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What's the main differences between the nano and the 3155? Also, would be possible to upgrade in the future without having to buy the whole thing?
The nano osmolator is just a simple float switch and that is it. The 3155 has the dual level control with the optical eye for primary control and the float switch emergency backup. The 3155 offers superior redundancy.
It would not be possible to upgrade, they are entirely different units.
While it may be sufficient for a tank of that size, depending on head height the pump has to push against, it does have more limited capacity and safeties set up for small tanks, so we don't generally recommend this one for tanks over 50 gallons.
Have a great day!
Other then the container the kit really comes with everything you need to get started. The pump has a max head height of about 7ft.
The distance between the float being triggered and off is between 1/4" to 1/3" Feel free to let us know if you have any further questions!
Thanks for the feedback.
the Nano will have a 5 minute shut off and no ability to adjust he flow of the pump. In most cases this will be too limited for the 120 gallon. Feel free to let us know if you have any further questions!
You can always try implementing a large magnet to ensure the hold is stronger. Other than that, there are some more permanent applications such as small amount of super glue. In any case your best bet will be to contact TUNZE and see if they have any tips or tricks.
Tunze – 512-833-7546 firstname.lastname@example.com
That is a valid concern and if you are keeping SPS in the 10 gallon then we would suggest looking into the Osmolator 3155, however for most fish, and other corals like softies and LPS the Osmolator nano will work just fine. Since the return pump compartment is much smaller than larger tanks, when water evaporates it will move the water level pretty quickly and activate the float switch which is pretty sensitive.
The unit is not suited to large aquariums because it has a timer based cut off so the pump will only run for a short period of time. Using it with a large tank can result in the the pump turning off before its finished replacing the evaporation.
Full Details
Introducing the little brother to the Tunze Osmolator, one of the industry's most trusted automatic water top-off device and BRS Recommended. Designed specifically for smaller aquariums, roughly 50 gallons and under, the Osmolator Nano 3152 is a slimmed down version of the full sized 3155. It includes a processor-based anti-overfill system which turns the pump off if after five minutes of filling the level has still not been reached. The Osmolator Nano includes the control unit, low voltage (6V) pump, power adapter, 3m hose, magnet mount and protective cover.
The standard for smaller tanks By Join the Revolution on 5/11/2017Join the Revolution would recommend this product to a friendTunze quality on a smaller package. These are bullet proof top off units. Those who have problems are not reading the instructions and have it installed in an incorrect area. You get a two year warranty on this brand. Who else does that? Nobody.
Great simple solution for top off By Todd on 5/5/2017Todd would recommend this product to a friendI've used this top off system for over 2 years now. I never have any issues with it.
Most of the complaints I see people are mentioning they have to unplug it and plug it back in.
This is actually a feature to prevent a disaster. If the pump runs longer than 3 minutes it has to be reset. Under normal operation this never occurs. However if the sensor were to get stuck this feature would prevent the system from pumping until it was out of water. Normally mine only runs for less than 10 seconds at a time.
The other procedure that requires you to unplug it is when your reservoir runs dry. I assume this is to prevent the pump from burning out.
An on/off switch would be nice to make these "reboots" easier, but it's not much of a hassle to take the plug out for a second or two.
Good for the price By Doug e fresh on 4/10/2017Doug e fresh would recommend this product to a friendI have only used this for a month and it has worked well. The only problem I have is I don't quit trust the single float switch.
But time will tell if I learn to trust it.
Not typical Tunze quality By Mark on 2/27/2017Mark wouldn't recommend this product to a friendBought this thinking I would be getting the same quality as it's big brother, but this one is complete garbage. The pump has failed on me several times, requiring me to unplug it and plug it back in. Luckily I caught it quickly each time, but I definitely wouldn't trust this if I went on vacation. Also, unlike it's big brother, this ATO only has one sensor (a float sensor) that is prone to getting stuck. I would recommend only getting the bigger osmolator or using a different brand that uses an optical sensor.
Pump Issues By Matthew on 2/23/2017Matthew wouldn't recommend this product to a friendThere appears to be issues with pump quality of these units. The pump that shipped with my nano could only develop about 2 inches of head.
Tunze sent me a second pump which seems to be ok.
NOTE TO CANADIAN CUSTOMERS: You may have issues with warranty processing in Canada. Tunze Canada will not honor warranty on products purchased in the US, Tunze USA will only cover the parts and labor on products in Canada due to expensive shipping costs to Canada.
Would not recommend By Wilson on 12/12/2016Wilson wouldn't recommend this product to a friendI bought this with the idea it would make my life easier. The first pump failed and Tunze replaced it. The second pump ran great for @ a week then stopped filling up the tank unless I unplugged it and plugged it back in. They are now sending a third pump however I'm not holding my breath. Had I known this would happen I would have purchased another model.
Excellent product By Richie D on 11/4/2016Richie D would recommend this product to a friendSure is convenient not having to add to-off water all the time. Just went away for the weekend and didn't have to worry about whether or not the gravity fed system I had always used would work or not. Many times I would come home to find the pump sucking air and the aquarium down about 4 inches. Not this time! While it is very expensive, it does save a lot of headaches and potential loss of fish and corals. Absolutely recommend it.
Great mini version of the bigger ato By Sgt Harold on 9/13/2016Sgt Harold would recommend this product to a friendI brought this for my Red Sea max 250 rimless . It has a small tank that I use a 5 gal bucket to keep full. Keeping salinity if important in maintaining a stably ecosystem .
Part #4017.000 Controller Osmolator nano device By Max on 8/3/2016Max wouldn't recommend this product to a friendI have written to the company in Germany to try to get a new part #4017.000 Controller Osmolator Nano device. I have to unplug the device and reconnect it every cpl days to get the unit to work properly to top off. It makes a noise like it wants to pump water to my reef tank but will not until I unplug the device and re-connect it then it works for a day or two. I hope I can get a replacement part as I only bought this from BRS beginning of July last month. I sent the scan of my invoice to the company in Germany as well so waiting on a response.
Great By darryl hey on 8/1/2016darryl hey wouldn't recommend this product to a friendhave 3 of these on nano tanks 29 biocube 40 breader and 45 cube works great! have been running for 2 years now
Auto shut off By Chris on 7/2/2016Chris wouldn't recommend this product to a friendThe float sensor got stuck on and the pump did not turn off. The auto turn off did not work. Luckily the story revisor was almost empty and my tank did not overflow. I don't trust it any more need to upgrade to the one with the optical sensor.
Great nano ATO By Tommy on 6/13/2016Tommy would recommend this product to a friendI installed the Tunze nano ATO in my Corallife Biocube 29. I placed it in the 3rd chamber with the return pump. So far it works perfectly. It has helped stabilize the tank and my corals could not be happier. Great little ATO.


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Oct. 7, 2012
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- After spending several weeks going through conditioning drills and skills instruction, the Tennessee women's basketball team has transitioned into practice mode. Sunday's first full-scale hoops workout signaled that the 2012-13 season is just around the corner.
With an exhibition contest vs. Carson-Newman slated for Nov. 1, first-year Lady Vol Head Coach Holly Warlick and her staff put the team through its paces. According to Warlick, Sunday's performance stacked up as a good starting point for this squad as the program begins preseason practice without Pat Summitt at the helm for the first time since 1974. Summitt, who last April made the decision to step aside after 38 seasons as head coach after being diagnosed with early-onset dementia, Alzheimer's type in August 2011, has moved into the role of head coach emeritus this season. She was seated courtside on Sunday.
"I thought it was a great day today," Warlick said. "Our first full practice, we went for about three hours, and I was pleased. We can always continue to get in better shape, but I thought our effort was there. Our freshmen looked really good and they're blending in with our seniors. It was a great first day for us."
