So? Many people would pay more than double to fly NY to LA in halve the time. Or Europe to LA with a stop in New York in 7 hours (instead of >11 hours non-stop).
No, idjit, they already were in the dark ages thanks to Ronny Raygun and his foible to support anti-communist terrorists and mass-murderers across the world.
What a funny coincidence, they also lived in towns and cities before the AMERICANS bombed their country into rubble and forced them to live in caves and such. And then bombed those caves.
I don't know if you noticed or not, asshole, but the US has managed to keep up the UN embargo that didn't allow Iraq to buy anything that could be put into a hospital, built in the 60's or the 80's.
It would be great to automate if most cars would have that ability. Unlike humans they wouldn't be stubborn and (more importantly) they could comunicate with cars they can't see.
Your answer seems a bit confused. Face it, without SSE2 the P4 would stink if it weren't for the fast clock. Heck, you wouldn't even have good FP performance, or why else would Intel tell everyone to use SSE for it instead of the old FP unit?
The fact that AltiVec actually scales pretty well for many tasks doesn't prove that the G4 is "unbalanced", it shows that SSE2 isn't particularly good. BTW, only double precission? Tsk, you don't seem to need exact results.
Heat. CPUs create quite a lot, some more some less (like the G5). A few years ago a German university (Chemnitz IIRC) build a large Linux cluster. For cost and speed reasons they wanted to go with Athlons, but decided to use P3s instead, mostly because they created less heat. It is one thing to pack a couple of hundred computers into a building, it's an other to also buy a new air-conditioning for that building.
As for the setup of the machines - even going through the Apple Store you can change the DVD-R for a Combo. I guess with a 1100 machine order, Apple lets you choose more (or rather less) than just that. Which brings us to the desktop boxes - many of the PC clusters in the Top 500 Supercomputer Sites list are build with plain-jane desktop PCs, why can't one build one with "gold-plated, fashionable Apple desktop boxes"? Because you say so?
Erhm. He was replying to an AC claiming "LOL mac zealot. didn't think that one through did you. an eMac doesn't go any higher than 1GHz. If you think a 1GHz machine has any hope of doing over 10 million rc5 keys you're really trying to fool yourself."
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So? Many people would pay more than double to fly NY to LA in halve the time. Or Europe to LA with a stop in New York in 7 hours (instead of >11 hours non-stop).
Reason why it was rejected: Article referenced was from MONEY.cnn.com and more than a week old ;-(
Take your pick.
That sounds more like offering it to players in internet/gaming cafes.
Jean, as in "old-lady" Jean-Luc?
No, idjit, they already were in the dark ages thanks to Ronny Raygun and his foible to support anti-communist terrorists and mass-murderers across the world.
What a funny coincidence, they also lived in towns and cities before the AMERICANS bombed their country into rubble and forced them to live in caves and such. And then bombed those caves.
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He said "It's the US that bombs countries back to the dark age - no one else."
I don't know if you noticed or not, asshole, but the US has managed to keep up the UN embargo that didn't allow Iraq to buy anything that could be put into a hospital, built in the 60's or the 80's.
The USSR didn't bomb Afghanistan until the US send the dark ages (Mujahedin) there.
Yeah? What drug development was funded by the American consumers - weight-loss pills and Viagra.
Yeah, a factor of 2 (okay, 1.9) is "not all that different".
In Soviet Russia, Gorky parks you!
I for one welcome our new auto-car overlords.
The fact that AltiVec actually scales pretty well for many tasks doesn't prove that the G4 is "unbalanced", it shows that SSE2 isn't particularly good. BTW, only double precission? Tsk, you don't seem to need exact results.
So no programs that are fast on the P4 use SSE2? Is that your final answer?
Heat. CPUs create quite a lot, some more some less (like the G5). A few years ago a German university (Chemnitz IIRC) build a large Linux cluster. For cost and speed reasons they wanted to go with Athlons, but decided to use P3s instead, mostly because they created less heat. It is one thing to pack a couple of hundred computers into a building, it's an other to also buy a new air-conditioning for that building.
So why do PC makers insist of using P4 Xeons and Opterons in their servers, if a P2 or K3 would suffice?
Apple's list of (third party) clustering tools.
As for the setup of the machines - even going through the Apple Store you can change the DVD-R for a Combo. I guess with a 1100 machine order, Apple lets you choose more (or rather less) than just that. Which brings us to the desktop boxes - many of the PC clusters in the Top 500 Supercomputer Sites list are build with plain-jane desktop PCs, why can't one build one with "gold-plated, fashionable Apple desktop boxes"? Because you say so?
Erhm. He was replying to an AC claiming "LOL mac zealot. didn't think that one through did you. an eMac doesn't go any higher than 1GHz. If you think a 1GHz machine has any hope of doing over 10 million rc5 keys you're really trying to fool yourself."
Sure AMD does numbers, they even add a +.
Yes. But the code the Intel compiler generated did not use vectorization.
This is supposed to make sense? Yeah, just like the rest of your posts.