a 1 page pdf - I love that kind of stuff. I knocked up an Appleseed cluster at work just for the fun of it - took my about 20 minutes. If only I had an application... Clustering for the rest of us!
"the Linux operating system marketshare is
expected to reach 38 percent worldwide by 2004." I definitely want some of what these guys are smokin'. Surely even the most rabid linux fantasist doesn't REALLY expect a 40% market share in two years? History might prove me wrong, but no-way, no-how. I want to believe but...
technically obtuse and underpowered compared to what? the PS2's architecture is amazingly powerful in some ways - that parallel GFX is really pretty radical. And don't flatter yourself, you mean a homeASSEMBLED x86 compatible.
was the Matrix supposed to be humorous then? No wonder I didn't get it. I thought it was just another piss-poor Reeves vehicle with a stock-Hollywood meaningless plot and some criminally underused supporting cast members. Keanu Reeves is almost unique among actors that I've seen in that he has never been in a decent pic and has apparently no acting skillz whatsoever. I've seen chair legs with more personality than KR.
you're a human being though aren't you? if you take everything that you read literally, WTF must you make of advertising copy? We have the grey stuff in our heads for a reason, try understanding the meaning instead of just reading the words. Man, if they could transmit Megawatts of power over fibre in NZ in the EIGHTIES, dontcha think we might have heard something about it by now?
what? the IBM PC existed in 1977? I must have been in a parallel dimension at the time then, coz I thought they were introduced in '80 or '81. Either way, my dad's first Personal Computer was an Apple II. Mine was a Commodore 64. It cost me £399 for the computer and £299 for the 1541 drive. I can still hear it ticking now...
that rule always USED TO hold true for me, but when I bought my current machine in October 2000, I put 2 43GB 7200RPM IBM Deskstars in it and they're not even half full yet. I'm as surprised as anyone, but there you go.
I'm wondering at exactly what point Americans will reach their laziness limit. Maybe there isn't one - maybe only a total dreamworld that can be lived without ever getting out of bed will suffice. Is that why you people like the godawful Matrix so much? Why does anyone need instantaneous access to a two or three hour movie? What's ten seconds putting the disc in compared to watching it? MP3 makes sense because of the "Juke-Box" factor - iTunes on random is like a radi station that only plays music I like - I've got about a week and a half's play time in there already. But video? Nope.
Rude TV presenter? How dare you! I was presenting complex travel reports on Radio Norwich when you were just a glint in the milkman's eye. This country!
you're right to be confused, I can't understand the logic of this at all. He's using 160GB drives when his ATA cards only recognise 130GB. Why? Why is he using twice as many ATA cards as he needs? Why does he need so much RAM? Why didn't he use 1000Base T? Why bother doing this at all when the next iteration of HD tech will allow maybe half a TB per unit anyway? This is geek for geek's sake.
so the Apple I was 1976, the Apple II 1977. Personal Computer was a CONCEPT before the 80's, it was the Apple II that made the concept real. Fanatic fringe footnote, good one. What does that make Sun and SGI, then? Stop trolling, why dontcha?
maybe POPULARISED would have been a better word - but he was prokin' me.. anyhow, people don't buy chips, they buy computers. And the Apple II was the computer that they bought. Go talk to WOZ about the personal computer, he did more to make it a reality than almost anyone else.
lucky you're such an expert, Justin. What with all your experience of building city-wide ethernet networks, why not give 'em a call in Wellington and offer some friendly advice you FUCKING TWAT.
good question. From what the article tells us, it seems that Wellington has a tram sytem with overhead power, which are easy to string lightweight fibre onto. In a city like London, there are no tram wires to exploit so you'd still have to dig the road - and that costs a fortune.
don't be a dunce, he was clearly talking about linking the control systems of the power stations together - the power grid itself is already connected. What are you, 6 years old?
I think the article implies (it's not that well written) that each client has 100 Base T access to the 1000Base T network, which makes the sums come out right. Incidentally, our "T1" is exactly 2Mbps - but I'm in the UK (maybe ours is an E1?) - the same might be true in NZ AFAIK.
