they have a really good diagnostic setup. Just occured to me, if one cpu or ram card goes bad they're going to have to take down one of those 512 processor nodes to replace it. It would really suck if there wasn't something letting you know exactly which one and where it is located.
if they'd gone with G5 Xserves they could have had 23,888 Dual 2GHz systems with 17.916 Petabytes of storage (assuming they just went stock on the high-end systems).
Okay and one question about the article. Was he saying 1000 Gb of RAM per system or 1000GB per system?
Er, by your logic you should get terrible headaches watching TV. That refreshes at 29.97fps. If you're getting headaches on a 60hz monitor (standard in the 90s and perfectly useable) you should be checking for things like lighting conditions, monitor angle and height, and your distance from the screen.
Remember, the human eye cannot tell the difference between 30fps and 32fps, continuity is the same. The only reason a higher fps in a game means anything is because of how it reflects the speed at which your network card is receiving information which dictates how fast your processor and graphics cards can receive and process the information.
The reason you can tell any difference between 30 and 60 or 100 isn't because your eyes are special and you can tell the difference between the framerates, it's because either your network (or nic) isn't up to the task or your graphics card is being bogged down by slow drivers or some combination.
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they have a really good diagnostic setup. Just occured to me, if one cpu or ram card goes bad they're going to have to take down one of those 512 processor nodes to replace it. It would really suck if there wasn't something letting you know exactly which one and where it is located.
if they'd gone with G5 Xserves they could have had 23,888 Dual 2GHz systems with 17.916 Petabytes of storage (assuming they just went stock on the high-end systems).
Okay and one question about the article. Was he saying 1000 Gb of RAM per system or 1000GB per system?
Er, by your logic you should get terrible headaches watching TV. That refreshes at 29.97fps. If you're getting headaches on a 60hz monitor (standard in the 90s and perfectly useable) you should be checking for things like lighting conditions, monitor angle and height, and your distance from the screen.
Remember, the human eye cannot tell the difference between 30fps and 32fps, continuity is the same. The only reason a higher fps in a game means anything is because of how it reflects the speed at which your network card is receiving information which dictates how fast your processor and graphics cards can receive and process the information.
The reason you can tell any difference between 30 and 60 or 100 isn't because your eyes are special and you can tell the difference between the framerates, it's because either your network (or nic) isn't up to the task or your graphics card is being bogged down by slow drivers or some combination.