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As a sometimes .NET developer that works in handheld devices, I think that this means that my bosses should get me an iPhone. True, we work for the manufacturi
by TheTarquin 19y ago
As a sometimes .NET developer that works in handheld devices, I think that this means that my bosses should get me an iPhone. True, we work for the manufacturing and utility industries and they'll never use the iPhone as a platform, but you know, I should still get one. For, uh, cross platform testing purposes and, er, other . . . job-related . . . .things.
- michaelneale 19y agoAnd a playstation 3. Topographical network load testing.
- marcus 19y agoA PS3 is probably the best bang per buck computing power you can buy for tasks that can be parallelized. Quite a few scientists use a small cluster of PS3 for their data crunching.
- TheTarquin 19y agoActually one of the guys I went to school with (https://publications.dev.java.net/seanfitzgerald/ https://publications.dev.java.net/seanfitzgerald/) mentioned something like that to me when details of the PS3 first started getting announced. He was doing Beowulf clustering stuff and mentioned that he wouldn't mind getting his hands on a few PS3s.
- marcus 19y agoOf course... checkout Folding@Home stats http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats To make the comparison more relevant I look at the difference between Intel based Macs(because they are all relatively new computers) and PS3s
- TheTarquin 19y agoExactly! And we have to test network scalability issues, too, so I should get some PS3s for my friends and have a LAN party, er, . . . intensive network stress-testing day at the office. :-D