Tennessee lost five players from a 27-9 squad that won its third-straight SEC Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight last season. First-round WNBA draft picks in 6-2 guard/forward Shekinna Stricklen (15.4 pgg, 6.6 rpg) and 6-foot-2 forward Glory Johnson (14.2 ppg, 9.9 rpg.) are gone, as is another WNBA selection in 6-4 forward/center Vicki Baugh (7.5 ppg, 6.7 rpg). Also departed are two others who started the final seven games alongside that trio: 6-1 forward Alicia Manning (3.9 ppg, 3.9 rpg) and 5-2 point guard Briana Bass (2.0 ppg, 0.7 apg).
The Lady Vols return six letterwinners, including three who have extensive experience as starters. Senior Taber Spani, a 6-1 forward who was averaging 12 points per game before injuries curtailed production a year ago, is healthy again and has 57 starts under her belt, including 15 a year ago. She hit 34 of 85 attempts from three-point land a year ago for a 40-percent clip.
Junior Meighan Simmons and sophomore Ariel Massengale earned 22 and 24 starts, respectively, last season. Simmons has been on the floor for tipoff 58 times, is averaging 12.3 points for her career and possesses UT's top-returning scoring average from a year ago at 11.1. Massengale, meanwhile, recorded a UT-freshman record 162 assists and an SEC leading assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.1 en route to Full Court Freshman All-America status in 2011-12.
Also back and with big things expected of them are 6-2 forward Cierra Burdick (36 games, 4.6 ppg, 2.8 rpg), 6-3 sophomore center Isabelle Harrison (31 games, 3.3 ppg, 2.7 rpg) and 5-11 senior guard Kamiko Williams (2.8 ppg, 1.8 rpg), who saw duty in 22 games last season after overcoming an ACL tear during the summer.
Among the five newcomers are three HoopGurlz/ESPNU Top 100 players in 6-2 forward/center Bashaara Graves (#5, Clarksville, Tenn./Clarksville H.S.), 5-9 point guard Andraya Carter (#21, Flowery Branch, Ga./Buford H.S.) and 6-2 forward Jasmine Jones (#39, Madison, Ala./Bob Jones H.S.).
Joining that trio will be Jasmine Phillips, a 5-10 sophomore guard (Hartsville, S.C./Hartsville H.S.) who was a junior college All-American at Louisburg (N.C.) College last season, and Nia Moore, a 6-3 post player (Chicago, Ill./Bolingbrook H.S.) who played alongside Massengale as a prepster.
No Nerves For Warlick
Warlick was asked if she was nervous running practice today for the first time as head coach. She credited previous experience during her 27 years as an assistant for Pat Summitt with making this day not much different than any other.
"No, because I was fortunate enough that Pat let me do what I did today in the past," Warlick said. "It was just kind of another day for me to run practice. It was different from the sense that we only have two seniors, so we had to do a lot more teaching than we've normally had to do."
Pleased With The New Staff
Warlick expressed how much she has enjoyed working with her staff and having Summitt as part of that group.
"I couldn't be more pleased. They've (assistants) been on the road working and their knowledge of the game... I knew it, but when I get them out here on the court and hear what they're saying and how they're teaching, it's incredible. I am very fortunate, and these young ladies are fortunate to have three great assistant coaches.
"She's (Pat) is going to be here every day. She was here the other day at 6:15 in the morning. I struggle to get here, and she was here before me. I anticipate that she's going to be here every practice."
Players Didn't Give In To Fatigue
With the team going longer for the full-scale practice than they have for the fall workouts, Warlick said her players seemed to handle the rigors of more time on the court very well.
"I thought they didn't give in to fatigue. They fought through times when they got a little tired and winded. It was primarily a defensive practice, and we did a little bit of up and down. I was very pleased with our effort and our energy.
"We really have a good camaraderie about us. It's a good close-knit feel right now. I love that. I haven't felt that in a long time. I think it's well-needed for this team."
Praise For The Newcomers
Warlick had some positive comments about how the newcomers performed and the skills they are displaying.
"I think they all looked good in their own particular way. We have some defensive stoppers. I was very pleased with Jasmine Jones and her effort on defense and Jasmine Phillips; Bashaara for how physical she is; Andraya's ability to lead a basketball team and Nia's presence inside. It's something we needed, and she showed a lot of that today."
Newcomers Will Play
Warlick didn't hesitate when asked how much action Tennessee's five newcomers would see this season.
"We want to run. We want to play full-court defense. We want to push the tempo. I see all of our freshmen and incoming players getting a lot of playing time."
Pushing The Tempo
"We have athletes, and I think we need to take advantage of our athleticism, our quickness, our physicalness. We're strong. We have a lot of people who can handle the ball fullcourt. All of them can. Probably Izzy is the only one I'd be a little skeptical about going coast to coast, but she has the ability to do that."
"We have Meighan, Taber and Massengale who have quality time on the offensive end in a half-court offense, but I just think it is to our benefit to run up and down the floor.
"You can really tell if you watch practice how much time and effort Cierra Burdick has put into her game. She's always been dedicated, but this summer she put in some hours. If one practice is any indication, I am just so pleased with her. I saw a big change in her ability to get up and down the floor and play on the defensive end. She's worked really hard at that, so I am proud of her."
Carter Turned Nerves Into Excitement
Freshman Andraya Carter may have had some nerves before the team's first full scale workout Sunday, but her butterflies quickly turned into excitement.
"I was pretty anxious about it," Carter said. "I was just excited to get out there. The nerves kicked in a little bit right before, but my teammates were great. They were all just telling me to be excited and bring energy, so I just turned the nerves into excitement and it went well."
The newcomer from Flowery Branch, Ga., is one of two new guards to join the Big Orange, along with JUCO transfer Jasmine Phillips. Carter says the adjustment to playing collegiate basketball has been huge.
"I think for anyone coming into college, it's going to be a huge adjustment," Carter said. "Just the speed, the intensity and the physicality of the game--it's a huge adjustment."
For as much of a shock adjusting to playing at the college level has been for Carter, teammate Taber Spani praised the newcomers on their hard work in today's practice.
"They did great," Spani said. "Obviously, everybody starts out good, but by the end it's really mental. You have to mentally stay in it and it's draining towards the end. I thought they picked up everything really well, worked hard and that's why I'm really proud of them. They have no quit in them."
Massengale Feeling Strong Entering Sophomore Season
Sophomore Ariel Massengale had some injury obstacles during preseason as a freshman, but compared to a year ago, Massengale says she's in top shape for the new season.
"I feel great," Massengale said. "Heather Mason does a great job of getting us in shape and getting us ready." "I've been able to get in shape, get my body right and just get ready for the season. It's a long one so just getting stronger, getting faster and working on my endurance."
The Lady Vols have implemented a quick-tempo style of play this season, and the transition has been a little new for the returnees.
"It's very high paced and high intensity," Massengale said. "That's the way we want to play this year, so that's the way we have to practice."
Massengale believes the hard work the Lady Vols are putting in will show results in the end.
"I don't think a lot of people are expecting a lot from us," Massengale said. "I don't think we have anything else to prove. We know what we're capable of doing, so if we go out there and play hard, play Tennessee basketball and do what we're supposed to do, then in the end we'll be successful."
Spani Ready To Lead Team
As one of two seniors on the squad, Taber Spani feels great responsibility in leading the team.
"As a senior, I feel like it's part of my responsibility not to let the Lady Vol tradition down," Spani said. "Yes, our team last year was the first to not make it to the Final Four, so Kamiko and I feel a great responsibility."
Spani says the transition to the quick style of play Warlick has implemented has been new for everyone on the squad, not just the newcomers.
"I have all the confidence in the world in how we're going to pick it up and play like the coaches want us to play, and the way the coaches want us to play," Spani said. "It's going to take a little adjustment because we're all new to this. It's not like the veterans know what to expect, everybody is going through the new stage. That's exciting and I think we're going to be able to pick it up and go for it."
