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by eerpini 16y ago
Where are these packages being shipped from ?
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by eerpini 16y ago
Truth and Beauty (Aesthetics and Motivations in Science) by S. Chandrasekhar I got to know of this book much later than I would have preferred !
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by eerpini 16y ago
totally agree, I just reposted this here because I thought this article at LWN gave a lot more details than the previous ones.
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TTY-based group scheduling (the 200+ line linux patch that does wonders)(lwn.net)
17 points by eerpini 16y ago|3 comments
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Kinect Hacked to Track Breasts, Or At Least Man-Boobs(kotaku.com)
1 points by eerpini 16y ago|0 comments
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Developing custom plugins for the Vim editor(ibm.com)
1 points by eerpini 16y ago|0 comments
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Analysis of Open Source Projects for the Cloud (very informative)(blackducksoftware.com)
1 points by eerpini 16y ago|0 comments
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Systemd for administrators : killing services (0pointer.de)
2 points by eerpini 16y ago|0 comments
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by eerpini 16y ago
amazing, the ability and affordability to do such things will at least finally reiterate the need for better security !
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by eerpini 16y ago
yeah, X was developed with the server-client model in view and the scenario of the web currently fits in well with this type of thinking, so no wonder !
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4 reasons to give Julia(mint Linux 10) a try (pcworld.com)
1 points by eerpini 16y ago|0 comments
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Towards simpler userspace tracing in Linux.(lwn.net)
1 points by eerpini 16y ago|0 comments
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28nm snapdragon with 5x performance and multimode 3G/4G support(linuxfordevices.com)
2 points by eerpini 16y ago|0 comments
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Life after X: Plans for getting rid of the X server in the future (lwn.net)
65 points by eerpini 16y ago|26 comments
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by eerpini 16y ago
The performance is measured with LinPack which mostly does FP operations and is optimized to run on the architecture, when normal programs are run, it is tough to run them at full utilization, this is because, a lot of time might be spent i
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by eerpini 16y ago
that is still unbelievable ... they sure have more cores than that just in EC2, and anyway looks like the new GPU instance offerings were not included in the benchmarking, that would have shot the rank up by an order of magnitude !
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by eerpini 16y ago
mostly the problems with utilizing the system completely are the same ones a common programmer faces when trying to use GPUs for general purpose programming, the problem of transferring the data to be handled from the main memory to the GPU
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by eerpini 16y ago
well that is easier said than done, all the machines on the amazon cluster are machines with common architecture and traditional interconnects, most of these supercomputers have a custom architecture( here I mean just the type of processors
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by eerpini 16y ago
yes, they seem to be using the Power 7 architecture by IBM , which is quite energy efficient compared to most other architectures, and also they are planning to use UPC(Unified Parallel C) or similar languages for applications running on th
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by eerpini 16y ago
lol and the system goes live in 2012, close to the doomsday prediction !
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by eerpini 16y ago
I quite did not understand what "waking" up means, but it seems that Blue waters will indeed have a sustained performance of more than a petaflop with adapted applications !
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10 petaflop supercomputer in the making, will take US back to 1 on top500 (ncsa.illinois.edu)
29 points by eerpini 16y ago|42 comments