Posts by ToddRundgren
109 posts • joined Tuesday 10th February 2009 14:33 GMT
Re: Symptomatic of a bigger problem
Quite right Meg Whitman should get back in the kitchen
Re: Symptomatic of a bigger problem
@Homer1
The decline of the PC hardly justifies dumb aquisitions, does it?
Re: Linux for Big Data systems
@Eadon,
Do you have nothing better to do?
Re: Nokia sell in a quarter now what they used to sell in 2 weeks
Elop has to rate as the worst CEO of tech in modern times.
No that would be several ex HP CEOs
Re: Oh no...
No IBM, bought TMS, very different solution indeed.
Dumb, dumber and Apple buyers I guess?
Re: 1,219,973.91 IOPS
If its DRAM, it should be entirley repeatable. With flash you would would see different resulst each time you ran it, due to the write performance hit of flash.
Re: You get what you pay for, and you DO pay!
YOur missing the point Alan. You calculate $/TB, which makes the DRAM stuff monstrously expensive. How many databases need 282TB of spinning disc?
If you find the right problem, e.g. speeding up Oracle, then its a lot cheaper than moving to Exadata.
BTW Kove claim 5.2Miilion IOPs, at 8useconds latency, and it only costs $180K/TB
Re: barely profitable option for ARM
OK Richard, now it makes more sense. But as you know, ARM wins always, unless ATOM gets dramaically better at power managment
Re: I don't see them costing that much
@Richard Plimston,
What has this go to do with ARM?
Dyson, invented a more efficient way of sucking up dirt, without using a bag, that was new, and so innovative. He also spotted that using a ball was better than a wheel for steering said vaccum cleaner. Again an innovation as no one had thought of it before. They didn't patent a plastic canister with stretchy hose and brush attachment, cos is was alreday out there!
Apple "did" in my opinion develop the scrolling sw, and they should get royalties for this and other novel features, but a rectangle with rounded edges, just smacks of americam pritectonism, as always! Cro Magnon man may have realised that smooth and round was better than pointy and sharp, to live with that is, rather than for sticking in a wild animal
Re: "They did not invent."
You do in racing cars.
Your argument sounds like you have a few Apple products.
Re: "They did not invent."
There is unfortunately a precedent for patenting a form factor!
Rodime pateneted the 3.5" disc format factor and still get royalties from: Seagate, WDC, et al to this day.
The "patent" world has gone mad, though by allowing a rectangle to be patentable.
Re: bloody ridiculous...
There must be an inventive step. e.g. a car driven through the front wheels, like the mini, or a tablet computer that has finger scrolling software, but not a "RECTANGLE WITH ROUNDED EDGES". This is simple american protectionism!
Posted in Ten... Sata 3 SSDs
Re: shame no random write figures!
Actually th ebiggest problem woth SSDs is sequential writes, but for at least 5 or 10minutes (depending on the manufactuer), as you will see a dramatic drop in performance!
Posted in Ten... Sata 3 SSDs
@AC
So if you need lost of IOPs, your solution is to increase the capacity? Problem solved
Re: So let me get this right ...
No not even close!
Solaris Zones
Similarities to Zones, but it's dynamic, so if a containers owner i snot using some of the resource another user can "borrow" that resource, so maximizing system utilization.
Posted in Giant stick insect saved from extinction
Re: Tree lobster...
I think you mean the Thylacine or "Tasmanian" wolf?
Posted in Giant stick insect saved from extinction
Re: so....
No its humans landing ships on remote islands, (Lord Howe was an Admiral, just prior to Nelson), which had rats on them. Rats infest the isalnd and wipe out the indigenous species. Nothing at all to do with evolution.
Re: 'Idle' computer power isn't so idle these days
@Martin Gregorie
Why and how has SETI got into this discussion?
Climate models use huge amounts of I/O period
Re: Re: Re:new Computamabobs
"How does having some flour made on your roof help with supercomputing?"
Camberwik Green versus Trumpton, discuss!
Re: Re: New Computamabobs...
Don't even think about buying a "serious" facility from Dell, it will be disastrous. Ask UCL, Imperial, Manchester etc etc etc. Actually asked the users, rather than the people who procured it!
Re: New Computamabobs...
They don't buy clusters, (apart from small ones), because they like being an IBM, or Cray or CDC, or NEC customer and to therefore feel really important.
They are civil servants for heavens sake, what do you expect?
Re: Re: Just whipping up a scare.
Wasn't the Nexus made by HTC Matt?
