Actually the DOD does get the source code(along with many other large customers and more than a few academic institutions), but in this instance that's irrelevant since the thing that makes the DOD not worry about the phone home is the same as any large institution, they'll be using the LTS branch which has the option to turn off all the telemetry beyond what's existed in Windows since XP (ie crash reporting) and then they'll use further policy to turn off even that ability just as they've had hardening guides since the Windows NT days.
Unless there's more than one suddenlink their site says they offer 50/5, 100/10, 200/20 and 1000/50 tiers (the gigabit is going to be problematic IMHO as many protocols are going to need more than 5% return bandwidth to work well).
Almost 8Gbps of I/O per thread, that's a bit of an odd configuration for x86 and honestly a waste of fairly expensive resources between pins and board realestate.
A VM host really only needs x12 PCIe 3 for a dual socket system, x4 for 10Gb dual channel NIC and x8 for 16Gb dual channel HBA, up it to x24 links if you need 40GbE. 8 channels is nice as it allows you to do 1TB of full speed ram in a dual socket system using relatively inexpensive 32GB DIMMs which gives you 8GB per thread which is more than enough for most workloads (you might even choose to go 512GB of ram if your workload is more CPU than RAM limited and save a good chunk of change).
x64 actually runs x86 code more efficiently than classic x86 due to the large number of registers available for renaming on x64 which is why you can see significant improvements switching from the x86 to the x64 build of any of the MS OS's on exactly the same hardware with exactly the same applications (no recompile needed). The only thing you give up is a bit of storage (on the OS side) and a bit of ram so it won't work for $200 tablets but for anything with reasonable specs it makes sense.
Just mount them RO by default, require the user to remount as RW if they need to run one of the applications that actually needs RW permissions. This has been done for other critical filesystem components on various Linux distributions since forever.
BIOS/MBR is just an EUFI personality on modern systems so if EUFI is trashed well enough it can't load the BIOS personality. Unless you're saying boot to BIOS until a fix or workaround is found?
I'm pretty sure you don't randomly pull cables on the $B high energy machine, it's liable to either break the expensive toy or make it go bang in interesting ways. I do get your point about a need for discipline though =)
No, my property is ~ 125' * 400', my neighbor has a half mile driveway, his property is a few acres but it is landlocked in the middle of a ~2 mile * 2 mile block. Because his driveway is adjacent to my property there will never be a structure closer than about 50' from that side of my house.
I've been to 38 states and 13 countries, the only other major city I'd want to live in is Chicago. Unless I happened to land a job near a L stop my commute would be worse than what I currently have here and that would still require me to give up my one acre lot with one neighbor (my other neighbors are a horse farm, working farm, and a half mile long driveway). The single downside is the cold during the winter but the upshot is we have actual seasons.
For once I feel good about one of these reports. I'd need 50% more to have the same standard of living in SF as here in Cleveland but I'm at 10% above the High range for my position in that market. That means I'm effectively making 155% of the max range, add to that the 7.5% retirement give plus 2-3% 401k match and the package at the new place is looking really, really good.
Dude, what kind of rinky dink operation are you working with that tech support closes at 5PM? It must be some single man WISP because even the small dialup ISP I started with in 1993 had 24x7 phone support. It is likely that the lineman who can fix a physical plant problem has limited hours for residential customers, but troubleshooting and diagnosis that could pinpoint an oversubscribed POP should be available around the clock. The idea that you're going to get a 100% commit rate circuit for $30-50/month is insane. The reality is that for most people ISPs do a fine job of keeping speeds in the usable range damn near 100% of the time, see the FCC 2015 broadband report if you don't believe me. The only consistently bad ISPs are Frontier, Windstream, and Century Link (I had forgotten the third, though there results prior to 2015 were somewhat better). Peak vs offpeak had little impact on the ratio of advertised to achieved bandwidth which means oversubscription was a non-factor.
(as an amusing aside the fiber plant that Frontier bought from Verizon shows significantly better results in the 80/80 test than the plant that Verizon kept, I wonder if they just never updated their advertised speeds or if they're actually managing it better than Verizon)
I'm sorry but that is pure BS, at my previous job we had hundreds of locations all over the US and Puerto Rico and the number of places that couldn't reach 80+% of their rated download speed 90+% of the time could be measured on one hand and most of those could be fixed with a call to tech support or harassing our account exec. The only unfixable locations I can remember were Frontier or Windstream DSL connections in locations with no alternatives so those bottom suckers didn't give a damn. This covers the period 2005-2015 so most of the period of widespread broadband in the US. Oversubscription just wasn't a meaningful problem in almost every instance.
There's no reason that construction equipment couldn't be electric powered, the world's largest self moving coal shovel is electric because no engine could directly power it and once you get to a certain size it makes no sense to generate onboard.
