Unveiled Wednesday at the Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing (HPC China 2010) in Beijing, Tianhe-1A is the world's fastest supercomputer with a performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark.
Tianhe-1A was designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China, and it is already fully operational.
To achieve the new performance record, Tianhe-1A uses 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs.
It cost $88 million; its 103 cabinets weigh 155 tons, and the entire system consumes 4.04 megawatts of electricity.
Tianhe-1A ousted the previous record holder, Cray XT5 Jaguar, which is used by the U.S. National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
It is powered by 224,162 Opteron CPUs and achieves a performance record of 1.75 petaflops.
According to Nvidia, Tianhe-1A will be operated as an open access system to use for large scale scientific computations.
It simply boggles the mind that some well intentioned, but woefully misguided Ph.D candidate gets the idea of his or her dissertation published as a usable program / Language Extension.
When will they learn that no amount of crap (This code) piled on top of crap ( Java interpreter ) piled on top of crap ( JVM ) piled on top of crap ( O/S ) piled on top of crap ( exploitable microcode) that the exploits are reflected all the way back to the top of the heap of crap and no matter how you dress it it is still a huge heap of crap!
If you guys are doing Desktop Apps in Java then just start using any the various X-Plat compilers that will make your apps look so much better and more then likely much faster.
The X-Plat libs have advanced so far that Java on the Desktop is really beginning to be questioned. It has become simply a compiler switch that builds the appropriate binary for the appropriate platform and the FULL support of native UI components simply cannot be compared to the rather awkward support that Java UI interfaces have.
I predict Java on the back end will be fine in whatever form it takes after things shake out, but the front end will not be gaining any more ground.
I agree with your premise, but even then the users will demand and get port 80 open in and out and will not tolerate much in the way of interference.
Ever tried to stop yahoo messenger or any of the other cute little toys get put onto business machines? Messenger will just start looking for ways out until it finds one and if nothing else it will use port 80. And let me tell ya, those things are prime targets for worms, viri and other malicious little jewels.
I read all three of your references. What are you fucking kidding me??? You compare that to the crap MS has pulled over the years? Thanks for the laugh.
Some of Microsoft's stuff is not half bad, but I personally will not support that company with my money, or my clients. I had a client that was fairly lucrative and then they got it into their heads that they should go ALL ms ALL the way. I was professional about it and found them a company that would do it, but then I invited the principle to lunch and told them I was letting them go.
Oh I have no trouble paying for support contracts in the least. But I have yet to see anything from the Open Source world that comes even close to the level of polish and usability of any of those products that does not come from Microsoft.
And yes, I do have a problem using MS stuff as I do have a sense of morals and ethics.
Really crud is it? Then Please tell me about: an equivalent open source piece of software that Encompasses all the features of:
Border Manager
Zen Works
NetWare
GroupWise
Please do educate us ( at least me ) as to ready to install software that can duplicate or exceed the capabilities of each of those that does not have the Microsoft label. Because as it is I am ready to through Novell under the train, but not until I can do so without turning to The Empire.
"Does it hurt him?" Well I suppose one has to define "hurt".
I truly believe that 9 year olds tend to blend reality with fantasy, which in and of itself is not a bad thing as it can lead to some really interesting right brain thinking. On the other hand blending extremely violent fantasy with reality can have some serious outcomes as in kids trying to break actual chairs over each others heads thinking it is all fun and games right until someone gets a fractured skull. Not such a great outcome.
Indoctrination... Interesting. Children are a blank slate when it comes to values and need guidance which is my job as a parent. So if not my own values then who's? Set aside everything I believe and then teach him what, the golden rule only and let him make up his mind about everything else? Not so much.
And your last statement is pure flame bait but I will respond anyway.... A value system is based on some foundation of core beliefs and since I am the parent then it is my job to build that foundation which he may then add to subtract from or any combination thereof as he matures and grow into a young man, just as your parents built your core foundation which you then took what you believed to be valid and built upon that.
