According to that article (National Geographic) the
engine is a four-stroke with 10cc's of displaced volume. Wow, I didn't realize they made 4 stroke engines that small.
Thats why you take backups, so they will not fail. One word of caution though, I hope he was wearing an "anti-static strap" when he did all of this work.
In one episode of 'Cheers', Cliff is seated at the bar describing the Buffalo Theory to his buddy, Norm. (I don't think I've ever heard the concept explained any better than this....)
"Well you see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells.
Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers."
The really clever -which means obvious- thing about this is the way they store the heat, using tanks of basically salty water. What happens though if the tempurature in the "cold" tank falls below 220 degrees. It solidifies - what then, use conventional power to heat it up?
Surely the important point of the article is " may spend 50 percent more time on those tasks than if they work on them separately, completing one before starting the other."
So we all need to learn hown to compartmentalize our time.
Having said that I now have 2 PC running and I don't know how mant browsers open.
No, there should not be a "ban the technology" movement, but people who don't understand the technology should be banned. I was lucky enough be be born in an age when you needed a lock pick to look at my school records and most people at least understood them even if they didn't know how to use them.
They can not use DGPS, that sends out a correction signal from a known fixed point. In this case they don't have a known fixed point, thats what they are trying to determine. The accuracy is obtained by taking many measurements over time , say 1 month, then averaging them. Its the monthly averages that are changing.
As an older "Nerd" I like your style. I am running Linux Mandrake 9.1, HP-UX 11.00, wt2k and WinSX at home - but my favourite pastime is Wine. Made from home crushed grapes of course. I do NOT make my own whiskey however, mostly because I prefer a good single malt. Having said that I saw a client from CCRA (Canada Customs and Revenue Agency)some years age who built me a great still to make Grappa. Thats not the Java thing but basically distiiled wine. All I can say about it is that it has abot 40% alcohol and 60% I forget the next morning.
I just took a quick look at the site (at 7:09pm est one of the machines, clinux7, showed at 55C - wonder what happened) and it only shows 9 machines. Apart from that its a very neat idea if you consider the efficiency of water vs air cooling. Why chill a large room when all that you need to cool is a small chip. The trouble is one chiller and many small areas, solution is to have some way of disconecting an area (machine)if you have to do some kind of repair. I think that I would have use taps, and out all them all in parallel, but I'm not a plumber.
Yes, you are of course correct. The point is, as you say, pretty much of a crap shoot. Maybe that's why some people are very happy and some are not. BTW I don't know whom HP buys their memory from !
In spite of what some other posters are saying, in the large HPUX server market, HP memory is much more reliable than Kingston memory, it's also much more expensive. Having said that I have seen more memory failures attributed to non-HP memory (not just Kingston) than anything. If your downtime is not worth more then go for less expensive memory. I have also seen a client try to install his own memory and detroy a system board in the proccess. No it was not covered under the HP warranty.
I always like "ioscan" in HPUX. Maybe I'm more used to it than hardrake or whatever, but it seems to give me much more useable information and the switches are more useable - like -H for only scan a particular hardware path.
I sort of agree with this, but if you suggest that a recipe should not be patented, then my arguament would be that to make a physical object- ie a new widget - is just a series of steps. If I give you a manual that tells you how to make an object, step by step instructions, then is that a recipe ?
A lot of replies are why does he need this not a written bus schedule. Well snow and winter tend to disrupt thing up here. The bus does not always run to the exact minute that they obviously do in New York Or London. At times in Ottawa (and Winnipeg) they may be as much as 5 minutes late. With the weather we have that's a hell of long time
The reason I recently switched from Sympatico Canada- (10Gb limit) to Primus (no limit) was because I listen or watch broadcast media. My trouble is that I often forget to turn the darn thing off. At one time one could watch BBC at 300Kb/s - at that speed it does not take long to get a large unexpected charge.
It seems like a great idea, and some/. posters have already got some applications for it in mind, but what powers this, is the battery printed as well? If it gets really inexpensive, will there be a disposal problem.
I must agree with the auther David Coursey on this. Can you imagine having to read every page of the morning newspaper (OK I'm of the age when i still read a paper newspaper). The next thing that Hollywood would have us do is make it illegal to turn down the volume next time we watch a DVD.
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From one of the articles "For the supercomputer to break the top five supercomputers in the world, it would have to possess 10 teraflops of memory."
Cool, Ottawa stayed up, too bad I lost my power so I couldn't enjoy it.
According to that article (National Geographic) the engine is a four-stroke with 10cc's of displaced volume. Wow, I didn't realize they made 4 stroke engines that small.