A 2 carat H SI1 round lab created diamond isn't any cheaper than the same class diamond from Canada. I just did a quick online search and that's still as true as it was 15 years ago (I guess the DeBeers mafia has convinced enough folks that synthetic diamonds aren't as good that there's been little progress in the technology)
Why should we then suddenly impose our current position upon a developing nation?
Because the best way for them to develop is to stop using child labor and start educating their children in things that bring value in the international market.
Yup, my wife and I decided that the only way we'd buy diamonds is if they came from a conflict-free source, which meant buying Polar Ice diamonds from Canada as they were the only source not tainted by DeBeers that could be reliably traced (I'm not sure if the situation has changed since we made our decision, that was 15 years ago and the conflict free movement has received a lot more support since then). We paid a slight premium for the stones, but the fact that they were being custom set was the major expense (using local labor is quite a bit more expensive than having kids in China or wherever set the stones, but again worth it from an ethical standpoint).
To put some numbers to it Cisco 3064 switches: 3064-X 64 ports of DAC @ 143W = 2.2W per port 3064-T 48 ports of GBaseT and 4 SR4 uplinks @362W = 7W per port
Brocade 6740 switches: Brocade VDX 6740 48 ports of DAC and 4 ports of 40Gb QSFP @ 110W = 2.1W per port Brocade VDX 6740T 48 ports of 10GBaseT and 4 ports of 40Gb QSFP @ 460W = 8.8W per port
24x7 operation at $.10/kw ~= $1/W/year so each port of 10GBaseT costs you ~$9-13/year (two sides to the link) over DAC, that would eat up the cable savings pretty fast. Add in reduced reliability and higher latency and it's not too surprising that 10GBaseT hasn't taken off.
LOL, GPU's are just the latest version of the vector coprocessor, something that's been at the heart of supercomputers pretty much since the start and which is absolutely needed to achieve good performance on certain classes of problems.
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Actually the DOD does get the source code(along with many other large customers and more than a few academic institutions), but in this instance that's irrelevant since the thing that makes the DOD not worry about the phone home is the same as any large institution, they'll be using the LTS branch which has the option to turn off all the telemetry beyond what's existed in Windows since XP (ie crash reporting) and then they'll use further policy to turn off even that ability just as they've had hardening guides since the Windows NT days.
Unless there's more than one suddenlink their site says they offer 50/5, 100/10, 200/20 and 1000/50 tiers (the gigabit is going to be problematic IMHO as many protocols are going to need more than 5% return bandwidth to work well).
180% of the performance at half the TDP, how horrible...
Oh, and the newer one has an integrated GPU
64 lanes, 64 threads, PCIe 3.0 lane =7.87Gbps. Or is that 64 lanes for a four way SMP board? If so that makes a bit more sense.
Almost 8Gbps of I/O per thread, that's a bit of an odd configuration for x86 and honestly a waste of fairly expensive resources between pins and board realestate.
A VM host really only needs x12 PCIe 3 for a dual socket system, x4 for 10Gb dual channel NIC and x8 for 16Gb dual channel HBA, up it to x24 links if you need 40GbE. 8 channels is nice as it allows you to do 1TB of full speed ram in a dual socket system using relatively inexpensive 32GB DIMMs which gives you 8GB per thread which is more than enough for most workloads (you might even choose to go 512GB of ram if your workload is more CPU than RAM limited and save a good chunk of change).
SKU Name Cores/Threads Base Clock Boost Clock L3 Cache (LLC) TDP
Intel Xeon E5-2699 V4 22/44 2.2 GHz ~3.6 GHz 55 MB 145W
So Intel is keeping 1.25MB of L3 per thread for the next generation. Memory is the same at 4x DDR4 though AFAIK speeds will be upped.
x64 actually runs x86 code more efficiently than classic x86 due to the large number of registers available for renaming on x64 which is why you can see significant improvements switching from the x86 to the x64 build of any of the MS OS's on exactly the same hardware with exactly the same applications (no recompile needed). The only thing you give up is a bit of storage (on the OS side) and a bit of ram so it won't work for $200 tablets but for anything with reasonable specs it makes sense.
Intel's upcoming chips top out at 44 threads:
SKU Name Cores/Threads Base Clock Boost Clock L3 Cache (LLC) TDP
Intel Xeon E5-2699 V4 22/44 2.2 GHz ~3.6 GHz 55 MB 145 W
Just mount them RO by default, require the user to remount as RW if they need to run one of the applications that actually needs RW permissions. This has been done for other critical filesystem components on various Linux distributions since forever.
BIOS/MBR is just an EUFI personality on modern systems so if EUFI is trashed well enough it can't load the BIOS personality. Unless you're saying boot to BIOS until a fix or workaround is found?
