Sometimes, for our visualisation lab, we want cards that have decent grunt and can hold a decent (but not extreme) amount of textures in memory. This price is attractive for us to fit out our 'normal' PCs and most students not being hindered. We would prefer not to shell out for each PC to have 5600 cards. We can then save a bit of cash to purchase a couple high end PCs and have arrays of 5600s for the bigger, interesting jobs.
I particularly liked:
This new computer features the addition of an arithmetic unit and an increased number of vector pipelines. This has resulted in the development of the fastest single-chip vector processor with a computing performance of 102.4 GFLOPS per single core, and a wide memory bandwidth of 256GB/s. With a single node incorporating up to 16 CPU, computing performance in excess of 1.6TFLOPS is achieved. So, these are 'core solos'?
Looking at the skyhound and there is one day left to see it. That will be in 10 hours time. The one day of the year it fucking rains in this 'arse-hole of the earth' country. Typical.
This is a problem with Web 2.0 technology. Wikipedia is not the be-all, end-all of definitions. It also depends on what discipline you are from. Mine, computational mathematics, says that in this case, Ron is correct.
It's not like I have a choice in our organisation. We've just migrated to exchange and I think it sucks. I now HAVE to use microsoft email clients. Given that I've been using TBird for years, I cry when I use entourage.
Although, one feature I like in entourage is that when an email comes in from "Viagra - Official Site" spoofing some address, that address is now always associated with that name. I love it when you then send out emails to that group and it is addressed that way, especially when recipients of those emails are the guys who said using the MS was the way to go. No, I will not change the address (it's going to be my silent protest).
But will the 'pretenders' be shaken out? An who makes the apparently correct choice? It is not really 'the people' that choose the implementation; it's the architecture of processor; machine architecture; connection between processors/nodes/bricks/blades; operating system; and compiler. The next step is to determine what is actually being implemented in parallel and the extent of that parallelism. Given the job, some jump out at me more than others. Admittedly, I know some better than others.
Market determining 'who wins' actually scares me. Should I be glad that Microsoft beat everyone in the market? What does that say for the future?
C/C++/Java/Bash; they're my poisons depending on the weather. It gets hot and cold here.
I'd like everyone in this thread to stop bitching about java and its mobile functionality and just move on. Master the language or let it master you. If you really want to continue bitching, do something about it and create a language and adequate compiler that will work on each one of the billion different types of mobile devices.
./ can really piss me off sometimes with these petty little complaints from people that clearly are not that sure about what they are doing in the first place.
Some of the things, and mindsets, he/she was talking about were just plain wrong. A hobbyist programmer does not have a problem with JAVA ME/Python/[Insert language here] if that is the language that is required. Even if there is something peculiar with the language, a hobbyist easily overcomes it and moves on with, well, playing.
I think this kid, and I hope that he is a young padwan, knows one mobile development platform moderately well, knows some syntax of another which happens to be similar to the first and wants to write some be-all, end-all document.
Perhaps visualisation has been overused in some branches of science. Instead of reproducing the existing visual context, people should be pushing the 'science' of visualisation as well as the 'art'. The non-visual content tends to be stock standard as well as the visual.
On the other hand, there are those branches of science that continue to expand, fueled by the ever changing, ever enhancing, ever revealing visual representation of data (Volumetric data, I looking at you). Even that data, upon receivership being scalar in nature, may be massaged, manipulated and represented in higher dimensions.
I'm happy that you realise visualisation is useful and can play its part, but perhaps it is time for you to represent that material in a different light (pun most definately intended).
Some pretty tidy work there. In case you are after some extensions (to the view ability) check out http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/Wii/index.html. Although it uses a wii as a controller, I think the really cool thing is the "navigable movie" aspect. In your case, you could render extremely large images (yes, I know there is a limit of decoder speed and disk IO) and write a quicktime movie player (using the API) so that while the movie is playing, you can navigate around.
The link is on Paul Bourke's site, and if you are in anyway related to visualisation, you should check it out. Especially the fractal stuff (and there is a *lot*).
Nicely worded. I think you're right. From watching afar, there seems to be some unwarranted scare-mongering going on in the US (and here as well). Not only in education but in many other sectors. There is now some dynamic load balancing going on globally and panicking is not going to achieve anything. There will always be opportunities for countries to specialise (particularly the US, ie. what is wrong with education as an export? Education has been my country's second largest cash cow industry for the last twenty years). People here are bitching that the jobs are going overseas. They are, but we are also experiencing massive growth in other areas, investment in infrastructure in developed countries, etc.
Come on/. let's see how far this can be reduced before we use a piece of silicon (If that is required).
Now, unless I'm mistaken, this reduces to: 4*5*7*11*17*29*31*37*41*43*47*53 which you'll notice is the multiplication of all prime numbers between 53 and 27 (inclusive). I can't spot any further properties, hence probably need somebody to check this.
I realise that I don't need to point out that it is not even close to 'free'. When you start balancing equations to be carbon-neutral (or less) you need to consider everything. Throwing away 'free' energy is what makes renewable energy for homes unfordable. It is also an attitude that is partly responsible for getting us here in the first place (which may turn out to be a good thing... long term).
16% - Wow! That is a lot higher than I would have guessed. Considering that in a post higher up in this thread, ign reported 77K purchases of Bioshock for PC. The figures you've quoted are on par with this. Interesting.
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Dudes, I'm not sure this is adequate to treat bacterial. Bad Bacterial, bad Bacterial, watcha gonna do.
Sometimes, for our visualisation lab, we want cards that have decent grunt and can hold a decent (but not extreme) amount of textures in memory. This price is attractive for us to fit out our 'normal' PCs and most students not being hindered.
