Posts by ToddRundgren

Flash suppliers fib

Shock horror, flash suppliers fib horribly about IOPs. Most use cache numbers rather than flash read/write numbers. They always use numbers from a virgin/new disc, which is often 70& higher than a unit with data on it..

Maybe Intel is fibbing less than Anobit.

Flash in the pan

Interesting that a Tier1 CTO, finally, tells it how it is and identifies some of the fundamental problems flash has. Add to this the appalling performance difference between 10% full and 90% full flash devices and you start to see it isn't the panacea that the flash suppliers claim, oh and neither will phase change either.

Integrity with XEONs anyone?

Why does HP carry on with the Itanium processor? They should have swapped it for XEONs, or even Opterons on the Integrity platform, then no issue, and better price/performane platform.

I think Oracle has a point in not wanting to support a platform with zero future.

Good Stuff

Couldn't agree more Colonel, even a few of the banks are buying SM In smallish volumes. It's a good job, for HP, DEll and IBM , that UK gov' still insists on Tier1 only!

VCE

It always made sense to me that Cisco, (because of the commoditisation of x86 HW, would eventually become a serious systems company. I thought an agreement with NetApp made perfect sense. NetApp = EMC so it still makes perfect sense.

If I was HP, who have been turned into a really big Dell, by Hurd, should be worried.

Business speak crap

"our proven ability to create broad ecosystem support"

Does Otellini, (read my lips there will never be a 64bit XEON), not realise how stupid and incomprehensible that phrase is?

Airbus deal

Stop being pedantic about where it should be filed. It's fantastic news for Airbus including for Bristol and North Wales

Dominic Raab

Huge amounts of email crap which isn't reviewed because of the volume and when an MP complains he gets slaughtered.

You can't have it both ways, and it was always going to happen.

Paris because her hands are better elsewhere than on a keyboard

Sun;s HPC goes

Perhaps Larry is bright enough to realise that no-one makes money out of HPC, ....... simples ;-)

Good for Brazilian's?

Plus *THIS* is the beer that Paris should be doing commercials for! Not that weak Brazilian water!

So can you shave with it too?

Idiot LibDem

Only a f****n tree hugging, Euro lovin LibDumb idiot would say that he had consulted Microsoft as to what was best.

LibDem=Shit Thick

Jocks fault

Royal Bank of SCOTLAND and Halifax Bnak of SCOTLAND. It must be the fault of the hairy arses?

Pint ay Tennets pls

Rakable read Verari

Verari, RackGI are not big enough tin shifters to compete with very large tin shifters, e.g. Dell and HP, and even IBM. They had an angle for a couple years when the big boys stayed loyal to Intel, and they grabbed market share as AMD had a better CPU. That changed 3 years ago, and since then they have been on borrowed time. I would love to meet the VCs who put ~$50million into Verari, smile and ask WTF were you thinking of?

It's a sad state of affairs, but being cheap isn't enough any more and innovating is getting harder and harder to do.

Know why it failed last year?

It failed last year because, (due to time constraints, whereby the politicians needed it to be switched on in 2008), they only tested 1in10 of the magnets.

Scary or what???