There's more to it than just feature size. You need the right substrate doping and circuit structures than can dissipate the charge introduced by a particle without having it course through the parts of the chip most susceptible to being fried, or perhaps just having their logic state flipped.
It sounds more like it was actually just poor filesystem management, not a hardware failure or soft error.
There have been some incriminating statements along the lines of never having tested the FS for long periods, having to delete extra data from the flash, etc.
It's not particularly lurid or macabre in my opinion, nor is it particularly news. It's just a prose account of the insanely detailed forensic timeline created by the CAIB. The timeline does NASA quite a bit of good.
As a matter of fact, I will happily bet that you have never submitted a patch to Linux.
Nope, but I have implemented a pipeline in a 90nm process technology. Not on a processor at 10Ghz or whatever Intel's aiming for, though. I can truly tell you that that frequency must be horrifyingly difficult to acheive.
The irony here is that I work in VLSI design. My post was obviously sarcastic, but I'm seriously pointing out the fact that people outside the industry behemoths can and do participate in cutting edge research and design. Yes, usually it's folks who are working day-to-day on this stuff that know best exactly how many pipeline stages an Intel processor needs, but trying to claim that no one outside Intel can question such a decision is akin to saying no one outside Microsoft can question OS design choices made in Redmond. We both know that BS, whether I've ever looked at Linux source or not.
I'm kind of tired of you armchair OS coders. So the happy few, highly paid Microsoft employees, 20 years experience in copying IBM, thousands of stock options in Redmond decide the next gen OS will have some wack FS and they have to be called morons? How do you know better? Hasn't Microsoft produced the best selling OS on the market for 15 years? Why don't YOU have the job leading the Longhorn team?
Oh. Yeah... LINUX.
Nevermind-- go back to writing the best OS there is.
I would suspect that the vast majority of their servers already run Linux... Domino runs on Linux (and has for a while), and most of their webservers are likely to run Linux.
In some regards I disagree, but you're right that x86 has tremendous momentum-- even Intel can't seem to get Itanium running, and AMD's nailing them with x86-64.
However, Linux and free compilers should ideally make the hardware transparent to the end user, unlike Windows, which locks folks into whatever architectures MS decides to support.
From a pro-Linux perspective, the worst thing that could happen here is for IBM to publically commit to Linux on the desktop by 2005 throughout its organization and fail to deliver on that promise. Think of all the organizations considering Linux desktop deployments that would think, "Well damn, if IBM failed, what are our chances then?"
Taking the AP exam costs $65 or $70... and financial assistance is available. Most schools these days also provide calculators if needed-- the clear solution is for the calculator to be a year-long loan.
The fact that I didn't blink at all since I've just finished "The Eye of the World" and parts of the dialogue were written this way
I'm a little hazy on details of those novels since I tend to read them rather quickly, but Jordan's ethnic characters (caricatures?) also have a tendency to dress like pirates in some instances. At least it's not the seafolk. I think.
But we all know that Jordan borrowed heavily from everywhere (The Aiel and Aes Sedai are so stolen from Dune, damnit!), so why not bad pirate movies? arrr!
If you're smart enough, you can go to a need-blind institution, in which case you'll still pay more than you'd like, or you can land a scholarship at a "lesser" institution that will pay you to join their "honors" program and make their student body look more aptitudinous [sic].
You think someone unaffiliated with an institution is going to throw real money at you with no strings attached because you're smart? Never going to happen, unless you somehow manage to to well in the Intel nee Westinghouse competition. Helps to have a mommy or a daddy who's got PhD connections.
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Mmmmm, rack-mounted.
There's more to it than just feature size. You need the right substrate doping and circuit structures than can dissipate the charge introduced by a particle without having it course through the parts of the chip most susceptible to being fried, or perhaps just having their logic state flipped.
There have been some incriminating statements along the lines of never having tested the FS for long periods, having to delete extra data from the flash, etc.
Google's attempt at showing the above Excel as HMTL
The irony here is that I work in VLSI design. My post was obviously sarcastic, but I'm seriously pointing out the fact that people outside the industry behemoths can and do participate in cutting edge research and design. Yes, usually it's folks who are working day-to-day on this stuff that know best exactly how many pipeline stages an Intel processor needs, but trying to claim that no one outside Intel can question such a decision is akin to saying no one outside Microsoft can question OS design choices made in Redmond. We both know that BS, whether I've ever looked at Linux source or not.
You're completely correct. My mistake.
Oh. Yeah... LINUX.
Nevermind-- go back to writing the best OS there is.
Even more ironic-- it contains olivine. Spirit's found some of that.
Female employees?? That's not the IBM I work for. Damn EE degree.
Does anyone else find it ironic that Yahoo Research is just Overture Research rebranded? Another acquisition.
I'm serious-- I'd just like to know if Yahoo has any record of invention.
However, Linux and free compilers should ideally make the hardware transparent to the end user, unlike Windows, which locks folks into whatever architectures MS decides to support.
Replacing Blotus Notes for Linux may be the largest obstacle IBM faces here.
From a pro-Linux perspective, the worst thing that could happen here is for IBM to publically commit to Linux on the desktop by 2005 throughout its organization and fail to deliver on that promise. Think of all the organizations considering Linux desktop deployments that would think, "Well damn, if IBM failed, what are our chances then?"
Matlab has all the user friendliness of fortran. God forbid it ever shows up in AP classes.
Taking the AP exam costs $65 or $70... and financial assistance is available. Most schools these days also provide calculators if needed-- the clear solution is for the calculator to be a year-long loan.
That do be what it was! Tairens. or Illianers.
But we all know that Jordan borrowed heavily from everywhere (The Aiel and Aes Sedai are so stolen from Dune, damnit!), so why not bad pirate movies? arrr!
You think someone unaffiliated with an institution is going to throw real money at you with no strings attached because you're smart? Never going to happen, unless you somehow manage to to well in the Intel nee Westinghouse competition. Helps to have a mommy or a daddy who's got PhD connections.
They're still a software firm. Did you interview with Tim Bray of XML fame, perhaps? The web demo I saw way back when used ODP data and a lot of Java.
IBM's PPC compiler is XLC.