The Lee's Summit, Mo., native knows her time is winding down at UT, which has given her even more motivation to contribute to the Lady Vol effort as much as she can.
"I think I've also just caught myself thinking every moment, every day, no matter how hard it is or what it looks like, it counts," Spani said. "And it makes a difference so that's exciting to me and gives me a sense of urgency as well. To know I have a time clock and I have to maximize everything and give everything I can for my team."
"We believe in each other, and we believe in what we can do. We want to do it for Lady Vol nation - past, present and future."

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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 145, June 26, 1998
CUG Notes
ARSC staff members Kurt Carlson and Barbara Horner-Miller who attended the Stuttgart CUG were kind enough to share their notes with the T3E Newsletter. The first notes were written by co-editor, Guy Robinson:
Guy's Notes:
SV1. What is it?
The SV1 is CRAYs latest member in the vector supercomputer product line. Key features of the new line are:
Peak performance of 4 gigaflops from a single processor unit, which actually consists of four 1 gigaflop processors. These processors exploit vector cache memory which, with a suitable compiler, will increase effective memory bandwidth.
A symmetric multiprocessing architecture which builds larger systems by combining many cabinets. Scalable from entry level single cabinet systems of 32-gigaflops to multi-cabinet teraflop systems, and a current upper limit of 1 terabyte of memory.
A powerful suite of clustering tools to ease the management of such complex systems will also be provided.
Existing J systems can actually be upgraded to use the new fast processors, giving higher levels of performance but without some of the advanced clustering abilities, and Cray is expecting many sites to take this path.
With entry level systems priced at $500,000 and an aggressive trade in policy it is clear this system is intended to be the mainstream of the SGI/Cray scientific product line. More on the SV1 can be found at:
Software tools
Several SGI/Cray staff described what would be happening in the current programming environment in the coming months/years. Along with a continual set of fixes and improved compatibility between the various SGI/Cray systems, key points are:
- improved totalview debugger which will allow the inspection of message queues etc.
- a new set of scientific libraries with a clearer structure overall which will ease user confusion over which libraries contain which algorithm and which are parallelized for which architecture.
- in the longer term a single workshop of tools with a similar general look and feel across all platforms.
T3E news
SGI/Cray predicted continuing sales for the T3E systems in the coming year and reported it to be one of the most successful MPP platforms ever produced with several 1000+ node systems either in place or being delivered shortly and many systems with over 500 nodes in production.
A new internal network is now available which increases bandwidth from 350MBytes/sec to 420Mbytes/sec but other hardware changes are unlikely to occur unless there is demand from users. (The current hardware could accept a 750Mhz processor.)
A tutorial was held on the problems of scheduling MPP systems and several available products were reviewed. All present agreed there was no perfect solution and that there was much to be said for sites determining a best practice rather than seeking a holy grail.
Barbara's Notes:
Cray User Group (CUG) Report Stuttgart Germany June 14-18, 1998
This CUG was the first once-a-year-CUG and the first CUG with the new SGI management. It was the last CUG for several Cray Research corporate faces; fond farewells were bid to Bo Ewald and Irene Qualters. There was an election for four offices and a reorganization of the Special Interest Group (SIG) structure in addition to the regular general and parallel sessions.
Bo Ewald, Executive Vice President of SGI, and Irene Qualters, President of Cray Research, resigned from SGI a few weeks before the Stuttgart CUG. They attended the conference to say their good-byes to, and be honored by, CUG, an organization that had supported them, and been supported by them, for many years. The honoring of Bo and Irene took place at the Cray Reception on Monday night when they received tokens of remembrance presented by Gary Jensen, President of CUG. Bo was given a remote controlled Mercedes and Irene received a necklace and earring set. Both spoke briefly Monday night but their official good-byes were said at the close of the executive general session the next day.
Rick Belluzzo, President of SGI, addressed the Tuesday general session where he presented his direction for the company. He touched on the company definition (visualization, data management and computation), the market focus (time to insight), the product roadmap, operation/execution (clear responsibility and accountability through annual plans and tracking of metrics) and the business model (key industries). One of the more interesting slides in this series showed that supercomputers migrate downward: the supercomputers of yesterday are the servers of today and the desktops of tomorrow. Prior to addressing the General Session, Rick and others had held a news conference to formally announce the SV1, the J90 follow-on.
Beau Vrolyk and Earl Joseph II wrapped up the executive General Session with information on the SV1 announcement followed by Q & A. . SGI has orders for more than 500 processors. Specific information on the SV1 can be found on the SGI web pages beginning with:
Sally Haerer ran unopposed for CUG President. Sam Milosevich, ELILLY, won a very close race with Nick Cardo, SSD-SS, for Vice President. The race for Secretary, a position held for 11 years by Gunther Giorgi, GRUMANN, became dynamic when Gunther withdrew and Margaret Simmons, SDSC, petitioned onto the ballot. This resulted in a race between Margaret and Eric Greenwade, INEL. It was won by Margaret. Bruno Loepfe, ETHZ, won the race for Director of Europe over Michael Brown, EPCC. ??? The remaining members of the new Board of Directors were not up for re-election: Barbara Horner-Miller, ARSC, Treasurer; Shigeki Miyaji, CHIBA, Director of Asia; Barry Sharp, BCS, Director of the Americas. Gary Jensen, UIUCNCSA, completes the Board as Past President.
Following a recommendation by the Future of CUG Committee, the Board of Directors, reorganized the SIGs into a two-tiered structure. Under the new structure, there are five Group SIGs, each of which is comprised of several Focus SIGs. The Board appointed Chairs for each of the five SIGs and for many of the initial Focus Groups. On Thursday afternoon, the SIGs met to discuss organizational issues and to confirm the focus areas within the SIG. The SIG organization which will carry forward to the Minneapolis CUG next May will be
- Computer Center Management Group Chair - Mike Brown
- User Services Chair - Leslie Southern
- Operations Chair -
- Communications & Data Management Group Chair - Hartmut Fichtel
- Mass Storage Chair -
- Networking Chair - Hans Mandt
- Operating Systems Group Chair - Chuck Keagle
- UNICOS Chair - Ingeborg Weidl
- IRIX Chair -
- Security Chair - Virginia Bedford
- Programming Environments Group Chair - Jeff Kuehn
- Compilers & Libraries Chair - Hans-Hermann Frese
- Software Tools Chair - Guy Robinson
- High Performance Solutions Group Chair - Eric Greenwade
- Applications Chair - Larry Eversole
- Visualization Chair -
- Performance Chair -
- CUG has 195 members, $193,869.21 in the bank and 271 attendees in Stuttgart
Future CUGs are slated for
- Minneapolis MI, USA for May 24-28, 1999
- Nordwijk, NL for May 22-26, 2000
- An Origin 2000 meeting will be sponsored by CUG this fall
- The SV1 is not IEEE-based but the SV2 will be
- Walter Wehinger was named Chief Information Manager for CUG
- SGI will take a global view for training and try to put together classes that won't have enough participants at the regional level
- The SGI hardware organization is split into two parts: Vector Supercomputing Development under Steve Oberlin will concentrate on the T90, T3E, J90, SV1, SV2 and GigaRing; the Advanced Systems Development under Rick Barr will concentrate on the SN1, SN2 and XIO products. The support organizations span the Mountain View and Chippawa Falls sites with Barr's organization located in both sites.
- The SV1 has multi-streaming. The SV1 and SV2 are expected to move forward at Moore's law or super Moore's law rates. The SV1e will have faster processors, reduced interconnect latency, increased GigaRing interconnect speed and higher bandwidth.
- The name Cray will continue to be applied to high-end, computational products, e.g., Cray SV1.
