Uh, no. The future is here and it is virtualization. I can have a VM for a fraction of that power and it can actually perform when it has work to do. For instance I'm running 53 VM's in 800W on 5 hosts for 15W per VM and those hosts aren't even in the least bit taxed, they should be able to support 3x as many VM's with minimal additional power bringing the eventual number closer to 5W per VM.
Actually boats are WAY more economical and with polar ice melts the northern passage is now open enough of the year to be economically viable. If you need very fast transport when the northern passage is available there's always airplane (Ford was flying engines from Cleveland to an assembly plant in Canada so it can be doable for items with a high enough value add).
After such an illustrious career shouldn't they use this as the basis of their next design only adding to it additional features that have been proven on more recent designs from other teams? I mean making all these one-off designs like all the underwater robots seem to be has to be the least efficient way to go from both a cash perspective as well as a getting science done perspective.
That really depends on what you are doing now doesn't it? If you are streaming an HD video then the greater speed matters, if you are trying to load the 1,000 elements in a complex webpage or doing XMLHTTP requests then the 1Mbps connection with the lower latency may be preferred.
drilling and dissolving is the current method to extract salt There's still significant mines under the great lakes being mined using traditional methods ala coal mining. I think this method will work great for areas without significant hills but gravity water storage is significantly more efficient so areas where the wind farm is on a large ridgeline will probably go that route.
Verizon can actually be FTTH but freaking u-Verse is VDSL from the local mini-DSLAM which is simply retarded as they don't save much money and will have to rip that stuff out in another decade (but they're the phone company so they don't have to care, just more work for their techs and more subsidies from the government).
Pretty small airconditioner by datacenter standards, only about 4 tonns, though 12kW per rack is a big higher than most are designed for. Newer datacenters can go to 20kW per rack without needing in-rack solutions for supplemental cooling.
It's more 10GbE ports per chassis than other core routers at the moment but it's not exactly destroying the competition, Juniper does 160(80 line rate) per chassis and Foundry does 128. I'm not sure how many customers are really clamoring for thousands of 10GbE ports per rack row.
Yeah when I supported Cisco's wireless division one of the engineers got a call from his boss at 5am asking if he had a current passport and when he answered in the affirmative he was on a plane from Cleveland to Sweden in 2 hours. The customer had a large package sorting facility where the wireless had become all but worthless, turns out metallic paint on the floor + lots of metal machinery + metal walls and roof was leading to more multipathing than they had ever seen before and it was screwing up the compensation algorithms. They had the problem solved by the end of the day, just in time for nightly sorting. But yeah, if you are even a small large customer and you have a problem Cisco TAC can be amazing.
Hmm, a 6509E chassis is only $9,500 list and can switch at 720Gbps (when equipped with Sup720). Of course by the time you add two Sup720's with 3BXL forwarding engines you're up the $63,000 list and you have nothing but four empty 10GBps slots.
No, they don't. Full spectrum LED's have worse lumen/watt ratings then even average CFL's and the better CFL's beat them by ~20-25%. If you can point me to an affordable, full spectrum LED bulb with a better lumen/watt rating than a good CFL then I'm open to it but I haven't seen it yet. Compare this to this, 69.6 lumens/watt to 54.2 lumens/watt and $5 per bulb compared to $125, it's not even a contest.
No, what they are doing is pressing the Delete key by devaluing the currency over time instead of having it blow up all at once. This has the effect of spreading the burden around and should significantly reduce the very real and terrible consequences that could have resulted. There are no squatter camps, no great migrations in search of manual labor this time, because the government stepped in to make sure the system didn't implode. Personally I would much rather have slightly higher taxes and a slowly devalued currency than have one in four families literally out in the streets like what happened when the government decided not to intervene until it was too late. Like you my initial reaction was to be pissed at the government for propping up a bunch of greedy losers but two years in I have to say that the outcome is much preferable to what likely would have happened if they hadn't.
Which is how some people got data for much cheaper than AT&T's normal pricing, they bought a Go! phone and added the data plan then moved the SIM to their netbook or other mobile data device and never used any go minutes paying just the much lower monthly fee for data and only $20 every 6 months for new minimum minutes on the phone. This doesn't work as AT&T dropped data as an option on Go! phones after this got fairly popular.
Yes, but from the description given in the report Google Apps Engine works much more closely to a traditional application stack with manual datacenter failover and asynchronous data replication (with slower sync data replication available real soon now). It's not the stateless application that typifies Googles larger datacenter experience and calls for a much more traditional HA setup to give better than 3-4 9's of uptime.
