Why is the term "Supercomputer" being used to describe Watson? No demonstrated systems have shown anywhere near the processor or node count that actual supercomputers have (the Watson machine on Jeopardy for instance was only 90 nodes with around 2K cores). Also it uses an off the shelf interconnect (10gbit fiber) with a simple hierarchical network fabric which doesn't even approach even small supercomputers in terms of performance (which use something like Infinband or Seastar in a N-Dimensional torus interconnect topology).
While I have nothing against the technology being used for Watson. The fact is that it is not a supercomputer and the division of IBM that did make supercomputers (BlueGene) has been disbanded (with most of the key individuals leaving for other places).
I saw this poster at the conference and I was not impressed and in fact it was one of the weaker posters that I saw at the conference (it was light on details and had some of the information on the poster when talking about GPU's in general was not entirely accurate). It is really a poster that should not have been at SC at all. While it is interesting in the network sense the amount of data they can process is not anywhere close to the amount that is actually flowing through these large scale machines (up to 10 GB/sec per node) and there was no information about scaling this data collection (which would be needed at extreme scales) to obtain meaningful information to allow for tuning of network performance.
This poster should have been at a networking conference where the results would have been much more interesting to the crowd attending. Also of note, IIRC the author was using a traditional GPU programming model for computation that is not efficient for this style of computation. The speedup numbers would have been greatly improved by using a RPC style model of programming for the GPU (persistent kernel with tasking from pinned pages). However this is not something I totally fault the author for not using since it is a rather obscure programming technique for GPU's at this time.
"Supercomputing applications tend to require cores to work in concert with each other, which is why IBM, Cray, and other companies have built incredibly fast interconnects. Cycle's work with the Amazon cloud has focused on HPC workloads without that requirement."
While this is cool, Can you really call something like this an HPC system if you are picking work loads that require little cross node communication? The requirement of cross node communication is pretty much the whole reason large scale HPC machines like ORNL's Titan exist at all.
Wouldn't this system be classified closer to HTC because it is targeting workloads that are similar to those which would be able to run on HTC Condor pools?
No kidding. They have the absolute WORST API documentation of any product i have ever used. Its slightly better now (in Arc 9 good luck finding documentation to do anything non-standard). However this problem does extend beyond ESRI since it seems like documentation in this entire software sector is pretty shitty (OGC is better but not great).
There are already 3 at national labs that are > 10 PFLOPS... ORNL's Titan, LLNL's BG/Q, and ANL's BG/Q. The story behind this is they want it cheaper than the crazy price tag those machines have.
I wouldn't jump the gun on this yet. While it is a really promising sign that devkits are making their way out, the post on Ouya's site has something quite concerning.
"The dev consoles aren’t cheap for us to make."
No one claimed they couldn't make this console. Most of the issues brought up was that people doubted that they would able to make it cheap enough to meet a $100 price tag (dev kits were $699+ each).
Because some (or most) new software engineers hadn't really worked real jobs prior to their new careers and believe that because the company provides food that they instantly care about your well being. This is not the case. I am not saying to go screw over your employer, but you should know not to be screwed over by them.
You sir, are not familiar with the bureaucracy they call the US government. It wouldn't surprise me if they have to spend $1 Billion to be able to store only 50 Terabytes of the data..
One problem with that is that Securom still gets installed on the system. Cracks generally just remove the Securom checks from the game itself, they do not remove Securom from the system (which from what i hear embeds itself kinda deeply into the system and makes actually taking it our a real hassle).
Id say its only coincidental timing since the SEC took about the same amount of time to bring charges against Martha Stewart (her insider trade happened in 2001 and she wasn't put on trial until 2004). Whats REALLY coincidental is that he allegedly committed this crime one month before Stewart was sentenced to go to jail for her insider trading charge. Why he would make an inside trade when another high profile celebrity was taking heat for insider trading is kinda mind blowing.
They only said support for DDR 3 so it could very well still support DDR 2 memory. While DDR 3 is expensive right now in the not too distant future it will be cheap. To me it looks like they just want to cover all of there bases and not have to redesign a chip to be compatible with DDR 3 in the next year or so when prices for DDR 3 fall.
I want to know how they compared it to IE7 fairly... Does Windows Vista/XP run on a cell processor? does the PS3's browser also run on a windows machine? because i see no way you can compare an browser on a console to one on a computer. Not only does the console (most likely) have less crap running in the background, it can be highly optimized for the machine since all the machines have identical (or close) specifications. Im not trying to defend IE7 but this is a total non-story.