- The SN1 employs 2nd generation Origin DSM architecture, a more scalable router and more ports. Each link is twice the speed of the Origin or the T3E router. It's scalable to a thousand processors.
- The SN2 is the 3rd generation. It will use the Merced follow-on from Intel and will have a faster hub. It will employ flexible network architecture and has an adjustable balance of PEs and routers to fit the applications. It will be air-cooled.
- UNICOS 10 is Y2K compliant; it will have updates released on a 3-6 month interval; there will not be a UNICOS 11.
- The SV1 will be supported through UNICOS updates.
- UNICOS/mk is at the 2.0 level and will be updated on a 6-9 month interval with weekly archives. UNICOS/mk will be active until 2000 and maintained until 2004. Cray believes the software MTTI of UNICOS/mk to be more than 3000 hours. psched was added in 2.0.2. 2.0.3 brought the prime job concept, improvement to swap and the implementation of express message queues. Future activity includes the migration and checkpointing of swapped jobs as well as DCE and DFS implementation.
- There are more than 2000 employees in the SGI service area with a 2% turnover rate. While a few locations and classifications are difficult to recruit, in general they find recruitment easy. The role of the local Support Manager is customer satisfaction, account management, and the work environment and moral of their employees. SGI is striving for a common support environment and tools between IRIX and UNICOS.
- Leslie Southern described how OSC takes a 2-day, instructor-led training course and makes it available on the Web for self-paced instruction. The instructor puts materials on the Web in his/her preferred format and they are converted to html. The instructor uses a wireless microphone and a projection system. Real audio and video are recorded using the Web Lecture System, WLS from NC State University. The resulting class can be viewed as a class (sound and video), a review (printable notes) or sound (lecture only) on the Web.
- Lynda Lester gave pointers on how to use the Web effectively; she had lots of examples, of both good and bad usage, to emphasize her points. Among the suggestions were to put the important stuff at the top, watch out for platform specific gottchas such as monitor resolution, color differences, tables and line spacing. Provide the viewer with alternative ways to navigate through the document: Table of Contents, Article Index and Search Engines are a few. Viewers would rather scroll than click so make links predictive (links with more words are better than shorter, more cryptic links).
Kurt's Notes:
Scheduling and Configuration Tuning for the T3E Jim Grindle, SGI/Cray, Mgr U/mk Engineering email@example.com
Tutorial covering GRM (global resource manager) and psched (political scheduler).
psched consists of GS (Gang Scheduler), LB (load balancer), and MUSE (multi-layered user scheduling environment). GS & LB have seen lots of fixes with 2.0.3 of U/mk.
- looking at 'exit' for GRM making external requests;
- GRM queue: prioritization, starvation
- single PE applications
- optimization
Performance Optimization for the Origin 2000 Jeff Brooks, SGI/Cray Benchmarking Department, email@example.com
Note in Origin floating divide by zero does not cause program fault by default. Note comparisons for tuning parallel code for origin. Note F90 option: -PHASE:flist on (for debugging, presently undocumented). See information on OpenMP (recommended standard).
General Session
- 272 Attendees, 80 SGI employees remainder split U.S. vs. Europe|Pacific.
- 195 CUG members (increase of 1).
- May 24-28, 1999 in Minneapolis.
- May 22-26, 2000 in Norwijk, Netherlands
- See http://scv.bu.edu/SCV/Origin2000 .
Future of CUG: 12 SIGs to 5 Super-SIGs:
- Reduce overlap
- Facilitate technical program
- Involve more CUGgers
- Flexibility
- Group Chairs with subordinate Focus Chairs
SGI/Cray Monitoring Tools Randy Lambertus, SGI/Cray, firstname.lastname@example.com
Proposed future integration of support tools (e.g., vaporware):
SSS: System Support Software, 3 command sets:
- System Support Manager: Command Module, Decision Support, Monitor & Notify, Event Handler, Support Database
- System Group Manager: Manage multiple systems... Group event tracking, Config mgt., Availability monitor, Notification based on group system events.
- System Support Console: gui and ascii interfaces; launch and configure; control notifiers and reports.
Proposed to be available next year for Irix; written for NT as well. Intent is to provide for U/mk (unknown: "Efforts all directed to IRIX now").
Industry Directions in Storage Mike Anderson, SGI/Cray
Seagate & IBM are primary players in high performance disks. Quantum bought out by Matsushita (sp). Market dominated by desktop (70% of units), roughly 17% is high performance and 13% mobile. CD-RW likely to takeover CD market by 2000-2001. Industry has not accepted IBM SSA disks. Fibre channel-0wid has industry acceptance. Capacities growing (expect 40gb drives by end of 1998). MTBF measurement varies... for some it's when 2/3 have failed, for some it's measured by returned failed drives (many of which are just thrown away so by measurement they're still ticking); useful life expectancy is 5 years, but economic life may be less than actual life. LTO (Linear Tape Open) ( www.lto-technology.com ) is a new emerging media type/standard... near term expect 100gb capacity, expect 800gb futures. Super-DLT (100gb/cart) also should be out by 1999, SGI will support when available. STK Eagle will be released June 1998, SGI will need 4 months for validation testing once released.
General Session
- Bob Ewald (SGI COO) and Irene Qualters (Cray Research President) are leaving.
SGI/Cray Research Corporate Vision Rick Belluzzo, CEO, SGI
- SGI Focus
Data management; Visualization; Computation. Want to dominate "Time to insight" (modeling and simulation). Operational changes to improve efficiency. Change business model (profitability). Execution & results: clear responsibilities and accountability.
See convergence of vector and traditional. 6 key industries: Mfg., Gov., Ent./Media, Energy, Science, Com. Execution & results: clear responsibilities and accountability.
- CUG - SGI committed to CUG.
SGI/Cray Research Corporate Operations Report Beau Vrolyk, SGI
Review of SV1 announcements... Already sold 20m system, orders for 500 processors already. Entry price of .5m (cheaper), based on J90 technology. J90->SV1->SV1e->SV2. Targeted core markets. 5x performance of J90. 5x price performance improvements over J90.
OpenMP Programming Model Ramesh Menon, SGI/Cray email@example.com See: http://www.sgi.com/Technology/OpenMP and http://www.openmp.org
Motivation: no portable standard for shared memory parallelism, each vendor had proprietary SMP. SGI is leading, joined by HP, Intel, Sun, IBM, DEC, etc. Presently a consortium, incorporating as a non-profit. Fortran v1.0 spec due out 10/98ish. C/C++ v1.0 spec due out 8/98ish. Validation suite for Fortran planned.
Salient features: fine & coarse parallelism; incremental parallelization; provide access to strengths of shared memory (e.g., avoid message passing); exploit cache coherent scalable hardware.
Interoperability: can mix with MPI and PVM. shmem & pthreads not supported initial version.
Due to architecture, will NOT be supported ever on T3E.
OpenMP: a Multitasking and Autotasking Perspective, Neal Gaarder, SGI/Cray
Direction towards OpenMP: standard, preferred alternative. All IRIX compilers (7.2). PVP 10.0.0.3 and PE 3.1. Not for YMP (10.0 required) or T3E.
Conditional compilation: #ifdef_OpenMP !$, c$, *$ directives.
Conversion to OpenMP: gradual (intermixing directives).
Paper has more details.
Update of System Management Software for Large Origin Systems Dan Higgins, SGI/Cray
Data center quality and HPC functionality into IRIX. Share II (fairshare) in IRIX 6.5. Miser in 6.5 (miser API a future). Checkpoint/Restart: CPR 1.0 in Irix 6.4. CPR 1.1 w/6.4 update (pthreads and fixes). CPR 1.2 w/6.5 (shmem). Resource limits (udb-like capabilities). Accounting 1H99 Cray-style project ids & reporting (csa). Enhancements to Array Services (Irix clusters).
