And because most firewalls break the hardening that was done to protect DNS servers last year so to be protected most people need to point at an outside source that can use truly randomized source information.
Actually L3 is turning off public access to those resolvers and has been for a while, sometimes you will not get any response at other times they just degrade response times.
Not many desktop workloads are memory bandwidth bound but plenty could benefit from more HDD cache. The same restriction also applies to the Nehalem Xeon's but again *most* workloads benefit from more RAM, though there the exceptions are more numerous (some DB workloads are performance limited by the number of objects tracked so more cache doesn't improve performance but they do benefit from more memory bandwidth). For the people that really need to care about such things the information is readily available so they can make the determination based on their needs. One funny result of the intricacies of Nehalem memory controllers is that if you are using Windows x64 standard you get WAY better performance with 36GB of memory than with 32GB despite the fact that the OS will only access 32GB because you are filling the bank and that makes the whole system significantly faster than with 1 DIMM missing.
You might want to hold off if you are considering Win7 MCE, by the end of Q1 Hauppague and a few other companies will have CableCard compatible tuners that can be used with MCE. Unfortunately WOW is on SA/Cisco head ends and so m-card's are limited by the firmware to 2 channels so the best card by Ceton with 4 tuner's isn't of much value though they say they will be coming out with a 2 tuner 'value' card eventually.
The ATI's go for ridiculous sums on ebay last I checked. There are a whole bunch of vendors targeting new products at Q1 since the official announcement from CableLabs.
x86-64 is actually a pretty good architecture with a decent tradeoff between registers and instruction compactness. Since the instructions are compact you can fit more of them per RAM clock cycle which is an advantage vs a pure RISC architecture which is why POWER has come much more towards the CISC side of thing then x86 has gone towards RISC (externally, internally it's pretty much a RISC machine).
Uh, unlike say Oracle MS has standardized on per socket licensing. When we bought our ERP system in mid-2006 we got Oracle Enterprise for less per socket than MS was willing to match for SQL Enterprise. Today those same licenses will only get us one Nehalem EX because they are per core whereas the MS licenses would get us 4x as many cores. It still wouldn't help as SQL Server has too many conditions where tables get locked so concurrency is lower but theoretically we should be able to get more out of the MS licenses.
The reason the i7 gains nothing going from double to triple channel memory is that the memory controller is power limited and so can only run at reduced clocking on triple channel configurations 800Mhz down from 1333Mhz. Of course for most workloads having 50% more data in RAM instead of glacially slow storage is a win =)
Actually the OS or Hypervisor really needs to be NUMA aware for optimal performance, that way it can allocate RAM from the pool that is close/attached to the core on which the requesting process is running if available. Windows and ESX do this fairly well, not sure about Linux though I assume it's fine by now. Applications can also help but my experience with the NUMA patches for Oracle have been less then great, I would guess the code is just less mature and less used but we had no end of issues with it and so backed off to the non-NUMA tree.
You should try the 685C with 4x hex core Istanbul's with the FusionIO module in the first mezzanine slot, of course for ~$50k I would hope it's blazing fast =) Personally all my current purchases are Dl380 G6 with 2x 5560's and 72GB's of ram, looking to 144GB next year when the price on 8GB DIMM's come out of the stratosphere.
How silly, I have a couple hundred threads running right now and each of those probably has numerous COM objects. That's with a few startup apps, a few addon services, a browser and a minimum of windows services (I disable everything I don't need which is about half the default Windows install).
And soon you will be able to get a CableCard interface for homebrew Win7 MCE boxes (expected Q1) with support for M-card's for recording up to 4 streams simultaneously.
You're right, group think in the sciences is more about bragging rights and tenure then it is about money. Anyone who looks at the history of the physical sciences and DOESN'T see the pattern of group think is worse than the climate change deniers because at least there is some room for debate on the impact human activity is having.
Actually it's right in line with their stated development goals, a major release every 4 years and a point release 2 years inbetween. Win7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are the point releases so (late) 2012 for the next major release would be right on time. You'd think with $Billions in revenue per year that they could keep with their timeline.
Because it's cheaper to pay out a small percentage on an insurance claim then it is to lose vessels, cargo and civil suits over the dead crew. Of course in the long run the correct answer is to do what the American's did and run anti-terrorist operations against them but not many ships fly the American flag anymore even those owned by American companies.
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You can opt out of the NXDOMAIN redirects.
And because most firewalls break the hardening that was done to protect DNS servers last year so to be protected most people need to point at an outside source that can use truly randomized source information.
Actually L3 is turning off public access to those resolvers and has been for a while, sometimes you will not get any response at other times they just degrade response times.
The HD5750 is pretty darn low power, couple watts idle and 86W max (though some sites have measured peak consumption as low as 75W).
