hmmm.. though i'm not positive, you might have started a trend. possibly one tantamount to posting nytimes.com urls with fake referers. currently i'm getting 50kB/s and that's not too shabby.
The concept of disk storage is what will change. With the advent of cheap solid state "drives", the performance will increase in orders of magnitude.
You also neglected the possibility of improving drive head technology. Disks don't have to spin faster to offer higher data rates.
However, this is all academic if someone comes along and offers reliable, fast high speed internet access along with something like iScsi for remote storage. Huge fibre based storage arrays tend to be pretty quick.
As someone who has traveled throughout almost all of Ecuador, I can most emphatically say that in 85% of the country, these pcs are mostly useless without uninterruptible power supplies. Power regularly goes out for minutes and even hours at a time. Besides that, the voltage is anything but regular. Power spikes and dips are constant. Every PC at the mission in Macas had a ups on it. While it is great that this program exists, I hope that they send all the necessary components to make these machines useful.
Simple, call any IBM business partner or call IBM direct. Anything more than 512 is a special order from what I recall. It appears that ASCI white is 512 375MHz Power3 SMP High nodes and a ton of storage.
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Not for nothing, but there's an easy fix. You can move the menubars around until they are to your liking.
no. it's more typical inflammatory slashdot bs.
Special purpose chips? Not really.
RS/60000 SPs use PowerPC processors.
hmmm.. though i'm not positive, you might have started a trend.
possibly one tantamount to posting nytimes.com urls with fake referers.
currently i'm getting 50kB/s and that's not too shabby.
thanks.
The concept of disk storage is what will change. With the advent of cheap solid state "drives", the performance will increase in orders of magnitude. You also neglected the possibility of improving drive head technology. Disks don't have to spin faster to offer higher data rates. However, this is all academic if someone comes along and offers reliable, fast high speed internet access along with something like iScsi for remote storage. Huge fibre based storage arrays tend to be pretty quick.
I find it fascinating when people use the term 'own' in reference to 'ie 5'.
As someone who has traveled throughout almost all of Ecuador, I can most emphatically say that in 85% of the country, these pcs are mostly useless without uninterruptible power supplies. Power regularly goes out for minutes and even hours at a time. Besides that, the voltage is anything but regular. Power spikes and dips are constant. Every PC at the mission in Macas had a ups on it. While it is great that this program exists, I hope that they send all the necessary components to make these machines useful.
this article sucks. use the god damn us mail.... that should give you enough leeway.
Simple, call any IBM business partner or call IBM direct. Anything more than 512 is a special order from what I recall. It appears that ASCI white is 512 375MHz Power3 SMP High nodes and a ton of storage.
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http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hard