Thats why you take backups, so they will not fail. One word of caution though, I hope he was wearing an "anti-static strap" when he did all of this work.
In one episode of 'Cheers', Cliff is seated at the bar describing the
Buffalo Theory to his buddy, Norm. (I don't think I've ever heard the
concept explained any better than this....)
"Well you see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as
fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest
and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection
is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the
whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the
slowest brain cells.
Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But
naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this
way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making
the brain a faster and more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you
always feel smarter after a few beers."
The really clever -which means obvious- thing about this is the way they store the heat, using tanks of basically salty water. What happens though if the tempurature in the "cold" tank falls below 220 degrees. It solidifies - what then, use conventional power to heat it up?
I thought that the Balloon Festival was next door in Gatineau.
Surely the important point of the article is " may spend 50 percent more time on those tasks than if they work on them separately, completing one before starting the other." So we all need to learn hown to compartmentalize our time. Having said that I now have 2 PC running and I don't know how mant browsers open.
No, there should not be a "ban the technology" movement, but people who don't understand the technology should be banned. I was lucky enough be be born in an age when you needed a lock pick to look at my school records and most people at least understood them even if they didn't know how to use them.
My company - you figure out who it is - now has two class A address, 15 and 16...
They can not use DGPS, that sends out a correction signal from a known fixed point. In this case they don't have a known fixed point, thats what they are trying to determine. The accuracy is obtained by taking many measurements over time , say 1 month, then averaging them. Its the monthly averages that are changing.
Don't laugh .. how many people out there have a job because of something similar!!!
As an older "Nerd" I like your style. I am running Linux Mandrake 9.1, HP-UX 11.00, wt2k and WinSX at home - but my favourite pastime is Wine. Made from home crushed grapes of course. I do NOT make my own whiskey however, mostly because I prefer a good single malt. Having said that I saw a client from CCRA (Canada Customs and Revenue Agency)some years age who built me a great still to make Grappa. Thats not the Java thing but basically distiiled wine. All I can say about it is that it has abot 40% alcohol and 60% I forget the next morning.
Surely it should be much more FOWL
I just took a quick look at the site (at 7:09pm est one of the machines, clinux7, showed at 55C - wonder what happened) and it only shows 9 machines. Apart from that its a very neat idea if you consider the efficiency of water vs air cooling. Why chill a large room when all that you need to cool is a small chip. The trouble is one chiller and many small areas, solution is to have some way of disconecting an area (machine)if you have to do some kind of repair. I think that I would have use taps, and out all them all in parallel, but I'm not a plumber.
Yes, so Hewlett Packard. Same reasons.
Yes, you are of course correct. The point is, as you say, pretty much of a crap shoot. Maybe that's why some people are very happy and some are not. BTW I don't know whom HP buys their memory from !
In spite of what some other posters are saying, in the large HPUX server market, HP memory is much more reliable than Kingston memory, it's also much more expensive. Having said that I have seen more memory failures attributed to non-HP memory (not just Kingston) than anything. If your downtime is not worth more then go for less expensive memory. I have also seen a client try to install his own memory and detroy a system board in the proccess. No it was not covered under the HP warranty.
Trivia with ioscan and the -C switch. You do NOT need a space, i.e :
ioscan -fnCdisk
works just fine and I hate extra kystrks
I always like "ioscan" in HPUX. Maybe I'm more used to it than hardrake or whatever, but it seems to give me much more useable information and the switches are more useable - like -H for only scan a particular hardware path.
I sort of agree with this, but if you suggest that a recipe should not be patented, then my arguament would be that to make a physical object- ie a new widget - is just a series of steps. If I give you a manual that tells you how to make an object, step by step instructions, then is that a recipe ?
A lot of replies are why does he need this not a written bus schedule. Well snow and winter tend to disrupt thing up here. The bus does not always run to the exact minute that they obviously do in New York Or London. At times in Ottawa (and Winnipeg) they may be as much as 5 minutes late. With the weather we have that's a hell of long time
The reason I recently switched from Sympatico Canada- (10Gb limit) to Primus (no limit) was because I listen or watch broadcast media. My trouble is that I often forget to turn the darn thing off. At one time one could watch BBC at 300Kb/s - at that speed it does not take long to get a large unexpected charge.
It seems like a great idea, and some /. posters have already got some applications for it in mind, but what powers this, is the battery printed as well? If it gets really inexpensive, will there be a disposal problem.
I must agree with the auther David Coursey on this. Can you imagine having to read every page of the morning newspaper (OK I'm of the age when i still read a paper newspaper). The next thing that Hollywood would have us do is make it illegal to turn down the volume next time we watch a DVD.
BTW, ILLEGAL is a sick bird..