1300 servers, processing 40 million transactions a day... that's about 30,800 transactions per server. Or one transaction every 2.8 seconds or so. With an entire Linux box dedicated to it.
I work in the scan processing group at FedEx. At peak, we see over 100,000,000 transactions a day. And that's handled on 45 linux boxes, and 12 more for the database, doing upwards of 6000 transactions per second during bursts. That's a peak of about 133 transactions per second, per box. That's a little better than 0.3 TPS for the Post Office. So we have about 400 times the performance with 5% of the hardware. By that margin, I could do their processing with about 25 boxes total. That would mean another 98% savings on hardware alone.
For some reason, I fail to be really impressed that they've gone from "Crappy performance and Expensive" to "Crappy performance and less expensive."
I wonder if I can get the bazillion dollar contract to rewrite their system... No, wait, my name isn't "Boeing" or "Lockheed" or Ken Murtha.
Give them a little credit. They are part of the Federal Gov't, after all.
Pretty soon, they won't let me play the music for anyone else inside my home either. They'll say, "If I purchase it, then only I can listen to it."
Whatever happened to fair use?
I don't see how this has a chance in hell of standing up in any reasonable court. Isn't ELIZA, the computer-based "therapist" who asks how you are feeling today, an example of this?
Also, there are examples in the literature of genetic algorithms having been implemented where the fitness function is an actual manual step performed by a human, such as a biological assay. So the human performs one of the parts of the in silico "evolution" of the solution.
Actually, I have always joked that I have come up with a Meeting Usefulness Quotient. It goes something like:
U(m) = 1 / n!
where n = the number of attendees. Maybe we could throw in a term that takes average IQ of attendees into account.
Sorry, I don't buy the story. Just media sensationalism to me. Jane Goodall observed chimps "fishing" for ants with twigs quite some time ago. Some of these chimps fashioned the twigs so as to work better. From where I sit, this is just as fantastic as having a chimp fashioning a larger twig to hunt with. Nothing new here except an over active media trying to make something out more out of old news.
BitTorrent is tool, just like fire, guns, and wood chippers are tools. They can be used to good, and they can be used for evil. Possession of BitTorrent doesn't mean that you are using it for evil. In the movie Fargo, it wasn't the possession of the wood chipper that was the problem, it was the way that it was being used.
Tons upon tons of people use it and like it.
Well, actully, tons upon tons of people are forced to use it at their place of work and they actually don't like it very much at all.
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If AT&T does decide to change their pricing model, I see the lawyers having a field day. Class Action suit, here we come.
Isn't his death already virtually certain?
1300 servers, processing 40 million transactions a day... that's about 30,800 transactions per server. Or one transaction every 2.8 seconds or so. With an entire Linux box dedicated to it.
I work in the scan processing group at FedEx. At peak, we see over 100,000,000 transactions a day. And that's handled on 45 linux boxes, and 12 more for the database, doing upwards of 6000 transactions per second during bursts. That's a peak of about 133 transactions per second, per box. That's a little better than 0.3 TPS for the Post Office. So we have about 400 times the performance with 5% of the hardware. By that margin, I could do their processing with about 25 boxes total. That would mean another 98% savings on hardware alone.
For some reason, I fail to be really impressed that they've gone from "Crappy performance and Expensive" to "Crappy performance and less expensive."
I wonder if I can get the bazillion dollar contract to rewrite their system... No, wait, my name isn't "Boeing" or "Lockheed" or Ken Murtha.
Give them a little credit. They are part of the Federal Gov't, after all.
Sorry, officer, I didn't realize that my tires were underinflated.
How do they know that they've missed important information, if they aren't wiretapping?
Pretty soon, they won't let me play the music for anyone else inside my home either. They'll say, "If I purchase it, then only I can listen to it." Whatever happened to fair use?
I don't see how this has a chance in hell of standing up in any reasonable court. Isn't ELIZA, the computer-based "therapist" who asks how you are feeling today, an example of this? Also, there are examples in the literature of genetic algorithms having been implemented where the fitness function is an actual manual step performed by a human, such as a biological assay. So the human performs one of the parts of the in silico "evolution" of the solution.
Sinise. No. Mike Myers would be a much better Scotty. His accent alone qualifies him. Especially if he can find the ogre suit.
Actually, I have always joked that I have come up with a Meeting Usefulness Quotient. It goes something like: U(m) = 1 / n! where n = the number of attendees. Maybe we could throw in a term that takes average IQ of attendees into account.
Sorry, I don't buy the story. Just media sensationalism to me. Jane Goodall observed chimps "fishing" for ants with twigs quite some time ago. Some of these chimps fashioned the twigs so as to work better. From where I sit, this is just as fantastic as having a chimp fashioning a larger twig to hunt with. Nothing new here except an over active media trying to make something out more out of old news.
BitTorrent is tool, just like fire, guns, and wood chippers are tools. They can be used to good, and they can be used for evil. Possession of BitTorrent doesn't mean that you are using it for evil. In the movie Fargo, it wasn't the possession of the wood chipper that was the problem, it was the way that it was being used.
Well, actully, tons upon tons of people are forced to use it at their place of work and they actually don't like it very much at all.