NQE: Daryl Coulthart firstname.lastname@example.com : "NQE will be stabilized at current release (3.3)" Actively pursuing a partner (need to define scope). Cray did NQE because they had to. "NQE is mature". Alternatives now: Codine, PVS, LSF, ...
Performance Tips for GigaRing Disk IO Kent Koeninger, SGI/Cray
IPN: Limit daisy chaining to a depth of 2. Striping and chaining reduces performance. JBOD gets ~50% of peak (recommend use of RAID). DA-302 35mb/s sustained.
FCN: 240 mb/s read 160mb/s write, RAID (set of 5). Sustained 48ish read, 32ish write.
BOF: T3E (Jim Grindle, SGI)
- Completed all the engineering development work (e.g., "Mature").
- Last was support for 600mhz: T3E/1200.
- new router chip (increased bandwidth o ninterconnect).
- shipped a 1024 PE system with 512mb/PE to US Govt.
- 6 orders for T3E/1200.
- surprised at success of T3E: $500m of orders vs. $150m on T3D.
- planning on making T3E's another 18ish months.
- 5 or 6 systems exist of 768 PE's or greater.
- Don't plan on building another Alpha based machine.
- Smaller T3E sites may be interested in SN1, larger in SN2.
- If 750mhz comes out on Alpha, may implement.
- Still working on (looking at) dynamic remapping of PE's.
- Working on boot speed (parallelizing file checks is primary focus).
- Looking at user exit to load balancer.
Wednesday Top General Index Handouts Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Tidbits
Cray Networking Update Michael Langer, SGI/Cray email@example.com
New features and futures:
- host-to-host TCP/IP (e.g., on gigaring... avoids ION & Rings). J90->T3E 50mb/s (HIPPI 30ish mb/s). Need 2.0.3 (5/98), need 2.0.4 T3E->T3E (11/98), need SWS-ION 3.0 (6/98), need Unicos 10.0.0.2 (5/98).
- bulk data services (BCS) ported from IRIX: J90SE->Origin 24mb/s. Improvement over NFS3. Supported in 2.0.3 and 9.3+.
- socket server assistant
- snmp v2
- unified name service
- Futures: gb ethernet (in 6.4, soon 6.5); ATM OC-12 (~9/98); HIPPI 6500/ST (~6/99 and ~12/99 for Scheduled Transfer); IPv6 (~6/99); Network Node Manager.
General Session
CUG Elections
Keynote Address: 25 Years of Computer Aided Engineering at Daimler Benz in Stuttgart, Germany Michael Heib, Manager HWW
Does IT for others: 50% split of public (University) vs. industry at HWW. Objectives: More power at same cost; less operating personnel; smaller infrastructure costs; ability to solve very large problems; bi-directional knowledge transfer between industry and University. Academic & Industry: 2 very different cultures, took time to get it together.
Cellular IRIX: Plans & Status Gabriel Broner, SGI/Cray email@example.com
Running in house now. Will be the resultant operating system for all (move from dual expertise to less duplication with more applications available). Support for large systems: 64 to 4000 CPU's: fault tolerance, reliability, high-end features like checkpoints and accounting. Support for server systems: 4-64 CPUS: general purpose workload; fault containment; different requirements from large.... constant availability. Architecture: scalability and fault containment.
IRIX Accounting Limits and UDB Functionality Jay McCauley, SGI/Cray email@example.com
Cray style accounting (CSA) & udb limits in early 1999.
Requirements: tools to manage large configurations; richer accounting facilities, udb for limits mechanism.
Architecture: New database subset of udb; Initialization via PAM module; kernel enforcement.
Features: Based on "job" container vs. individual process. Partial list: cpu time, memory, vm, file size, open files, #threads, core file size, ...
Provide data capture with basic reduction and reporting.
SIG: High Performance Computing
8 participants, most with perfomance interest. Many viewed performance here as application or algorithms oriented vs. capacity planning and data center management which may be covered by Group 1 (not clear). Lots of TBD's.
Reminder: Use qsub's "-l mpp_t" Option
The "-l mpp_t" option allows you to request a specific amount of time for your MPP job to run. You should request, as closely as possible without going under, the actual time your job needs, and not simply request the maximum possible time for a given queue. Realistic requests improve job scheduling by both NQS and by the real people who manage the system. (Yes, we look at the time requests!)
Smaller mpp_t requests have a chance of running sooner. At ARSC, this is especially true if the request is under 30 minutes (which puts it into one of the "Quick" queues, which have the highest priority).
For help, see "man qsub" or:
For more on ARSC's checkpoint procedures and queue policy, see "news chkpnt_sched" and "news queue_policy" on yukon.
TARGET Follow-up
[ Thanks to the reader who sent this response to last week's article on "TARGET." ]
Regarding the TARGET environment variable, another possibility would be to use the following TARGET setting:
setenv TARGET=cray-t3e,memsize=256M
See "man target".
Although your solution (TARGET=target) works for your machine (since all PEs contain identical amounts of memory), users of other T3Es, or your users if your T3E is eventually upgraded with PEs of differing size, may prefer this more general solution to allow them to specify which size PE to compile for.
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A: {{ In C, you don't need to specify the size of arrays at compile time (ie. pointers are basically arrays). So you could have a code fragment: double* x; double* y; for(i=0;i<SIZE;i++) { y[i] = alpha*x[i] + y[i]; } How can you view C arrays in totalview? }} # In the GUI version, double-click on the array you want to display. # Then in the resulting data_object_window, double-click on "type" # (or choose "Edit -> Type" from the menu). Then specify the type as # <double>[SIZE]. The value of SIZE will probably need to be # explicitly typed. For example, enter "<double>[100]" if SIZE == # 100. Q: A shell alias allows Unix users to create custom mnemonics and short-hands for commands or command strings. Two common aliases: alias ll='ls -lF' <korn shell syntax> alias mroe more <csh syntax> What's your favorite alias? (Send it in with a brief explanation. If you can't choose only one, send two--they're small.)
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Rick Steves, America's leading authority on European travel, teams up with the Cascade Symphony Orchestra and maestro Michael Miropolsky for a musical journey that begins in the United States, and touches down in seven different European countries. The special, taped at the Edmonds Center for the Arts near Seattle, Wash., celebrates music's power to stir the patriotic soul. Playing musical tour guide, Steves utilizes his extensive knowledge of European history and culture to help set the context for each piece. Then, the orchestra performs a selection of stirring 19th-century anthems by Romantic-era composers, including Grieg, Smetana, Strauss, Berlioz, Elgar, Wagner and Verdi. Each selection honors a particular nationality, while the finale, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" (Europe's official anthem) pays homage to the continent's motto of "United in Diversity." The music is accompanied by a montage of evocative video images from each country.
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Victorian Slum HouseThe 1860s | Sunday, 9 p.m.
The series, which features modern-day people recreating 19th-century life in London's East End, begins with the participants moving into an 1860s tenement that includes sparse rooms, a shared water pump and outdoor privies. They seek to make a living by matchbox making, wood turning and the rag trade, work once done by their impoverished forebears.
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An assistant professor of theatre and dance at a Texas university is suing the school for religious discrimination — alleging that she was punished for refusing to attend a series of homosexual-themed theatrical productions.
Linda Ozmun is suing Lamar University for discrimination, creating a hostile work environment, retaliation and improper denial of promotions or advancement, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court.
Ozmun, who is still employed by the university, was in her fourth year of a tenure-track when the incidents occurred. The Department of Theatre and Dance had scheduled a 2010 performance by Tim Miller, described in court papers as an "openly homosexual man who advocates for normalizing homosexuality and homosexual marriage."
Miller's one-man show is about "his homosexual lifestyle using obscene language and sexual gestures."
Court papers indicate that the show was cancelled after complaints from the community. In response to the cancellation, several students organized a show billed as a "celebration of homosexuality."
