Yes, it is -- if you read only Reuters and their "analysts". The article is only 8 months late:
"AMD today offered the possibility that it will take future Opteron server and workstation chips down the multi-core route espoused by Intel last week, and already well-trodden by IBM.
Speaking at the launch of the Athlon 64 and Athlon FX processors, AMD chairman Jerry Sanders said: "With coherent HyperTransport, it's inevitable that we'll have multiple cores on a single chip. This is a tremendous opportunity because with our architecture the scaling is far superior to anything else that's out there."
In fact, Athlon 64 has been architected with dual-core systems in mind. The chip's North Bridge components have been designed to support two cores, which share the processor's System Request Queue controller. This sits between the core(s) and the HT link, so HyperTransport isn't necessary for dual-core operation - though it would be if AMD wanted to go to four-core packages using the current architecture."
"We have roadmap that when you look 12 months out, it's pretty firm. You look 12 to 24 months, and it's almost firm. And then you look beyond that, and it's always subject to modifications of the market. When we look out to, say, the end of 2005, we are enabling customers to really create a tremendous breadth of product lines.
One of the most powerful things next year is going to be our dual-core product. To me, that's going to really shock the hell out of everyone, because it's going to be hardware-compatible, infrastructure-compatible, pin-compatible.
"With coherent HyperTransport, it is inevitable that we will have multiple cores on a single chip. This is a tremendous opportunity because with our architecture the scaling is far superior to anything else that's out there., The Register quoted Mr. Sanders."
I mostly agree, only AMD already announced their dual-core CPU strategy even before Intel. In words of Mr. Ruiz:
"One of the most powerful things next year is going to be our dual-core product. To me, that's going to really shock the hell out of everyone, because it's going to be hardware-compatible, infrastructure-compatible, pin-compatible. I mean, people that have a 2-P system can slap in a dual-core product and end up with a 4-P system for the price of a 2-P. That's been the biggest drawback, everyone tells me. What keeps them from going from a 2-P to a 4-P system? It's price"
No. I bet "recently-announced Longhorn specs" were a very clever troll, and I can't believe how many people HBT. All CPU & RAM requirements asside, but why would an OS *require* Gigabit ethernet and wireless networking? This guy confirms it, but hey, he works for Microsoft, so he must be lying.
No, it has everything to do with Pentium M and AMD64 architectures kicking PIV's a$$.
and for a limited time only... things change tooooo quickly these, todays supercomputer is tomorrows laptop
It is fascinating how low the treshold for Top 500 is. All you need is a hundred or so Xeon (or Opteron) CPUs, and with couple of hundreds you can be in Top 300.
BTW they rank Weta at #45 with 1080 CPUs (Xeon 2.8GHz). *If* now they 3300 of them (and all work as single cluster), that should definitely put them to Top 10 (#4 is NCSA with 2500 Xeon 3.06, and #7 is 2304 Xeons 2.4 GHz).
But their Rmax score with 1080 CPU cluster is 1755 Gflops, if we multiply it by 2.8 (3300/1080, and assuming that all CPUs are 2.8GHz in average), it gives 4914 Gflops, only enough for #12.
As I understand TFA, this is an attempt to build a working astronomical calendar and explain people what was it used for (I'm shure many believe it was an alien airport, or whatever), and not to build just another Eiffel tower/Keops pyramid/Liberty statue clone.
"The whole idea of the henge is that people can come out here and learn real basic astronomy, the real foundations of what astronomy is all about," says Richard Hall, the infectiously enthusiastic and indefatigable project manager and president of the Phoenix Astronomical Society, which is building the Kiwi henge.
"So how much processing power is that? Well, once again, the Google cluster document provides some interesting tidbits. Per the document, the racks that were used were
88 dual-CPU 2Ghz Intel Xeon servers with 2 Gbytes of RAM and an 80-Gbyte hard disk."
Yeah, right. Only this directories are BACKUPS OF FILES REPLACED BY HOTFIXES (maybe that's why they are called something like "$NtUninstallKB826942$").
If you want to update all at once, just download every hotfix, unpack each in it's own directory and create batch file which should look like this:
Same for 2000/XP, just replace "hotfix.exe" with "update.exe" where needed. And there is a document in MS Knowledge Bse which describes how to "slipstream" service pack and all the hotfixes to NT/2K/XP installation.
