"Pat" stands for PATENT, "Pat-rights" means patent rights.
Early in 1995, Founder of Pat-rights, Mr. Philip H.K. TSE visualised Internet as the most promising environment for digital content distribution and began to develop ideas and technologies essential for these changes.
As a result of his long term efforts, several national patents are being issued. And, some of them are being infringed by Global Industrial giants."
http://www.pat-rights.com/
The company's whole business model is built around going after companies over IP.
Boiling this down to its essences, there is neither contradiction nor illogic. Copyright infringers are by definition in the wrong and copyright holders should have the legal means of stopping them.
And bank robbers are doing something illegal, so police officers should respond in an illegal fashion and just shoot them.
The old addage that two wrongs don't make a right is more true than our law makers care to admit.
I actually attended a seminar just last week where Dauger was the guest speaker.
The Wired article sounds very much like his presentation, down to the same catch phrases. He used the book as an exmaple during his presentation, even had a copy of it with him. And he passed out copies of his "one page manual."
As to his claims on knowledge of clustering, I can't really speak. He never talked about how anything was implemented, just about how amazing it was.
He did say something that confused me. In the article, it mentions how 76 Macs at USC were clustered and benched. I happen to be a USC student, and know that the 76 Macs he speaks of (although his web page says it was 56) are all in USC's Language Computing Center (ie a user lab for students of foreign languages).
All the machines in there are older Macs or iMacs. The fastest machines in there are probably capable of about 1 GFLOP.
So here's my problem.
1 GFLOP * 76 Macs = 76 GFLOPS
How is it that he benched these machines to 233 GFLOPS? Or am I just missing something huge?
All of a week ago, I went to a talk where the man, Dauger himself, got up in front of a bunch of professors and explained why Mac clusters were the best thing in the world.
The Wired article reads just like his presentation. He even had a copy of the Beowolf book at the presentation, and handed out copies of his one page manual.
There is no comparison. His manual says, basically, to install Pooch and reap the rewards.
I found something interesting. The USC cluster that was mentioned was our Language Center Lab (I'm a student at USC). They ran a fractal benchmark. The thing that I found interesting was this, and maybe someone can help me out here. The language lab doesn't have any dual processor machines, and doesn't have clock speeds anywhere near 1 GHz on any of the machines. It's my understanding that all of these Macs pump out about 1 GFLOP each.
There are 56 machines in the lab.
1 GFLOP * 56 machines = 56 GFLOPS peak.
Dauger's benchmark said the cluster was pumping out 223 GFLOPs.
What am I missing?
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This is news? Pink Floyd knew this way back when Meddle was released. Listen to Echoes. For a second, thought it was a sample from the song.
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From their own website:
"Pat" stands for PATENT, "Pat-rights" means patent rights.
Early in 1995, Founder of Pat-rights, Mr. Philip H.K. TSE visualised Internet as the most promising environment for digital content distribution and began to develop ideas and technologies essential for these changes.
As a result of his long term efforts, several national patents are being issued. And, some of them are being infringed by Global Industrial giants."
http://www.pat-rights.com/
The company's whole business model is built around going after companies over IP.
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Boiling this down to its essences, there is neither contradiction nor illogic. Copyright infringers are by definition in the wrong and copyright holders should have the legal means of stopping them.
And bank robbers are doing something illegal, so police officers should respond in an illegal fashion and just shoot them.
The old addage that two wrongs don't make a right is more true than our law makers care to admit.
I actually attended a seminar just last week where Dauger was the guest speaker.
The Wired article sounds very much like his presentation, down to the same catch phrases. He used the book as an exmaple during his presentation, even had a copy of it with him. And he passed out copies of his "one page manual."
As to his claims on knowledge of clustering, I can't really speak. He never talked about how anything was implemented, just about how amazing it was.
He did say something that confused me. In the article, it mentions how 76 Macs at USC were clustered and benched. I happen to be a USC student, and know that the 76 Macs he speaks of (although his web page says it was 56) are all in USC's Language Computing Center (ie a user lab for students of foreign languages).
All the machines in there are older Macs or iMacs. The fastest machines in there are probably capable of about 1 GFLOP.
So here's my problem.
1 GFLOP * 76 Macs = 76 GFLOPS
How is it that he benched these machines to 233 GFLOPS? Or am I just missing something huge?
All of a week ago, I went to a talk where the man, Dauger himself, got up in front of a bunch of professors and explained why Mac clusters were the best thing in the world. The Wired article reads just like his presentation. He even had a copy of the Beowolf book at the presentation, and handed out copies of his one page manual. There is no comparison. His manual says, basically, to install Pooch and reap the rewards. I found something interesting. The USC cluster that was mentioned was our Language Center Lab (I'm a student at USC). They ran a fractal benchmark. The thing that I found interesting was this, and maybe someone can help me out here. The language lab doesn't have any dual processor machines, and doesn't have clock speeds anywhere near 1 GHz on any of the machines. It's my understanding that all of these Macs pump out about 1 GFLOP each. There are 56 machines in the lab. 1 GFLOP * 56 machines = 56 GFLOPS peak. Dauger's benchmark said the cluster was pumping out 223 GFLOPs. What am I missing?