We have emasculated ourselves. We are dying a slow death of our own making while China eats our lunch and laughs. You look at pictures of happy people working and smiling in factories in this country around 1899 and you think, why in the hell did we do this to ourselves?
One word - Profit
Some other words... Outsourcing - Automation - Paternalism - Capitalism - Agile
A single Phrase - Global Markets
You know why those faces were smiling? Because those people had decent paying jobs with an out. That out was retirement. The out was the big thing. It meant that after you raised your kids, paid off your mortgage you could be secure that you could live out the rest of your life with the reasonable notion that you would have some security and grandkids.
All of that is pretty much gone unless you are in civil service and even that is slipping away because of the rising costs of everything from groceries to medical care. Pension plans are imploding as people are living longer and doing so require more services as the cost of living longer goes up and up.
The above coupled with some recent financial insanity and you have a pretty big problem and that effects everything and the smiling faces are no faces that no longer know if they are going to have a job next month or even next week. They don't know if the Wall Street insanity of screaming SELL because their company missed a target by a penny for not maximizing "shareholder value" to the nth degree is going to cause the company to just move the whole thing to a country where they can pay labor at pennies on the dollar compared to prevailing wages in the USA will leave them destitute because all of the other factories that require the same set of skills are doing the same thing. Couple that with massive automation which drives the head count at factories even lower and you have a whole class of people disenfranchised since not all 300 million in the USA can go to collage and become MBA's or Computer Scientists.
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The long and short of it all is that at some point equilibrium will be found but the casualties left behind in that process will be ghastly. I was having a conversation with an economist not long ago and we were discussing how the recovery periods in economic events have always been relatively fast as compaired to the current problems were are having now and that is what really gave him pause since most people can weather the storm for a given amount of time, but that amount of time is getting far to long for the vast majority of people. The social safety net is being pushed to the breaking point and if something does not change soon the consequences could be devastating.
I agree and it is certainly the right sentiment but as a parent of a 9 year old boy I like the fact that he cannot wonder into a game stop and just by something that is extraordinarily violent / something violent with heavy sexual overtones.
Try as I might to teach him values that are in line with my beliefs ( not that far out of the mainstream bet definitely not mainstream) it is a struggle when his peers seem to have ready access to this type of content.
Ultimately I want him to think for himself and make reasonable decisions about things like this with my guidance so I really don't have a problem with laws prohibiting the sale of games that are ultra-violent or ultra-violent along with sexual themes.
Well since this is the land of capitalism and we don't do any of those things then all we have to compare it to is their prevailing average wage for a factory worker. That is what GE had to compare things to because they in fact had to pay prevailing wages. Even after they paired down the worker count, did all the calculations of the cost of the automation equipment to pair those workers down AND deal with the labor laws and environmental laws ( neither of which I am criticizing by the way ) it would still cost them 50% more to produce the same product and let me tell you, that if the average shopper in the USA saw CFL's on the shelf, one with the GE brand and the other with the Yang-Sing brand and compared their attributes and they were dont to cost, and the Yang-Sing brand costs 5.00 dollars and the GE brand costs 10 Dollars which do you think they would by?
I will go you one better and say that the GE brand would not even be on the shelves because Wal-Mart wouldn't buy them because in the race to the bottom GE came in 2nd place.
No industry in the US can compete with another country where the wages are 1/100th of what a similar US worker needs to get paid for doing the same job.
Have you noticed the prices of any of the following going down to a level that a worker can can still have a decent lifestyle in this country while being paid the equivalent of wages paid in China which is less the ONE dollar an hour?
Housing
Land
Transportation
Food
Utilities ( electricity, heating oil, natural gas )
Clothing
Education
Think you can live anywhere in this country making One dollar an hour? Or anywhere in the UK making One Pound an hour? Or anywhere in the EU making One Euro an hour besides perhaps in a dumpster behind a Wal-Mart?