Oh, and BTW:
"Update on Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 7
Based on customer feedback, demand for Windows NT 4.0 hot fixes, and the increased stability of NT 4.0 SP6a, Microsoft has decided not to release Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 7 (SP7), originally scheduled to release third quarter of 2001."
"Windows NT 4.0 Post-Service Pack 6a Security Rollup Package
This security package is now available, and provides all security updates released for Windows NT 4.0 since the release of Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a. You can only install the Security Rollup Package if you are running Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a."
I would like the pencil tool to draw a single pixel when I click on a single pixel.
Pencil tool ALWAYS draws single pixel, IF you select 1px NON-ANTIALIASED brush (it doesn't even have 1px antialiased brush).
I want to choose from the 16 or 256 that are available for the graphic.
Go to the Swatches pallete, delete all the colors you don't need, add new one if you need them (that is what "new page" and "trashcan" icons on pallete are for), and save your pallete for future use (click on the arrow in circle, choose "Save swatches").
I am not a photoshop expert, but these tasks should be easier to do and more intuitive.
Neither am I, but I don't know how it can be easier or more intuitive than this.
Actually, the name of the town (village) is Fira (Phira), and since ancient times island was known as Thera (after Dorian king Theras). It was named "Santorini" in 13th century after St. Irine, patron saint of the island.
And yes, it is *the* place to visit -- especially Fira, Oia (Ia) and Kokkini (Red) beach.
Yes, the prices are from official distributors. Only other place to get it is black (or flea) market, where you can get anything for 1-2$ per CD.
Now, you probably think of places like allofoem.biz (just an example, I got their spam), which sell "OEM" software; but note that "you don't get the box and the manual with your software. All you will receive is the actual software and your unique registration code", so I bet it's no better than these 1$ copies from flea market.
With real OEM you should at least get Certificate of Authenticity (sticker) and some kind of "getting started" manual.
Something like Dell Dimension XPS? You get 3.2GHz PIV (with 800MHz FSB), 2GB RAM, 120GB SATA HDD, Gigabit Ethernet, SB Audigy 2 sound (with Firewire), ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (which thrashes NV FX 5200) AND 17" TFT -- all for 50$ less than quoted Mac.
Now, let's add XP Professional instead of Home, Microsoft Digital Media Edition Plus! Pack (not even close to Apple's offer, but for the sake of comparision), 8x DVD+RW drive, 56K modem and we come to $2039.
But let's not even try to add all this options to Mac -- 2GB RAM alone costs $825! Plus 350$ for Radeon 9800 Pro and 699$ for 17" Studio Display and we get $3373!
Or, you want 64bit PC? Lets try with Alienware Aurora: AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, NV FX5200 Ultra, 80GB SATA HDD, Plextor 8x DVD+-RW Drive, Audigy 2, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, Firewire: $1760
Sorry, but there is no way that Mac is cheaper (or even close) to comparable PC. And mind you, I chose two of the most expensive PC vendors.
Yes, there is.In Opera, just type "g searchterm" as URL. In MSIE, go to Search / Customize / Autosearch settings and choose "Google Sites" and "Just display results in the main window", then you can type query in the address bar.
"The smoking gun, Halfhill said, was Intel's choice to mimic a decision AMD made in its early Opteron designs, and later reversed."
(...)
"Halfhill said that AMD initially left out a pair of instructions from its early AMD64 documentation, then decided later to add them back in. The two instructions are somewhat innocuous; the LAHF and SAHF instructions load and store status flags into a particular address. However, all of the other instructions listed in AMD's published documents were later included in Intel's chips. Halfhill said Intel engineers were unaware of the discrepancy until he contacted them."
Hard as I try, I can't imagine ever having enough stuff in my house to warrant gigabit.
Now when Gigabit NICs are like 10$ or even integrated on motherboards, why not?
What intrests me is, what is the real speed of (home) Gigabit Ethernet, and when (or if) it could be used for diskless computers. I mean, theoretical speed should be around 100MBps, and even newest hard drives are slower than that.
Would it be possible to use one computer as a SAN for other diskless workstations?
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Yes, it is -- if you read only Reuters and their "analysts". The article is only 8 months late:
-- The Register, September 23, 2003
-- Hector Ruiz, AMD CEO, eWeek Interview, April 28, 2004
Um, AMD announced this in September last year.
