Uh, it changed when we realized language is for communications and not for stuffy academics to tell us how we should and shouldn't communicate. If it's disambiguous what I mean when I say virii then the language has achieved it's purpose, it has communicated my idea.
Actually the supreme court is likely to agree with you. They laid down a ruling against using heat sensitive IR goggles to discover grow ops without a warrant and more generally ruled that all technologies which go beyond what is visible from public places with the naked eye require a warrant.
English is not Latin and the rule in English is if it's in common usage and not against a "classic" grammar rule then it's correct. English has no formal rules for conjugation so if enough people choose to use a given form then it's correct.
The infrastructure, but not HBA's was included in that price, as I said administration is a couple hours a month or less on average so not a major cost factor. Power and HVAC are real costs but are dwarfed by capex whenever I've done a detailed TCO calculation to the point where I don't consider them a major factor (IE I would never not do a project that otherwise made sense due to the fractional addition to TCO for them).
But my overall point is that if my capex cost is $.14/GB/month charging more than 200x that is just insane.
No, the costs all come out of our budget, but the size of our budget is not fixed, we gestimate each July and it gets adjusted to actual values quarterly. Projects have their own budget which get approved by the board (anything over $1M). Put it this way, in 4+ years I've only been told no once to a product I wanted to buy and it's because I couldn't convince my boss that the value add justified the expense (vmware lab manager).
Yes, TCO would be higher but since storage admin is only a few percent of a FTE for us it's negligible, power and cooling has some affect but it's dwarfed by CapEx so it doesn't change the order of magnitude problem. We rolled 60 months of maintenance into the CapEx so there's no additional cost there.
HP EVA 6400 replicating to a mix of storage platforms at DR using NSI Doubletake. The primary site array is using 88*450GB 15k FC drives. 30TB usable for just over $250k, comes out to $.14/GB/month over the 60 months we bought warranty for it (included in purchase price).
Or your IT department can be smart and be a strategic partner with the business actually solving their problems, making people more productive, and leading the company to more profits. In that model IT doesn't have a set budget, they tell the decision makers how much a solution to a problem will cost and the decision makers decide if it's worth that much to solve the problem. In our case that's a yes better than 8 out of 10 times a project is proposed and the main limiters are our small staff size and the rate at which the company can digest the new systems.
It should, as I said elsewhere in this thread:
We bought fairly expensive midrange storage with all the maintenance and software bought up front and the cost is still only $.14/GB/month, double that and make the bandwidth as expensive as the array and you're still at only $.42, double that for backups (disk to disk with redundant Avamar's at each end) and you still are at ~$.85/GB/month.
Please don't, use guard space like XIV and EVA do, that way rebuilds are wicked fast (for the class of drive) and you aren't wasting IOPS on idle spindles.
Yeah, $30/GB/month is kind of crazy. We bought fairly expensive midrange storage with all the maintenance and software bought up front and the cost is still only $.14/GB/month, double that and make the bandwidth as expensive as the array and you're still at only $.42, double that for backups (disk to disk with redundant Avamar's at each end) and you still are at ~$.85/GB/month, how you make something 35x more expensive than that I have no clue, unless you have a dedicated storage admin running like two arrays and his salary is part of the chargeback.
Completely offtopic, but slow cooked and fillet are antithetical. You slow cook to soften the meat, fillet is already as soft as it will get so the best way to prepare it is with a quick seer.
Many of the systems on the TOP500 list are simple COTS clusters with perhaps an interesting interconnect. Remember the Appleseed cluster that was ranked in the top10 a few years ago, it was nothing more than a bunch of Apple desktops with an interesting gigabit mesh network. Regardless they hardly used optimal hardware, hex core Xeon's with 96GB's of ram per node and a better I/O subsystem could have crushed this result.
Until and unless all federal laws pertaining to the growing and distribution of marijuana are repealed there's no way. Why? Because what you would see if Phillip Morris were to try to start up one of these operations would be the head of PM goose walked and sent to federal prison on charges of being a drug lord. Can I see PM lobbying congress to enact such repeals? Sure, in fact if they see a potential profit and enough public sentiment they will absolutely go for it.
The constitution is the supreme law of the land and until the supreme court changes their view on the commerce clause the federal government will have a legal right to enforce federal drug statutes. Do I like it, or even agree with their flawed logic? No, of course not. The overreaching interpretation of the commerce clause is probably one of the SC decisions that it most obviously far from the framers intentions.
Don't worry, no company will touch this and no financial institution will fund it. This whole idea has DEA bust written all over it. California can do whatever they want to legalize it but so long as it's illegal under federal statute large scale grow operations will be way too hot to touch. The interesting thing would be if the state were to grow it themselves, would pit states rights against federal drug laws.
It's per socket, HT doesn't count, and the limit of 6 is only on certain editions, enterprise plus is up to 12 cores per socket. VMWare is actually moving some of it's licensing to a per VM model because larger clients will often have only specific subsets of VM's they want to protect.
Modern browsers are starting to take more and more advantage of additional cores. Of course MS is kind of going in the opposite direction with IE9 by using the GPU, which is probably a bad idea given the anemic GPU's in most systems.
The SAT and ACT both started allowing graphic calculators in the mid 90's. I know because they didn't allow them when I took them in jr high but by the time I took them for college entrance purposes in 96 both tests as well as AP and the advanced SAT exams allowed them.
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Uh, it changed when we realized language is for communications and not for stuffy academics to tell us how we should and shouldn't communicate. If it's disambiguous what I mean when I say virii then the language has achieved it's purpose, it has communicated my idea.
