We're going to have to find a new name for these dark matter aggregations, as they're definitely not galaxies. The root "gala" means "milk". Milk is white, and star-filled galaxies are generally whitish. Dark matter isn't.
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It's a nice idea, but the RIAA etc would have to enter into a licensing agreement with the company. Actually, this is just like any internet music service today: you pick tunes to download and burn. Since everyone knows somebody with a CD burner, you've already got this "customizing station" thing going not in stores, but everywhere.
For me, it would be far more interesting if the labels would digitize all of their stuff, including the content only available on LP. Custom CD making of those albums would be awesome.
This article left me rather insatisfied, so I looked for a better one. I found it here, a collection of papers on the subject, with real-world results, it seems. The first article is a nice overview, and there's some pics of odd-looking silicon. They have funding from DARPA, interestingly enough.
It's a good thing this happened at Los Angeles National Laboratory. Since the lab doesn't exist, this means that there was never any problem. The disks don't exist, and there aren't any security flaws that exist, so literally nothing can be stolen in the future. Things are looking good. I'd say we're up three and down zero. Oh, I don't smoke.
Nonresident tuition is already pretty high. I go to Berkeley, and as a California resident I pay about 7K a year for tuition. My roommate last year was from Oklahoma, and he was continually complaining about his fees. Why? He had to pay about 16K of additional nonresident tuition.
UCs aren't cheap for out-of-staters, and the fee increases (state underfunding...) seem to hit them harder too.
But if you can afford it, Berkeley's great. Can't speak for UCLA though.
Yeah, the Tom's Hardware article made/. whenever it came out... last year? I'm more interested in _your_ project actually, and it sounds like others in this thread are too. It sounds much more elegant and portable than an overhead.
For the extra ~6W my P4 PC uses while HT is enabled and running a pair of SETIs, instead of completing one WU per nearly 3h I get through a pair of WUs in roughly 4h, a >50% throughput gain.
Nice, nice. That's an impressive gain. I've read that multithreaded-app users benefit more from HT than multitaskers do.
No, you don't. =) Most software makers will license by counting the number of sockets, Microsoft included. But others will count the number of cores. See this.
There's no XP Server; the existing products are Win2K Server and Win2K3 Server Standard.
AMD fans, meanwhile, can still hope that their dual-core parts will run in Socket 939.
Kevin McGrath (AMD's chief architect of x86-64) gave a talk about dual cores at my school last month. I asked him if 939 would support dual cores, and he said it would, though he didn't have a timetable. He also reiterated that we'll be seeing dual cores coming on all product lines.
Part of the reason AMD can do this, I think, is their discipline in keeping a consistent power envelope, so the motherboard and heatsink manufacturers don't have to scramble to support a new incredibly hot processor. I anticipate that Smithfield will require massive cooling.
The other reason is the memory controller is built onto the processor, as opposed to Intel's traditional arrangement of it being on the North Bridge of the chipset. Thus no change of chipset is needed (in theory).
Yeah, HT is built into the processor. It'll never give you as much of a performance increase as a true separate physical processor though.
This sounds like HT on steroids.
HT is Hyper-Threading. You're running some threads with the bits of the processor that aren't in use. Marketing has cleverly made HT synonymous with dual processing. Dual core is true dual processing, with two full sets of ALUs, FPUs and whatnot.
Not really. Intel has been playing catchup all this time, first with 64-bit and now with dual core. Opteron was built from the ground up to support more than one core, which is the beauty of it.
Here's a long discussion on the current dual core situation on Ace's Hardware. (They use a lot of codenames. "Smithfield" I think is what this/. story refers to. "Yonah" is somewhere in the future.)
CDRLabs has an article on TDK's "Armor Plated" DVD-Rs. They seem to hold up fairly well, but they're not indestructible. No word on how the dye holds up either.
FinFET is a change in transistor topology. This is something totally different.
It's reminiscent of magnetic core memory on one level, and of FPGAs on another.
See other posts for links to details.
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And he had the ability to buy in bulk, enough clout and cash to get a custom design produced by computer makers, and a marketing juggernaut. Oh, and a hero-worshipped CEO.
If I'm not mistaken, the 386 doesn't have an internal FP unit. It might be a better idea to do this with 486s, and double the performance at the same time.
I've seen this cobble-together-old-processors idea around before, but there's got to be a reason nobody has bothered to try it. I'm sure that "controlling logic" has got to be hideous.
That said if the dual-cores overclock well my stance may change....
I think they will overclock, because (at least in AMD's case) the clock speed of a dual core is set so that the part remains within the 90W power envelope.
AMD's design is essentially adds a mirror-image of the Opteron die to one side of the chip. Also, due to the power envelope, dual cores will be released at a few speed grades down from single cores. That makes me think that if you have the cooling to handle the tremendous power output, overclocking a dual-core to upper-echelon single-core speeds will be quite doable.
Americans like their freedom, Iraqis like their dictatorship, and Chinese like their Communism.
I don't think my dad liked Chinese Communism. What did he do? He got out of China. Granted, it's not the easiest thing to do, but he wasn't complacent.
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We're going to have to find a new name for these dark matter aggregations, as they're definitely not galaxies. The root "gala" means "milk". Milk is white, and star-filled galaxies are generally whitish. Dark matter isn't.
This etymology lesson brought to you by the number 1 and the letter O.
One of my CS class projects involved alpha-beta pruning and game trees. You might find it interesting: Network.
7-Zip is open source and opens RAR. It doesn't create them though.
I was thinking the same thing as I read the Dirk Gently books. They would make for some brilliantly offbeat film noir.
