No, you need layer 4-7. Not just layer 7. And not just any switch, it has to do load balancing, virutalization and it would be nice to have SSL. Cisco and Sun are the only ones I know of right now who have switches that do all that. Perhaps there are others (F5, Nokia, etc) but for sure Cisco is the big dog in the market.
Compare it to the Sun N2040 switch which lists for 38K. That switch plus Xen or VMWare and you got the same thing. Plus the Sun switch isn't tied to Java, it'll work with any OS and applicaton that supports virtualization.
It's not from Sun, its from a small company with Sun ex-employees. IMNSHO, This really isn't news. It's just another type of load balancing. In fact, some of the hottest new load balancing boxes from Sun (N1), Cisco and others can do this now. So what can this do they can't by themselves or in combination with Xen/VMware?
There is no silver bullet. I've worked all sides of the fence in development, management and consulting for Government and Commerical customers and have yet to find one. I guess the ol' Lone Ranger took it to his grave with him! Outsourcing is just the latest attempt. I won't bore you with the other 2 dozen I've seen touted as the fix.
YMMV, I've actually had some good experiences with outsourcing to firms like WiPro,and very litte communication issues. Turnover is a fact in this business whether you use an Indian or other firm. I've not seen a significant difference.
In terms of skills, I work for a major three letter computer company and we sub a lot of work to WiPro and I've not heard any complaints about skill levels or wages. If someone in India makes $8/hr to have the same standard of living in the USA they would probably need to make $40. And some just don't want to come to the USA. No doubt there are some smart business people in India but they also like to stay home for whatever reason.
Quite a few years ago I had some imported Indian programmers on my team and when we talked tech they were pretty easy to understand but other times it was much harder to communicate. Personally I think that to get the rates down they hire employees with not as good English skills. But, the American firms who contract the work are demanding good English both written and verbal. It's all in how they negotiate the contracts.
You obviously have not been paying attention. Dell caught hell for lousy customer service outsourcing to India, and they saw repeat Sales drop. They have since moved a lot of the call centers back to the USA. If you want CHEAP go with Dell, but if you are a business beware the consequences. If you want ultra-reliable machines with enterprise level features then you need Sun or IBM servers, or the DL series from HP.
India is a great place for development,as they have very skilled programmers for cheap wages and "tech speak" has less problems with the language barriers than customer service.
Every Solaris junkie loves dtrace but that isn't keeping SUNW from looking like SGI these days
You want to elaborate? SGI is damn near Dead. SUNW has $4B in CASH in the bank. Don'tlook at the stock price and make all your decisions. Many investors hate SUNW as they took a big hit on the stock on the Internet "Bubble". Most of the Internet darling's went tits-up but Sun didn't. They make VERY good equipment and are very competitive in the market. In fact in some of their servers demand is so high they are backordered.
A V880 using Opterons..well all I can say is be patient. Some good things in the queue, if you contact somone at Sun and are willing to sign an NDA we can certainly talk more about the specifics of upcoming Opteron (and SPARC) products. We are always looking for early adopters and/or beta testers for new equipment in many different industries.
Very truthful, I'm an Architect in Pre-Sales for a large market in the Southwest. While I certainly give feedback on things to the product development teams they seem to have their own ideas about what the customer wants. Even though we are the "point of the spear" we often go unheard. The BAD thing about the Opterons is (IMHO) they are going to start stealing UltraSparc customers, they are just as powerful or more than the USIV+ and a LOT cheaper. Watch for some very exciting Operton architectures coming soon. Opterons also do good with Oracle RAC, using InfiniBand HBAs to hook up to 8 boxes in a RAC cluster for an very HA database.
The Good Samaritan was the person who GAVE expecting nothing in return. If someone dontates back what they got it's because they WANT to not they have to. Or if you want another Biblical reference how about "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". I perfectly understand what I'm saying, no one else missed the point. If I was off in the weeds Doc Ruby would have let me know it, the two of us have had some significant debates on things.