Re: Re: Re: What garbage.
Chet,
Don't go down the same, quad core must be 4X better, as the x86 boys did 3 years ago. Unless you can:
a) schedule the jobs
b) prevent memory exhaustion
Muiti-core will makes thing significantly worse for users of smartphones.
@Matt Bryant
I fear you are trying to defend the in-defensible Matt.
Twats everywhere, but jeez in the states there are some doozys!
Extra CPU are all very well, but
It's the limited memory that's the problem, not the number of CPUs. When memory get's low, due to lost of app's being open, is when the phone becomes unstable?
They are living
I would say life is DNA replication rather than burning glucose
@AC
And your evidence things were beyond her abilities is??
@AC Hurd lover
Are you Hurd's mum?
You are obviously not running a Windows OS on your PC then?
"As do all my PCs.. in fact if they didn't work.. as advertized... then I wouldn't have bought them in the first place."
You must be the one then?
Isn't "Paradigm shift" banned
Stop using that phrase, people will assume you are a marketeer.
The West is dead long live the East
Perhaps this frivolous shit, that my kids, wife, dog, (don'y have a dog), and lost of other ex-friends use minute by minute, is useful, but I just don't get it or care. Old farts rant over.
Methane warning
Hmm Cartoon perv'?
@dpGoose
Here XXin here. They must chuckle with one another near the coffee machine.
@Steven Roper
Irony?
David Whitehouse of the BBC?
Assuming its the same David Whitehouse, (BBC's science correspondence), who is saying he is sceptical then maybe it has all along been something other than CO2, (NO2, N2O4, CH4, H2O), etc
@David Perry2
Its difficult to protect SLAs with EC2 as you never know what other applications are running at the same time. This is bad for any long running, multi-threaded code, such as Comp'Chem' and CFD (climate), codes.
@Jake
Many Universities do a very bad job of this, very long overruns in delivery and usability. This is due to poor procurement, one group dominating the procurement, e.g. Physics, as well as rubbish project management by the main contractors, which is often, partly, caused by the University demanding xMillion cores by £8:50.
At least at Daresbury and RAL, they have some people with an idea of how to buy something at a fair price and make sure it works.
Posted in Dell cooks up new HPC strategy
HPC support and tuning
Who told the author that HP, IBM et al have HPC experts working for them. They don't. All of the Tier1s, (excluding Cray), are pretty poor at delivering HPC systems, because they laid off most of their people.
@AC
Common denominator is Intel. When Apple was a non-x86 vendor Intel wanted them, so they offer big discounts. Apple being pretty bright tie these prices in for several years. The Taiwanese were with Wintel, so pretty much had to accept whatever margins they could get, with Intel creaming off big margins.
It will be interesting to see what happens with Tegra3 based Android laptops from Acer, Asus and Lenovo??
@Blank Reg
Can you tell me where please?
Windows tablets
I must say, if I had been asked what OS I would like on a tablet, (in January), I would have said Windows. Not that I don't hate Windows, but because I would need: Word, Excell, PPT etc. I have subsequently had access to an iPad, (errindoors') and it's a joy to use. Simple, intuitive etc. I also use LibreOffice which is pretty darn good versus Office.
If asked again, I would put Windows in 3rd place, behind Aple and Android tablets.
Maybe we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Windows empire?
Elop and the kings new clothes
"From an ecosystem perspective, there are benefits and synergies that exist between Windows and Windows Phone. We see that opportunity. We'll certainly consider those opportunities going forward."
Does anybody that speaks decent english have a clue what he means??
Posted in ARM rolls out new GPU, loses head
Always thought him to be fair
I knew Tudor from the wooden hut days, always seemed a good, (and fair), egg from my recollection.
Didn't used to scan checked in luggage
The reason for a lack of terrorist attacks previously, is because its difficult to retrieve your bag from the cargo hold.
Posted in HP boasts of 3PAR benchmark boost
@AC
Kove, (appears to be), a persistent, (so not cache), block device that supports snapshots!
Posted in HP boasts of 3PAR benchmark boost
@ IO-IO
Agree to much of what you said, but the STAC M3 is very much a multi-user benchmark, so I believe the 11Million IOPs are valid.
Posted in HP boasts of 3PAR benchmark boost
11 Million IOPs
Not sue fo the similarities of the benchmark, but I recently saw a financial services benchmarking suite from STAC Research, which had a storage array from www.kove.com at 11.7Million IOPs.
Seems 3Par/HP might have along way to go yet?