We would prefer not to shell out for each PC to have 5600 cards. We can then save a bit of cash to purchase a couple high end PCs and have arrays of 5600s for the bigger, interesting jobs.
So, these are 'core solos'?
Looking at the skyhound and there is one day left to see it. That will be in 10 hours time. The one day of the year it fucking rains in this 'arse-hole of the earth' country. Typical.
This is a problem with Web 2.0 technology. Wikipedia is not the be-all, end-all of definitions. It also depends on what discipline you are from. Mine, computational mathematics, says that in this case, Ron is correct.
Is that including or excluding any travel with speeds relative to c?
The obvious thing to do would be to patent the solution :)
Thanks guys. I forgot to return to the site to pay for the music (habit, i guess). Just did then.
It's not like I have a choice in our organisation. We've just migrated to exchange and I think it sucks. I now HAVE to use microsoft email clients. Given that I've been using TBird for years, I cry when I use entourage.
Although, one feature I like in entourage is that when an email comes in from "Viagra - Official Site" spoofing some address, that address is now always associated with that name. I love it when you then send out emails to that group and it is addressed that way, especially when recipients of those emails are the guys who said using the MS was the way to go. No, I will not change the address (it's going to be my silent protest).
So? If I'd want to get in, I'd use the air duct. We all know this is how you get physical access to these sort of facilities. Baaa!
But will the 'pretenders' be shaken out? An who makes the apparently correct choice? It is not really 'the people' that choose the implementation; it's the architecture of processor; machine architecture; connection between processors/nodes/bricks/blades; operating system; and compiler. The next step is to determine what is actually being implemented in parallel and the extent of that parallelism. Given the job, some jump out at me more than others. Admittedly, I know some better than others.
Market determining 'who wins' actually scares me. Should I be glad that Microsoft beat everyone in the market? What does that say for the future?
C/C++/Java/Bash; they're my poisons depending on the weather. It gets hot and cold here.
I'd like everyone in this thread to stop bitching about java and its mobile functionality and just move on. Master the language or let it master you. If you really want to continue bitching, do something about it and create a language and adequate compiler that will work on each one of the billion different types of mobile devices.
./ can really piss me off sometimes with these petty little complaints from people that clearly are not that sure about what they are doing in the first place.
Some of the things, and mindsets, he/she was talking about were just plain wrong. A hobbyist programmer does not have a problem with JAVA ME/Python/[Insert language here] if that is the language that is required. Even if there is something peculiar with the language, a hobbyist easily overcomes it and moves on with, well, playing.
I think this kid, and I hope that he is a young padwan, knows one mobile development platform moderately well, knows some syntax of another which happens to be similar to the first and wants to write some be-all, end-all document.
Bah!! Wasted more time.
Nice, provided you believe that 'peak-oil' is yet to come.
Perhaps visualisation has been overused in some branches of science. Instead of reproducing the existing visual context, people should be pushing the 'science' of visualisation as well as the 'art'. The non-visual content tends to be stock standard as well as the visual.
On the other hand, there are those branches of science that continue to expand, fueled by the ever changing, ever enhancing, ever revealing visual representation of data (Volumetric data, I looking at you). Even that data, upon receivership being scalar in nature, may be massaged, manipulated and represented in higher dimensions.
I'm happy that you realise visualisation is useful and can play its part, but perhaps it is time for you to represent that material in a different light (pun most definately intended).
Some pretty tidy work there. In case you are after some extensions (to the view ability) check out http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/Wii/index.html. Although it uses a wii as a controller, I think the really cool thing is the "navigable movie" aspect. In your case, you could render extremely large images (yes, I know there is a limit of decoder speed and disk IO) and write a quicktime movie player (using the API) so that while the movie is playing, you can navigate around.
The link is on Paul Bourke's site, and if you are in anyway related to visualisation, you should check it out. Especially the fractal stuff (and there is a *lot*).
No, it was the inability to play cricket internationally.
American beer is the worst in the world and I'd prefer to drink cat's piss.
Test why your argument fails. Let modding commence.
Nicely worded. I think you're right. From watching afar, there seems to be some unwarranted scare-mongering going on in the US (and here as well). Not only in education but in many other sectors. There is now some dynamic load balancing going on globally and panicking is not going to achieve anything. There will always be opportunities for countries to specialise (particularly the US, ie. what is wrong with education as an export? Education has been my country's second largest cash cow industry for the last twenty years). People here are bitching that the jobs are going overseas. They are, but we are also experiencing massive growth in other areas, investment in infrastructure in developed countries, etc.
Nothing to see here, move on.
Come on /. let's see how far this can be reduced before we use a piece of silicon (If that is required).
Now, unless I'm mistaken, this reduces to:
4*5*7*11*17*29*31*37*41*43*47*53
which you'll notice is the multiplication of all prime numbers between 53 and 27 (inclusive). I can't spot any further properties, hence probably need somebody to check this.
Not to mention the poisons present in the cleaners you use to do the dusting in the first place. I prefer to put up with the bacteria.
Was that a response to his post or the weather outside?
I realise that I don't need to point out that it is not even close to 'free'. When you start balancing equations to be carbon-neutral (or less) you need to consider everything. Throwing away 'free' energy is what makes renewable energy for homes unfordable. It is also an attitude that is partly responsible for getting us here in the first place (which may turn out to be a good thing ... long term).
16% - Wow! That is a lot higher than I would have guessed. Considering that in a post higher up in this thread, ign reported 77K purchases of Bioshock for PC. The figures you've quoted are on par with this.
Interesting.
Man I hate being caught unawares from the fast type.