They measure the bandwidth rates at the show floor interconnect. This was not a toy demonstration, the endpoints of the connects were thousands of miles away and they used real data with real physics applications. The total bandwidth is not the number that impresses me, but the percentage of available bandwidth actually used is pretty impressive.
Is it really IP over AC power or is it the power company as your ISP? The first doesn't make a lot of sense, but the second does as they already have the right of ways and infrastructure.
Of the 3 wires to your house, power, cable tv and phone only one has enough power to run other stuff. Like microwave relay links and wireless access points. If wireless is really the future, only the power company has all the existing infrastructure in place already to make it happen.
The power companies have been trying to figure out how to get in the ISP game since at least the early 90's. While I don't think IP over AC is the answer, a WAP on every transformer might be.
Actually it was a failed INFOCOM style game that turned into a book after the programming effort collapsed. Novels in general make terrible movies, short stories work a lot better.
Actually, real fortan programs tend to be quite large. Not OS large, but 10 to 100 megabytes of source code is not uncommon. The typical program is hacked on by grad students two or three at time over the progress of years.
My rumor mill suggests that the San Diego Supercomputer Center will be doing the review.
This is quite different from handing it to
some random CS department. Not necessarily
better, but different. SDSC is one of the
NSF funded Supercomputer centers. They are
more closely associated with UCSD now than
when I worked there, but it's definitely a
research center, not a university department.
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You got it in one.... The box will be here soon, but not running until August.
_ Booker C. Bense
They measure the bandwidth rates at the show floor interconnect. This was not a toy demonstration, the endpoints of the connects were thousands of miles away and they used real data with real physics applications. The total bandwidth is not the number that impresses me, but the percentage of
available bandwidth actually used is pretty impressive.
_ Booker C. Bense
Is it really IP over AC power or is it the power company as your
ISP? The first doesn't make a lot of sense, but the second does
as they already have the right of ways and infrastructure.
Of the 3 wires to your house, power, cable tv and phone
only one has enough power to run other stuff. Like microwave
relay links and wireless access points. If wireless is really
the future, only the power company has all the existing
infrastructure in place already to make it happen.
The power companies have been trying to figure out how
to get in the ISP game since at least the early 90's. While
I don't think IP over AC is the answer, a WAP on every
transformer might be.
_ Booker C. Bense
Actually it was a failed INFOCOM style game that turned into
a book after the programming effort collapsed. Novels in
general make terrible movies, short stories work a lot better.
Actually, real fortan programs tend to be quite large.
Not OS large, but 10 to 100 megabytes of source code is not
uncommon. The typical program is hacked on by grad
students two or three at time over the progress of years.
My rumor mill suggests that the San Diego Supercomputer Center will be doing the review.
This is quite different from handing it to
some random CS department. Not necessarily
better, but different. SDSC is one of the
NSF funded Supercomputer centers. They are
more closely associated with UCSD now than
when I worked there, but it's definitely a
research center, not a university department.
- There is plan9 for the x86 architecture. It's
very much not unix, or it's what unix should have
been, depends on how you think.