PhuFighter

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by PhuFighter 12y ago
I'm curious to see what the total timings would be like to get the data in a useable form - as opposed to just fetching a record from a data store. As noted - these data stores just store and retrieve data and don't do things lik
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by PhuFighter 12y ago
I think if you look closely at the specs, I think the Xeon has about 2.5MB of L3 per core, while P8 has about 8MB of L3/core. There are bigger differences than this. But the examples above have both processors set at SMT2 (~30 second
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by PhuFighter 12y ago
the last I heard, Linux on the IBM Mainframes were driving > 50% of their sales.
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by PhuFighter 12y ago
It depends on what you mean by "demanding". I think that single threaded applications on x86 (with nothing else running) will smoke the Power8 system. But if you have lots of threads and high levels of concurrency going on, i th
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by PhuFighter 12y ago
it's surprising how much cheaper these Power8 boxes are compared to the Power7 boxes. You can get a tyan 2U, 1 socket system for $2800 FOB HK: http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/
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by PhuFighter 12y ago
Power has been little endian for a while. No one bothered to tell the software guys to write a little endian OS and tools for it....
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by PhuFighter 12y ago
Interesting simple cup test. I can't wait to see other, more comprehensive applications.
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by PhuFighter 14y ago
heh. Google can't release a Maps app - mostly because that would be duplicating a service that Apple already provides, and apple hates competition !
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by PhuFighter 15y ago
Heh. That's funny. when i go to those sites, i don't even see the ads. That's why I block facebook connect, google plus, and a raft of other sites.
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by PhuFighter 15y ago
Bah. There are so many apps that I purchased that are complete junk, that, IMO, paying a $0.99 for an app that I do use seems to even itself out. And what about completely fraudulent apps (e.g. search for "blacklist" in the App Store). Ho
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by PhuFighter 15y ago
This is funny. I thought that the whole paradigm of startups is to first release the minimally useful featureset and work on the other items later? I mean - isn't the goal is to first get revenue and then fix up what needs working later?