I'm pretty sure you don't randomly pull cables on the $B high energy machine, it's liable to either break the expensive toy or make it go bang in interesting ways. I do get your point about a need for discipline though =)
Dice isn't the only source of info, this report prompted me to check a couple different sources.
No, my property is ~ 125' * 400', my neighbor has a half mile driveway, his property is a few acres but it is landlocked in the middle of a ~2 mile * 2 mile block. Because his driveway is adjacent to my property there will never be a structure closer than about 50' from that side of my house.
I've been to 38 states and 13 countries, the only other major city I'd want to live in is Chicago. Unless I happened to land a job near a L stop my commute would be worse than what I currently have here and that would still require me to give up my one acre lot with one neighbor (my other neighbors are a horse farm, working farm, and a half mile long driveway). The single downside is the cold during the winter but the upshot is we have actual seasons.
For once I feel good about one of these reports. I'd need 50% more to have the same standard of living in SF as here in Cleveland but I'm at 10% above the High range for my position in that market. That means I'm effectively making 155% of the max range, add to that the 7.5% retirement give plus 2-3% 401k match and the package at the new place is looking really, really good.
Dude, what kind of rinky dink operation are you working with that tech support closes at 5PM? It must be some single man WISP because even the small dialup ISP I started with in 1993 had 24x7 phone support. It is likely that the lineman who can fix a physical plant problem has limited hours for residential customers, but troubleshooting and diagnosis that could pinpoint an oversubscribed POP should be available around the clock. The idea that you're going to get a 100% commit rate circuit for $30-50/month is insane. The reality is that for most people ISPs do a fine job of keeping speeds in the usable range damn near 100% of the time, see the FCC 2015 broadband report if you don't believe me. The only consistently bad ISPs are Frontier, Windstream, and Century Link (I had forgotten the third, though there results prior to 2015 were somewhat better). Peak vs offpeak had little impact on the ratio of advertised to achieved bandwidth which means oversubscription was a non-factor.
(as an amusing aside the fiber plant that Frontier bought from Verizon shows significantly better results in the 80/80 test than the plant that Verizon kept, I wonder if they just never updated their advertised speeds or if they're actually managing it better than Verizon)
I'm sorry but that is pure BS, at my previous job we had hundreds of locations all over the US and Puerto Rico and the number of places that couldn't reach 80+% of their rated download speed 90+% of the time could be measured on one hand and most of those could be fixed with a call to tech support or harassing our account exec. The only unfixable locations I can remember were Frontier or Windstream DSL connections in locations with no alternatives so those bottom suckers didn't give a damn. This covers the period 2005-2015 so most of the period of widespread broadband in the US. Oversubscription just wasn't a meaningful problem in almost every instance.
There's no reason that construction equipment couldn't be electric powered, the world's largest self moving coal shovel is electric because no engine could directly power it and once you get to a certain size it makes no sense to generate onboard.
A 2 carat H SI1 round lab created diamond isn't any cheaper than the same class diamond from Canada. I just did a quick online search and that's still as true as it was 15 years ago (I guess the DeBeers mafia has convinced enough folks that synthetic diamonds aren't as good that there's been little progress in the technology)
Most industrial diamonds are lab created as it's cheaper than digging them out of the ground.
Why should we then suddenly impose our current position upon a developing nation?
Because the best way for them to develop is to stop using child labor and start educating their children in things that bring value in the international market.
Yup, my wife and I decided that the only way we'd buy diamonds is if they came from a conflict-free source, which meant buying Polar Ice diamonds from Canada as they were the only source not tainted by DeBeers that could be reliably traced (I'm not sure if the situation has changed since we made our decision, that was 15 years ago and the conflict free movement has received a lot more support since then). We paid a slight premium for the stones, but the fact that they were being custom set was the major expense (using local labor is quite a bit more expensive than having kids in China or wherever set the stones, but again worth it from an ethical standpoint).
To put some numbers to it
Cisco 3064 switches:
3064-X 64 ports of DAC @ 143W = 2.2W per port
3064-T 48 ports of GBaseT and 4 SR4 uplinks @362W = 7W per port
Brocade 6740 switches:
Brocade VDX 6740 48 ports of DAC and 4 ports of 40Gb QSFP @ 110W = 2.1W per port
Brocade VDX 6740T 48 ports of 10GBaseT and 4 ports of 40Gb QSFP @ 460W = 8.8W per port
24x7 operation at $.10/kw ~= $1/W/year so each port of 10GBaseT costs you ~$9-13/year (two sides to the link) over DAC, that would eat up the cable savings pretty fast. Add in reduced reliability and higher latency and it's not too surprising that 10GBaseT hasn't taken off.
LOL, GPU's are just the latest version of the vector coprocessor, something that's been at the heart of supercomputers pretty much since the start and which is absolutely needed to achieve good performance on certain classes of problems.