SETI@home is not a good benchmark, as it hasn't been optimised for ANY architecture, let alone EVERY architecture. Go look at distributed.net and you'll see a fairer comparison. Your Octane will look good at OGR (Athlon better) but for RC5-64 the G4 is so far ahead as to be over the horizon - that's the oft-mentioned but rarely used Altivec kicking in... anyway, these CPU bound benchmarks are pretty meaningless for anything but rendering, your Octane is designed to manipulate high-poly models quickly and no PC or Mac can touch it for that.
nob. My home Powermac (G4 450dual 1GB) has not crashed or been restarted since installing OSX 10.1.2. I don't anticipate rebooting until the next system update, either. SGI most certainly can and do crash - why not ask someone who uses one, coz you obviously never have.
oh come on! Apple had the GeForce 3 as BTO for the last 9 months, now they let you choose Radeon 7500 or GeForce 4MX. If you don't like either of those ATI will sell you a Radeon 8500 (which would be MY choice). Sure, you don't have the breadth of choice that you have in the PC market, but it's not exactly obsolete.
you're not understanding this, are you? SGI's GFX hardware is effectively COMPOSITING to the display, it is very important to allow sufficient precision to avoid contouring so that you get a good impression of what your rendered scene might look like. SGI aren't just saying "we've got more bits than you" this stuff is important. By the same token, in the Mac universe people are extremely concerned with accurate screen colour calibration and font rendering, which are essential in pulblishing work. PC users think the whole fucking world revolves around Quake.
what are you talking about? MOST of the broadcast quality editing work in the world is done on Avid Media Composer running on Powermac G4. Sure it's hardware accelerated, but so is everything in the video world. SGI workstations are NOT Floctanes when they come out of the box you know.
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a 1 page pdf - I love that kind of stuff. I knocked up an Appleseed cluster at work just for the fun of it - took my about 20 minutes. If only I had an application... Clustering for the rest of us!
"the Linux operating system marketshare is expected to reach 38 percent worldwide by 2004." I definitely want some of what these guys are smokin'. Surely even the most rabid linux fantasist doesn't REALLY expect a 40% market share in two years? History might prove me wrong, but no-way, no-how. I want to believe but...
technically obtuse and underpowered compared to what? the PS2's architecture is amazingly powerful in some ways - that parallel GFX is really pretty radical. And don't flatter yourself, you mean a homeASSEMBLED x86 compatible.
and henceforth I shall call myself... DefinitelyNotDefinatelyGuy. Wait, what about ThanNotThenGuy? Yep, that's the one for me!
was the Matrix supposed to be humorous then? No wonder I didn't get it. I thought it was just another piss-poor Reeves vehicle with a stock-Hollywood meaningless plot and some criminally underused supporting cast members. Keanu Reeves is almost unique among actors that I've seen in that he has never been in a decent pic and has apparently no acting skillz whatsoever. I've seen chair legs with more personality than KR.
you're a human being though aren't you? if you take everything that you read literally, WTF must you make of advertising copy? We have the grey stuff in our heads for a reason, try understanding the meaning instead of just reading the words. Man, if they could transmit Megawatts of power over fibre in NZ in the EIGHTIES, dontcha think we might have heard something about it by now?
what? the IBM PC existed in 1977? I must have been in a parallel dimension at the time then, coz I thought they were introduced in '80 or '81. Either way, my dad's first Personal Computer was an Apple II. Mine was a Commodore 64. It cost me £399 for the computer and £299 for the 1541 drive. I can still hear it ticking now...
that rule always USED TO hold true for me, but when I bought my current machine in October 2000, I put 2 43GB 7200RPM IBM Deskstars in it and they're not even half full yet. I'm as surprised as anyone, but there you go.