"With coherent HyperTransport, it is inevitable that we will have multiple cores on a single chip. This is a tremendous opportunity because with our architecture the scaling is far superior to anything else that's out there., The Register quoted Mr. Sanders."
Also, see this: AMD CEO: "Dual-Core Opteron Will Shock the Hell Out of Everyone". Ruiz confirms dual core Opteron in 2005.
They say that Intel Tulsa (dual core Xeon) will arrive in about a year and Jonah (dual core Pentium M) is planned for 2005/2006.
So, nothing new here for AMD.
I mostly agree, only AMD already announced their dual-core CPU strategy even before Intel. In words of Mr. Ruiz:
"One of the most powerful things next year is going to be our dual-core product. To me, that's going to really shock the hell out of everyone, because it's going to be hardware-compatible, infrastructure-compatible, pin-compatible. I mean, people that have a 2-P system can slap in a dual-core product and end up with a 4-P system for the price of a 2-P. That's been the biggest drawback, everyone tells me. What keeps them from going from a 2-P to a 4-P system? It's price"
No. I bet "recently-announced Longhorn specs" were a very clever troll, and I can't believe how many people HBT. All CPU & RAM requirements asside, but why would an OS *require* Gigabit ethernet and wireless networking? This guy confirms it, but hey, he works for Microsoft, so he must be lying.
No, it has everything to do with Pentium M and AMD64 architectures kicking PIV's a$$.
and for a limited time only... things change tooooo quickly these, todays supercomputer is tomorrows laptop
It is fascinating how low the treshold for Top 500 is. All you need is a hundred or so Xeon (or Opteron) CPUs, and with couple of hundreds you can be in Top 300.
BTW they rank Weta at #45 with 1080 CPUs (Xeon 2.8GHz). *If* now they 3300 of them (and all work as single cluster), that should definitely put them to Top 10 (#4 is NCSA with 2500 Xeon 3.06, and #7 is 2304 Xeons 2.4 GHz).
But their Rmax score with 1080 CPU cluster is 1755 Gflops, if we multiply it by 2.8 (3300/1080, and assuming that all CPUs are 2.8GHz in average), it gives 4914 Gflops, only enough for #12.
As I understand TFA, this is an attempt to build a working astronomical calendar and explain people what was it used for (I'm shure many believe it was an alien airport, or whatever), and not to build just another Eiffel tower/Keops pyramid/Liberty statue clone.
"The whole idea of the henge is that people can come out here and learn real basic astronomy, the real foundations of what astronomy is all about," says Richard Hall, the infectiously enthusiastic and indefatigable project manager and president of the Phoenix Astronomical Society, which is building the Kiwi henge.
Yes, but the point is that they cache entire web in RAM, and that is hard to do with only 200 machines.
Their servers are 1U but half depth, so they put them from the both sides of the rack. See here
How 'bout RTFM?
"So how much processing power is that? Well, once again, the Google cluster document provides some interesting tidbits. Per the document, the racks that were used were
88 dual-CPU 2Ghz Intel Xeon servers with 2 Gbytes of RAM and an 80-Gbyte hard disk."
google doesn't buy pre-built machines
Yes, they do.
Yeah, right. Only this directories are BACKUPS OF FILES REPLACED BY HOTFIXES (maybe that's why they are called something like "$NtUninstallKB826942$").
...etc...
If you want to update all at once, just download every hotfix, unpack each in it's own directory and create batch file which should look like this:
WindowsNT4Server-KB828035-x86-ENU\hotfix.exe -n -z -q
Q810833i\hotfix.exe -n -z -q
Same for 2000/XP, just replace "hotfix.exe" with "update.exe" where needed. And there is a document in MS Knowledge Bse which describes how to "slipstream" service pack and all the hotfixes to NT/2K/XP installation.
Oh, and BTW:
"Update on Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 7
Based on customer feedback, demand for Windows NT 4.0 hot fixes, and the increased stability of NT 4.0 SP6a, Microsoft has decided not to release Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 7 (SP7), originally scheduled to release third quarter of 2001."
