There are actually quite a few of these big machines. Most of them in Houston, but some in Europe. Every major Oil Company and Every large Seismic company has one. They are all huge, and I have never seen on of them shut down to run benchmarks, and most folks don't externally advertise their existence. The cost too much and they have too much backlog and will never appear on a bullshit benchmark web page reserved for underutilized supercomputers.
To the person asking if these are overkill? No, The folks referencing the RTM, FWI etc have hit the equations on the head. One processing job may take 6 + months to run a single migration using 20,000 + cpus. They run all kinds of cpus' gpu's and change out masses of them every time there is a step change in a chip for efficiency. If they had chips 100 times more powerful, they have equations waiting for them.
with regards to the person or people talking about carbon ending it all etc..
These machines enable the reservoir engineers to target more reservoirs and then deplete these reservoirs more efficiently leaving less hydrocarbon behind (theoretically reducing the number of dry wells) We will never run out of oil, we will however run out of the technology to efficiently extract it from the ground. ( or it will become cost prohibitive)
Carbon use however is another kettle of fish. Making hydrocarbon more expensive will only push coal back front. (look at china, germany etc) Until use is addressed, alternative will be what they could be. Doing things like shooting ourselves in the foot with ethanol is a good way not to proceed though
ok 2 points.. stay awake. did you not note that I was drinking you insensitive clod!
also, maybe I would stop drinking if I could find this high street you speak of.....
on a more serious note. Since started randomly buying games on steam I have increased my pc games purchases. In addition, I have bought( licensed) some smaller independent games from steam that I would have never seen in a retail box store.
older games on steam are normally a fraction of the price of used games from a traditional retailer....
I see this weekend steam was having a day of defeat weekend for like $2.45 cents. I don't know how many games I have bought from steam simply because it was 1 am, I was drunk and wanted to shit stuff right then.
well, have to stay awake for it to download and all but you see the point.
no bullshit macrovision on my pc, no scratched disks, no having to use a disk, no idiot sales clerk who wants to tell me how to play civ! i'm too old and grumpy for that
re all of the females do this/ males do that comments..
Since I have remained in the world of gainfull employment I now purchase all of my pc games and software. When I was a broke ass student it was.... the other way around. However since my wife and sister have discovered bit torrent, it's bye bye to best buy and 0 bandwith for me (and brother in law) as they rabidly devour battle star galactica episodes and veronica mars.
In college I made a few attempts at running linux. It was no probelm to crank out papers, or use math software etc on linux, but I found it was often easier to run linux on a seperate box, because when game time came, I could not get the performance.
years later I still like to kill the occasional nazi zombie horde. This is still much easier to do on a windows pc.
At work mc office dominates the workday. Even when I was in the ops room, there were seperate windows pc's for reports etc. The Unix systems were for production only.
i am currenly working in south america. I went to the local computer store where they had about 100 copies of age of empires and microsoft flight simulator for 60$ ( neither of which i was looking for) I then went to the closest thing to a best buy which is the street market where you can buy a random selction of games ranging from diablo to the newest titles (never sure what language they will be in) for about $2.00.
As a result If I want a good game I have gone online I seem to play guildwars, or steam titles, although I did plan a trip to the states to pick up civ 4..........
anyway without online distribution my only option here would be piracy. I was about to start a rant about price points and gloabl distribution with piracy implications but I think I will drink a coffee instead.
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There are actually quite a few of these big machines. Most of them in Houston, but some in Europe. Every major Oil Company and Every large Seismic company has one. They are all huge, and I have never seen on of them shut down to run benchmarks, and most folks don't externally advertise their existence. The cost too much and they have too much backlog and will never appear on a bullshit benchmark web page reserved for underutilized supercomputers. To the person asking if these are overkill? No, The folks referencing the RTM, FWI etc have hit the equations on the head. One processing job may take 6 + months to run a single migration using 20,000 + cpus. They run all kinds of cpus' gpu's and change out masses of them every time there is a step change in a chip for efficiency. If they had chips 100 times more powerful, they have equations waiting for them. with regards to the person or people talking about carbon ending it all etc.. These machines enable the reservoir engineers to target more reservoirs and then deplete these reservoirs more efficiently leaving less hydrocarbon behind (theoretically reducing the number of dry wells) We will never run out of oil, we will however run out of the technology to efficiently extract it from the ground. ( or it will become cost prohibitive) Carbon use however is another kettle of fish. Making hydrocarbon more expensive will only push coal back front. (look at china, germany etc) Until use is addressed, alternative will be what they could be. Doing things like shooting ourselves in the foot with ethanol is a good way not to proceed though
ok 2 points.. stay awake. did you not note that I was drinking you insensitive clod! also, maybe I would stop drinking if I could find this high street you speak of..... on a more serious note. Since started randomly buying games on steam I have increased my pc games purchases. In addition, I have bought( licensed) some smaller independent games from steam that I would have never seen in a retail box store.
ok shoot stuff, shit stuff same difference...
older games on steam are normally a fraction of the price of used games from a traditional retailer.... I see this weekend steam was having a day of defeat weekend for like $2.45 cents. I don't know how many games I have bought from steam simply because it was 1 am, I was drunk and wanted to shit stuff right then. well, have to stay awake for it to download and all but you see the point. no bullshit macrovision on my pc, no scratched disks, no having to use a disk, no idiot sales clerk who wants to tell me how to play civ! i'm too old and grumpy for that
Canada keeps looking warmer and warmer. It must be all the strip mining of teh coal sands. That will keep us all nice and toasty.
re all of the females do this/ males do that comments.. Since I have remained in the world of gainfull employment I now purchase all of my pc games and software. When I was a broke ass student it was .... the other way around. However since my wife and sister have discovered bit torrent, it's bye bye to best buy and 0 bandwith for me (and brother in law) as they rabidly devour battle star galactica episodes and veronica mars.
In college I made a few attempts at running linux. It was no probelm to crank out papers, or use math software etc on linux, but I found it was often easier to run linux on a seperate box, because when game time came, I could not get the performance. years later I still like to kill the occasional nazi zombie horde. This is still much easier to do on a windows pc. At work mc office dominates the workday. Even when I was in the ops room, there were seperate windows pc's for reports etc. The Unix systems were for production only.
i am currenly working in south america. I went to the local computer store where they had about 100 copies of age of empires and microsoft flight simulator for 60$ ( neither of which i was looking for) I then went to the closest thing to a best buy which is the street market where you can buy a random selction of games ranging from diablo to the newest titles (never sure what language they will be in) for about $2.00. As a result If I want a good game I have gone online I seem to play guildwars, or steam titles, although I did plan a trip to the states to pick up civ 4.......... anyway without online distribution my only option here would be piracy. I was about to start a rant about price points and gloabl distribution with piracy implications but I think I will drink a coffee instead.
I thought they were banning the Azz Galor part..... Must read entire article...