well, that's true but accessing that amount of memory, via a windows program, is not likely for any single processor in the SMP scenarios that you describe above. 128GB but its 16 per processor and not shared afaik... I don't do much on more than 2processor boxes
My company (and me specifically) designed/built/runs a Windows 2000 cluster. It's not as affordable as a linux cluster, but our simulation engine is a windows-only product and there does not exist anything close for other platforms (I wish!!!). We have a huge efficiency rating with our in-house designed cluster system. A simulation that takes 8 minutes on a single serial processor takes less than 1 minute on an 8 computer cluster. Yes, you read that right, we are more efficient in a cluster than on a serial system.
It comes from how the simulation work is designed certainly, and then it comes down to available addressable memory. In a single 32bit system (under win2k) we can access ~2-3gb of memory for our simulation work. When we approach that limit for a single simulation, we see an incredible slow down due to swapping. By clustering the work, not only do we get the multiple processors working together to complete the simulation faster, but we use less memory per processor, eliminating (limiting) any HD swap slow down.
Eventually I suspect that 128bit systems will remove that inherent problem, we have simulations that easily take 16+gb of memory to complete that we just can't run on a single system. Until then, clusters are the way to go.
Who cares about the olympics, when we're being outpaced in the sciences we'll have nothing left to convince other nations to loan us the billions of dollars needed to cover our debts...
Way to screw science (in yet another way) you Right-To-Life fuckers!
I disagree with you both. The Fed did fuck up. The local gov did fuck up too, but the Fed should have been better ready to handle the situation. They could have called a pre-emptive evacuation on Thursday, but the weathermen weren't sure until Sat/Sun.
The federal government should have seen that regardless of where the hurricane was going to hit the gulf coast, that a response would be needed. They could have started sending the navy on the Thursday before it hit instead of taking 4+ crucial recovery days to travel there.
Every year for the past 5 years, the US congress has had to override Bush's request for cuts in funding to the leavies in NO. Every year.
I hope Bush is held accountable for his glaring disregard for the people of the gulf coast.
- Looking forward to the War on Weather!
I don't get the point. Why bother making any distro then? There's huge commercial ones out there that do everything.
Slack is powerful and simple. Some of the other distros are simple. And that's good. Some of the other distros are powerful. and that's good. Slack might not be simple to the novice *nix user, but it's not too hard, and to get a real lean mean server going under Slack is much easier than what some of the 'big' distros require.
Slack might not find a place in the IT center of a serious enterprise, but Trevor, that guy in IT who is the _one_ to call to fix your IT problem, that guy, he probably runs Slack at home. Isn't that viable/worthwhile?
Perhaps because Christianity is the one that has the biggest head about how 'correct/right' their beliefs are and how 'wrong' other religions beliefs are. All the major organized religions have this same problem, but whoa the Christians have a flock of winners.
I left a steady job that I could have continued because of a hefty change to the work environment. My small company was bought by a large multi-national. I spent a year there afterwards (for retention bonus, and to see how things were headed). When I saw that the way I had been working for the past 4 years was going to change a whole lot, and that I would be the one responsible for implementing the change to my own work, I realized that I was in my own little tower of power and could forestall those changes until either I was fired or otherwise hurting my reputation. I left before any of that.
They have 3 or 4 or more people doing my work now. I went to work for another small startup. 3 years into it, I've got an unhealthy amount of debt, but am happier than I'd been for years.
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well, that's true but accessing that amount of memory, via a windows program, is not likely for any single processor in the SMP scenarios that you describe above. 128GB but its 16 per processor and not shared afaik... I don't do much on more than 2processor boxes
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My company (and me specifically) designed/built/runs a Windows 2000 cluster. It's not as affordable as a linux cluster, but our simulation engine is a windows-only product and there does not exist anything close for other platforms (I wish!!!). We have a huge efficiency rating with our in-house designed cluster system. A simulation that takes 8 minutes on a single serial processor takes less than 1 minute on an 8 computer cluster. Yes, you read that right, we are more efficient in a cluster than on a serial system.
It comes from how the simulation work is designed certainly, and then it comes down to available addressable memory. In a single 32bit system (under win2k) we can access ~2-3gb of memory for our simulation work. When we approach that limit for a single simulation, we see an incredible slow down due to swapping. By clustering the work, not only do we get the multiple processors working together to complete the simulation faster, but we use less memory per processor, eliminating (limiting) any HD swap slow down.
Eventually I suspect that 128bit systems will remove that inherent problem, we have simulations that easily take 16+gb of memory to complete that we just can't run on a single system. Until then, clusters are the way to go.
Who cares about the olympics, when we're being outpaced in the sciences we'll have nothing left to convince other nations to loan us the billions of dollars needed to cover our debts... Way to screw science (in yet another way) you Right-To-Life fuckers!
a single drive that could store an entire year's worth of PR0N in DivX format!
it is I believe an audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device...
I disagree with you both. The Fed did fuck up. The local gov did fuck up too, but the Fed should have been better ready to handle the situation. They could have called a pre-emptive evacuation on Thursday, but the weathermen weren't sure until Sat/Sun. The federal government should have seen that regardless of where the hurricane was going to hit the gulf coast, that a response would be needed. They could have started sending the navy on the Thursday before it hit instead of taking 4+ crucial recovery days to travel there. Every year for the past 5 years, the US congress has had to override Bush's request for cuts in funding to the leavies in NO. Every year. I hope Bush is held accountable for his glaring disregard for the people of the gulf coast. - Looking forward to the War on Weather!
I don't get the point. Why bother making any distro then? There's huge commercial ones out there that do everything. Slack is powerful and simple. Some of the other distros are simple. And that's good. Some of the other distros are powerful. and that's good. Slack might not be simple to the novice *nix user, but it's not too hard, and to get a real lean mean server going under Slack is much easier than what some of the 'big' distros require. Slack might not find a place in the IT center of a serious enterprise, but Trevor, that guy in IT who is the _one_ to call to fix your IT problem, that guy, he probably runs Slack at home. Isn't that viable/worthwhile?
at SW:RotS they gave out free copies of SW:G and Jump to Lightspeed. guess sony was a bit too overstocked /ducks
I can't wait till they take the downloaded brains' intelligence and implement them into games. I wanna have a pet GWB! Or blow one away in Halflife 30
Perhaps because Christianity is the one that has the biggest head about how 'correct/right' their beliefs are and how 'wrong' other religions beliefs are. All the major organized religions have this same problem, but whoa the Christians have a flock of winners.
I left a steady job that I could have continued because of a hefty change to the work environment. My small company was bought by a large multi-national. I spent a year there afterwards (for retention bonus, and to see how things were headed). When I saw that the way I had been working for the past 4 years was going to change a whole lot, and that I would be the one responsible for implementing the change to my own work, I realized that I was in my own little tower of power and could forestall those changes until either I was fired or otherwise hurting my reputation. I left before any of that. They have 3 or 4 or more people doing my work now. I went to work for another small startup. 3 years into it, I've got an unhealthy amount of debt, but am happier than I'd been for years.