Perhaps, it's probably going to be significantly more expensive per raw MIP but because of the higher internode bandwidth it will scale better for many problems so will achieve higher real world throughput. I'd imagine someone will have one placed in the TOP500 by the fall announcement since all the other node interconnect stuff can be pulled from any existing Nehalem-EP based design.
Basically yes, it actually has more bandwidth for remote NUMA access then current Nehalem-EP systems but fewer memory lanes per core so less bandwidth under high contention or more bandwidth under low contention. IBM has announced the x3690 X5 which has 32 DIMM slots for two EX sockets which will be a killer DB/Virtualization platform if priced competitively.
It might automate code generation but it doesn't automate debugging or QA testing which in my experience take significantly more effort then running the build system....
In my experience if you try to push PhysX that hard on a midlevel GPU or lower it trashes the FPS to unplayable. In fact I disabled GPU based PhysX and had the driver fallback to CPU rendering because in most games I have spare cores but the GPU is already being pushed to the max. With a quad core CPU costing almost nothing extra over a dualcore (on desktops at least) and decent GPU's starting at $100 and quickly going up from there I think that's probably the norm for the vast majority of gamers.
*across town*!? Hmm, here in the states best practice (and legal requirements for certain industries) requires significantly more distance than that between DC's. Ours is just inside of reasonable driving range (6 hours) but is on a different power grid, different core services from our Tier-1 ISP, etc.
No, the question is why did the end users *see* the power outage? I would guess Google's insistence on using cheap motherboards with local battery and non-redundant PSU's bit them in the butt here. In a properly designed and maintained datacenter the loss of main power and a single generator won't take out a single server or piece of networking gear, but Google has gone with the RAED (redundant array of expensive datacenters) model instead of the traditional dual PSU, dual PDU, dual UPS, dual generator with redundant data paths setup typical of an HA datacenter.
There's actually a tiling algorithm for optimal placement of AP's on adjacent channels so that you can use more than just the 3 non-overlapping channels. You'll need to turn down the radios so they don't span the entire space but it can be done, the Cisco Aironet guys were working on automating this stuff a decade ago when I supported their office so I have to imagine it's been integrated into the auto-setup for the Cisco wireless controllers by now.
Well, I would use true dual band WAP's and have the 5Ghz radios setup for 802.11a with an SSID per channel. 802.11n 5Ghz radios are fully backwards compatible with 802.11a.
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Uh, no. The future is here and it is virtualization. I can have a VM for a fraction of that power and it can actually perform when it has work to do. For instance I'm running 53 VM's in 800W on 5 hosts for 15W per VM and those hosts aren't even in the least bit taxed, they should be able to support 3x as many VM's with minimal additional power bringing the eventual number closer to 5W per VM.
Actually boats are WAY more economical and with polar ice melts the northern passage is now open enough of the year to be economically viable. If you need very fast transport when the northern passage is available there's always airplane (Ford was flying engines from Cleveland to an assembly plant in Canada so it can be doable for items with a high enough value add).
After such an illustrious career shouldn't they use this as the basis of their next design only adding to it additional features that have been proven on more recent designs from other teams? I mean making all these one-off designs like all the underwater robots seem to be has to be the least efficient way to go from both a cash perspective as well as a getting science done perspective.
Wait, you're worried about battery life and you're recommending bluetooth?!?
That really depends on what you are doing now doesn't it? If you are streaming an HD video then the greater speed matters, if you are trying to load the 1,000 elements in a complex webpage or doing XMLHTTP requests then the 1Mbps connection with the lower latency may be preferred.
drilling and dissolving is the current method to extract salt
There's still significant mines under the great lakes being mined using traditional methods ala coal mining. I think this method will work great for areas without significant hills but gravity water storage is significantly more efficient so areas where the wind farm is on a large ridgeline will probably go that route.
Verizon can actually be FTTH but freaking u-Verse is VDSL from the local mini-DSLAM which is simply retarded as they don't save much money and will have to rip that stuff out in another decade (but they're the phone company so they don't have to care, just more work for their techs and more subsidies from the government).
10/1 cable here for $35 per month. That's fast enough to stream raw DVD files (max bitrate of 9800kbps) or decent quality 720p content.
Pretty small airconditioner by datacenter standards, only about 4 tonns, though 12kW per rack is a big higher than most are designed for. Newer datacenters can go to 20kW per rack without needing in-rack solutions for supplemental cooling.
It's more 10GbE ports per chassis than other core routers at the moment but it's not exactly destroying the competition, Juniper does 160(80 line rate) per chassis and Foundry does 128. I'm not sure how many customers are really clamoring for thousands of 10GbE ports per rack row.
Deep inspection is done at the edges.