Overall,I do like the idea that you should give back what you got. Kind of the Good Samaritan approach.
I thought most of the demand for blood was due to accidents/trauma, not elective/routine surgery. Newer operating techniques make blood loss a lot less than before, even open heart surgery only requires a few pints in most cases. But Problem is the health care system CHARGED you for that blood (unless it was your own)which they got almost FREE so they should PAY you for the blood you give back or refund the fees paid. Thats not likely to happen.
As for organs of those who were themselves recipients that is an interesting point. I thought the recipients were pumped so full of anti-rejection drugs that very little if any of thier organs were "clean". Those drugs have some nasty side effects and taking them for a long time damages other organs. But I suppose things like bones, cornea's, skin could be OK.
Tissue rejection will kill you faster than Hepatitis or AIDS. Those can take 15-20 yrs, tissue rejection can kill you in a matter of months. Of course having no liver/heart can kill you even quicker. You make the call..risk catching a disease that is treatable but will eventually kill you in a decade or dying in a matter of days/weeks/months? If the tissue matches 99.9% are NOT going to ask where it came from, and in most cases the system does not allow the Docs to tell you where they got it.
I'd REALLY like to see Sun buy SGI and put NUMA into SPARC boxes. That combined with some other things I know are going on would be killer. Disclaimer..I work for Sun;) We spend way too much money buying software firms that don't make a big difference for our customers. Some really kick-ass new hardware (such as T1) would be nice.
You are forgetting Grid Computing where you can have 1000 or more CPUs working on the problem components or in parallel. I've seen some pretty hairy physics problems solved on these. Also, a fair amount of the scientific community seems to be buying the Sun SPARC IV+ architecture. Power 5 is going to be around a while, but when they start cranking the chips speeds past about 3.5GHz then they will need liquid cooling. Itanium is hanging by a thread. I wouldn't invest in that. Best new things I see on the horizon are some advanced AMD chips or the Sun "Rock" chip that will be hardware multithreaded like the Sparc T1 but have 8 FPUs to support 8 cores. I think in the next few years you'll have more than the choices you mention.
You got to remember the specJbb2005 tests are NOT designed to be extremely multithreaded and most of the tests run on 1 JVM. I can run 32 simultaneous threads on a T2000 and only 8 on an 4 CPU 8way Opteron/Xeon. The Opteron clock speed is about 2X. IMNSHO, the specJBB isn't giving a fair reading as in the specWEB the T2000 wins big. On the specWeb the T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) scored 14001. I looked at the results for a IBM p550 with 4 Dual Core CPUs (POWER 5 chip) and it made a 7881. A Dell 2850 with 4 dual Core Xeons made a 4850. Another way to look at the T1 chip is as a 9.6GHz chip (8 * 1.2GHz). If you are really curious go to Sun.com and get your free 60 day eval on a T2000. I bet you'll be amazed.
Your mailing list archives are PUBLIC and searchable? Remind me not to subscribe. Things said on a private list (i.e. not AOL/Yahoo) should remain among the group members.
I don't know where you went to B-school but they never said that where I went (Top 25 MBA). We were more trained on the Type-A fast tracker who burns out, and the things to NOT do to keep your career going ahead. Your dress is somewhat important, you can't be a slob, but getting RESULTS in your area is the most important. How to maximize your effectiveness with minimm use of your time was stressed.
The HR types like the touchy-feely stuff like "Emotional Intelligence" whereas the other areas such as Finance, Marketing and Management were pure results driven. We all took Meyers-Briggs Personality Profiles and thats about all the psycho-babble we had to put up with. Having been in the IT area over 25 yrs I find personality profiles to be pretty much useless in determining if someone will succeed.
If all your lawyer is going to do is negotiate, you are better off taking the issue to binding arbitration. It's cheaper,no lawyers are required or involved and the decision is final AND Legal. You hire a lawyer to WIN, not compromise. In the end game winning may involve compromise but lawyers don't go into a case thinking like that.