What kind of job do you have? i bet it is in IT. Trust me, if they could figure out a way to outsource your ass to China, they would and that person might be getting paid the Chinese equivalent of 5 dollars an hour. Can you live where you live right now and maintain your lifestyle on 5 dollars an hour? Yeah I didn't think so.
Pretty much all of this can be emulated in digital by various Photoshop functions or application of traditional camera techniques and can be done without handling toxic chemicals and spending large amounts of trial and error hours in a darkroom.
Key phrase = "pretty much"
To me, the much bigger problem these days in photography is virtually all consumer cameras are getting their sensors + camera controls dumbed down to the least common denominator, cameras moving towards a homogeneous picture taking ability (instead of the good old days where each film type had vastly different unique light capturing capability, such as Fuji Velvia), and worst of all the slow disappearance of print technology and photo printer businesses which equals or even comes close to the old Cibachrome quality of color output.
That is a huge problem because "good enough" is being pushed onto the world by faceless PHB's that wouldn't know good photography if it hit them square in the face.
This is why I still have a darkroom, I still have all those "toxic chemicals" ( dry form ) around and I have accumulated a good stock of film and paper that I store at -20 C
HUGE smile on my face as I think back to that day... Yeah I think he might have said that as well, but his remarks zeroed in on the 8 x 10. I was 21 at the time and just completely star struck to just be in his presence much less being given the privilege of asking him a question.
Back in the days when you could actually take a photography course in high school I tried SO hard to emulate his prints. I would spend hours in the school darkroom until the teacher kicked me out desperately trying to get the same results. I came sort of close a time or two but I eluded me much like the end of a rainbow.
Ansel Adams used various format camera's throughout his long career. Everything from a 35mm up to and including the Polaroid 20x24 inch instant camera which he had hauled up a mountain in Yosemite to take photographs as at the time he was on retainer from Polaroid.
His favorite was an 8 x 10 view. I know this because I was very privileged to meet the master in 1980 and actually asked him.
To be honest I am not sure what he would think of all the new tools there are to take photographs. Much of his magic occurred in the darkroom as he meticulously used his masterful understanding of printing and printing chemistry to create breathtaking images that to this day have not been surpassed in my opinion.
I have been a shutterbug since the early seventies and I am really not sure if you can duplicate the incredible subtleness of being able to alter the print developer just so so to render a more striking contrast or to bring out the very subtle shadow detail. I mean it is close, but I don't think it is there yet, just as digital has still yet to achieve the pure gradients that film provides so readily.
NoSQL is not really about scalability, it is about modeling your data the same way your application does.
Of all the inane and ridiculous statements I have every heard on/. this take the cake. "The way your application does", really I mean you really believe that an application has a life of its own and does data modeling?
A programmer ( an actual human ) builds an application and if he or she does not have a clue about databases, then yes the data modeling is going to really suck.
You can model data hierarchically or relationally you can even do a mix of both. You can choose a data model that suites the data requirements, hell you can even use flat files if you want your data to be full of white space but that is a choice that a programmer made, NOT the application.
No those are things that are the fun of BM that I enjoyed. Those things happen rarely, if ever back in the world. I have to deal with idiots yammering away blathering about nothing on their cell phones right next to me in so many places as it is, I don't want it near me in a place I go to escape all of that.
While burning man is a mirror of our culture in many ways it is a mirror that is somewhat magic in as much as the reflection has a small bit of the veneer that is the basis of restrained society stripped away.
I can deal with the Crystal Palace, Loud Jen ( of Blue Light Dist Fame from years past) but if I am sitting in the Center Camp Cafe' and some moron plops down beside me and starts yammering away on a cell phone that is just tooooo much. At that point THEY are interfering my my immediate experience.
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his sources. As reported on CNN from Mashable:
Unveiled Wednesday at the Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing (HPC China 2010) in Beijing, Tianhe-1A is the world's fastest supercomputer with a performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark.
Tianhe-1A was designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China, and it is already fully operational.
To achieve the new performance record, Tianhe-1A uses 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs.
