This Ask Slashdot sounds to me like trolling
against gvim. I use it extensively (didn't even
bother with trying any emacs-life stuff for
Win) under both WinMe and WinXP and it has never
crashed on me and I even like it more than the
Linux version. I use it for xml and java and html
and a few other things. Never had any problem.
Most applications which run on the SP computers get 5-10%. Unless they give up their elliptic equations, their I/O,...., I can't see someone getting close to 50%.
That's why I wrote "if you are lucky":) As for the Earth Simulator, real life applications
(when properly vectorized) running on SX-6 which
is basically the same technology, achieve
routinely above 80%, in same cases up to 90% of
peak performance. There are two reasons for this:
first, SX series, unlike other vector processors,
doesn't need particularly long vectors - it performs well already with short vectors. The other reason is extremely high memory bandwidth.
It works in much poorer countries like Poland. Cell phones are big here.
I'll tell you why mobiles are big in Poland: because if you don't talk much it's easier and cheaper to get one instead of a landline.
my mother was (still is) waiting for a landline
for 20 yrs, and not in some outback but in a major city (Poznan). Admittedly she's got bad luck - normally people get it much faster there... but her application seems to be ignored by our shitty TPSA (Polish Telecom)... So when GSM was available she just went and got one immediatly for about 10% of what installing a land line costs in Poland
BTW, the cost of a new landline in Poland is
about 3 times as expensive as in Germany, a country with a few times higher average income per
inhabitant. Go figure out
Use X11's keymap facility. By selecting appropriate keymap from the predefined ones, or tweaking one to fit your personal taste, you can solve your problem system-wide.
I use this approach for inputting latin-2 characters. I don't have the map here at work, but I recall tweaking one of the keymaps to support "Polish programmers" keyboard, where the
Polish diacritical characters are input by holding one of the meta-keys and hitting one of the "regular" characters. I think the default input method was using dead keys, but I hate it, so I changed that
is that the writer has noticed that is cheaper to run a beowulf than to run a true supercomputer, but in return for the price you sacrifice performance...
Not even that. Q is a beowulf, too. Just with a little bit faster processors and a little bit faster interconnect. So in fact, all that the
writer has noticed is, that it is cheaper to run a small beowulf than a monstrually big one. Big deal!
BTW, they mention 30 TFLOPS for Q, but it
seems to be a scalar machine, and they are not very efficient... like you're lucky if you're going to see 50% of that 30 TFLOPS in your application. Now, compare it with the Earth Simulator!
I'm on a shitty 56 KB modem with a slow connection
to the US. I would notice if it would try to d/ld JVM. Internet security is set to custom and it won't do anything without prompting me first.
MS jvm was already there when the computer came with xp preloaded. Since then I had to reinstall it, because I was too cheap to buy Partition Magic and I had to repartition the disk to install Linux. After reinstall jvm was already there. Mind you, this is a Dell notebook and it came with a FULL OEM WinXP install CD, not some crappy restore disk.
Besides, I do use Sun's jvm. I was just making a point that at least some versions of WinXP come with MS jvm.
"The most important value to consumers is that no matter what device I have, no matter what service I'm going to get, no matter what carrier I'm using, I can get access to the information. The consumer will see no issues of access to content,"
So does that mean they will support video streaming to my 'ol pogo stick, too?
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This Ask Slashdot sounds to me like trolling against gvim. I use it extensively (didn't even bother with trying any emacs-life stuff for Win) under both WinMe and WinXP and it has never crashed on me and I even like it more than the Linux version. I use it for xml and java and html and a few other things. Never had any problem.
Most applications which run on the SP computers get 5-10%. Unless they give up their elliptic equations, their I/O, ...., I can't see someone getting close to 50%.
That's why I wrote "if you are lucky" :) As for the Earth Simulator, real life applications
(when properly vectorized) running on SX-6 which
is basically the same technology, achieve
routinely above 80%, in same cases up to 90% of
peak performance. There are two reasons for this:
first, SX series, unlike other vector processors,
doesn't need particularly long vectors - it performs well already with short vectors. The other reason is extremely high memory bandwidth.
It works in much poorer countries like Poland. Cell phones are big here.
I'll tell you why mobiles are big in Poland: because if you don't talk much it's easier and cheaper to get one instead of a landline.
my mother was (still is) waiting for a landline for 20 yrs, and not in some outback but in a major city (Poznan). Admittedly she's got bad luck - normally people get it much faster there... but her application seems to be ignored by our shitty TPSA (Polish Telecom)... So when GSM was available she just went and got one immediatly for about 10% of what installing a land line costs in Poland
BTW, the cost of a new landline in Poland is about 3 times as expensive as in Germany, a country with a few times higher average income per inhabitant. Go figure out
Use X11's keymap facility. By selecting appropriate keymap from the predefined ones, or tweaking one to fit your personal taste, you can solve your problem system-wide.
I use this approach for inputting latin-2 characters. I don't have the map here at work, but I recall tweaking one of the keymaps to support "Polish programmers" keyboard, where the Polish diacritical characters are input by holding one of the meta-keys and hitting one of the "regular" characters. I think the default input method was using dead keys, but I hate it, so I changed that
is that the writer has noticed that is cheaper to run a beowulf than to run a true supercomputer, but in return for the price you sacrifice performance...
Not even that. Q is a beowulf, too. Just with a little bit faster processors and a little bit faster interconnect. So in fact, all that the writer has noticed is, that it is cheaper to run a small beowulf than a monstrually big one. Big deal!
BTW, they mention 30 TFLOPS for Q, but it seems to be a scalar machine, and they are not very efficient... like you're lucky if you're going to see 50% of that 30 TFLOPS in your application. Now, compare it with the Earth Simulator!
"They" means "Cray" in this context. I have no idea whether this is correct English or not, but the meaning is certainly easy to guess anyway.
I'm on a shitty 56 KB modem with a slow connection to the US. I would notice if it would try to d/ld JVM. Internet security is set to custom and it won't do anything without prompting me first.
MS jvm was already there when the computer came with xp preloaded. Since then I had to reinstall it, because I was too cheap to buy Partition Magic and I had to repartition the disk to install Linux. After reinstall jvm was already there. Mind you, this is a Dell notebook and it came with a FULL OEM WinXP install CD, not some crappy restore disk.
Besides, I do use Sun's jvm. I was just making a point that at least some versions of WinXP come with MS jvm.
Actually on some OEM (Dell) CDs MS JVM was already included.
OK, there is something I don't understand.
I have Win XP Home, and it came with M$ JVM, from the very beginning. And it was I think 1.1.3.
So, what's up? in the immortal words of Bugs Bunny?
"The most important value to consumers is that no matter what device I have, no matter what service I'm going to get, no matter what carrier I'm using, I can get access to the information. The consumer will see no issues of access to content,"
So does that mean they will support video streaming to my 'ol pogo stick, too?