I think you mean a Beowolf STACK...
Which would be better, a cluster of Beowolf Stacks, or a stack of Beowolf Clusters? Of course, the answer is a stacked cluster of Beowolf Clustered Stacks.
Either way, I think we can all agree... we welcome our new Beowolf stack overlords
Unreal Tournament has had a teleporter gun since its inception - you throw a beacon and you can right-click to teleport to it. Great fun telefragging people with it:) portals-as-an-offensive-weapon might be tricky, though
I hear there are people so dastardly that they've implemented this with real physical books: you can only read the book for a limited period of time, after which you have to return it to their central book storage building (or risk major financial penalties). And they even have copies of some books which they refuse to let you read anywhere but inside their building! I, for one, am complaining to my political representitive:)
They use HTTPS for transport security for all messages and the PIN encrypts data client-side and isn't transmitted to google. Have a look at the source code some time:)
It's the management support that vmware provides. Xen is ok, but it doesn't have the performance or the reliability of vmware. And while it's relatively easy to configure a guest os in xen, but trust me, when you're working on a hundred-machine cluster you really come to appreciate virtual centre
I suspect vmware server must have a clean-room reimplementation of a lot of features from gsx/workstation - and testing on people who want vmware for free is a great plan -- GSX/ESX still keeps its high reliability and you can work the bugs out of the new code so only the highest quality parts are committed into GSX/ESX's codebase
We've started to use more and more virtualisation systems at work -- the vmware solution is by far the most sophisticated and performant we've encountered - and the upgrade path to ESX server is always handy. Clusters are a virtual (a-ha!) doddle to work with once you pretty much virtualise everything (and the performance isn't bad either!).
Roll on more vmware products to make my life a happier one!
Look, nobody says you have to be a member of a party that's against the current government. Nobody says you even have to SUPPORT a political party! If you don't want to be monitored closely, conform.
.NET assemblies contain a bit more information in their bytecode than Java classes. Especially in the area of generics - the MSIL actually references List (whereas generics in java are just syntactic sugar in the compiler that eliminates casts). I don't know whether Java 1.5 adds extra instructions for foreach loops; MSIL has such instructions - which, to me, makes complete sense: the JIT might even be able to auto-extract thread-level parallelism in foreach loops, especially if they're operations that provably don't interact with the same variables (eg. a foreach loop on a hash that creates a new socket to the key's ip+port and sends the value)
Think of it like PBX in the phone world.. who want's their internal extention in the phone book for the world???
Yes. Think of it like that. You firewall out pings (your "advertisement in the phonebook") and only allow in the traffic you want (perhaps you've got a development machine and want to host a service on your machine for an off-site customer). With NAT that becomes a major headache. But like a PBX, you can just give the customer your extension number & they can connect straight to your machine. No routing nightmare. Another win for the every machine publically routable world.
Google doesn't seem to translate Russian to English
That's why the grandparent said babelfish, not google! Babelfish translates Russian to English and a variety of other languages that google doesn't do either. Hurrah babelfish!
"Ambition, is a poor excuse for people without enough sense to be lazy."
It's by "Charlie McCarthy", the ventriloquest Edgar Bergen's puppet. Another great quote by "him" is "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"
Because the US is much larger than the UK or Germany, I'm guessing. That means stock's moving greater distances which means that moving it's more expensive which means you need to optimise movement and placement up the wazoo
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And the award for redundancy goes to...
Either way, I think we can all agree... we welcome our new Beowolf stack overlords
Unreal Tournament has had a teleporter gun since its inception - you throw a beacon and you can right-click to teleport to it. Great fun telefragging people with it :) portals-as-an-offensive-weapon might be tricky, though
IANBO (I Am Not Bleeding Out) but I'm guessing they might object to having their lost blood replaced with an untested synthetic substance?
No thanks... I'll wait for the 300 page Toms Hardware revi-oh. I see.
My 7800gt can play doom3 at very high settings at a very high framerate - there's nothing out for linux that should need this card to perform well!
I hear there are people so dastardly that they've implemented this with real physical books: you can only read the book for a limited period of time, after which you have to return it to their central book storage building (or risk major financial penalties). And they even have copies of some books which they refuse to let you read anywhere but inside their building! I, for one, am complaining to my political representitive :)
"Keep your data centres close, but your ip latency even closer" -- a wise man
Complete javascript source code in the archive anyone? Who needs tcpdump when you have the source?
They use HTTPS for transport security for all messages and the PIN encrypts data client-side and isn't transmitted to google. Have a look at the source code some time :)
It's the management support that vmware provides. Xen is ok, but it doesn't have the performance or the reliability of vmware. And while it's relatively easy to configure a guest os in xen, but trust me, when you're working on a hundred-machine cluster you really come to appreciate virtual centre
I suspect vmware server must have a clean-room reimplementation of a lot of features from gsx/workstation - and testing on people who want vmware for free is a great plan -- GSX/ESX still keeps its high reliability and you can work the bugs out of the new code so only the highest quality parts are committed into GSX/ESX's codebase
We've started to use more and more virtualisation systems at work -- the vmware solution is by far the most sophisticated and performant we've encountered - and the upgrade path to ESX server is always handy. Clusters are a virtual (a-ha!) doddle to work with once you pretty much virtualise everything (and the performance isn't bad either!).
Roll on more vmware products to make my life a happier one!
"Core 2 Duo: Too duo for you-o". I should be an intel marketing exec!
Well, you know slashdot! The only thing we love more than Windows is their clean -- almost spartan -- unbloated media player!
Too Duo For You-o!
Look, nobody says you have to be a member of a party that's against the current government. Nobody says you even have to SUPPORT a political party! If you don't want to be monitored closely, conform.
.NET assemblies contain a bit more information in their bytecode than Java classes. Especially in the area of generics - the MSIL actually references List (whereas generics in java are just syntactic sugar in the compiler that eliminates casts). I don't know whether Java 1.5 adds extra instructions for foreach loops; MSIL has such instructions - which, to me, makes complete sense: the JIT might even be able to auto-extract thread-level parallelism in foreach loops, especially if they're operations that provably don't interact with the same variables (eg. a foreach loop on a hash that creates a new socket to the key's ip+port and sends the value)
Free initially, yes. But you havn't considered the TCO!
Because the US is much larger than the UK or Germany, I'm guessing. That means stock's moving greater distances which means that moving it's more expensive which means you need to optimise movement and placement up the wazoo