Actually the supreme court is likely to agree with you. They laid down a ruling against using heat sensitive IR goggles to discover grow ops without a warrant and more generally ruled that all technologies which go beyond what is visible from public places with the naked eye require a warrant.
English is not Latin and the rule in English is if it's in common usage and not against a "classic" grammar rule then it's correct. English has no formal rules for conjugation so if enough people choose to use a given form then it's correct.
The infrastructure, but not HBA's was included in that price, as I said administration is a couple hours a month or less on average so not a major cost factor. Power and HVAC are real costs but are dwarfed by capex whenever I've done a detailed TCO calculation to the point where I don't consider them a major factor (IE I would never not do a project that otherwise made sense due to the fractional addition to TCO for them).
But my overall point is that if my capex cost is $.14/GB/month charging more than 200x that is just insane.
No, the costs all come out of our budget, but the size of our budget is not fixed, we gestimate each July and it gets adjusted to actual values quarterly. Projects have their own budget which get approved by the board (anything over $1M). Put it this way, in 4+ years I've only been told no once to a product I wanted to buy and it's because I couldn't convince my boss that the value add justified the expense (vmware lab manager).
Yes, TCO would be higher but since storage admin is only a few percent of a FTE for us it's negligible, power and cooling has some affect but it's dwarfed by CapEx so it doesn't change the order of magnitude problem. We rolled 60 months of maintenance into the CapEx so there's no additional cost there.
HP EVA 6400 replicating to a mix of storage platforms at DR using NSI Doubletake. The primary site array is using 88*450GB 15k FC drives. 30TB usable for just over $250k, comes out to $.14/GB/month over the 60 months we bought warranty for it (included in purchase price).
Because a 500bhp V8 already has more torque then the tires can handle.
I think he dropped a zero =)
Or your IT department can be smart and be a strategic partner with the business actually solving their problems, making people more productive, and leading the company to more profits. In that model IT doesn't have a set budget, they tell the decision makers how much a solution to a problem will cost and the decision makers decide if it's worth that much to solve the problem. In our case that's a yes better than 8 out of 10 times a project is proposed and the main limiters are our small staff size and the rate at which the company can digest the new systems.
It should, as I said elsewhere in this thread:
We bought fairly expensive midrange storage with all the maintenance and software bought up front and the cost is still only $.14/GB/month, double that and make the bandwidth as expensive as the array and you're still at only $.42, double that for backups (disk to disk with redundant Avamar's at each end) and you still are at ~$.85/GB/month.
No, Tier 1 storage does NOT cost $.10/GB, try more like $3/GB just for the drives.
Yeah, the limit today with most platforms is about 3PB per employee, or 1PB per employee year if you have to have 24x7 coverage.
But please, set aside some hot spares.
Please don't, use guard space like XIV and EVA do, that way rebuilds are wicked fast (for the class of drive) and you aren't wasting IOPS on idle spindles.
Yeah, $30/GB/month is kind of crazy. We bought fairly expensive midrange storage with all the maintenance and software bought up front and the cost is still only $.14/GB/month, double that and make the bandwidth as expensive as the array and you're still at only $.42, double that for backups (disk to disk with redundant Avamar's at each end) and you still are at ~$.85/GB/month, how you make something 35x more expensive than that I have no clue, unless you have a dedicated storage admin running like two arrays and his salary is part of the chargeback.
Completely offtopic, but slow cooked and fillet are antithetical. You slow cook to soften the meat, fillet is already as soft as it will get so the best way to prepare it is with a quick seer.
Many of the systems on the TOP500 list are simple COTS clusters with perhaps an interesting interconnect. Remember the Appleseed cluster that was ranked in the top10 a few years ago, it was nothing more than a bunch of Apple desktops with an interesting gigabit mesh network. Regardless they hardly used optimal hardware, hex core Xeon's with 96GB's of ram per node and a better I/O subsystem could have crushed this result.
Until and unless all federal laws pertaining to the growing and distribution of marijuana are repealed there's no way. Why? Because what you would see if Phillip Morris were to try to start up one of these operations would be the head of PM goose walked and sent to federal prison on charges of being a drug lord. Can I see PM lobbying congress to enact such repeals? Sure, in fact if they see a potential profit and enough public sentiment they will absolutely go for it.
The constitution is the supreme law of the land and until the supreme court changes their view on the commerce clause the federal government will have a legal right to enforce federal drug statutes. Do I like it, or even agree with their flawed logic? No, of course not. The overreaching interpretation of the commerce clause is probably one of the SC decisions that it most obviously far from the framers intentions.
And the states, don't forget that amendments have to be approved by 3/4ths of the states.
Don't worry, no company will touch this and no financial institution will fund it. This whole idea has DEA bust written all over it. California can do whatever they want to legalize it but so long as it's illegal under federal statute large scale grow operations will be way too hot to touch. The interesting thing would be if the state were to grow it themselves, would pit states rights against federal drug laws.
It's per socket, HT doesn't count, and the limit of 6 is only on certain editions, enterprise plus is up to 12 cores per socket. VMWare is actually moving some of it's licensing to a per VM model because larger clients will often have only specific subsets of VM's they want to protect.
Modern browsers are starting to take more and more advantage of additional cores. Of course MS is kind of going in the opposite direction with IE9 by using the GPU, which is probably a bad idea given the anemic GPU's in most systems.
The SAT and ACT both started allowing graphic calculators in the mid 90's. I know because they didn't allow them when I took them in jr high but by the time I took them for college entrance purposes in 96 both tests as well as AP and the advanced SAT exams allowed them.
The TI-89 is a thing of beauty. It's basically a mac running embedded Maple with a limited graphics display =)