The same goes for the "real", not HPC servers, which run on Power4+ or Power5, which also has nearly nothing in common with those chips.
Actually, IBM is making IBM-branded JS20 blade servers with the PPC970 line. And far from not competing in HPC, they're in Mare Nostrum-- #5 on the current top500 list. Interestingly, the opteron blade is called the LS20, so perhaps if IBM has a processor that doesn't fit in their i,p,x Series branding, they now just throw it in a blade.
It was one of those things where I knew the total power and power per flop was substantially lower than standard top-shelf CPUs. IBM's early releases about Blue Gene talked a lot about lowering the power density per core through more flops per clock cycle, which allowed a air cooling and a smaller total package for a 1024 CPU box.
I'll admit I don't know, but isn't the FDA standard for elemental mercury, while it is part of a chemical compound in themersol? I believe I've heard that distinction made elsewhere, but you don't mention it.
Cray indeed. Their bread an butter was vector supercomputers, if there's one thing a Cell will emulate better than any other consumer architecture, it's a vector processor.
I'm inclined to believe these consoles will be whipping out the polygons at a rate far beyond my parents' $330 eMachines box. They need a GPU about as much as they need an HDTV.
There is a difference between using Intel chips in a storage box, and using Intel chipsets in laptops or desktops. Last I heard, Intel wasn't designing PowerPC chipsets.
I found that Voyager 1 is moving about 39000mph, or was. That's 17.4 km/s, which is plenty to escape the Sun's gravitational influence beyond Uranus's orbit, according to Wikipedia.
China is not little, it is huge. However, I don't think being the overall largest means winning. The winning countries in 2050 are going to be those not bogged down in national welfare state malaise with the few young workers each paying for 5 retirees. (Like myself, I'll be 70 by then-- sweeeeet, oh wait, the social security retirement age will be 80 by then. Damn.)
I really don't know what to do. I, for one, won't be volunteering to kill myself.
I know you're being facetious, so I'll reply in kind. You appear to be new here, so I'll fill you in-- every slashdot user has a number that appears after their name in parentheses. They're issued sequentially.
What Dvorak doesn't substantiate is who in the Linux community accuses O'Gara of being on SCO/MS payrolls, nor what the rationale for such a claim might be, in contrast to O'Gara's belief that becuase Jones lives in upstate NY, she must be an IBM partisan.
Yeah, the SCO vs. IBM and the Cell processor is the largest threat to Red Hat. Sure! Just like Rambus vs. Infineon and the Efficeon processor is the largest threat to Microsoft. What? Don't see a connection?
Cellphone convergence puts huge price pressure on the semiconductor industry to deliver incredibly complex multifunction phones for the cell companies to give away for free. As the cell chips become more and more commodity, it will be interesting to see how the North American suppliers respond...
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Thanks for that.
But to back up those hazy remembrances, I just googled it:o ff&q=blue+gene+node+power&spell=1 s p 1 05bluegene.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&safe=
http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113418,00.a
http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/power/splash/032
You're just about one order of magnitude too high on the power consumption, if you're referring to BlueGene. 10-15W peak power per dual-core "node."
I'll admit I don't know, but isn't the FDA standard for elemental mercury, while it is part of a chemical compound in themersol? I believe I've heard that distinction made elsewhere, but you don't mention it.
Must have been a noisy bunk.
Intel and Microsoft say they just love Apple. You have been assimilated....
Cray indeed. Their bread an butter was vector supercomputers, if there's one thing a Cell will emulate better than any other consumer architecture, it's a vector processor.
You're probably right-- Dell's not worried, but Cray, NEC, and Sun might be.
I'm inclined to believe these consoles will be whipping out the polygons at a rate far beyond my parents' $330 eMachines box. They need a GPU about as much as they need an HDTV.
There is a difference between using Intel chips in a storage box, and using Intel chipsets in laptops or desktops. Last I heard, Intel wasn't designing PowerPC chipsets.
Bullshit.
Don't forget Stardust and Genesis.
I found that Voyager 1 is moving about 39000mph, or was. That's 17.4 km/s, which is plenty to escape the Sun's gravitational influence beyond Uranus's orbit, according to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia flushed my Koran down the toilet.
I really don't know what to do. I, for one, won't be volunteering to kill myself.
I don't have to click-- my Google Web Accelerator has already prefetched the link... WTF?!?! Who the hell is stevesliva?
I know you're being facetious, so I'll reply in kind. You appear to be new here, so I'll fill you in-- every slashdot user has a number that appears after their name in parentheses. They're issued sequentially.
That's no disclaimer, man, that's a claimer.
Suspected to have?
What Dvorak doesn't substantiate is who in the Linux community accuses O'Gara of being on SCO/MS payrolls, nor what the rationale for such a claim might be, in contrast to O'Gara's belief that becuase Jones lives in upstate NY, she must be an IBM partisan.
Yep.
Cellphone convergence puts huge price pressure on the semiconductor industry to deliver incredibly complex multifunction phones for the cell companies to give away for free. As the cell chips become more and more commodity, it will be interesting to see how the North American suppliers respond...