Cool Threads is named for the T1 multihtreading chips that run a LOT cooler than the Hyperthreading (which is a poor imitation of Multi-Threading) Xeons. The T1 chip consumes about 65-70 watts versus over 100 for a Xeon. Internal chip temps are also not as high meaning you don't need as big of a heat sink and massive airflow (or liquid cooling) for the chips.
VERY VERY wrong,the T1000/T2000 family is the Ultrasparc T1 (note the 'T') chip which has Chip Multi-threading. If you want to think of it a different way think of it as an US VI chip. However, you don't want to use the T1000/T2000 for floating point. All 8 cores currently share a pair of FPUs so for compute heavy tasks use the US IV+ or Opteron based servers.
Actually most scientists I have know are as anal about proof of a Theory as any lawyer. Probably more so as the lawyer only has to beat his adversary at trial,the scientist has to convince his peers in the entire community who will pick at his Theory unmercifully looking for holes.
As to conflicting with your story, it does in a few places. Not major disagreement but with Global Warning we know so little in reality that a small difference can throw off the measurements. Based on the data I have seen and trust (from NASA experiments and from the UAH Climatology Center) IF there is any warming it is quite small. People starting harping on Global Warming in the late 1980s and predicted we would see NYC flooded by now. Last time I looked that hadn't happened and the weather pattern changes predicted have not either.
Theory derives from Hypothesis. Hypotheses can be proven true or proven false by experimentation and/or other evidence. Absence of the false case in a Hypothesis does NOT prove the True case. It only means you cannot disprove it, it lends weight to the True case but does not prove it. Theories have been published and proven wrong all thru the History of Science. Global Warming is a HYPOTHESIS not a Theory, and based on what I have seen it's borderline crackpot just like Darwin.
Neither one of you is 100% right or 100% wrong. See http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/cli mate_effects.html
Global Warming and Ozone Holes are THEORIES until we really know how what we observe (or think we observe) can be validated via scientific proof via experiments. We know a lot less about climate than we think we do.
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No, you need layer 4-7. Not just layer 7. And not just any switch, it has to do load balancing, virutalization and it would be nice to have SSL. Cisco and Sun are the only ones I know of right now who have switches that do all that. Perhaps there are others (F5, Nokia, etc) but for sure Cisco is the big dog in the market.
Compare it to the Sun N2040 switch which lists for 38K. That switch plus Xen or VMWare and you got the same thing. Plus the Sun switch isn't tied to Java, it'll work with any OS and applicaton that supports virtualization.
It's not from Sun, its from a small company with Sun ex-employees. IMNSHO, This really isn't news. It's just another type of load balancing. In fact, some of the hottest new load balancing boxes from Sun (N1), Cisco and others can do this now. So what can this do they can't by themselves or in combination with Xen/VMware?
There is no silver bullet. I've worked all sides of the fence in development, management and consulting for Government and Commerical customers and have yet to find one. I guess the ol' Lone Ranger took it to his grave with him! Outsourcing is just the latest attempt. I won't bore you with the other 2 dozen I've seen touted as the fix.
You mean like Monster.com or other job sites? ;)
YMMV, I've actually had some good experiences with outsourcing to firms like WiPro,and very litte communication issues. Turnover is a fact in this business whether you use an Indian or other firm. I've not seen a significant difference. In terms of skills, I work for a major three letter computer company and we sub a lot of work to WiPro and I've not heard any complaints about skill levels or wages. If someone in India makes $8/hr to have the same standard of living in the USA they would probably need to make $40. And some just don't want to come to the USA. No doubt there are some smart business people in India but they also like to stay home for whatever reason. Quite a few years ago I had some imported Indian programmers on my team and when we talked tech they were pretty easy to understand but other times it was much harder to communicate. Personally I think that to get the rates down they hire employees with not as good English skills. But, the American firms who contract the work are demanding good English both written and verbal. It's all in how they negotiate the contracts.