It cost $88 million; its 103 cabinets weigh 155 tons, and the entire system consumes 4.04 megawatts of electricity.
Tianhe-1A ousted the previous record holder, Cray XT5 Jaguar, which is used by the U.S. National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
It is powered by 224,162 Opteron CPUs and achieves a performance record of 1.75 petaflops.
According to Nvidia, Tianhe-1A will be operated as an open access system to use for large scale scientific computations.
Just sayin...
It simply boggles the mind that some well intentioned, but woefully misguided Ph.D candidate gets the idea of his or her dissertation published as a usable program / Language Extension.
When will they learn that no amount of crap (This code) piled on top of crap ( Java interpreter ) piled on top of crap ( JVM ) piled on top of crap ( O/S ) piled on top of crap ( exploitable microcode) that the exploits are reflected all the way back to the top of the heap of crap and no matter how you dress it it is still a huge heap of crap!
If you guys are doing Desktop Apps in Java then just start using any the various X-Plat compilers that will make your apps look so much better and more then likely much faster.
The X-Plat libs have advanced so far that Java on the Desktop is really beginning to be questioned. It has become simply a compiler switch that builds the appropriate binary for the appropriate platform and the FULL support of native UI components simply cannot be compared to the rather awkward support that Java UI interfaces have.
I predict Java on the back end will be fine in whatever form it takes after things shake out, but the front end will not be gaining any more ground.
My 0.02 cents.
There was once a Unix version of WP 5.1 If you look around hard enough you can probably find it.
The Pinnacle of Word Processing Programs, everything else has been a down hill slide.
I agree with your premise, but even then the users will demand and get port 80 open in and out and will not tolerate much in the way of interference.
Ever tried to stop yahoo messenger or any of the other cute little toys get put onto business machines? Messenger will just start looking for ways out until it finds one and if nothing else it will use port 80. And let me tell ya, those things are prime targets for worms, viri and other malicious little jewels.
I read all three of your references. What are you fucking kidding me??? You compare that to the crap MS has pulled over the years? Thanks for the laugh.
Because I have a sense of morals and ethics
Some of Microsoft's stuff is not half bad, but I personally will not support that company with my money, or my clients. I had a client that was fairly lucrative and then they got it into their heads that they should go ALL ms ALL the way. I was professional about it and found them a company that would do it, but then I invited the principle to lunch and told them I was letting them go.
Oh I have no trouble paying for support contracts in the least. But I have yet to see anything from the Open Source world that comes even close to the level of polish and usability of any of those products that does not come from Microsoft.
And yes, I do have a problem using MS stuff as I do have a sense of morals and ethics.
And this was modded troll why? But then again I don't really give a fuck.
It would never get past the DOJ or FTC or their European equivalents not even when Bush was President.
Hmmm are sure your not Steve Balmer in disguise?
You must be because you have not spoken of any other product except for Microsoft that could replace their suite of software
Really crud is it? Then Please tell me about: an equivalent open source piece of software that Encompasses all the features of :
Please do educate us ( at least me ) as to ready to install software that can duplicate or exceed the capabilities of each of those that does not have the Microsoft label. Because as it is I am ready to through Novell under the train, but not until I can do so without turning to The Empire.
Ok, so clearly you just want to pick a fight, sorry I don't take that kind of bait.
P.S. I really hope you never reproduce. Buh-Bye.
Well first of all I gotta ask, are you a parent?
"Does it hurt him?" Well I suppose one has to define "hurt".
I truly believe that 9 year olds tend to blend reality with fantasy, which in and of itself is not a bad thing as it can lead to some really interesting right brain thinking. On the other hand blending extremely violent fantasy with reality can have some serious outcomes as in kids trying to break actual chairs over each others heads thinking it is all fun and games right until someone gets a fractured skull. Not such a great outcome.
Indoctrination... Interesting. Children are a blank slate when it comes to values and need guidance which is my job as a parent. So if not my own values then who's? Set aside everything I believe and then teach him what, the golden rule only and let him make up his mind about everything else? Not so much.