And how do we know that the "motion plus" add on wont also be a POS? Since that same argument that except using the wiimote was used before the release of the wii "well it cant be done with a controller but it would be with the wiimote" when in reality the motion controls remain for the most part a novelty. very few games ACTUALLY take advantage of the wiimotes motion sensing capabilities currently and i dont think an add one is going to change that.
"If your dirt cheap or free and completely awesome email being unavailable for two hours a year is causing you to lose business, then you seriously need to rethink your operations"
Just because its cheap/free doesnt mean that google suddenly dosent have to honor the SLA that people paid for. Im assuming they will in the end give everyone the free 3/7 days they are entitled to in the SLA but you cant simply say because a company offers something "cheap" that they dont have the live up to the obligations and expectations of the product.
Well since you had a choice between the non monthly payment ipod and the iphone im going to have to say nether (outside of a discount from apple maybe)
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Wow, that is some hard core invasion of privacy there. Why not install a key-logger while your at it, or take snapshots of the desktop every 2 seconds? Even in the OP's case logging every PACKET sent or received or sent might be a bit much, but suggesting doing that until the kid is 18?? thats pretty crazy and shows no trust at all in your kids. If you need to resort to packet logging to make sure your 16 year old is not doing incredible stupid things on the internet you really havent done your job as a parent. No amount of logging is going to fix that.
Do you not understand what the OP was trying to say. HE KNOWS THEY DO NOT BLOCK BY IP ADDRESS IMPLICITLY. What he is saying is that because his friends website was hosted on the same PHYSICAL MACHINE with the same IP ADDRESS as the bad site that it was blocked even though it had a different HOSTNAME. What the OP is claiming is something that could reasonably occur (i have no inside knowledge on exactly how google does its filtering, but its not unfeasible for it to remember ip address;s and ban other host on the same ip [but different hostname]).
Purest wouldn't know, they wouldn't listen to it in the first place because its an MP3. There moto is if it isn't FLAC or better, it isn't worth listening to.
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Why is the term "Supercomputer" being used to describe Watson? No demonstrated systems have shown anywhere near the processor or node count that actual supercomputers have (the Watson machine on Jeopardy for instance was only 90 nodes with around 2K cores). Also it uses an off the shelf interconnect (10gbit fiber) with a simple hierarchical network fabric which doesn't even approach even small supercomputers in terms of performance (which use something like Infinband or Seastar in a N-Dimensional torus interconnect topology).
While I have nothing against the technology being used for Watson. The fact is that it is not a supercomputer and the division of IBM that did make supercomputers (BlueGene) has been disbanded (with most of the key individuals leaving for other places).
I saw this poster at the conference and I was not impressed and in fact it was one of the weaker posters that I saw at the conference (it was light on details and had some of the information on the poster when talking about GPU's in general was not entirely accurate). It is really a poster that should not have been at SC at all. While it is interesting in the network sense the amount of data they can process is not anywhere close to the amount that is actually flowing through these large scale machines (up to 10 GB/sec per node) and there was no information about scaling this data collection (which would be needed at extreme scales) to obtain meaningful information to allow for tuning of network performance.
This poster should have been at a networking conference where the results would have been much more interesting to the crowd attending. Also of note, IIRC the author was using a traditional GPU programming model for computation that is not efficient for this style of computation. The speedup numbers would have been greatly improved by using a RPC style model of programming for the GPU (persistent kernel with tasking from pinned pages). However this is not something I totally fault the author for not using since it is a rather obscure programming technique for GPU's at this time.
"Supercomputing applications tend to require cores to work in concert with each other, which is why IBM, Cray, and other companies have built incredibly fast interconnects. Cycle's work with the Amazon cloud has focused on HPC workloads without that requirement." While this is cool, Can you really call something like this an HPC system if you are picking work loads that require little cross node communication? The requirement of cross node communication is pretty much the whole reason large scale HPC machines like ORNL's Titan exist at all. Wouldn't this system be classified closer to HTC because it is targeting workloads that are similar to those which would be able to run on HTC Condor pools?
The first iPhone also wasn't competing against three other smartphone platforms.
No kidding. They have the absolute WORST API documentation of any product i have ever used. Its slightly better now (in Arc 9 good luck finding documentation to do anything non-standard). However this problem does extend beyond ESRI since it seems like documentation in this entire software sector is pretty shitty (OGC is better but not great).
They do not. However there have now been questions raised as to the analysis by Musk by other papers. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/02/elon-musks-data-doesnt-back-his-claims-new-york-times-fakery/62149/
There are already 3 at national labs that are > 10 PFLOPS... ORNL's Titan, LLNL's BG/Q, and ANL's BG/Q. The story behind this is they want it cheaper than the crazy price tag those machines have.
