hmm... not to troll (that means don't hurt me, I am not trolling or making a bad comment), but when have we seen a company blaming it's own failures on someone else and then going lawsuit crazy over it?
Analog film cameras: There are still a lot of things you can't do as well digitally, but even if that were not the case, that's missing the point. Photography is an activity, just like snowboarding or building hotrods. Even if digital was better across the board, a lot of people would still use film cameras, just as a lot of people kept painting after film arrived.
"And anybody who says that Windows 95 doesn't support USB needs to tell that to my USB scanner that works fine.
Well, Win95 was not initially released with USB support. So that's where that comes from, because it is partially based in reality. Mods: don't hurt me, I'm not posting any flamebait, or anything else bad. I'm trying to be informative.
They get the shit kicked out of them every time they go online. They take their junky Gateways back to PC shops to 'wipe and reinstall' every six months. They lose files because 'I know I didn't download that file to my hard drive - I downloaded it to my desktop instead' and then they can't find it.
You tell them the simplest things to get them out of the most complex situations and they demand 'user friendly'. They want products that cure only the latest ill and demand at most one mouse click.
Wonder of wonders the world (the Internet) is as it is. And wonder of wonders is that it's taken the sophisticated malware engineers so long to get sophisticated.
There's a slaughter going on, and although MS are responsible with their crappy stuff, the users are also responsible - for using it. And I hope we've heard the last of that classic line 'it only affects Windows users', because it should be evident to even the most brain-dead MS fanatic at this point that the entire Internet is affected.
It's time to put up some housing ordinances so MS users aren't allowed to ruin the neighbourhood. High time and beyond.
"...is it that Mac OS X isn't as widely deployed as windows and isn't used as much..."
Not to troll, but that's exactly right, and some people just don't have a grudge against Apple for the same reason: it's not used as much. I'm sure if by some cosmic abnormality Apple/Mac became just as used, there'd be some Mac Virii out there in force.
By Jan Stafford, Editor 12 Apr 2004 | SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Linux clustering was touted as the next big thing by many vendors last week at ClusterWorld Conference & Expo 2004.
But supercomputer vendor Cray Inc. scoffed at the notion of putting Linux clusters in the high-performance computing (HPC) category. In fact, Cray showcased a system -- Cray XD1 with Active Manager -- that will compete in performance and price with some Linux clusters upon its release..
Despite assertions made by Linux vendors, a Linux cluster is not a high performance computer, said Dr. Paul Terry, CTO of Cray Canada. "At best, clusters are a loose collection of unmanaged, individual, microprocessor-based computers."
Businesses shouldn't expect supercomputer performance from Linux clusters, Terry warned.
"Cluster vendors would have you believe that their performance is the linear sum of each of their respective GFLOPS [Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second]," he said. "Most cluster [experts] know now that users are fortunate to get more than 8% of the peak performance in sustained performance."
Linux clusters do have a place. "For applications that require low performance, they are a cheaper solution," said Terry.
With XD1, Cray intends to make HPC a cheaper solution, too. "With the Cray XD1, Cray will introduce new price points that should make HPC solutions more available to industries that before couldn't afford such devices," Terry said.
Cray XD1 was developed by OctigaBay Systems Corp., a Vancouver, B.C., Canada-based company acquired by Cray on April 2. Formerly OctigaBay 12K, Cray XD1 will be released to some companies for testing in May. Full release is expected later this year.
The acquisition of OctigaBay's technology will allow Cray to move into new markets by "doing supercomputing on a smaller scale with some commercial, off-the-shelf components," said analyst Richard Partridge, vice president of Enterprise Server Solutions for DH Brown in Port Chester, N.Y. "Cray just can't shrink its custom-built supercomputer designs," he said. Having the ability to put a value-added HPC solution on AMD processors is a good way to move downmarket.
