CIPWTTKT&GC v0X12 (v18): Makol can't Computer Very Good - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;35363240]So you're telling me you've never been underwater...[/QUOTE] So you're telling me you never experiment and always know exactly how to accomplish something.

[QUOTE=DustySheep;35367680]so is your face.[/QUOTE] Who are you?

[QUOTE=Goz3rr;35368081]Har har mine just installed fine: [img]http://puu.sh/ndp2[/img][/QUOTE] Also mine did :v: [img]http://puu.sh/neMU[/img]

[QUOTE=Keyrah;35365997]First, Itanium doesn't even target the supercomputer niche - neither do (current) SPARCs or really even Power, except for weird one-off designs like BlueGene. Those designs target scale-up commercial shared-memory servers, mostly UNIX. P7 delivers high floating-point performance but it's also quite expensive for that niche, and a big part of the reason it has a presence there at all is because Hitachi accepted Power as their HPC migration path (from custom PPC/vector CPUs) a few years back. Itanium does [B]great[/B] for specific HPC workloads (it can sustain 2 FP loads, 2 FMA's, and 2 FP stores in a cycle) but much less so for others. It's also power-inefficient, expensive, and on the verge of a major upgrade cycle. Second, HPC is moving towards clusters. What matters here isn't speed of individual chips; what matters is cost. Commodity processors do very well on that, and I'm sure ARM will in a year or two as well. Look at the processor breakdown ten years ago vs the processor breakdown today - arguably superior core designs (vector machines, for instance) have been replaced by Lots o' Cores. All the RISC vendors are getting hit pretty badly by this trend, and I don't see it stopping. Third, calling the SPARC64 VIIIfx a "SPARC" is a stretch, even though it has it in the name. It's a one-off design with 8 underclocked SPARC64 VII scalar cores (you know, the same cores that are legendarily slow) and a huge vector unit implementing a nonstandard ISA extension called HPC-ACE. It's easy to do well at Linpack when your solution is to throw SIMD at problems.[/QUOTE] Huh. So this is what it's like to be GMan'd.

[QUOTE=pure.Joseph;35369492]Once again, leaving this here: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8fDX3.png[/IMG] PS: Apparently Windows server 2008 R2 does not support the latest Intel nics that came out, the i350 4port gigabit, so I had to create a custom ISO, get daemon tools mounted, then mount it onto the remote KVM. Ah...[/QUOTE] How many hundred webservers/game servers/whatever-else servers do you plan to run on that because holy shit

[QUOTE=kukiric;35370212]How many hundred webservers/game servers/whatever-else servers do you plan to run on that because holy shit[/QUOTE] It's a production node for Minecraft hosting. I'm still sorting out the RAID controller issue.. I can barely get past the 500MB/s mark with two Intel 520 SSD's in RAID-0. I tested each drive individually and they can hit at least 400MB/s easy, so something is wrong here. EDIT: It seems like one of the SSD's is defective, or we have a loose cable somewhere in the server. Well fuck, I'm not sure if I should just ditch the damn controller and go with Soft/Fake raid..

[quote]Happy birthday, agentgamma! Have a good one :)[/quote] It's a shame I entered the wrong date in accidently (My b'day is April 4, not April 1)

How would I get a shortcut to go from where it is and not a drive letter. I'm putting a few things onto my pendrive but on all 3 of the computers I'm using it on, it shows up as a different drive letters. Any ideas?

[QUOTE=Brt5470;35369935]Also mine did :v: [img]http://puu.sh/neMU[/img][/QUOTE] JUGGERNAUGHTY

[QUOTE=gman003-main;35370176]Huh. So this is what it's like to be GMan'd.[/QUOTE] ...she's part of the reason for my Itanium obsession.

I want to setup a NAS On my Remote Linux VPS (Running Ubuntu), Im already running a VPN on there and want to expand its usage a bit. How do I go about setting up this Remote NAS?

[QUOTE=wingless;35370627]...she's part of the reason for my Itanium obsession.[/QUOTE] He is a she? :O

[QUOTE=gman003-main;35365277]Hey guys, what's a good "work" laptop that's also decent at gaming and has a good battery life? Reason I ask is, I *may* be getting a work laptop (as in, work pays for it). So I'm considering altering my "get a beast gaming laptop" plan to a "get a work laptop that can run Skyrim on medium, and then build a desktop that's even more beast than the laptop I'd have gotten". This isn't at the "pick a specific model" stage yet. This is looking at options, seeing if this entire plan is worth it, or whether I should just convince the boss that a Core i7 and a 680M are *totally* *necessary* to run Komodo and xterm. Main requirements: Decent screen resolution. 1080p would be awesome, but 1600x900 or 1440x900 or something is fine Decently portable. Not netbook sized, but also not a massive "portable desktop" like I'd been considering Full keyboard MANDATORY - I'll be typing code on this shit all day Compatibility - It'll dual-boot, and needs to play nice with the office servers (Linux) and Macs. Not underpowered - I'd like to be able to play *light* games on it. Think "sneak in a round of BF3 during lunch". From what I gather, integrated might even qualify for this. Something *like* the laptop I had would actually work out well. What's the current equivalent of an Asus M50?[/QUOTE] Wait for the ultrabooks with the Kepler GPUs, if possible. I've also heard good things about the Ivy Bridge integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000), so that might be something to look at. EDIT: While listening to This Week in Computer Hardware, they mentioned some Acer Timeline ultrabook that "Leaked". From what I remember, it has a core i5 and a GTX 680M for under $1000. I think one of the hosts mentioned that the build quality was lacking, though the specs were impressive.