Ozmun said she declined to attend because of her religious beliefs and was later questioned by the head of her department.
In March 2011, she received her annual review and was given a grade of "unacceptable" for refusing to attend the celebration of homosexuality. She filed a grievance which was returned and noted "unheard."
Russ Schultz, the dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication, confirmed to Fox News that Ozmun was reprimanded.
"That is correct," Schultz said. "We put a note in her file – a reprimand in her file."
However, he said there was no actual disciplinary action taken.
"Her salary has not been altered in any way, her rank has not changed in any manner," he said. "She has not suffered any monetary damages because of this."
But she did receive a grade of "unacceptable" – an issue Schultz declined to discuss.
"I'm reluctant to answer that question," he said.
But for a non-tenured faculty member on a tenure-track – it was an important issue.
In fall of 2011, Miller was invited to return to the university to perform his show "Glory Box." He was also conducting a workshop with students to "help them find their inner voice." Ozmun asked to be excused from what she called an "offensive performance" but the university refused.
She alleges in her lawsuit that not only was she told to attend, but she was also threatened with disciplinary action if she failed to attend. Ozmun stood her ground and did not attend and is alleging she was punished as a result of her religious beliefs.
Schultz disputes that notion and said all faculty members are expected to attend performances as a show of support for students. He said he really doesn't see what all the concern is about.
"I sat through it (the show)," he said. "It didn't particularly bother me. He talked about the political issue of homosexuals being allowed to either marry or have the same rights as non-homosexuals."
He said there is a "level of inconsistency" to her complaints. He said at one point she refused to go to an AIDS benefit 'because it was tied to homosexuality."
"She attended one but did not attend the other," he said.
He also disputed the notion that Miller's original performance was cancelled due to a community uproar.
"There was no community uproar at all," he said. "We had some difficulty in getting things scheduled, but he came back the next year."
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by mikhail1973, Jun 22, 2009.
Drafting international players is a mandatory duty to serve the league, is it ?
There is a reason there is a discount for uncertainty, it's not something that's added for just for fun. The next tv rights deal, possible expansions etc are already included in the valuations, that's why the extra earnings Gores gets for waiting until after the next CBA is because he takes all the risk. Ofcoure if Gores knows something about the future CBA, expansions jada jada the market don't, he can beat the valuations by waiting or sellning now. I might be wrong here but I doubt you are more informed than the market though, which is why it doesn't make any sense to claim that selling at one point is more ideal than selling at some other point in time.
Pistons can't possibly get worse. He'd be a dumbars to sell now.
I know why discount rates are included. Yes, the next tv deal is included. But it's value has been discounted by the discount rate. The closer you get to the new tv rights deal being implemented, the smaller the compound effect. The more that is known about the next tv deal, the smaller the discount rate. That is why he would be stupid to sell now, rather than after it is implemented. I'm not saying I know more about the market than anyone. But expansion teams will dilute NBA related revenue. CBA's generally increase that revenue and increase the value of teams. TV rights increase revenue. So selling after the two revenue increasing items and before the dilution makes sense from a finance perspective. Reality is, NBA teams are a sellers market.
Would be interesting if someone like Paul Allen (after expansion) just said screw it and routinely lived with a massive luxury tax to overpay all the best players.
These two statements doesn't compute. You are disregarding the reason for why there is a discount rate.
Good read about the new cap limit and what it means for the Pistons: How $5 million salary cap increase affects the Pistons - Detroit Bad Boys
This is interesting too: Pistons hire head hunter Jed Hughes to help with GM search - Detroit Bad Boys This might mean that we'll get a more stats-oriented GM.
They can use Jed Clampett if the results are there.
NBA: T-Wolves coach Adelman retires after 23 seasons - Yahoo Sports Singapore The Pistons beat him 1990 Finals, the Bulls beat him in the 1992 finals.....he got hosed by the refs in the 2000 WC Finals when the Lakers stole it from the his CWebb led Kings.. great coach where ultimate championship eluded him.
The discount rate is about two things - time value of money and uncertainty. So it's essentially two parts - the interest rate component and the risk component. By reducing uncertainty, you reduce the discount rate. By reducing the time period, you reduce the effect. So when we are talking about one specific component of a valuation (the TV rights deal), yes this is how it works.
Are you guys still looking for discounts? I get the feeling this is one of those threads which will end up in a discussion about daylight savings time. Or Abraham Lincoln. Or cabbage...
Or Articles NOT worth mentioning?
Take the cabbage talk to the Gardening thread, Drath. You should know better.
Bill, YOU should know better too. If you look at Pf.com rule 143.7a you will realize that one post off topic is ok. But two or more is considered hji-jacking. Btw: I'm sitting in the passenger seat at a KFC drive thru waiting on grilled chicken. That picture made me crave it!
Great article on leadership: Abraham Lincoln: 10 Quotes To Help You Lead Today - Forbes
I like this one the best: On preparation: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." I might get a tattoo of that.
When did Forbes start doing more than basketball articles? The Pistons should put these quotes up in the practice facility.
Abe Lincoln cabbage patch dolls are very valuable . Especially the ones made during the first hour of daylight savings time in 1985. 1985 Cabbage Patch Kids RARE "Abe Lincoln" True Collectors Doll | eBay
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Fox Prepares For Health Care Repeal By Misinforming About Health Care Reform ... Again
In advance of the House GOP's health care repeal vote, Fox News hosts, contributors, and guests have repeatedly misinformed about the health care reform bill with attacks ranging from falsely claiming that the bill "did not include incentives for wellness" and that the bill will cause jobs "to be lost," to rehashing old falsehoods such as that the bill does not reduce the deficit because it creates "10 years of revenue against six years of expenses."
CLAIM: Health Care Reform Won't Reduce The Deficit [1]
CLAIM: Health Care Reform Will Cause "Jobs ...To Be Lost" [2]
CLAIM: Health Care Bill "Manipulating Budget Window" By "Creating 10 Years Of Revenue Against Six Years Of Expenses" [3]
CLAIM: Incentives For Wellness And Prevention "Was Missing From The Health Care Bill" [4]
CLAIM: Reform Is A "Government Takeover" Of The Health Care Industry [5]
CLAIM: Health Care Reform Won't Reduce The Deficit
Krauthammer: If Dems Say "This Is Going To Reduce The Deficit," They're "Talking Out Of [Their] Hat." On the January 18 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer claimed:
KRAUTHAMMER: People are not stupid. If people say we're passing a bill that is going to expand coverage to 33 million Americans who haven't had it, and this is going to reduce the deficit, they know you're talking out of your hat. Or that you've jiggled the numbers in such a way as to make it look like that.
