Nope, about 2/3 of all electricity is consumed by electric moters, which makes sense when you realize that one horsepower is 745.6999 watts and how many are in use. The next largest consumer is lighting.
Well, I suppose you could choose the Intel platform for its legendary stability and reliability, or choose AMD because it is Intel's only true competitor, but I would choose based on whoever has the lowest cost/performance ratio.
P.S. Have you seen the latest POV-Ray benchmarks for the Itanium?!? It's about twice as fast at 1GHz as a 3GHz P4! Assuming the P4 does at least one op per cycle, does this mean the Itanium is doing 6?! Man, I can't wait until these get to be mainstream(If they ever will). They are floating-point beasts!
I think this is how Peltier elements work to some extent. The electrons want to reach an equlibrium between the differing densities of the n-type and-p-type semiconductors, but the aplication of current interfers with this and somehow causes the electrons to transfer thermal energy.
You know, I would think that what happened with the capsule burning on the ground killing the three 'nauts was definitely a "probable failure mode" of putting three men into a tiny chamber filled with pure oxygen and miles of wires/circuit traces, with no fire suppression mechanism and no rapid method of exit. I wouldn't have gotten into that pod, but then they used mostly insane/brave test pilots for a reason, right?
Christ, get a clue. It is well know that the G4 runs the distributed.net client really well because it uses the Altivec unit to process 4 keys a cycle. This a VERY limited indication of CPU performance. Its like testing someones skill at shooting targets 2 feet away and assuming that they will have identical performance at 200 feet. CPU performance is the product of operations per cycle times cycles per second. If you can double one term by lowering another by 25% you get a 50% speedup. This is what Intel did with the P4. A much better comparison would be to compare the G4 to P4 running code that uses SSE one or two. The folding@home client does, and it is about 2 to three times as fast as when it doesn't use it (after the client isn't closed properly).
That makes FAR too much sense for the greenies to ever let NASA do. Just look at all the hubub over the cassinni probe! If we ever do have a permanent colony on the moon or mars, it will require a nuclear power source, and I will love to see how the grees will react to that.
I would guess that wind power would win that comparison. The turbines are very durable, and are mostly metal or wood(yes they make the blades out of wood) so they are environmentally benign. .
Indeed, the total average lifetime utilization (time a person spends sitting at it and even worse average lifetime cpu utilization) of all computers is quite low. Its only because computers are relatively cheap that such low rates of utilization are practical.Expensive factories are run 24/7 to maximize ROI, big rigs are scheduled to minimze miles driven without cargo, etc., but people are satisfied with using far less than even a millionth of a CPU's potential computational capacity.
Ah, but that is the power of a market economy, if demand exists, someone will meet it if it is thought to be profitable. Since it turns out millions of people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to beat up a virtual 'ho with a virtual 'bat, companys not only meet demand, but are forced to use the most cutting edge product to stay ahead of thier competitors.
I wouldn't say it was overhyped at all. Did you see the Frontline episode about them? They wouldn't kill many people but they could do a LOT of economic damage, and for us rich Americans, I bet that is just as frightening.
Yeah, cause in the real world we all know that price doesn't matter at all. Hey, why don't we just have a custom asic for the Photoshop filters made. Shouldn't cost more than 10 to 50 thousand each.
I bet this could be done today with Bill Gates or governent level funding. Say one million 200 gig hard drives in a warehouse would give you at least 150 petabytes or 160,000,000 hours of 2Mb/s video and 236,205,593 hours of CD quality audio, which I would bet is a lot more than has been recorded yet. Now we need drives to become a million times larger, so we need about 20 more doublings. I doubt magnetic media will be capable of this, but IBM's millipede system might be capable of 10 to 20 terabytes in a hard drive sized device, which would probably be enough to store all the music and movies you could ever wattch in your life.
In the excellent books by Peter Hamilton called the Night's Dawn trilogy or something (The Reality Disfunction, The Neutornium Alchemist, The Naked God) the whole economy was based on mining H3 from gas giants, and the currency is called fuseodollars. One of the most detailed and pluasible faster-than-light economy I have ever seen.
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Nope, about 2/3 of all electricity is consumed by electric moters, which makes sense when you realize that one horsepower is 745.6999 watts and how many are in use. The next largest consumer is lighting.