You obviously have not been paying attention. Dell caught hell for lousy customer service outsourcing to India, and they saw repeat Sales drop. They have since moved a lot of the call centers back to the USA. If you want CHEAP go with Dell, but if you are a business beware the consequences. If you want ultra-reliable machines with enterprise level features then you need Sun or IBM servers, or the DL series from HP.
India is a great place for development,as they have very skilled programmers for cheap wages and "tech speak" has less problems with the language barriers than customer service.
Every Solaris junkie loves dtrace but that isn't keeping SUNW from looking like SGI these days You want to elaborate? SGI is damn near Dead. SUNW has $4B in CASH in the bank. Don'tlook at the stock price and make all your decisions. Many investors hate SUNW as they took a big hit on the stock on the Internet "Bubble". Most of the Internet darling's went tits-up but Sun didn't. They make VERY good equipment and are very competitive in the market. In fact in some of their servers demand is so high they are backordered.
A V880 using Opterons..well all I can say is be patient. Some good things in the queue, if you contact somone at Sun and are willing to sign an NDA we can certainly talk more about the specifics of upcoming Opteron (and SPARC) products. We are always looking for early adopters and/or beta testers for new equipment in many different industries.
Very truthful, I'm an Architect in Pre-Sales for a large market in the Southwest. While I certainly give feedback on things to the product development teams they seem to have their own ideas about what the customer wants. Even though we are the "point of the spear" we often go unheard. The BAD thing about the Opterons is (IMHO) they are going to start stealing UltraSparc customers, they are just as powerful or more than the USIV+ and a LOT cheaper. Watch for some very exciting Operton architectures coming soon. Opterons also do good with Oracle RAC, using InfiniBand HBAs to hook up to 8 boxes in a RAC cluster for an very HA database.
The Good Samaritan was the person who GAVE expecting nothing in return. If someone dontates back what they got it's because they WANT to not they have to. Or if you want another Biblical reference how about "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". I perfectly understand what I'm saying, no one else missed the point. If I was off in the weeds Doc Ruby would have let me know it, the two of us have had some significant debates on things.
Overall,I do like the idea that you should give back what you got. Kind of the Good Samaritan approach. I thought most of the demand for blood was due to accidents/trauma, not elective/routine surgery. Newer operating techniques make blood loss a lot less than before, even open heart surgery only requires a few pints in most cases. But Problem is the health care system CHARGED you for that blood (unless it was your own)which they got almost FREE so they should PAY you for the blood you give back or refund the fees paid. Thats not likely to happen. As for organs of those who were themselves recipients that is an interesting point. I thought the recipients were pumped so full of anti-rejection drugs that very little if any of thier organs were "clean". Those drugs have some nasty side effects and taking them for a long time damages other organs. But I suppose things like bones, cornea's, skin could be OK.
Tissue rejection will kill you faster than Hepatitis or AIDS. Those can take 15-20 yrs, tissue rejection can kill you in a matter of months. Of course having no liver/heart can kill you even quicker. You make the call..risk catching a disease that is treatable but will eventually kill you in a decade or dying in a matter of days/weeks/months? If the tissue matches 99.9% are NOT going to ask where it came from, and in most cases the system does not allow the Docs to tell you where they got it.
They can transplant skin too..
I'd REALLY like to see Sun buy SGI and put NUMA into SPARC boxes. That combined with some other things I know are going on would be killer. Disclaimer..I work for Sun ;) We spend way too much money buying software firms that don't make a big difference for our customers. Some really kick-ass new hardware (such as T1) would be nice.
You are forgetting Grid Computing where you can have 1000 or more CPUs working on the problem components or in parallel. I've seen some pretty hairy physics problems solved on these. Also, a fair amount of the scientific community seems to be buying the Sun SPARC IV+ architecture. Power 5 is going to be around a while, but when they start cranking the chips speeds past about 3.5GHz then they will need liquid cooling. Itanium is hanging by a thread. I wouldn't invest in that. Best new things I see on the horizon are some advanced AMD chips or the Sun "Rock" chip that will be hardware multithreaded like the Sparc T1 but have 8 FPUs to support 8 cores. I think in the next few years you'll have more than the choices you mention.