Would be interesting to know if either the DX9 or DX11 codepath had a significantly higher power requirement on DX11 capable hardware.
Not many desktop workloads are memory bandwidth bound but plenty could benefit from more HDD cache. The same restriction also applies to the Nehalem Xeon's but again *most* workloads benefit from more RAM, though there the exceptions are more numerous (some DB workloads are performance limited by the number of objects tracked so more cache doesn't improve performance but they do benefit from more memory bandwidth). For the people that really need to care about such things the information is readily available so they can make the determination based on their needs. One funny result of the intricacies of Nehalem memory controllers is that if you are using Windows x64 standard you get WAY better performance with 36GB of memory than with 32GB despite the fact that the OS will only access 32GB because you are filling the bank and that makes the whole system significantly faster than with 1 DIMM missing.
You might want to hold off if you are considering Win7 MCE, by the end of Q1 Hauppague and a few other companies will have CableCard compatible tuners that can be used with MCE. Unfortunately WOW is on SA/Cisco head ends and so m-card's are limited by the firmware to 2 channels so the best card by Ceton with 4 tuner's isn't of much value though they say they will be coming out with a 2 tuner 'value' card eventually.
The FusionIO card's good for ~120k IOPS, about the same as my entire maxed 220 drive array =)
The ATI's go for ridiculous sums on ebay last I checked. There are a whole bunch of vendors targeting new products at Q1 since the official announcement from CableLabs.
x86-64 is actually a pretty good architecture with a decent tradeoff between registers and instruction compactness. Since the instructions are compact you can fit more of them per RAM clock cycle which is an advantage vs a pure RISC architecture which is why POWER has come much more towards the CISC side of thing then x86 has gone towards RISC (externally, internally it's pretty much a RISC machine).
Uh, unlike say Oracle MS has standardized on per socket licensing. When we bought our ERP system in mid-2006 we got Oracle Enterprise for less per socket than MS was willing to match for SQL Enterprise. Today those same licenses will only get us one Nehalem EX because they are per core whereas the MS licenses would get us 4x as many cores. It still wouldn't help as SQL Server has too many conditions where tables get locked so concurrency is lower but theoretically we should be able to get more out of the MS licenses.
The reason the i7 gains nothing going from double to triple channel memory is that the memory controller is power limited and so can only run at reduced clocking on triple channel configurations 800Mhz down from 1333Mhz. Of course for most workloads having 50% more data in RAM instead of glacially slow storage is a win =)
Actually the OS or Hypervisor really needs to be NUMA aware for optimal performance, that way it can allocate RAM from the pool that is close/attached to the core on which the requesting process is running if available. Windows and ESX do this fairly well, not sure about Linux though I assume it's fine by now. Applications can also help but my experience with the NUMA patches for Oracle have been less then great, I would guess the code is just less mature and less used but we had no end of issues with it and so backed off to the non-NUMA tree.
You should try the 685C with 4x hex core Istanbul's with the FusionIO module in the first mezzanine slot, of course for ~$50k I would hope it's blazing fast =) Personally all my current purchases are Dl380 G6 with 2x 5560's and 72GB's of ram, looking to 144GB next year when the price on 8GB DIMM's come out of the stratosphere.
2008 is certified up to 256 cores because that was the biggest box available during development, the kernel can support more easily.
How silly, I have a couple hundred threads running right now and each of those probably has numerous COM objects. That's with a few startup apps, a few addon services, a browser and a minimum of windows services (I disable everything I don't need which is about half the default Windows install).
So basically a small cluster that was less powerful then the commercially available CS6400.
And soon you will be able to get a CableCard interface for homebrew Win7 MCE boxes (expected Q1) with support for M-card's for recording up to 4 streams simultaneously.
You're right, group think in the sciences is more about bragging rights and tenure then it is about money. Anyone who looks at the history of the physical sciences and DOESN'T see the pattern of group think is worse than the climate change deniers because at least there is some room for debate on the impact human activity is having.
2000 through XP ARE the same kernel, you can load almost all 2000 drivers in XP.
Uh, Win7/2008 R2 is a point release, it's the same basic kernel as Vista/2008 so the next major release should be in 24-35 months from their release.
Actually it's right in line with their stated development goals, a major release every 4 years and a point release 2 years inbetween. Win7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are the point releases so (late) 2012 for the next major release would be right on time. You'd think with $Billions in revenue per year that they could keep with their timeline.
Because it's cheaper to pay out a small percentage on an insurance claim then it is to lose vessels, cargo and civil suits over the dead crew. Of course in the long run the correct answer is to do what the American's did and run anti-terrorist operations against them but not many ships fly the American flag anymore even those owned by American companies.
err, if your assumption is *right*
No, your odds are wrong, if your assumption is wrong it's 1M out of 50M Sprint customers or 2%.