Err . . . Next time I should read through the posts, a lot of people already caught it. It's too depressing when there are a bunch of ignorant racists making stupid postings.
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FYI: This is the same thing as the posting about the
FPGA computer that NASA just got. This thing is pretty durn cool, it works off of an iconic programming language, sort of like labview. Superfast, a few thousand times faster than a P3-800, well you can read the articles. I can't wait to play with it, since we just got one here at NASA . . .:)
Patrik -------------
Just your ordinary BOFH:) http://pjbutler.dhs.org/me
B) It's a s-o-b to program. You aren't writing software, you are designing a custom hardware circuit to solve the problem, which is then
implemented by programming logic gates and connections in the chips. In other words, on a computing job where you could write a program in
C in a week and it would run in 1 minute on a PC, on FPGA's it might take a year to design and run in a millisecond. So if reducing the run time
is worth paying six figures for software development, go for it... Maybe the HAL people have found a way to ease the programming, but it's
still going to be quite a lot harder than normal programming.
Actually it looks pretty easy to program. It apparently uses a graphical programming interface, something like Labview I suppose. No real programming is done per se it's all done by dragging and dropping modules.
Patrik -------------
Just your ordinary BOFH:) http://pjbutler.dhs.org/me
Goody, I work for this guy, and I have been hearing all about it for the past couple of weeks. If anyone wants to hear my thoughts about it let me know, pbutler@killertux.org. (Assuming I get I access to it, which is a pretty good assumption).
Patrik (worrying if he'll get his email/.ed) -------------
Just your ordinary BOFH:) http://pjbutler.dhs.org/me
What about the click disks, they're fairly cheap media and the hold about 40MB. And I haven't heard about them having the click of death. -------------
Umm CORBA is used in distributed computing, along with Java. In fact today I was just talking to a guy who has been doing just that, at NASA. As far as being open sourced it's not but it is quite a substantial example, that it isn't as useless as you say. I personally haven't worked with it though so I don't know how difficult it is to learn.
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Err . . . Next time I should read through the posts, a lot of people already caught it. It's too depressing when there are a bunch of ignorant racists making stupid postings. Patrik :) http://pjbutler.dhs.org/me
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Just your ordinary BOFH
FYI: This is the same thing as the posting about the FPGA computer that NASA just got. This thing is pretty durn cool, it works off of an iconic programming language, sort of like labview. Superfast, a few thousand times faster than a P3-800, well you can read the articles. I can't wait to play with it, since we just got one here at NASA . . . :)
:) http://pjbutler.dhs.org/me
Patrik
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B) It's a s-o-b to program. You aren't writing software, you are designing a custom hardware circuit to solve the problem, which is then implemented by programming logic gates and connections in the chips. In other words, on a computing job where you could write a program in C in a week and it would run in 1 minute on a PC, on FPGA's it might take a year to design and run in a millisecond. So if reducing the run time is worth paying six figures for software development, go for it... Maybe the HAL people have found a way to ease the programming, but it's still going to be quite a lot harder than normal programming. Actually it looks pretty easy to program. It apparently uses a graphical programming interface, something like Labview I suppose. No real programming is done per se it's all done by dragging and dropping modules. Patrik :) http://pjbutler.dhs.org/me
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Just your ordinary BOFH
Goody, I work for this guy, and I have been hearing all about it for the past couple of weeks. If anyone wants to hear my thoughts about it let me know, pbutler@killertux.org. (Assuming I get I access to it, which is a pretty good assumption). Patrik (worrying if he'll get his email /.ed) :) http://pjbutler.dhs.org/me
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Just your ordinary BOFH
What about the click disks, they're fairly cheap media and the hold about 40MB. And I haven't heard about them having the click of death.
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Umm CORBA is used in distributed computing, along with Java. In fact today I was just talking to a guy who has been doing just that, at NASA. As far as being open sourced it's not but it is quite a substantial example, that it isn't as useless as you say. I personally haven't worked with it though so I don't know how difficult it is to learn.
Hehe, that meant it runs faster so it can crash faster. Gee isn't M$ great (not!!!!). Patrick