[QUOTE=wingless;35370627]...she's part of the reason for my Itanium obsession.[/QUOTE] You're still wrong, by the way. EPIC, and even VLIW in general, doesn't work anymore. You save die space by putting the parallelism logic in the compiler instead of the hardware, but then you use up all that space, and more, trying to have enough cache for 64-bit instructions (even in 64-bit mode, x86 uses 32-bit instructions). Much of which is taken up by NOPs, because compilers simply can't know enough about hardware state like "is this address in cache, or main memory?". Now, EPIC *would* have worked quite well, long ago. Before massive caches, and before processor clocks greatly outstripped memory clocks. Maybe it'll even come back, if TTRAM or something takes off and main memory latencies drop to the point that cache is pointless. But for the present and predictable future, EPIC is fail.

[QUOTE=nedamakolion;35370713]He is a she? :O[/QUOTE] Believe it or not, there are girls on Facepunch, even in the Hardware section.

[QUOTE=nedamakolion;35370713]He is a she? :O[/QUOTE] It's not a he in the first place. [editline]1st April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=gman003-main;35370881]You're still wrong, by the way. EPIC, and even VLIW in general, doesn't work anymore. You save die space by putting the parallelism logic in the compiler instead of the hardware, but then you use up all that space, and more, trying to have enough cache for 64-bit instructions (even in 64-bit mode, x86 uses 32-bit instructions). Much of which is taken up by NOPs, because compilers simply can't know enough about hardware state like "is this address in cache, or main memory?". Now, EPIC *would* have worked quite well, long ago. Before massive caches, and before processor clocks greatly outstripped memory clocks. Maybe it'll even come back, if TTRAM or something takes off and main memory latencies drop to the point that cache is pointless. But for the present and predictable future, EPIC is fail.[/QUOTE] Perhaps. You gotta admit for the time EPIC was quite awesome and still has potential use in the future, huge emphasis on potential there. If not, there's still a wealth to learn from it.

[QUOTE=benjgvps;35370858]Wait for the ultrabooks with the Kepler GPUs, if possible. I've also heard good things about the Ivy Bridge integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000), so that might be something to look at. EDIT: While listening to This Week in Computer Hardware, they mentioned some Acer Timeline ultrabook that "Leaked". From what I remember, it has a core i5 and a GTX 680M for under $1000. I think one of the hosts mentioned that the build quality was lacking, though the specs were impressive.[/QUOTE] I think you mean the 640M, there's still nothing on the 680M afaik. Only cards that are due soon are the 640, 650, 660, 670, and 675.

[QUOTE=Makol;35371034]I think you mean the 640M, there's still nothing on the 680M afaik. Only cards that are due soon are the 640, 650, 660, 670, and 675.[/QUOTE] "only"

Of those the 670 and 675 are rebranded Fermis though, and the stuff below the 640 is mostly just die-shrinked Fermi. [editline]1st April 2012[/editline] And yeah, the Acer timeline has the 640M with much slower DDR3 memory than Nvidia's specs.

Dear electric/gas company: When you come to our house to check something around the side, please don't come at 2am I damn near shit myself when I saw a torch float past the window

it was makol. PREPARE YOUR HARDWARE.

Oh wow google: [t]http://puu.sh/nfVd[/t]

[QUOTE=Goz3rr;35371483]Oh wow google: [t]http://puu.sh/nfVd[/t][/QUOTE] Google Maps: Minecraft Edition?

[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;35371591]Google Maps: Minecraft Edition?[/QUOTE] Minecraft doesn't have sprite graphics, it's NES edition. [video=youtube;rznYifPHxDg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg[/video]

DON'T ZOOM IN TOO FAR THAT'S WHERE BAD THINGS ARE LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO MY STREET [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5831868/AAAAAAAAAAAAA.png[/IMG]

I feel this 8bit Google maps thing is an April Fool's Joke.

[QUOTE=kukiric;35371609]Minecraft doesn't have sprite graphics, it's NES edition. [video=youtube;rznYifPHxDg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg[/video][/QUOTE] They released their april fools joke too early

[QUOTE=Dorkslayz;35371706]I feel this 8bit Google maps thing is an April Fool's Joke.[/QUOTE] Nah, its a new update to speed it up on Android devices over 1 year old.

Was my post about tony's empty head cavity really that zingy?

Guys. I actually found my house on that maps format. It was amazingly faster than using the normal maps. Which doesn't make sense.