It took them long enough to figure out Amazon was infringing their patent.
I thought there was some similar problem a while ago with NetPerceptions and Amazon.
It was a customer requirment.
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Cray built this system to spec for a large customer who demanded the use of the Opterons. They decided to market it sonce they were going to build it anyway. If that customer had not requested this i doubt Cray would have built it that way. look for iformation on Red Storm.
It's probably more than one rack, though.
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Cray, and most other large system manufacurers, usually put four CPUs on a single board. Each board plugs into a backplane. I'm just guessing here, but you can probably only fit 256 or so in a single cabinet.
Here are a few tidbits I know about outsourcing to India:
1. India (I believe TATA) is home to one of the first two SEI Level 5 software organizations - the other was the NASA shuttle group.
2. Programmers in India are more like $35 per hour rather than $5.
3. The time difference can actually be a benefit as customers can test during the day things that were coded durning the night before.
4. Anyone who has changes to go to code going to production in 30 minutes with a million lines should really review their processes and standards. That sounds like an invitation to failure.
5. Programmers got spoiled just like stock market bubble surfers during the 90's. It makes completely no sense to pay a VB or HTMl guy $80 per hour. I saw even higer rates than that.
To summarize: the Indians are getting the business because they are good programmers who have a good process and charge what the work is worth. The Indian rates have been rising steadily over the past few years and will equalize soon. So I don't really believe the Ameircan programmer is going the way of the Dodo bird.
I am currently working on neural simulations of the motor cortex. The machines I have for development are dual pentium IIIs - the production environment is 128 processor linux cluster. I have compiled my programs both with gcc and intel and have to say the pentium III sse compiler directives and loop optimizations appear to produce faster code (approx. 10% faster) using the Intel compiler. This means a lot on a real simulation (approx 30 hours).
So if your goal is to get code to run fast on Intel platform the Intel compiler may have it's advantages.
I remember from the whole debate a few years ago about phone company services that would reject blocked numbers that there were some professions such as social worker and public defender that made a case for hiding their home and personal cell phone numbers. A legitimate use in this case would have the spoofed number appear as their government office number, rather than their home phone.
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It took them long enough to figure out Amazon was infringing their patent.
I thought there was some similar problem a while ago with NetPerceptions and Amazon.
Cray built this system to spec for a large customer who demanded the use of the Opterons. They decided to market it sonce they were going to build it anyway. If that customer had not requested this i doubt Cray would have built it that way. look for iformation on Red Storm.
Cray, and most other large system manufacurers, usually put four CPUs on a single board. Each board plugs into a backplane. I'm just guessing here, but you can probably only fit 256 or so in a single cabinet.
They openned one of the voting machines up and found a bunch of cash cards pressing against the electronics.
At the same time banks received a larger than usual number of complaints about faulty ATMs.
Here are a few tidbits I know about outsourcing to India:
1. India (I believe TATA) is home to one of the first two SEI Level 5 software organizations - the other was the NASA shuttle group.
2. Programmers in India are more like $35 per hour rather than $5.
3. The time difference can actually be a benefit as customers can test during the day things that were coded durning the night before.
4. Anyone who has changes to go to code going to production in 30 minutes with a million lines should really review their processes and standards. That sounds like an invitation to failure.
5. Programmers got spoiled just like stock market bubble surfers during the 90's. It makes completely no sense to pay a VB or HTMl guy $80 per hour. I saw even higer rates than that.
To summarize: the Indians are getting the business because they are good programmers who have a good process and charge what the work is worth. The Indian rates have been rising steadily over the past few years and will equalize soon. So I don't really believe the Ameircan programmer is going the way of the Dodo bird.
I am currently working on neural simulations of the motor cortex. The machines I have for development are dual pentium IIIs - the production environment is 128 processor linux cluster. I have compiled my programs both with gcc and intel and have to say the pentium III sse compiler directives and loop optimizations appear to produce faster code (approx. 10% faster) using the Intel compiler. This means a lot on a real simulation (approx 30 hours).
So if your goal is to get code to run fast on Intel platform the Intel compiler may have it's advantages.
I remember from the whole debate a few years ago about phone company services that would reject blocked numbers that there were some professions such as social worker and public defender that made a case for hiding their home and personal cell phone numbers. A legitimate use in this case would have the spoofed number appear as their government office number, rather than their home phone.
First they came up with "The Plan": Don't buy our products and we won't sue you.
This failed and they came up with "The Other Plan": Buy our products and we will sue you.
They finally tried "The Other, Other Plan": If you don't buy our products we will sue you.
And they had a hit!