I'm sure this UTM will be able to calculate how often somebody forgets to close a pair of parentheses.
It's a nice idea, but the RIAA etc would have to enter into a licensing agreement with the company. Actually, this is just like any internet music service today: you pick tunes to download and burn. Since everyone knows somebody with a CD burner, you've already got this "customizing station" thing going not in stores, but everywhere.
For me, it would be far more interesting if the labels would digitize all of their stuff, including the content only available on LP. Custom CD making of those albums would be awesome.
Oh, heh, it's by the same people and research group featured in the article.
This article left me rather insatisfied, so I looked for a better one. I found it here, a collection of papers on the subject, with real-world results, it seems. The first article is a nice overview, and there's some pics of odd-looking silicon. They have funding from DARPA, interestingly enough.
It's a good thing this happened at Los Angeles National Laboratory. Since the lab doesn't exist, this means that there was never any problem. The disks don't exist, and there aren't any security flaws that exist, so literally nothing can be stolen in the future. Things are looking good. I'd say we're up three and down zero. Oh, I don't smoke.
Nonresident tuition is already pretty high. I go to Berkeley, and as a California resident I pay about 7K a year for tuition. My roommate last year was from Oklahoma, and he was continually complaining about his fees. Why? He had to pay about 16K of additional nonresident tuition.
UCs aren't cheap for out-of-staters, and the fee increases (state underfunding...) seem to hit them harder too.
But if you can afford it, Berkeley's great. Can't speak for UCLA though.
Yeah, the Tom's Hardware article made /. whenever it came out... last year? I'm more interested in _your_ project actually, and it sounds like others in this thread are too. It sounds much more elegant and portable than an overhead.
Not bad; what's the resolution? It sounds a lot smaller than using an overhead projector.
Now what would be a nice (and difficult) DIY project is to get a few of these DLP chips and essentially build this LED projector from scratch...
You're making me nervous. I keep my computer under my bed, and it's on 24/7.
I can't imagine what could be inside a case that could be so flammable.
For the extra ~6W my P4 PC uses while HT is enabled and running a pair of SETIs, instead of completing one WU per nearly 3h I get through a pair of WUs in roughly 4h, a >50% throughput gain.
Nice, nice. That's an impressive gain. I've read that multithreaded-app users benefit more from HT than multitaskers do.
No, you don't. =) Most software makers will license by counting the number of sockets, Microsoft included. But others will count the number of cores. See this.
There's no XP Server; the existing products are Win2K Server and Win2K3 Server Standard.
AMD fans, meanwhile, can still hope that their dual-core parts will run in Socket 939.
Kevin McGrath (AMD's chief architect of x86-64) gave a talk about dual cores at my school last month. I asked him if 939 would support dual cores, and he said it would, though he didn't have a timetable. He also reiterated that we'll be seeing dual cores coming on all product lines.
Part of the reason AMD can do this, I think, is their discipline in keeping a consistent power envelope, so the motherboard and heatsink manufacturers don't have to scramble to support a new incredibly hot processor. I anticipate that Smithfield will require massive cooling.
The other reason is the memory controller is built onto the processor, as opposed to Intel's traditional arrangement of it being on the North Bridge of the chipset. Thus no change of chipset is needed (in theory).
Yeah, HT is built into the processor. It'll never give you as much of a performance increase as a true separate physical processor though.
This sounds like HT on steroids.
HT is Hyper-Threading. You're running some threads with the bits of the processor that aren't in use. Marketing has cleverly made HT synonymous with dual processing. Dual core is true dual processing, with two full sets of ALUs, FPUs and whatnot.
Not really. Intel has been playing catchup all this time, first with 64-bit and now with dual core. Opteron was built from the ground up to support more than one core, which is the beauty of it.
/. story refers to. "Yonah" is somewhere in the future.)
Here's a long discussion on the current dual core situation on Ace's Hardware. (They use a lot of codenames. "Smithfield" I think is what this
CDRLabs has an article on TDK's "Armor Plated" DVD-Rs. They seem to hold up fairly well, but they're not indestructible. No word on how the dye holds up either.
FinFET is a change in transistor topology. This is something totally different.
It's reminiscent of magnetic core memory on one level, and of FPGAs on another.
See other posts for links to details.
And he had the ability to buy in bulk, enough clout and cash to get a custom design produced by computer makers, and a marketing juggernaut. Oh, and a hero-worshipped CEO.
If I'm not mistaken, the 386 doesn't have an internal FP unit. It might be a better idea to do this with 486s, and double the performance at the same time.
I've seen this cobble-together-old-processors idea around before, but there's got to be a reason nobody has bothered to try it. I'm sure that "controlling logic" has got to be hideous.
You might find Sun's Niagara of interest.
That said if the dual-cores overclock well my stance may change....
I think they will overclock, because (at least in AMD's case) the clock speed of a dual core is set so that the part remains within the 90W power envelope.
AMD's design is essentially adds a mirror-image of the Opteron die to one side of the chip. Also, due to the power envelope, dual cores will be released at a few speed grades down from single cores. That makes me think that if you have the cooling to handle the tremendous power output, overclocking a dual-core to upper-echelon single-core speeds will be quite doable.
Americans like their freedom, Iraqis like their dictatorship, and Chinese like their Communism.
I don't think my dad liked Chinese Communism. What did he do? He got out of China. Granted, it's not the easiest thing to do, but he wasn't complacent.
I'm not going to buy one, but I have no qualms about recommending it to less tech-savvy friends and relatives.