You got to remember the specJbb2005 tests are NOT designed to be extremely multithreaded and most of the tests run on 1 JVM. I can run 32 simultaneous threads on a T2000 and only 8 on an 4 CPU 8way Opteron/Xeon. The Opteron clock speed is about 2X. IMNSHO, the specJBB isn't giving a fair reading as in the specWEB the T2000 wins big. On the specWeb the T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) scored 14001. I looked at the results for a IBM p550 with 4 Dual Core CPUs (POWER 5 chip) and it made a 7881. A Dell 2850 with 4 dual Core Xeons made a 4850. Another way to look at the T1 chip is as a 9.6GHz chip (8 * 1.2GHz). If you are really curious go to Sun.com and get your free 60 day eval on a T2000. I bet you'll be amazed.
Your mailing list archives are PUBLIC and searchable? Remind me not to subscribe. Things said on a private list (i.e. not AOL/Yahoo) should remain among the group members.
I don't know where you went to B-school but they never said that where I went (Top 25 MBA). We were more trained on the Type-A fast tracker who burns out, and the things to NOT do to keep your career going ahead. Your dress is somewhat important, you can't be a slob, but getting RESULTS in your area is the most important. How to maximize your effectiveness with minimm use of your time was stressed. The HR types like the touchy-feely stuff like "Emotional Intelligence" whereas the other areas such as Finance, Marketing and Management were pure results driven. We all took Meyers-Briggs Personality Profiles and thats about all the psycho-babble we had to put up with. Having been in the IT area over 25 yrs I find personality profiles to be pretty much useless in determining if someone will succeed.
If all your lawyer is going to do is negotiate, you are better off taking the issue to binding arbitration. It's cheaper,no lawyers are required or involved and the decision is final AND Legal. You hire a lawyer to WIN, not compromise. In the end game winning may involve compromise but lawyers don't go into a case thinking like that.
Cool Threads is named for the T1 multihtreading chips that run a LOT cooler than the Hyperthreading (which is a poor imitation of Multi-Threading) Xeons. The T1 chip consumes about 65-70 watts versus over 100 for a Xeon. Internal chip temps are also not as high meaning you don't need as big of a heat sink and massive airflow (or liquid cooling) for the chips.
VERY VERY wrong,the T1000/T2000 family is the Ultrasparc T1 (note the 'T') chip which has Chip Multi-threading. If you want to think of it a different way think of it as an US VI chip. However, you don't want to use the T1000/T2000 for floating point. All 8 cores currently share a pair of FPUs so for compute heavy tasks use the US IV+ or Opteron based servers.
Actually most scientists I have know are as anal about proof of a Theory as any lawyer. Probably more so as the lawyer only has to beat his adversary at trial,the scientist has to convince his peers in the entire community who will pick at his Theory unmercifully looking for holes. As to conflicting with your story, it does in a few places. Not major disagreement but with Global Warning we know so little in reality that a small difference can throw off the measurements. Based on the data I have seen and trust (from NASA experiments and from the UAH Climatology Center) IF there is any warming it is quite small. People starting harping on Global Warming in the late 1980s and predicted we would see NYC flooded by now. Last time I looked that hadn't happened and the weather pattern changes predicted have not either.
Theory derives from Hypothesis. Hypotheses can be proven true or proven false by experimentation and/or other evidence. Absence of the false case in a Hypothesis does NOT prove the True case. It only means you cannot disprove it, it lends weight to the True case but does not prove it. Theories have been published and proven wrong all thru the History of Science. Global Warming is a HYPOTHESIS not a Theory, and based on what I have seen it's borderline crackpot just like Darwin.
Neither one of you is 100% right or 100% wrong. See http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/cli mate_effects.html
Global Warming and Ozone Holes are THEORIES until we really know how what we observe (or think we observe) can be validated via scientific proof via experiments. We know a lot less about climate than we think we do.