Cray XD1 marries the performance of large SMPs with the economics of cluster solutions, according to Terry. It will also pair new interconnect and management technologies with AMD Opteron 64-bit processors in a direct-connected processor architecture. Its parallel-processing capabilities will directly link together processors to relieve memory contention and interconnect bottlenecks found in cluster systems.
"The Cray XD1 is not a traditional cluster; it does not use I/O interfaces for memory and message passing semantics," said Terry. "For HPC, the most important thing is application performance, and the Cray XD1 is specifically designed to maximize application performance."
In some situations, XD1 would be a good replacement for very high-end Linux clusters, Partridge said. He sees the XD1 providing more "compute performance for the dollar" for organizations that do heavy number and data crunching and analysis. He noted, however, that Cray has shown analysts a limited amount of information about the new products.
Terry believes that individual copies of Linux used for HPC today are intrinsically "heavy" and run independently on multiple processors, significantly adding to the difficulty of managing clusters.
XD1's integrated management software -- Active Manager -- will eliminate the "FCAPS" management ills common to clusters. "Fault, configuration, accounting, provisioning and security" are not handled well by current cluster management solutions, he said. "Often times, [management] appears to be done as an afterthought instead of being designed into the system from the ground up," he said.
Active Manager, which was demonstrated at ClusterWorld, offers a single-point of system administration and contr
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allah will crush his enemies
all praises to him
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amen
hmm... not to troll (that means don't hurt me, I am not trolling or making a bad comment), but when have we seen a company blaming it's own failures on someone else and then going lawsuit crazy over it?
this sounds very familiar indeed
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praise allah
glorious jihad
amen
How long until this runs on linux?
Why should we hire you in the first place?
(this is not a troll! it's an honest question!)
can we get a list so we see who duplcates whose stories?
-The Microphone Phantom
whatcha gonna do when the 5.33 hz of raw power comes running after you, brohter?!
excuse me, but I use winrar on my xp machine and gzip on my linux box
Netcraft now confrims: PKZIP is dead.
crap post
allah is great
karma will be mine
all praises to allah
amen
In the great and holy name of Allah
karma will be mine
allah is great; praise be to him
I will strike infidels without mercy
Amen
no, it's like this:
#!/usr/bin/python
while DarlsWallet:
DarlsWallet -= 699
Lawyer += 699
raise SystemExit, "we're out of money!"
Analog film cameras: There are still a lot of things you can't do as well digitally, but even if that were not the case, that's missing the point. Photography is an activity, just like snowboarding or building hotrods. Even if digital was better across the board, a lot of people would still use film cameras, just as a lot of people kept painting after film arrived.
karma will be mine
allah is great; praise be to him
crap post
glorious jihad
amen
allah is great
crap post
karma will be mine
farewell all
well now it's a DDoS'd machine
Well, Win95 was not initially released with USB support. So that's where that comes from, because it is partially based in reality. Mods: don't hurt me, I'm not posting any flamebait, or anything else bad. I'm trying to be informative.
They get the shit kicked out of them every time they go online. They take their junky Gateways back to PC shops to 'wipe and reinstall' every six months. They lose files because 'I know I didn't download that file to my hard drive - I downloaded it to my desktop instead' and then they can't find it.
You tell them the simplest things to get them out of the most complex situations and they demand 'user friendly'. They want products that cure only the latest ill and demand at most one mouse click.
Wonder of wonders the world (the Internet) is as it is. And wonder of wonders is that it's taken the sophisticated malware engineers so long to get sophisticated.
There's a slaughter going on, and although MS are responsible with their crappy stuff, the users are also responsible - for using it. And I hope we've heard the last of that classic line 'it only affects Windows users', because it should be evident to even the most brain-dead MS fanatic at this point that the entire Internet is affected.
It's time to put up some housing ordinances so MS users aren't allowed to ruin the neighbourhood. High time and beyond.
Not to troll, but that's exactly right, and some people just don't have a grudge against Apple for the same reason: it's not used as much. I'm sure if by some cosmic abnormality Apple/Mac became just as used, there'd be some Mac Virii out there in force.