And your last statement is pure flame bait but I will respond anyway.... A value system is based on some foundation of core beliefs and since I am the parent then it is my job to build that foundation which he may then add to subtract from or any combination thereof as he matures and grow into a young man, just as your parents built your core foundation which you then took what you believed to be valid and built upon that.
We have emasculated ourselves. We are dying a slow death of our own making while China eats our lunch and laughs. You look at pictures of happy people working and smiling in factories in this country around 1899 and you think, why in the hell did we do this to ourselves?
One word - Profit
Some other words... Outsourcing - Automation - Paternalism - Capitalism - Agile
A single Phrase - Global Markets
You know why those faces were smiling? Because those people had decent paying jobs with an out. That out was retirement. The out was the big thing. It meant that after you raised your kids, paid off your mortgage you could be secure that you could live out the rest of your life with the reasonable notion that you would have some security and grandkids.
All of that is pretty much gone unless you are in civil service and even that is slipping away because of the rising costs of everything from groceries to medical care. Pension plans are imploding as people are living longer and doing so require more services as the cost of living longer goes up and up.
The above coupled with some recent financial insanity and you have a pretty big problem and that effects everything and the smiling faces are no faces that no longer know if they are going to have a job next month or even next week. They don't know if the Wall Street insanity of screaming SELL because their company missed a target by a penny for not maximizing "shareholder value" to the nth degree is going to cause the company to just move the whole thing to a country where they can pay labor at pennies on the dollar compared to prevailing wages in the USA will leave them destitute because all of the other factories that require the same set of skills are doing the same thing. Couple that with massive automation which drives the head count at factories even lower and you have a whole class of people disenfranchised since not all 300 million in the USA can go to collage and become MBA's or Computer Scientists.
The long and short of it all is that at some point equilibrium will be found but the casualties left behind in that process will be ghastly. I was having a conversation with an economist not long ago and we were discussing how the recovery periods in economic events have always been relatively fast as compaired to the current problems were are having now and that is what really gave him pause since most people can weather the storm for a given amount of time, but that amount of time is getting far to long for the vast majority of people. The social safety net is being pushed to the breaking point and if something does not change soon the consequences could be devastating.
I agree and it is certainly the right sentiment but as a parent of a 9 year old boy I like the fact that he cannot wonder into a game stop and just by something that is extraordinarily violent / something violent with heavy sexual overtones.
Try as I might to teach him values that are in line with my beliefs ( not that far out of the mainstream bet definitely not mainstream) it is a struggle when his peers seem to have ready access to this type of content.
Ultimately I want him to think for himself and make reasonable decisions about things like this with my guidance so I really don't have a problem with laws prohibiting the sale of games that are ultra-violent or ultra-violent along with sexual themes.
Well since this is the land of capitalism and we don't do any of those things then all we have to compare it to is their prevailing average wage for a factory worker. That is what GE had to compare things to because they in fact had to pay prevailing wages. Even after they paired down the worker count, did all the calculations of the cost of the automation equipment to pair those workers down AND deal with the labor laws and environmental laws ( neither of which I am criticizing by the way ) it would still cost them 50% more to produce the same product and let me tell you, that if the average shopper in the USA saw CFL's on the shelf, one with the GE brand and the other with the Yang-Sing brand and compared their attributes and they were dont to cost, and the Yang-Sing brand costs 5.00 dollars and the GE brand costs 10 Dollars which do you think they would by?
I will go you one better and say that the GE brand would not even be on the shelves because Wal-Mart wouldn't buy them because in the race to the bottom GE came in 2nd place.
Oh yeah, and that 50% thing includes shipping the damn things from half way around the fucking globe.
You are an idiot, it's just that simple.
No industry in the US can compete with another country where the wages are 1/100th of what a similar US worker needs to get paid for doing the same job.
Have you noticed the prices of any of the following going down to a level that a worker can can still have a decent lifestyle in this country while being paid the equivalent of wages paid in China which is less the ONE dollar an hour?