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/sp7.asp
"Windows NT 4.0 Post-Service Pack 6a Security Rollup Package
This security package is now available, and provides all security updates released for Windows NT 4.0 since the release of Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a. You can only install the Security Rollup Package if you are running Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a."
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/sp6asrp.asp
Um, did you try windowsupdate.microsoft.com ?
Pencil tool ALWAYS draws single pixel, IF you select 1px NON-ANTIALIASED brush (it doesn't even have 1px antialiased brush).
Go to the Swatches pallete, delete all the colors you don't need, add new one if you need them (that is what "new page" and "trashcan" icons on pallete are for), and save your pallete for future use (click on the arrow in circle, choose "Save swatches").
Neither am I, but I don't know how it can be easier or more intuitive than this.
Actually, the name of the town (village) is Fira (Phira), and since ancient times island was known as Thera (after Dorian king Theras). It was named "Santorini" in 13th century after St. Irine, patron saint of the island.
And yes, it is *the* place to visit -- especially Fira, Oia (Ia) and Kokkini (Red) beach.
Total Commander... can't live without it :) Then, WinAmp, UltraEdit, ACDSee, Opera, divx/xvid/vobsub (let's pretend it's one), Kaspersky AV, WinRAR, Nero, Acrobat Reader.
Um, you'd need 140 10Gbps ports, not fourteen.
Yes, the prices are from official distributors. Only other place to get it is black (or flea) market, where you can get anything for 1-2$ per CD.
Now, you probably think of places like allofoem.biz (just an example, I got their spam), which sell "OEM" software; but note that "you don't get the box and the manual with your software. All you will receive is the actual software and your unique registration code", so I bet it's no better than these 1$ copies from flea market.
With real OEM you should at least get Certificate of Authenticity (sticker) and some kind of "getting started" manual.
Something like Dell Dimension XPS? You get 3.2GHz PIV (with 800MHz FSB), 2GB RAM, 120GB SATA HDD, Gigabit Ethernet, SB Audigy 2 sound (with Firewire), ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (which thrashes NV FX 5200) AND 17" TFT -- all for 50$ less than quoted Mac.
Now, let's add XP Professional instead of Home, Microsoft Digital Media Edition Plus! Pack (not even close to Apple's offer, but for the sake of comparision), 8x DVD+RW drive, 56K modem and we come to $2039.
But let's not even try to add all this options to Mac -- 2GB RAM alone costs $825! Plus 350$ for Radeon 9800 Pro and 699$ for 17" Studio Display and we get $3373!
Or, you want 64bit PC? Lets try with Alienware Aurora: AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, NV FX5200 Ultra, 80GB SATA HDD, Plextor 8x DVD+-RW Drive, Audigy 2, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, Firewire: $1760
Sorry, but there is no way that Mac is cheaper (or even close) to comparable PC. And mind you, I chose two of the most expensive PC vendors.
Where? Here in Serbia it costs the same (or more) as in USA: XP Home OEM is 97$, Retail is $245 and upgrade is $126
Yes, there is.In Opera, just type "g searchterm" as URL. In MSIE, go to Search / Customize / Autosearch settings and choose "Google Sites" and "Just display results in the main window", then you can type query in the address bar.
I'm both impressed and shocked. What if one of the machines or hard drives die? It doesn't look like he has any redundancy.
A9 serves Google results, so you can't quite call them "search company". But I'm shure there are at least a dozen as big and famous as "Gigablast"
It had file comments, stored in the descript.ion files in each directory, but I don't remember long filenames.
RTFA:
"The smoking gun, Halfhill said, was Intel's choice to mimic a decision AMD made in its early Opteron designs, and later reversed."
(...)
"Halfhill said that AMD initially left out a pair of instructions from its early AMD64 documentation, then decided later to add them back in. The two instructions are somewhat innocuous; the LAHF and SAHF instructions load and store status flags into a particular address. However, all of the other instructions listed in AMD's published documents were later included in Intel's chips. Halfhill said Intel engineers were unaware of the discrepancy until he contacted them."
Now when Gigabit NICs are like 10$ or even integrated on motherboards, why not?
What intrests me is, what is the real speed of (home) Gigabit Ethernet, and when (or if) it could be used for diskless computers. I mean, theoretical speed should be around 100MBps, and even newest hard drives are slower than that.
Would it be possible to use one computer as a SAN for other diskless workstations?