The argument against this deficit reduction is so clear, it's so obvious, so easy to make; if Republicans can't make it, they don't deserve to be the opposition. [Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, 1/18/11]
Johnson: "A Lot Of People Are Saying ... 'I Believe The Deficit Will Go Up.' " As part of his list of objections to the bill that "a lot of people are saying," Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. included, "I believe the deficit will go up." [Fox News' Fox & Friends, 1/19/11]
FACT: CBO Estimated That Health Reform Bills Would Reduce Deficits Over Next 10 Years And Beyond
CBO, JCT Found Health Care Reform Legislation Would Reduce The Deficit By $143 Billion Through 2019. From a March 20, 2010, CBO cost estimate of the Senate health reform bill and the health care and education reconciliation bill:
CBO and JCT [Joint Committee on Taxation] estimate that enacting both pieces of legislation--H.R. 3590 and the reconciliation proposal--would produce a net reduction in federal deficits of $143 billion over the 2010-2019 period as result of changes in direct spending and revenues (see Table 1). That figure comprises $124 billion in net reductions deriving from the health care and revenue provisions and $19 billion in net reductions deriving from the education provisions. [Congressional Budget Office, 3/20/10 [6]]
Estimate Also Found Reform Legislation Would Continue To Reduce Deficit In Second Decade. CBO further stated:
Reflecting the changes made by the reconciliation proposal, the combined effect of enacting H.R. 3590 and the reconciliation proposal would also be to reduce federal budget deficits over the ensuing decade relative to those projected under current law--with a total effect during that decade in a broad range around one-half percent of GDP. [Congressional Budget Office, 3/20/10 [6]]
CLAIM: Health Care Reform Will Cause "Jobs ...To Be Lost"
Johnson: "A Lot Of People Are Saying ... 'I Believe The Jobs Are Going To Be Lost.' " On Fox & Friends, Johnson claimed, "A lot of people are saying ... I believe jobs are going to be lost." [Fox & Friends, 1/19/11]
FACT: Health Care Reform Will Kill Jobs Is A "Myth ... Deliberately Confusing The Public"
AP Calls GOP Job Loss Estimate "Shaky," Claims Statistics "Used And Abused." In a January 18 article, The Associated Press wrote that "the widely cited estimate" of job losses "by House GOP leaders is shaky." The article further noted that the report "cites the 650,000 lost jobs as Exhibit A, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office as the source of the original analysis behind that estimate. But the budget office, which referees the costs and consequences of legislation, never produced the number." The article continued:
What CBO actually said is that the impact of the health care law on supply and demand for labor would be small. Most of it would come from people who no longer have to work, or can downshift to less demanding employment, because insurance will be available outside the job.
"The legislation, on net, will reduce the amount of labor used in the economy by a small amount -roughly half a percent- primarily by reducing the amount of labor that workers choose to supply," budget office number crunchers said in a report from last year.
That's not how it got translated in the new report from Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and other top Republicans.
The Republican translation doesn't track, said economist Paul Fronstin of the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute.
"CBO isn't saying that there is job loss as much as they are saying that fewer people will be working," explained Fronstin. "There is a difference. People voluntarily working less isn't the same as employers cutting jobs."
For example, the budget office said some people might decide to retire earlier because it would be easier to get health care, instead of waiting until they become eligible for Medicare at age 65.
The law "reduces the amount of labor supplied, but it's not reducing the ability of people to find jobs, which is what the job-killing slogan is intended to convey," said economist Paul Van de Water of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The center advocates for low-income people, and supports the health care law. [The Associated Press, 1/18/11 [7]]
Economist Van de Water: Claim That Reform Kills Jobs Is "Perpetuating Myths And Deliberately Confusing The Public." In a January 18 interview with Paul Van de Water, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Van de Water called the claim that health care reform will cause the economy to lose jobs "perpetuating myths and deliberately confusing the public." From the interview:
House Republican leaders say that the Affordable Care Act will destroy jobs by making it more expensive for employers to provide insurance for their employees. Is there any truth to this?
No, it's completely wrong. CBO also looked at this issue and they found that health reform is unlikely to raise most businesses' health insurance premiums -- in fact for most firms, premiums are likely to go down.
What CBO did say is that some people who are currently working primarily because they need their health insurance might choose to retire early or work a little less.
But that has nothing to do with firms hiring fewer people. Opponents of reform who claim that will happen are not only wrong but are misleading the public.
Paul, what's the bottom line?
Two key points. First, in attacking the CBO estimate of health reform's costs and making false claims about the law's impact on jobs, opponents of reform are perpetuating myths and deliberately confusing the public. Health reform will reduce the deficit and will not kill jobs.
Second, at a time when the nation faces serious long-term fiscal challenges, it's extremely troubling to see Congressional leaders rejecting CBO analyses they find politically inconvenient and promoting their own partisan estimates. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1/18/11 [8]]
CLAIM: Health Care Bill "Manipulating Budget Window" By "Creating 10 Years Of Revenue Against Six Years Of Expenses"
Carlson Calls GOP Lawmaker's Claim That The Bill "Creates 10 Years Of Revenue Against Six Years Of Expenses" A "Great" Argument. On Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson allowed Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) to cast doubt on the reform bill's deficit reduction by claiming that Democrats "do something really strange" in calculating the deficit reduction qualities of the bill by "manipulating the budget window by creating 10 years of revenue against six years of expenses." Carlson said in response, "You're doing a great job proving your point." [Fox & Friends, 1/19/11]
FACT: CBO Found That Health Care Reform Would Continue To Reduce The Deficit Beyond 2019
Krugman: Claim That The Bill "Front-Loads Revenues And Back-Loads Spending" Is A "Lie." In a March 27, 2010, New York Times blog post, Paul Krugman responded to former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin's claim that health care reform legislation is filled with "gimmicks" designed to make the legislation appear to reduce the deficit. Krugman wrote:
OK, I finally got around to reading Douglas Holtz-Eakin's op-ed on health care reform. It's much worse than I thought; time to scratch Holtz-Eakin off my shrinking list of reasonable, reasonably honest conservatives.
How bad is it? Holtz-Eakin declares that
Gimmick No. 1 is the way the bill front-loads revenues and backloads spending. That is, the taxes and fees it calls for are set to begin immediately, but its new subsidies would be deferred so that the first 10 years of revenue would be used to pay for only 6 years of spending.
I think that's what is technically known as a "lie". Holtz-Eakin, of all people, knows how to read a CBO report. So he's perfectly capable of looking at the actual report (pdf) and seeing that the revenues, like the costs, are minimal for the first four years. Here's the chart:
His implication that there's funny business going on is totally false, and he knows it.
Wait, it gets worse: Holtz-Eakin implies that there are hidden, delayed costs:
Consider, too, the fate of the $70 billion in premiums expected to be raised in the first 10 years for the legislation's new long-term health care insurance program. This money is counted as deficit reduction, but the benefits it is intended to finance are assumed not to materialize in the first 10 years, so they appear nowhere in the cost of the legislation.
Claims that the plan is window-dressed to look good in its first decade only to go sour later might sound plausible -- except for the fact that the CBO projects bigger deficit-reduction in the second decade of the reform than in the first decade, something that wouldn't happen if lots of costs were being hidden by being pushed off into the future.
That said, we do learn something important from Holtz-Eakin's article. If this is the best critique a conservative budget wonk can come up with -- if deliberately misrepresenting how the legislation works is the only way to make it seem irresponsible -- then the bill must be pretty sound in fiscal terms. [The New York Times, 3/27/10 [9]]
CBO Director Tells Deficit Commission That Health Care Reform Slightly Improves Budget Outlook. As The Washington Post noted on July 1, 2010, CBO director Doug Elmendorf said during a June 30 presentation that the health care reform bill "did not substantially diminish" the long-term deficit problem, but that it "made a dent":
"Growth in spending on health-care programs remains the central fiscal challenge," CBO Director Douglas W. Elmendorf said in a presentation to Obama's bipartisan deficit commission. "In CBO's judgment, the health-care legislation enacted earlier this year made a dent in the problem, but did not substantially diminish that challenge."
Although more starkly stated, CBO's position has not changed since the health-care legislation was approved. The new forecast simply incorporates CBO's cost estimates from that time, which predicted that the plan to expand coverage, raise taxes and cut Medicare spending would reduce deficits by about $140 billion over the next decade and by more than $1 trillion in the decade after.