Think you can live anywhere in this country making One dollar an hour? Or anywhere in the UK making One Pound an hour? Or anywhere in the EU making One Euro an hour besides perhaps in a dumpster behind a Wal-Mart?
What kind of job do you have? i bet it is in IT. Trust me, if they could figure out a way to outsource your ass to China, they would and that person might be getting paid the Chinese equivalent of 5 dollars an hour. Can you live where you live right now and maintain your lifestyle on 5 dollars an hour? Yeah I didn't think so.
Pretty much all of this can be emulated in digital by various Photoshop functions or application of traditional camera techniques and can be done without handling toxic chemicals and spending large amounts of trial and error hours in a darkroom.
Key phrase = "pretty much"
To me, the much bigger problem these days in photography is virtually all consumer cameras are getting their sensors + camera controls dumbed down to the least common denominator, cameras moving towards a homogeneous picture taking ability (instead of the good old days where each film type had vastly different unique light capturing capability, such as Fuji Velvia), and worst of all the slow disappearance of print technology and photo printer businesses which equals or even comes close to the old Cibachrome quality of color output.
That is a huge problem because "good enough" is being pushed onto the world by faceless PHB's that wouldn't know good photography if it hit them square in the face.
This is why I still have a darkroom, I still have all those "toxic chemicals" ( dry form ) around and I have accumulated a good stock of film and paper that I store at -20 C
HUGE smile on my face as I think back to that day... Yeah I think he might have said that as well, but his remarks zeroed in on the 8 x 10. I was 21 at the time and just completely star struck to just be in his presence much less being given the privilege of asking him a question.
Back in the days when you could actually take a photography course in high school I tried SO hard to emulate his prints. I would spend hours in the school darkroom until the teacher kicked me out desperately trying to get the same results. I came sort of close a time or two but I eluded me much like the end of a rainbow.
Ansel Adams used various format camera's throughout his long career. Everything from a 35mm up to and including the Polaroid 20x24 inch instant camera which he had hauled up a mountain in Yosemite to take photographs as at the time he was on retainer from Polaroid.
His favorite was an 8 x 10 view. I know this because I was very privileged to meet the master in 1980 and actually asked him.
To be honest I am not sure what he would think of all the new tools there are to take photographs. Much of his magic occurred in the darkroom as he meticulously used his masterful understanding of printing and printing chemistry to create breathtaking images that to this day have not been surpassed in my opinion.
I have been a shutterbug since the early seventies and I am really not sure if you can duplicate the incredible subtleness of being able to alter the print developer just so so to render a more striking contrast or to bring out the very subtle shadow detail. I mean it is close, but I don't think it is there yet, just as digital has still yet to achieve the pure gradients that film provides so readily.
NoSQL is not really about scalability, it is about modeling your data the same way your application does.
Of all the inane and ridiculous statements I have every heard on /. this take the cake. "The way your application does", really I mean you really believe that an application has a life of its own and does data modeling?
A programmer ( an actual human ) builds an application and if he or she does not have a clue about databases, then yes the data modeling is going to really suck.
You can model data hierarchically or relationally you can even do a mix of both. You can choose a data model that suites the data requirements, hell you can even use flat files if you want your data to be full of white space but that is a choice that a programmer made, NOT the application.
No those are things that are the fun of BM that I enjoyed. Those things happen rarely, if ever back in the world. I have to deal with idiots yammering away blathering about nothing on their cell phones right next to me in so many places as it is, I don't want it near me in a place I go to escape all of that.
While burning man is a mirror of our culture in many ways it is a mirror that is somewhat magic in as much as the reflection has a small bit of the veneer that is the basis of restrained society stripped away.
I can deal with the Crystal Palace, Loud Jen ( of Blue Light Dist Fame from years past) but if I am sitting in the Center Camp Cafe' and some moron plops down beside me and starts yammering away on a cell phone that is just tooooo much. At that point THEY are interfering my my immediate experience.