Yeah when I supported Cisco's wireless division one of the engineers got a call from his boss at 5am asking if he had a current passport and when he answered in the affirmative he was on a plane from Cleveland to Sweden in 2 hours. The customer had a large package sorting facility where the wireless had become all but worthless, turns out metallic paint on the floor + lots of metal machinery + metal walls and roof was leading to more multipathing than they had ever seen before and it was screwing up the compensation algorithms. They had the problem solved by the end of the day, just in time for nightly sorting. But yeah, if you are even a small large customer and you have a problem Cisco TAC can be amazing.
Hmm, a 6509E chassis is only $9,500 list and can switch at 720Gbps (when equipped with Sup720). Of course by the time you add two Sup720's with 3BXL forwarding engines you're up the $63,000 list and you have nothing but four empty 10GBps slots.
No, they don't. Full spectrum LED's have worse lumen/watt ratings then even average CFL's and the better CFL's beat them by ~20-25%. If you can point me to an affordable, full spectrum LED bulb with a better lumen/watt rating than a good CFL then I'm open to it but I haven't seen it yet. Compare this to this, 69.6 lumens/watt to 54.2 lumens/watt and $5 per bulb compared to $125, it's not even a contest.
No, what they are doing is pressing the Delete key by devaluing the currency over time instead of having it blow up all at once. This has the effect of spreading the burden around and should significantly reduce the very real and terrible consequences that could have resulted. There are no squatter camps, no great migrations in search of manual labor this time, because the government stepped in to make sure the system didn't implode. Personally I would much rather have slightly higher taxes and a slowly devalued currency than have one in four families literally out in the streets like what happened when the government decided not to intervene until it was too late. Like you my initial reaction was to be pissed at the government for propping up a bunch of greedy losers but two years in I have to say that the outcome is much preferable to what likely would have happened if they hadn't.
Which is how some people got data for much cheaper than AT&T's normal pricing, they bought a Go! phone and added the data plan then moved the SIM to their netbook or other mobile data device and never used any go minutes paying just the much lower monthly fee for data and only $20 every 6 months for new minimum minutes on the phone. This doesn't work as AT&T dropped data as an option on Go! phones after this got fairly popular.
Yes, but from the description given in the report Google Apps Engine works much more closely to a traditional application stack with manual datacenter failover and asynchronous data replication (with slower sync data replication available real soon now). It's not the stateless application that typifies Googles larger datacenter experience and calls for a much more traditional HA setup to give better than 3-4 9's of uptime.
Perhaps, it's probably going to be significantly more expensive per raw MIP but because of the higher internode bandwidth it will scale better for many problems so will achieve higher real world throughput. I'd imagine someone will have one placed in the TOP500 by the fall announcement since all the other node interconnect stuff can be pulled from any existing Nehalem-EP based design.
Basically yes, it actually has more bandwidth for remote NUMA access then current Nehalem-EP systems but fewer memory lanes per core so less bandwidth under high contention or more bandwidth under low contention. IBM has announced the x3690 X5 which has 32 DIMM slots for two EX sockets which will be a killer DB/Virtualization platform if priced competitively.
It might automate code generation but it doesn't automate debugging or QA testing which in my experience take significantly more effort then running the build system....
In my experience if you try to push PhysX that hard on a midlevel GPU or lower it trashes the FPS to unplayable. In fact I disabled GPU based PhysX and had the driver fallback to CPU rendering because in most games I have spare cores but the GPU is already being pushed to the max. With a quad core CPU costing almost nothing extra over a dualcore (on desktops at least) and decent GPU's starting at $100 and quickly going up from there I think that's probably the norm for the vast majority of gamers.
*across town*!? Hmm, here in the states best practice (and legal requirements for certain industries) requires significantly more distance than that between DC's. Ours is just inside of reasonable driving range (6 hours) but is on a different power grid, different core services from our Tier-1 ISP, etc.
No, the question is why did the end users *see* the power outage? I would guess Google's insistence on using cheap motherboards with local battery and non-redundant PSU's bit them in the butt here. In a properly designed and maintained datacenter the loss of main power and a single generator won't take out a single server or piece of networking gear, but Google has gone with the RAED (redundant array of expensive datacenters) model instead of the traditional dual PSU, dual PDU, dual UPS, dual generator with redundant data paths setup typical of an HA datacenter.
There's actually a tiling algorithm for optimal placement of AP's on adjacent channels so that you can use more than just the 3 non-overlapping channels. You'll need to turn down the radios so they don't span the entire space but it can be done, the Cisco Aironet guys were working on automating this stuff a decade ago when I supported their office so I have to imagine it's been integrated into the auto-setup for the Cisco wireless controllers by now.
Well, I would use true dual band WAP's and have the 5Ghz radios setup for 802.11a with an SSID per channel. 802.11n 5Ghz radios are fully backwards compatible with 802.11a.