are there any ivy league schools that actually have one of these? I don't recall seeing any blue gene systems very high up in the top500.org list at any of the eight ivies.
I'm thrilled about this and I don't live in the UK. I use fm transmitters like this to do audio installation art and performances of electronic music.I have a dozen tiny fm receivers and a few transmitters so i can route signals out from laptop/battery powered effects/violin/cheap mp3 players playing loops/home made gadgetry through the speakers that i can spread out through the place i'm performing, it's not particularly loud but i use the electronics to augment not replace the sound of an acoustic instrument usually. It's cheap, highly effective and portable, i can turn any place i like into a performance space, since a lot of places with interesting acoustics often don't have electricity available and aren't suitable for running a bunch of cables around for a large multichannel system this opens up a lot of performance opportunities to me. (also the far away radio transmission sound works for the music I do and the interference between transmitters is fun to exploit as a sound source, especially when i use a couple receivers to feed the output back into the system. people's movements within the space i'm performing change the behavior of the system as well which can be nice as well, makes the whole space responsive) and now I can do this sort of thing in the UK as well. yay!
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/20 04-05/04-117.html
the first round just finished up today but next week there is another batch of projects to be seen. These are all products of the electronic writing/music program, there are also lots of scientific visualization projects ongoing. VR is more than just HMD's and datagloves.
since i lacked mod points and didn't want to post a 'yeah, what he said!', here is a link to some info about the benefits of increasing the bit depth, which works similiarly to increasing the sample rate except for dynamic range instead of frequency, the goal isn't to record things beyond human hearing, it's to have more samples/bits to record the stuff in our hearing range with. faint overtones would only get a couple samples of a couple bits each using cd audio quality.
new for 2004! ray tracing technology to be featured in these exciting products:
watching paint dry VR
X-treme continental drifting
MS visual navel contemplator
I got the bulk email from mp3.com about this since i have some songs up on there. If you can't trust mass mailings and message boards what can you trust?
my solution is stationary bike + book. Bring something really intellectually challenging that requires a lot of concentration to read (structure and interpretation of computer programs has been my choice lately) and start pedaling. Read something that makes your brain ache more than your muscles and you wont notice the exercise. I find it helps my concentration too, you can't get up and wander around and the repetitive action is kind of focusing like controlled breathing is for meditation. Make it a half hour to hour a day that you read one of those books you've always been meaning to read but never seem to get around to. I really look forward to it now instead of it being something i dread. I do about an hour a day, the first 20 minutes are hard but that's when I focus more on the reading and then after that it's easy, I end up not wanting to stop at the end of the hour even though i felt like i was dying at 15 minutes.
the cost of cooling hundreds of machines running full bore 24/7 would increase nonlinearly. double the machines and you will more than double the power consumption to keep them from melting. 1 g5 by under normal conditions can cool itself without extra air conditioning, you stick a bunch in the room each one is pulling in the heated air put out by the others and basking in their radiant warmth. with a few of them you can stick a fan on them and have a normal AC system and you'll be fine. cheaper beowulfs often include a few big fans in and amongst their costs along with the pizza used to bribe students into putting the thing together and incidentals like the nodes themselves. moving up from a few dozen nodes to 1100 nodes is a big jump though. I don't know if the numbers given are accurate or not but I certainly would expect it to be more than 300 midrange homes.
the GPL is THE MAN keeping you DOWN!!!...oh wait, sorry, it's people giving you tons of cool stuff for free so you can make more cool stuff. woops! nm.
my kanga powerbook g3 for one. tasteful little multicolored apple logo smaller than a postage stamp put discretly towards the bottom of the case not stuck square in the middle.
You can also charge for Free Software (with the FSF approved use of capitalization). If i'm making you a customized version of some GPL'ed widget (and charging you my standard exhorbitant contract rate while I do it) it will have to be covered under the terms of the GPL, but if you're just going to use said customized widget on your own machines and not distribute binaries that doesn't really matter much to you. I'll of course be obligated to provide you with the source code to go along with the binaries (and a copy of the GPL for your reading pleasure) but there is no GNU police that are going to send us off to some re-education commune because you paid me to make/modify a piece of Free Software for you. You can make good money on Free Software.