I'm wondering at exactly what point Americans will reach their laziness limit. Maybe there isn't one - maybe only a total dreamworld that can be lived without ever getting out of bed will suffice. Is that why you people like the godawful Matrix so much? Why does anyone need instantaneous access to a two or three hour movie? What's ten seconds putting the disc in compared to watching it? MP3 makes sense because of the "Juke-Box" factor - iTunes on random is like a radi station that only plays music I like - I've got about a week and a half's play time in there already. But video? Nope.
Rude TV presenter? How dare you! I was presenting complex travel reports on Radio Norwich when you were just a glint in the milkman's eye. This country!
isn't this all irrelevant over 100base T? This is NOT a performance set-up by any means.
you're right to be confused, I can't understand the logic of this at all. He's using 160GB drives when his ATA cards only recognise 130GB. Why? Why is he using twice as many ATA cards as he needs? Why does he need so much RAM? Why didn't he use 1000Base T? Why bother doing this at all when the next iteration of HD tech will allow maybe half a TB per unit anyway? This is geek for geek's sake.
so the Apple I was 1976, the Apple II 1977. Personal Computer was a CONCEPT before the 80's, it was the Apple II that made the concept real. Fanatic fringe footnote, good one. What does that make Sun and SGI, then? Stop trolling, why dontcha?
maybe POPULARISED would have been a better word - but he was prokin' me.. anyhow, people don't buy chips, they buy computers. And the Apple II was the computer that they bought. Go talk to WOZ about the personal computer, he did more to make it a reality than almost anyone else.
lucky you're such an expert, Justin. What with all your experience of building city-wide ethernet networks, why not give 'em a call in Wellington and offer some friendly advice you FUCKING TWAT.
good question. From what the article tells us, it seems that Wellington has a tram sytem with overhead power, which are easy to string lightweight fibre onto. In a city like London, there are no tram wires to exploit so you'd still have to dig the road - and that costs a fortune.
by the same token, if Apple hadn't INVENTED the personal computer, there would never have been a market.
don't be a dunce, he was clearly talking about linking the control systems of the power stations together - the power grid itself is already connected. What are you, 6 years old?
I think the article implies (it's not that well written) that each client has 100 Base T access to the 1000Base T network, which makes the sums come out right. Incidentally, our "T1" is exactly 2Mbps - but I'm in the UK (maybe ours is an E1?) - the same might be true in NZ AFAIK.
SETI@home is not a good benchmark, as it hasn't been optimised for ANY architecture, let alone EVERY architecture. Go look at distributed.net and you'll see a fairer comparison. Your Octane will look good at OGR (Athlon better) but for RC5-64 the G4 is so far ahead as to be over the horizon - that's the oft-mentioned but rarely used Altivec kicking in... anyway, these CPU bound benchmarks are pretty meaningless for anything but rendering, your Octane is designed to manipulate high-poly models quickly and no PC or Mac can touch it for that.
nob. My home Powermac (G4 450dual 1GB) has not crashed or been restarted since installing OSX 10.1.2. I don't anticipate rebooting until the next system update, either. SGI most certainly can and do crash - why not ask someone who uses one, coz you obviously never have.
oh come on! Apple had the GeForce 3 as BTO for the last 9 months, now they let you choose Radeon 7500 or GeForce 4MX. If you don't like either of those ATI will sell you a Radeon 8500 (which would be MY choice). Sure, you don't have the breadth of choice that you have in the PC market, but it's not exactly obsolete.
you're not understanding this, are you? SGI's GFX hardware is effectively COMPOSITING to the display, it is very important to allow sufficient precision to avoid contouring so that you get a good impression of what your rendered scene might look like. SGI aren't just saying "we've got more bits than you" this stuff is important. By the same token, in the Mac universe people are extremely concerned with accurate screen colour calibration and font rendering, which are essential in pulblishing work. PC users think the whole fucking world revolves around Quake.
what are you talking about? MOST of the broadcast quality editing work in the world is done on Avid Media Composer running on Powermac G4. Sure it's hardware accelerated, but so is everything in the video world. SGI workstations are NOT Floctanes when they come out of the box you know.