"Slowing the rate of health care cost growth is the single most important action we can take to reduce our long-term fiscal shortfall," White House budget director Peter Orszag said in a statement. "The report confirms that the enactment and successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act is a key step toward a healthier fiscal future." [The Washington Post, 7/1/10 [10]]
CBO Budget Outlook Says Health Care Reform Law Will "Reduce Budget Deficits Over The 2010-2019 Period And In Subsequent Years." CBO's June 30, 2010, long-term budget outlook states that the health care reform law "is expected to increase federal spending in the next 10 years and for most of the following decade. By 2030, however, that legislation will slightly reduce federal spending for health care if all of its provisions are fully implemented, CBO projects." CBO noted in a footnote that although the law -- which will reduce the number of uninsured by 32 million by 2019 -- will increase federal spending on health care in the next two decades, it will still reduce budget deficits:
If all of its provisions are carried out, the legislation will also increase federal revenues and reduce budget deficits over the 2010-2019 period and in subsequent years, according to estimates by CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. [Congressional Budget Office, 6/30/10 [11]]
CBO: In Long-Term, Health Care Reform "Slow[s] The Accumulation Of Debt Considerably." While cautioning that long-term estimates of health care spending are uncertain, the CBO budget outlook stated that if the health care reform bill is implemented as written, it "increase[s] projected revenues, particularly in the 2030s and beyond, thus slowing the accumulation of debt considerably." [Congressional Budget Office, 6/30/10 [12]]
CLAIM: Incentives For Wellness And Prevention "Was Missing From The Health Care Bill"
Carlson: Incentives For Prevention And Wellness "Seems To Be One Thing That Was Missing From The Health Care Bill On Capitol Hill." On the January 19 edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson interviewed a Michigan city administrator about a local program that incentivizes "screening and risk assessment." Carlson reacted to the plan by claiming "the one thing that struck my mind as you're talking there is that the one word is 'incentive.' You incentivize these people with a $100 gift card to come and get checked out, and that seems to be one thing that was missing from the health care bill on Capitol Hill." [Fox & Friends, 1/19/11]
FACT: Health Care Reform Bill Provides Numerous Incentives For Prevention And Wellness
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Section 4108, Provides "Incentives For Prevention Of Chronic Disease In Medicaid." Section 4108 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC) creates "incentives for prevention of chronic diseases in Medicaid." From the PPAC:
(a) INITIATIVES.--
(A) IN GENERAL.--The Secretary shall award grants to States to carry out initiatives to provide incentives to Medicaid beneficiaries who--
(i) successfully participate in a program described in paragraph (3); and
(ii) upon completion of such participation, demonstrate changes in health risk and outcomes, including the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors by meeting specific targets (as described in subsection (c)(2)).
(B) PURPOSE.--The purpose of the initiatives under this section is to test approaches that may encourage behavior modification and determine scalable solutions. [Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act of 2010, accessed 1/19/11 [13]]
Bill Provides "Grants For Small Businesses To Provide Comprehensive Workplace Wellness Programs." Section 10408 of the PPAC provides "grants for small businesses to provide comprehensive workplace wellness programs." From the PPAC:
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.--The Secretary shall award grants to eligible employers to provide their employees with access to comprehensive workplace wellness programs (as described under subsection (c)).
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION.--For purposes of carrying out the grant program under this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $200,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2011 through 2015. [Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act of 2010, accessed 1/19/11 [14]]
Bill Provides Grants To "Provide Physical Activity Opportunities" In Order To Reduce Chronic Disease. Section 4201 of the PPAC Creates "Community Transformation Grants" which may be used toward activities such as "creating healthier school environments, including increasing healthy food options, physical activity opportunities, promotion of healthy lifestyle, emotional wellness, and prevention curricula, and activities to prevent chronic diseases." From the bill:
(a) IN GENERAL.-The Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the ''Secretary''), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (referred to in this section as the ''Director''), shall award competitive grants to State and local governmental agencies and community-based organizations for the implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based community preventive health activities in order to reduce chronic disease rates, prevent the development of secondary conditions, address health disparities, and develop a stronger evidence-base of effective prevention programming.
(B) ACTIVITIES.-Activities within the plan may focus on (but not be limited to)-
(i) creating healthier school environments, including increasing healthy food options, physical activity opportunities, promotion of healthy lifestyle, emotional wellness, and prevention curricula, and activities to prevent chronic diseases;
(ii) creating the infrastructure to support active living and access to nutritious foods in a safe environment;
(iii) developing and promoting programs targeting a variety of age levels to increase access to nutrition, physical activity and smoking cessation, improve social and emotional wellness, enhance safety in a community, or address any other chronic disease priority area identified by the grantee;
(iv) assessing and implementing worksite wellness programming and incentives;
(v) working to highlight healthy options at restaurants and other food venues;
(vi) prioritizing strategies to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, including social, economic, and geographic determinants of health; and
(vii) addressing special populations needs, including all age groups and individuals with disabilities, and individuals in both urban and rural areas. [Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act of 2010, accessed 1/19/11 [15]]
Bill Increases Amount Of Premium Discount Available To Individuals Participating In Wellness Programs. As part of Section 2705 of the PPAC, the bill rewards participating in a wellness program up to "30 percent of the cost of employee-only coverage under the plan." The provision also allows the secretary of Health and Human Services to raise the reward "up to 50 percent of the cost of coverage if the Secretaries determine that such an increase is appropriate." [Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act of 2010, accessed 1/19/11 [16]]
CLAIM: Reform Is A "Government Takeover" Of The Health Care Industry
Krauthammer: Health Care Reform Bill Is "Essentially A Federal Government Takeover Of A Sixth Of The U.S. Economy." On the January 18 broadcast of The O'Reilly Factor, Krauthammer stated that health care reform is "essentially a federal government takeover of a sixth of the U.S. economy. That's a high price to pay for a couple of goodies which you can get without any of that." [The O'Reilly Factor, 1/18/11]
FACT: "Government-Run Health Care" Is "Among The Biggest Falsehoods" Of The Health Care Debate
PolitiFact: "Government Takeover Of Health Care" Is The "Lie Of The Year." In its article declaring "a government takeover of health care" the Lie of the Year, PolitiFact wrote:
"Government takeover" conjures a European approach where the government owns the hospitals and the doctors are public employees. But the law Congress passed, parts of which have already gone into effect, relies largely on the free market:
- Employers will continue to provide health insurance to the majority of Americans through private insurance companies.
- Contrary to the claim, more people will get private health coverage. The law sets up "exchanges" where private insurers will compete to provide coverage to people who don't have it.
- The government will not seize control of hospitals or nationalize doctors.
- The law does not include the public option, a government-run insurance plan that would have competed with private insurers.
- The law gives tax credits to people who have difficulty affording insurance, so they can buy their coverage from private providers on the exchange. But here too, the approach relies on a free market with regulations, not socialized medicine.
PolitiFact reporters have studied the 906-page bill and interviewed independent health care experts. We have concluded it is inaccurate to call the plan a government takeover because it relies largely on the existing system of health coverage provided by employers.
It's true that the law does significantly increase government regulation of health insurers. But it is, at its heart, a system that relies on private companies and the free market.
Republicans who maintain the Democratic plan is a government takeover say that characterization is justified because the plan increases federal regulation and will require Americans to buy health insurance.
But while those provisions are real, the majority of Americans will continue to get coverage from private insurers. And it will bring new business for the insurance industry: People who don"t currently have coverage will get it, for the most part, from private insurance companies. [PolitiFact, 12/16/10 [17]]
FactCheck: Claim Of "Government-Run Health Care" Among The "Biggest Falsehoods" Of Health Care Debate. On March 19, 2010, FactCheck.org included "It's government-run health care" among the "biggest falsehoods" of the health care debate, writing:
Despite the fact that the federal health insurance plan (a.k.a. the "public option") is now gone from the bill, Republicans and conservative groups have continued to claim that the bill institutes a system like the one in the United Kingdom, or Canada, or otherwise amounts to a government takeover. It doesn't. A pure government-run system was never among the leading Democratic proposals, much to the chagrin of single-payer advocates. Instead, the bill builds on our current system of private insurance, and in fact, drums up more business for private companies by mandating that individuals buy coverage and giving many subsidies to do so. There would be increased government regulation of the insurance industry, however, to require companies to cover preexisting conditions, for example. [FactCheck.org, 3/19/10 [18]]
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