I'm using an older powerbook with 160 megs of ram and it's fine for most day to do day tasks...but man oh man could i find a use for a few gigs of ram. i do electronic music so being able to fill up memory with loops and samples and delay line buffers (not to mention real time digital video manipulation) would be great. while i have hauled around desktop computers forperformances it's not the sort of thing i'd do if could avoid it. when i upgrade to something newer i know a 512 meg ram limitition would be something that would make me seriously reconsider buying a particular laptop. but I freely admit that my requirements for a laptop aren't those of the average user or even of the target audience for this product. if i just needed to run a word processor/browser/terminal window it'd be more than enough.
as the cliche goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. so maybe the reviewer just likes the way this thing looks. design style isn't something you can really benchmark, even if you did some amihotornot for computers it would still just be a survey of the preferences of a group of people. the powerbook look appeals to some people and really turns off others. though the all shiny metal look apple is going towards certainly appeals to me more than the candy colored computer phase they went through, i'm still not all that thrilled with apple's styling (i really don't like having a huge corporate logo emblazoned on my computer, but that's what stickers are for i guess) aside from the fact that it weighs a ton and it's way slower, i like the looks of my g3 powerbook more than the g4's. ymmv.
There is a whole family of DSP chips from analog devices with that name(Super Harvard ARChitecture, more info about what that means . SHARC's get used in lots of things, particularly audio equipment like creamware's dsp cards, behringer's digital mixers, etc along with many other uses. For some additional info about DSP's you can read this intro
php binding to gtk+ for making gui apps,there are various other tools for making PHP do stuff other than web things though they don't get much attention/developers compared to the core web scripting things that most people do with php.
Digital Audio Labs Card D plus with the extra ISA card to give it spdif I/O. It's 16 bits but it's a really good 16 bits. I use a korg oasys for my main music making computer but the DAL is great for playing back mp3's on in the older computer with a huge hard drive it lives in.
I also have a digidesign sample cell II isa card that i use to make music with since it's a handy 8 output sampler on a card, great for getting audio out of my computer and into external processing equipment and more conveinant than a stand alone sampler. when i got the mobo for the pIII that i use at home i specifically got one with an ISA slot to put it into.
not pc stuff but i also still have my atari (though haven't gotten it moved to where i live currently, but i plan to) that I used for midi processing. It normally lives right over my keyboard so i can keep an eye on it while i play and it's within reach if i need to fiddle with stuff.
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are there any ivy league schools that actually have one of these? I don't recall seeing any blue gene systems very high up in the top500.org list at any of the eight ivies.
I'm thrilled about this and I don't live in the UK. I use fm transmitters like this to do audio installation art and performances of electronic music.I have a dozen tiny fm receivers and a few transmitters so i can route signals out from laptop/battery powered effects/violin/cheap mp3 players playing loops/home made gadgetry through the speakers that i can spread out through the place i'm performing, it's not particularly loud but i use the electronics to augment not replace the sound of an acoustic instrument usually. It's cheap, highly effective and portable, i can turn any place i like into a performance space, since a lot of places with interesting acoustics often don't have electricity available and aren't suitable for running a bunch of cables around for a large multichannel system this opens up a lot of performance opportunities to me. (also the far away radio transmission sound works for the music I do and the interference between transmitters is fun to exploit as a sound source, especially when i use a couple receivers to feed the output back into the system. people's movements within the space i'm performing change the behavior of the system as well which can be nice as well, makes the whole space responsive) and now I can do this sort of thing in the UK as well. yay!
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/20 04-05/04-117.html
the first round just finished up today but next week there is another batch of projects to be seen. These are all products of the electronic writing/music program, there are also lots of scientific visualization projects ongoing. VR is more than just HMD's and datagloves.
you don't need a mod-chip anymore unless you want to replace the ide drives. there are more options besides the 007 flash rom + soldering trick. http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.html#9
hold it up real close to your eyes for virtual reality action!
or dogs in space
http://24bitfaq.org/
since i lacked mod points and didn't want to post a 'yeah, what he said!', here is a link to some info about the benefits of increasing the bit depth, which works similiarly to increasing the sample rate except for dynamic range instead of frequency, the goal isn't to record things beyond human hearing, it's to have more samples/bits to record the stuff in our hearing range with. faint overtones would only get a couple samples of a couple bits each using cd audio quality.
'they cost us $10 each and we sell them for $9. how do we make a profit you ask? we make it up in volume!!!'