I wouldn't jump the gun on this yet. While it is a really promising sign that devkits are making their way out, the post on Ouya's site has something quite concerning. "The dev consoles aren’t cheap for us to make." No one claimed they couldn't make this console. Most of the issues brought up was that people doubted that they would able to make it cheap enough to meet a $100 price tag (dev kits were $699+ each).
Couldn't you modify android to unrestrict this on some (or most) android tablets?
The WII U has 2GB of memory but only 1GB available to games (1GB is reserved for the system).
Because some (or most) new software engineers hadn't really worked real jobs prior to their new careers and believe that because the company provides food that they instantly care about your well being. This is not the case. I am not saying to go screw over your employer, but you should know not to be screwed over by them.
You sir, are not familiar with the bureaucracy they call the US government. It wouldn't surprise me if they have to spend $1 Billion to be able to store only 50 Terabytes of the data..
What makes the wii better suited for distribution of video over the Xbox 360 especially since the 360 has netflix already in its camp?
One problem with that is that Securom still gets installed on the system. Cracks generally just remove the Securom checks from the game itself, they do not remove Securom from the system (which from what i hear embeds itself kinda deeply into the system and makes actually taking it our a real hassle).
Id say its only coincidental timing since the SEC took about the same amount of time to bring charges against Martha Stewart (her insider trade happened in 2001 and she wasn't put on trial until 2004). Whats REALLY coincidental is that he allegedly committed this crime one month before Stewart was sentenced to go to jail for her insider trading charge. Why he would make an inside trade when another high profile celebrity was taking heat for insider trading is kinda mind blowing.
They only said support for DDR 3 so it could very well still support DDR 2 memory. While DDR 3 is expensive right now in the not too distant future it will be cheap. To me it looks like they just want to cover all of there bases and not have to redesign a chip to be compatible with DDR 3 in the next year or so when prices for DDR 3 fall.
I want to know how they compared it to IE7 fairly... Does Windows Vista/XP run on a cell processor? does the PS3's browser also run on a windows machine? because i see no way you can compare an browser on a console to one on a computer. Not only does the console (most likely) have less crap running in the background, it can be highly optimized for the machine since all the machines have identical (or close) specifications. Im not trying to defend IE7 but this is a total non-story.
And how do we know that the "motion plus" add on wont also be a POS? Since that same argument that except using the wiimote was used before the release of the wii "well it cant be done with a controller but it would be with the wiimote" when in reality the motion controls remain for the most part a novelty. very few games ACTUALLY take advantage of the wiimotes motion sensing capabilities currently and i dont think an add one is going to change that.
"If your dirt cheap or free and completely awesome email being unavailable for two hours a year is causing you to lose business, then you seriously need to rethink your operations" Just because its cheap/free doesnt mean that google suddenly dosent have to honor the SLA that people paid for. Im assuming they will in the end give everyone the free 3/7 days they are entitled to in the SLA but you cant simply say because a company offers something "cheap" that they dont have the live up to the obligations and expectations of the product.
Well since you had a choice between the non monthly payment ipod and the iphone im going to have to say nether (outside of a discount from apple maybe)
Wow, that is some hard core invasion of privacy there. Why not install a key-logger while your at it, or take snapshots of the desktop every 2 seconds? Even in the OP's case logging every PACKET sent or received or sent might be a bit much, but suggesting doing that until the kid is 18?? thats pretty crazy and shows no trust at all in your kids. If you need to resort to packet logging to make sure your 16 year old is not doing incredible stupid things on the internet you really havent done your job as a parent. No amount of logging is going to fix that.
Do you not understand what the OP was trying to say. HE KNOWS THEY DO NOT BLOCK BY IP ADDRESS IMPLICITLY. What he is saying is that because his friends website was hosted on the same PHYSICAL MACHINE with the same IP ADDRESS as the bad site that it was blocked even though it had a different HOSTNAME. What the OP is claiming is something that could reasonably occur (i have no inside knowledge on exactly how google does its filtering, but its not unfeasible for it to remember ip address;s and ban other host on the same ip [but different hostname]).
Resident evil obviously isnt violent because it is not cell shaded. Nothing is more realistic than cell shaded violence.
Purest wouldn't know, they wouldn't listen to it in the first place because its an MP3. There moto is if it isn't FLAC or better, it isn't worth listening to.
You cant use one of the various USB floppy drives??