I have *never* found a project where VxWorks was worth the cost! In fact if you look they are loosing market share to Linux. Also the two most commonly used systems are either in-house home rolled things like I use or Linux. Of I'm not writing code for space missions, just medical devices.
I don't know about water cooling, but I think the current G5 is fine to sit *under* a desk but not on it.
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I've got an iLamp, and it doesn't get that warm.
I suppose given the jet engine sound my G5 at work makes, it would be possible to fit all of that in a similar form factor but the sound would kill the mood.
Hydo-power isn't a power source without faults. In fact many communities have realized that hydro-electric is not the panacea it was advertised as in '70s and are looking for feasible alternatives. While there are many very interesting energy generation ideas floating around laboratories everywhere I think the most promise comes from energy efficiency & conservation; and distributed power generation techniques which lessen or eliminate the need for large scale power distribution.
Exactly for that price I want a 4 or 5 place Raid enclosure with a 250 gig SATA drive intslled. Like someone else said "If I only wanted 80 gigs I just add another drive"
I think you are near the real reason behind this trend. IBM is building a processor that will work in a slim line rack mount server or a blade server, which currently are the preferred server form factors. Imagine two full racks like this one with the PPC970fx and One with the P4EE. I would suspect that the Intel version would be challenging to cool adequately, while it would be that difficult with the PPC version.
Moving on to video cards, both ATI and NVIDIA top line products target consumers that are willing to give up slots for cooling, buy bigger power supplies, buy enormous heat sinks, &tc. Gamers drive the Performance / Overclocking and Mod industry. They are the folks that do this sort of thing! People that are concerned with power dissipation and flops per watt are a different market with different needs and expectations.
The Opteron "HE" is classed at 55 watts (I suppose that is at 2.0 GHz or so)
The P4 extremely expensive edition dissipates 103 watts at 3.4 GHz.
So in comparison to other desktop processors it does fairly well. Now there are efficient G4 class processors coming from Motorola the MPC7447 is said to dissipate 10 watts at 1 GHz.
I am not comparing any of these processors GHz to GHz because we all know that is not an accurate method of comparison. But I think it wrong to classify the MPC7447 as a desktop processor or even a processor for a desktop replacement type laptop. But then again maybe it's because after using OS X on a G5 I'll never take Motorola seriously (for the desktop) again. That's not saying Motorola is a bad company or their chips are bad! I develop almost exclusively on them at work, but then again I am an embedded developer.
Agreeing with the first part of your commment, I think it is common for CEO to treat these rules with contempt and I'd like to see how many do not follow the follow the rules or only skirt them...
I think the point is not just againt MS but against the wealthy!
Hmm... I work in R&D in a *very* large medical devices (and pharma) company. It takes a very long time for the people that talk to "customers" to figure out that they have no idea about arcane inner workings of our devices and after a fair amount of frustration on their part it occurs to them to ask the people who developed it.(you know the people that wrote the specs, coded it up, tested it, and then crossed themselves and declared it ready).
It really doesn't surprise me that any telecommunications company was simply unable to respond with anything other than "I'll have to look in to that" for weeks!
Having said all of that it is nice that Kevin has decided to join the rest of us and be a positive part of society!
I found the article rather interesting! And if anyone had bothered to read the previous article they would realize that this guy is doing a series of articles based on the same Sparc box and a variety of operating systems (perhaps all the ones that will run on it and are freely available). To bad his doesn't seem to be a developer because he doesn't touch on anything at all in that arena and I would have been mildly interested in comparisons.
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Unfortunatly I still find the tranmetta offerings a bit to pricey (but then again I don't have real issues with battery life with my projects!)
I have *never* found a project where VxWorks was worth the cost! In fact if you look they are loosing market share to Linux. Also the two most commonly used systems are either in-house home rolled things like I use or Linux. Of I'm not writing code for space missions, just medical devices.
He must be thinking alternet.binary
. What is the cost, volume, and energy dissipation of an equivalent (in performance) IBM JS20 blade setup
So we would *hope* it would but not expect it to.
I don't know about water cooling, but I think the current G5 is fine to sit *under* a desk but not on it.
I suppose given the jet engine sound my G5 at work makes, it would be possible to fit all of that in a similar form factor but the sound would kill the mood.
Where was that from?
There is just NO point in trying to teach USians to spell!
But this is a fuzzy dot!Can't we just wait a few months untill it's there.
BUT It's a JOKE! and an old one at that!
How can you laugh if you haven't bothered to even look at the pretty pictures?
Hydo-power isn't a power source without faults. In fact many communities have realized that hydro-electric is not the panacea it was advertised as in '70s and are looking for feasible alternatives. While there are many very interesting energy generation ideas floating around laboratories everywhere I think the most promise comes from energy efficiency & conservation; and distributed power generation techniques which lessen or eliminate the need for large scale power distribution.
Whoops! My Bad! and Sorry won't help much...
Exactly for that price I want a 4 or 5 place Raid enclosure with a 250 gig SATA drive intslled. Like someone else said "If I only wanted 80 gigs I just add another drive"
What's your point?
Why do I feel the need to throw the natural log of availble compilers in this equation? ;)
Just wish I could be there to take it!
Moving on to video cards, both ATI and NVIDIA top line products target consumers that are willing to give up slots for cooling, buy bigger power supplies, buy enormous heat sinks, &tc. Gamers drive the Performance / Overclocking and Mod industry. They are the folks that do this sort of thing! People that are concerned with power dissipation and flops per watt are a different market with different needs and expectations.
The Opteron "HE" is classed at 55 watts (I suppose that is at 2.0 GHz or so)
The P4 extremely expensive edition dissipates 103 watts at 3.4 GHz.
So in comparison to other desktop processors it does fairly well. Now there are efficient G4 class processors coming from Motorola the MPC7447 is said to dissipate 10 watts at 1 GHz.
I am not comparing any of these processors GHz to GHz because we all know that is not an accurate method of comparison. But I think it wrong to classify the MPC7447 as a desktop processor or even a processor for a desktop replacement type laptop. But then again maybe it's because after using OS X on a G5 I'll never take Motorola seriously (for the desktop) again. That's not saying Motorola is a bad company or their chips are bad! I develop almost exclusively on them at work, but then again I am an embedded developer.
I think the point is not just againt MS but against the wealthy!
It really doesn't surprise me that any telecommunications company was simply unable to respond with anything other than "I'll have to look in to that" for weeks!
Having said all of that it is nice that Kevin has decided to join the rest of us and be a positive part of society!
I, for one, can't wait for our new super-supergenius mice overlords.
OK I feel dirty and shamed, I have to go shower.
Current US military spending is at cold war levels. 2005 & 2006 spending is expected to exceed that. It was in the news last week.
I found the article rather interesting! And if anyone had bothered to read the previous article they would realize that this guy is doing a series of articles based on the same Sparc box and a variety of operating systems (perhaps all the ones that will run on it and are freely available). To bad his doesn't seem to be a developer because he doesn't touch on anything at all in that arena and I would have been mildly interested in comparisons.
Why, on earth, would you have a fan in your TFT display?