Use == Popularity == Painting a TARGET
lol rofl
I wish that were true, but this injunction was brought in Munich, which has very little impact on cases currently pending in the United States.
SCO has behaved very differently in Germany, from what bas been read--and apparently for good reason.
Did you RTFA? The thing doesn't conduct electricity. After all, they did have some electronics immersed in the stuff WHILE RUNNING.
Parent is goatse link! DO NOT CLICK!
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allah is great
karma will be mine
I love mindsuck.
Amen.
"Windows(TM) has a lower TCO than Linux"
-Microsoft ad campaign
(mods: don't hurt me. I mean nothing but to contribute to good discussion.)
Cray CTO: Linux clusters don't play in HPC
By Jan Stafford, Editor
12 Apr 2004 | SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Linux clustering was touted as the next big thing by many vendors last week at ClusterWorld Conference & Expo 2004.
But supercomputer vendor Cray Inc. scoffed at the notion of putting Linux clusters in the high-performance computing (HPC) category. In fact, Cray showcased a system -- Cray XD1 with Active Manager -- that will compete in performance and price with some Linux clusters upon its release..
Despite assertions made by Linux vendors, a Linux cluster is not a high performance computer, said Dr. Paul Terry, CTO of Cray Canada. "At best, clusters are a loose collection of unmanaged, individual, microprocessor-based computers."
Businesses shouldn't expect supercomputer performance from Linux clusters, Terry warned.
"Cluster vendors would have you believe that their performance is the linear sum of each of their respective GFLOPS [Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second]," he said. "Most cluster [experts] know now that users are fortunate to get more than 8% of the peak performance in sustained performance."
Linux clusters do have a place. "For applications that require low performance, they are a cheaper solution," said Terry.
With XD1, Cray intends to make HPC a cheaper solution, too. "With the Cray XD1, Cray will introduce new price points that should make HPC solutions more available to industries that before couldn't afford such devices," Terry said.
Cray XD1 was developed by OctigaBay Systems Corp., a Vancouver, B.C., Canada-based company acquired by Cray on April 2. Formerly OctigaBay 12K, Cray XD1 will be released to some companies for testing in May. Full release is expected later this year.
The acquisition of OctigaBay's technology will allow Cray to move into new markets by "doing supercomputing on a smaller scale with some commercial, off-the-shelf components," said analyst Richard Partridge, vice president of Enterprise Server Solutions for DH Brown in Port Chester, N.Y. "Cray just can't shrink its custom-built supercomputer designs," he said. Having the ability to put a value-added HPC solution on AMD processors is a good way to move downmarket.
Cray XD1 marries the performance of large SMPs with the economics of cluster solutions, according to Terry. It will also pair new interconnect and management technologies with AMD Opteron 64-bit processors in a direct-connected processor architecture. Its parallel-processing capabilities will directly link together processors to relieve memory contention and interconnect bottlenecks found in cluster systems.
"The Cray XD1 is not a traditional cluster; it does not use I/O interfaces for memory and message passing semantics," said Terry. "For HPC, the most important thing is application performance, and the Cray XD1 is specifically designed to maximize application performance."
In some situations, XD1 would be a good replacement for very high-end Linux clusters, Partridge said. He sees the XD1 providing more "compute performance for the dollar" for organizations that do heavy number and data crunching and analysis. He noted, however, that Cray has shown analysts a limited amount of information about the new products.
Terry believes that individual copies of Linux used for HPC today are intrinsically "heavy" and run independently on multiple processors, significantly adding to the difficulty of managing clusters.
XD1's integrated management software -- Active Manager -- will eliminate the "FCAPS" management ills common to clusters. "Fault, configuration, accounting, provisioning and security" are not handled well by current cluster management solutions, he said. "Often times, [management] appears to be done as an afterthought instead of being designed into the system from the ground up," he said.
Active Manager, which was demonstrated at ClusterWorld, offers a single-point of system administration and contr