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/18/bunte n/
and AOLserver which is a pretty interesting opensource project now. such a confusing world
new for 2004! ray tracing technology to be featured in these exciting products: watching paint dry VR X-treme continental drifting MS visual navel contemplator
I got the bulk email from mp3.com about this since i have some songs up on there. If you can't trust mass mailings and message boards what can you trust?
someone really needs to fix that 'insightful posts get mis-moderated as funny' bug.
my solution is stationary bike + book. Bring something really intellectually challenging that requires a lot of concentration to read (structure and interpretation of computer programs has been my choice lately) and start pedaling. Read something that makes your brain ache more than your muscles and you wont notice the exercise. I find it helps my concentration too, you can't get up and wander around and the repetitive action is kind of focusing like controlled breathing is for meditation. Make it a half hour to hour a day that you read one of those books you've always been meaning to read but never seem to get around to. I really look forward to it now instead of it being something i dread. I do about an hour a day, the first 20 minutes are hard but that's when I focus more on the reading and then after that it's easy, I end up not wanting to stop at the end of the hour even though i felt like i was dying at 15 minutes.
you can use it to make your php scripts that generate dynamic pages. using it to write static html for you is a waste of what it can do.
the cost of cooling hundreds of machines running full bore 24/7 would increase nonlinearly. double the machines and you will more than double the power consumption to keep them from melting. 1 g5 by under normal conditions can cool itself without extra air conditioning, you stick a bunch in the room each one is pulling in the heated air put out by the others and basking in their radiant warmth. with a few of them you can stick a fan on them and have a normal AC system and you'll be fine. cheaper beowulfs often include a few big fans in and amongst their costs along with the pizza used to bribe students into putting the thing together and incidentals like the nodes themselves. moving up from a few dozen nodes to 1100 nodes is a big jump though. I don't know if the numbers given are accurate or not but I certainly would expect it to be more than 300 midrange homes.
the GPL is THE MAN keeping you DOWN!!!...oh wait, sorry, it's people giving you tons of cool stuff for free so you can make more cool stuff. woops! nm.
my kanga powerbook g3 for one. tasteful little multicolored apple logo smaller than a postage stamp put discretly towards the bottom of the case not stuck square in the middle.
You can also charge for Free Software (with the FSF approved use of capitalization). If i'm making you a customized version of some GPL'ed widget (and charging you my standard exhorbitant contract rate while I do it) it will have to be covered under the terms of the GPL, but if you're just going to use said customized widget on your own machines and not distribute binaries that doesn't really matter much to you. I'll of course be obligated to provide you with the source code to go along with the binaries (and a copy of the GPL for your reading pleasure) but there is no GNU police that are going to send us off to some re-education commune because you paid me to make/modify a piece of Free Software for you. You can make good money on Free Software.
I'm using an older powerbook with 160 megs of ram and it's fine for most day to do day tasks...but man oh man could i find a use for a few gigs of ram. i do electronic music so being able to fill up memory with loops and samples and delay line buffers (not to mention real time digital video manipulation) would be great. while i have hauled around desktop computers forperformances it's not the sort of thing i'd do if could avoid it. when i upgrade to something newer i know a 512 meg ram limitition would be something that would make me seriously reconsider buying a particular laptop. but I freely admit that my requirements for a laptop aren't those of the average user or even of the target audience for this product. if i just needed to run a word processor/browser/terminal window it'd be more than enough.
as the cliche goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. so maybe the reviewer just likes the way this thing looks. design style isn't something you can really benchmark, even if you did some amihotornot for computers it would still just be a survey of the preferences of a group of people. the powerbook look appeals to some people and really turns off others. though the all shiny metal look apple is going towards certainly appeals to me more than the candy colored computer phase they went through, i'm still not all that thrilled with apple's styling (i really don't like having a huge corporate logo emblazoned on my computer, but that's what stickers are for i guess) aside from the fact that it weighs a ton and it's way slower, i like the looks of my g3 powerbook more than the g4's. ymmv.
http://www.analog.com/processors/processors/sharc/ index.html
There is a whole family of DSP chips from analog devices with that name(Super Harvard ARChitecture, more info about what that means . SHARC's get used in lots of things, particularly audio equipment like creamware's dsp cards, behringer's digital mixers, etc along with many other uses. For some additional info about DSP's you can read this intro
http://gtk.php.net/
php binding to gtk+ for making gui apps,there are various other tools for making PHP do stuff other than web things though they don't get much attention/developers compared to the core web scripting things that most people do with php.
Digital Audio Labs Card D plus with the extra ISA card to give it spdif I/O. It's 16 bits but it's a really good 16 bits. I use a korg oasys for my main music making computer but the DAL is great for playing back mp3's on in the older computer with a huge hard drive it lives in.
I also have a digidesign sample cell II isa card that i use to make music with since it's a handy 8 output sampler on a card, great for getting audio out of my computer and into external processing equipment and more conveinant than a stand alone sampler. when i got the mobo for the pIII that i use at home i specifically got one with an ISA slot to put it into.
not pc stuff but i also still have my atari (though haven't gotten it moved to where i live currently, but i plan to) that I used for midi processing. It normally lives right over my keyboard so i can keep an eye on it while i play and it's within reach if i need to fiddle with stuff.