This is just the beginning of a massive crime wave. A generation of kids trained by borderbund in the dark arts pioneered by the dreaded Carmen Sandiego have matured and are now taking the skills they've honed on their computers into the real world!
Thank god for wikipedia, it should make solving those darned geography clues they leave behind pretty easy.
Obviously the answer is to ban horses. Historically Horses have been use almost entirely for military purposes, their civilian uses have simply been secondary as a cheap source of power. How many lives have been taken by humans wielding these vicious animals? And how many civilian lives have been taken by accidents caused by these horses? Pierre Curie is simply one name in a long list.
We need to look at safer alternatives such as Alpacas.
People need to realize that just because it contains nuclear material doesn't mean you could use it to build a bomb. Saying that you could use the material in those batteries to build a nuclear weapon is like saying that terrorists could use a glass of water to build a hydrogen bomb.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Sun Microsystem's CoolThreads technology.
The company I work for had a problem with too much heat and too much power in our co-lo data center. We managed to replace 2 V880 servers with one T2000, not only did we free up an entire rack with a single 2U box but we also eliminated over 5000 watts of power consumption. (estimating 2800 watts per V880 and T2000 consuming around 250)
Obviously those boxes are not for everyone, there is only one FPU even though the box has 8 cores.
In our case it was processing incoming streaming data, all integer math. We went from needing two V880s with 8 1.2Ghz USIIIs running at nearly 50% CPU usage to one T2000 at about 20%..
When it comes to serving up massive amounts of data that don't require a lot of floating point calculations they cannot be beat.
Sadly I'm not in this blogging program BUT I have had the opportunity to test one of these T2000 and I have to say that I have been BLOWN away.
(T2000, 1.2Ghz, 32G Ram, 2x72Gig HD)
I work for a company which trades stocks (no, you probably haven't heard of it, it's a private company). We have branches all over the world and about 1000 full time traders. We've got about 10 Sun V880 servers, a few 480s and another 10 420s. Most of the V880 servers are dedicated to streaming and parsing all the quote data from various exchanges around the world as well as risk protection and trader management.
Like many of you we have this equipment at a data centre, and like many of you we've been told that we have reached the limit for power consumption and heat. They specifically told us NO MORE.
The T2000 is our saviour. Our one quote feed application generally ran at 30-40% CPU utilization on a V880 with 8 1.2Ghz UltraSparc III processors. On the T2000.. 3%
Total power consumption is around 300W.. FOR THE WHOLE BOX. I'm probably wrong but I think the power requirements for the V880 is around 1500W...
All of this from a 2U unit. One rack with 5 of these things would be 10x more powerful (with our application) than our 5 racks of V880s.
The FPU issue is a problem though, sadly we cannot run our reporting software on this box but if the FPU utilization is low you won't have a problem.
Sun has seen a problem (space, power, heat) and solved it. We don't have a large web farm here but anyone who does should VERY SERIOUSLY look at this box. And even with the FPU issue you can just buy a more powerful "traditional" Sun (or other) server to handle any back end floating point calculations and leave the T2000 to serving web pages.
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This is just the beginning of a massive crime wave. A generation of kids trained by borderbund in the dark arts pioneered by the dreaded Carmen Sandiego have matured and are now taking the skills they've honed on their computers into the real world! Thank god for wikipedia, it should make solving those darned geography clues they leave behind pretty easy.
Obviously the answer is to ban horses. Historically Horses have been use almost entirely for military purposes, their civilian uses have simply been secondary as a cheap source of power. How many lives have been taken by humans wielding these vicious animals? And how many civilian lives have been taken by accidents caused by these horses? Pierre Curie is simply one name in a long list. We need to look at safer alternatives such as Alpacas.
People need to realize that just because it contains nuclear material doesn't mean you could use it to build a bomb. Saying that you could use the material in those batteries to build a nuclear weapon is like saying that terrorists could use a glass of water to build a hydrogen bomb.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Sun Microsystem's CoolThreads technology. The company I work for had a problem with too much heat and too much power in our co-lo data center. We managed to replace 2 V880 servers with one T2000, not only did we free up an entire rack with a single 2U box but we also eliminated over 5000 watts of power consumption. (estimating 2800 watts per V880 and T2000 consuming around 250) Obviously those boxes are not for everyone, there is only one FPU even though the box has 8 cores. In our case it was processing incoming streaming data, all integer math. We went from needing two V880s with 8 1.2Ghz USIIIs running at nearly 50% CPU usage to one T2000 at about 20%.. When it comes to serving up massive amounts of data that don't require a lot of floating point calculations they cannot be beat.
DISMATLE THE CONSTITUTION! HAIL DEMOCRACY IN ACTION!
CNN, the following words and phrases have been declared in need of Correction:
'Amendment' is no longer a valid word, please substitute it's usage with 'suggestion'.
'Women and Children' are now known as 'insurgents'.
Sadly I'm not in this blogging program BUT I have had the opportunity to test one of these T2000 and I have to say that I have been BLOWN away.
(T2000, 1.2Ghz, 32G Ram, 2x72Gig HD)
I work for a company which trades stocks (no, you probably haven't heard of it, it's a private company). We have branches all over the world and about 1000 full time traders. We've got about 10 Sun V880 servers, a few 480s and another 10 420s. Most of the V880 servers are dedicated to streaming and parsing all the quote data from various exchanges around the world as well as risk protection and trader management.
Like many of you we have this equipment at a data centre, and like many of you we've been told that we have reached the limit for power consumption and heat. They specifically told us NO MORE.
The T2000 is our saviour.
Our one quote feed application generally ran at 30-40% CPU utilization on a V880 with 8 1.2Ghz UltraSparc III processors.
On the T2000.. 3%
Total power consumption is around 300W.. FOR THE WHOLE BOX.
I'm probably wrong but I think the power requirements for the V880 is around 1500W...
All of this from a 2U unit.
One rack with 5 of these things would be 10x more powerful (with our application) than our 5 racks of V880s.
The FPU issue is a problem though, sadly we cannot run our reporting software on this box but if the FPU utilization is low you won't have a problem.
Sun has seen a problem (space, power, heat) and solved it. We don't have a large web farm here but anyone who does should VERY SERIOUSLY look at this box. And even with the FPU issue you can just buy a more powerful "traditional" Sun (or other) server to handle any back end floating point calculations and leave the T2000 to serving web pages.
Simply blown away.