Actually, if you need MHz that bad you should really just buy a vapochill and get 3.6GHz to 4.2GHz
Well, I suppose you could choose the Intel platform for its legendary stability and reliability, or choose AMD because it is Intel's only true competitor, but I would choose based on whoever has the lowest cost/performance ratio. P.S. Have you seen the latest POV-Ray benchmarks for the Itanium?!? It's about twice as fast at 1GHz as a 3GHz P4! Assuming the P4 does at least one op per cycle, does this mean the Itanium is doing 6?! Man, I can't wait until these get to be mainstream(If they ever will). They are floating-point beasts!
I am a Wisconsinite, and I despise how wastefull the American economy is.
NO NO NO You mean the Space Balls Licensed Flame Thrower!!! Every kids favorite!
I would have thought hours would be quite adequate.
I think this is how Peltier elements work to some extent. The electrons want to reach an equlibrium between the differing densities of the n-type and-p-type semiconductors, but the aplication of current interfers with this and somehow causes the electrons to transfer thermal energy.
You know, I would think that what happened with the capsule burning on the ground killing the three 'nauts was definitely a "probable failure mode" of putting three men into a tiny chamber filled with pure oxygen and miles of wires/circuit traces, with no fire suppression mechanism and no rapid method of exit. I wouldn't have gotten into that pod, but then they used mostly insane/brave test pilots for a reason, right?
Christ, get a clue. It is well know that the G4 runs the distributed.net client really well because it uses the Altivec unit to process 4 keys a cycle. This a VERY limited indication of CPU performance. Its like testing someones skill at shooting targets 2 feet away and assuming that they will have identical performance at 200 feet. CPU performance is the product of operations per cycle times cycles per second. If you can double one term by lowering another by 25% you get a 50% speedup. This is what Intel did with the P4. A much better comparison would be to compare the G4 to P4 running code that uses SSE one or two. The folding@home client does, and it is about 2 to three times as fast as when it doesn't use it (after the client isn't closed properly).
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That makes FAR too much sense for the greenies to ever let NASA do. Just look at all the hubub over the cassinni probe! If we ever do have a permanent colony on the moon or mars, it will require a nuclear power source, and I will love to see how the grees will react to that.
I would guess that wind power would win that comparison. The turbines are very durable, and are mostly metal or wood(yes they make the blades out of wood) so they are environmentally benign. .
Indeed, the total average lifetime utilization (time a person spends sitting at it and even worse average lifetime cpu utilization) of all computers is quite low. Its only because computers are relatively cheap that such low rates of utilization are practical.Expensive factories are run 24/7 to maximize ROI, big rigs are scheduled to minimze miles driven without cargo, etc., but people are satisfied with using far less than even a millionth of a CPU's potential computational capacity.
You know, your probably right.
Look up Loran and WAAS on Google.
... I would be far more interested in "exploring the surface" of those three babes in the photo. THEY are engineering students!?!?!
Well, most men can be even more brutal, and are ususally a lot stronger.
Then gimmie some diamond heatsinks!!! I wonder if the military already uses diamond in thermal regulation of electronic systems?
Xylon is pretty sweet too.
Ah, but that is the power of a market economy, if demand exists, someone will meet it if it is thought to be profitable. Since it turns out millions of people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to beat up a virtual 'ho with a virtual 'bat, companys not only meet demand, but are forced to use the most cutting edge product to stay ahead of thier competitors.
I wouldn't say it was overhyped at all. Did you see the Frontline episode about them? They wouldn't kill many people but they could do a LOT of economic damage, and for us rich Americans, I bet that is just as frightening.
Yeah, cause in the real world we all know that price doesn't matter at all. Hey, why don't we just have a custom asic for the Photoshop filters made. Shouldn't cost more than 10 to 50 thousand each.
Sounds like Greag Egan in the Diaspora
I bet this could be done today with Bill Gates or governent level funding. Say one million 200 gig hard drives in a warehouse would give you at least 150 petabytes or 160,000,000 hours of 2Mb/s video and 236,205,593 hours of CD quality audio, which I would bet is a lot more than has been recorded yet. Now we need drives to become a million times larger, so we need about 20 more doublings. I doubt magnetic media will be capable of this, but IBM's millipede system might be capable of 10 to 20 terabytes in a hard drive sized device, which would probably be enough to store all the music and movies you could ever wattch in your life.
In the excellent books by Peter Hamilton called the Night's Dawn trilogy or something (The Reality Disfunction, The Neutornium Alchemist, The Naked God) the whole economy was based on mining H3 from gas giants, and the currency is called fuseodollars. One of the most detailed and pluasible faster-than-light economy I have ever seen.