual sensors are quite small, all of the things required to support these sensors wind up being quite large. Reagents to calibrate and wash the sensor. A complete fluidics system (Tubing, Valves &tc.) to move these reagents (and the sample) around. Then you need a micro controller to control all of these and provide a UI to the user. So you wind up with something that can range from 4 times the size of a laptop all the way to something about the size of a station wagon.
There are some single sensor applications that come close to what you describe that work by wicking the sample up on filter paper which contains antibodies and enzymes which reacts to what ever you're looking for (Think home pregnancy and blood glucose tests) but such devices are fairly limited and using a computer to read them is overkill.
So no, I don't think it would be eaiser or cheaper.
But the link in your sig... that's funny!
How is this different than half beer & half coke which is called diesel were I live...
Seriously though, I some problems are well solved with clusters and some with vector processors. So I suppose Cray is trying to find out just how many fall into each camp... either that or how much their name is worth.
Just thinking about that, I guess I would buy a mini Cray deskside thing if I had to replace my Onyx 2 but not a cluster as my application doesn't do well with them. Shame really, I like the Blue Gene/L.
You do realize that the whole thing is CG... YES?
I think it's HUGE
So hopefully this potential eruption will be better covered and less harmful.
On the their page they say... "In an average month, 1-5 well-located, high-frequency earthquakes are recorded near the summit of Mt. Rainier. In addition, small swarms of 5-10 earthquakes over a 2-3-day time period sometimes occur. All of these earthquakes are shallow, with most locating near sea level (~4 km below the summit), and are interpreted by Moran (1997) to be occurring in response to stresses associated with the circulation of hot fluids beneath Mount Rainier. These fluids are thought to be the source for the hot springs and steam vents found at the summit and at various points within Mount Rainier National Park (e.g. Frank, 1995)."
On a side note I thought the "s" meant really, really expensive.
Great!
Questions only should be accepted from people on their own level... kids are real smart... how about ... SLUGS!
I am a huge Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Who fan and I really have enjoyed the audio files I've listened to. My issue is this most of the non-BBC audio are abridged and are mono.
I would love to create a 5.1 Audio file of the original text of the books I own.
.
And I do love the voices in the Sherlock Holmes series
But what do you call people who are disenfranchised by both the major American parties and the whole ruling class needs to be removed?
All in all I'd rather Intel & IBM just contribute their (hidden secret squirrel) work to GCC rather than AMD coming up with Yet Another Compilier
Still I'm a Canon user now so I'll probaly upgrade to to this despite that the new Nikon has the GPS connection built-in (but no GPS engine).
The example Blue Gene/L implementation begins with dual PPC440 chips (each die with dual FPUs), A Compute Card contains 2 of these chips, some number of Link Nodes and 512 meg of DDR RAM. There are 16 Cards to a Compute Node. Each Compute Node contains a IO Node. There are 32 Compute Nodes to a cabinet.
Each Compute Card runs "CNK", an IBM in house kernel written in C++ and is connected to an IO Node
Each IO Node runs Linux, is networked to the outside via Ethernet and the inside network is in a tree configuration.
The interesting network configuration are handeled by the link nodes
And to top it all off there is a JTAG connection to each die.
So Blue Gene /L is running both some home rolled thing of IBM's (CNK) and Linux simultaneously. They also use both XLC & GCC for the Compute Nodes and IO Nodes respectively.
What I also find interesting is that IBM is pitching these things to the "hundreds of TF/s" folks but also to the "ten TF/s" folks (as in just one or two cabinets).
Somewhere in all the power point slides they had an image claiming lower power dissipation than an equal volume of their latest laptop
Actually being that lifted every single fact from IBM's blue gene website (which I linked to) I feel comfortable saying there is no contradiction and that IBM is running a custom non-preemptive kernel, just like they said they did.