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text: Robert G. Brown wrote: >On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 john.hearns at clustervision.com wrote: > > > >>The fact that there are fewer Opteron based systems in the Top 500 is >>irrefutable (I didn't know this) but it makes me uneasy to extrapolate >>this to the impending death of a CPU. >> >>I DO agree (and let's have some debate here) that Nocona is bound to make >>big inroads. >> >> > >(snip) > >SO I'd have to say that I doubt that the authors of the article were >particularly well informed, and that AMD is likely to be around and >kicking for a few years yet. Look, even the Power series hasn't >disappeared and it has almost no top 500 presence at all, if you >discount BG itself as IBM showing its marketing clout and finding a use >for 700 MHz CPUs in Very Large Quantities... > Did anyone else notice that once the Columbia numbers were publically announced and within a day or two of the Top500 announcement, BlueGene/L suddenly appeared on the list at the top? I thought there was some kind of deadline, but evidently, if you are a sponsor of the Top500 site, then deadlines mean little. However, I guess it's understandable since, as rgb points out, the Top500 is an advertising thing anyway. Doug Eadline has a great quote about the SuperComputer show and the Top500. I can't repeat the quote here, but it has something to do with "size." After experiencing the show, the observation is ABSOLUTELY right on target. Also, the CPUs in BlueGene/L are specialized. I haven't heard anything from IBM about marketing those CPUs in a real system. In talking to IBM they are even reluctant to talk to us about their 970 or Power5 systems, nevermind testing them. At least Cray created a product from Red Storm. Enjoy your day! Jeff -- Dr. Jeff Layton Aerodynamics and CFD Lockheed-Martin Aeronautical Company - Marietta

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text: On Tue, 25 May 2004, Jim Lux wrote: > At 03:44 PM 5/25/2004 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > >Management is on Microsoft's agenda, though. The company is hiring one > >programmer to work on a "graphical and script-based user interface for > >efficient job and resource management across large clusters" and another to > >create "automated infrastructure to uncover performance and reliability > >problems with high performance, large-scale server applications." > > Wow! one whole body to work on graphical and script based user > interfaces! Bill must really be quaking in his boots to invest $200K in this. > > > >According to job postings, Microsoft is adapting MPI to Microsoft's .Net > >infrastructure. A key foundation of .Net is the C# programming language and > >the Common Language Runtime, or CLR, which lets C# programs run on a > >multitude of different systems. > > Fascinating... A C# binding for MPI? There is a common and obvious thread to M$ choices under nearly all circumstances. It can easily be used to interpret the specific decisions to make MPI "their own" and eschew TCP/IP, vendor network drivers, ANSI standard C or C++ or f-whatever, and especially to interface it with their own version of core network services: Standards are bad, unless we own them and can alter them on a whim to effectively clone, co-opt, and eliminate all competition from any products ever developed that are based on those "standards" and actually make money. The key words here being "make money" of course. Microsoft won't ever jump on a cluster computing bandwagon unless it is running on wheels they own and all of the seats have a highly proprietary "eject" button somewhere they can use to get rid of all the rest of the instruments. A corollary of the above is that "Java is Evil" (an opinion shared by at least some people who don't work for M$:-). Of course, so is nearly everything else used in modern networks for the transport layer and most of the layers above transport in the good old ISO/OSI scheme, so is http, html, xml, php, perl, python and so forth, and Open Source, Open Standard software is The Devil Himself -- to M$. Current systems corporations are thinking "license/lease" and "renewable revenue stream" instead of "software sales" as the latter era of the computer revolution draws to a slow end. Red Hat has gone there. Sun is well along the road. Microsoft is stuck between a fervent wish to go there and somehow preserve their high margins and the realities of the expectations of their PC customers that they are "buying a copy" of the operating system, not the right to use it for a year with automated prepaid updates. In the corporate world, however, they've moved a long ways there and I feel confident that they'll go the rest of the way soon. So the interesting question is "where's the money" in this move. The HPC market hasn't proven to be exactly a get-rich-quick proposition for any of the various groups that have prospected in it. I suspect (given the reference to "resource management" and "server applications") that it is seeking to plunder the relatively deep pockets and relatively non-computer-savvy researchers in the biocluster and medicluster market, with their bet backed by the proposition that they can reuse their efforts in a pinch in the HA market (those "server applications"). Bioclusters and biogrids as a market probably does total millions of dollars per year -- chickenfeed for M$ at this point -- but it also has some growth potential and integration potential for the future, when we reach the point where e.g. individuals are bioassayed in real time in their Dr.'s office, their genes are matched against a huge database scanning for defects and predispositions and damage and who knows what else, and genetically matched and tuned therapies are prescribed, where dog pedigrees and likelyhood of developing hip dysplasia are similarly determined in real time. Of course, Moore's law and so forth may eat this market before it fully matures -- in three or four years at expected rates desktop PCs will have (possibly multiple) TB size LOCAL SINGLE disks, multiGB of RAM standard, and at least gigabit interfaces standard with 10 Gbps not uncommon. With 10+ GHz CPU clocks, 64 bit and better data paths, really slick memory and device management, and perhaps some onboard parallelism, would one NEED a cluster to run such a (relatively simple) application? If not, it leaves one back with just the research market, and that is, I think, a hopeless case for M$ to make back their not inconsiderable development and sales costs in without a hedge. They would at best break even and at worst would both lose money and worse, lose money EMBARRASSINGLY and publically. As this list well knows, real, transparent, "windows-level" scalability is an elusive beast in the parallel HPC world, although you can find niches where it is possible. And there is no mass market here, per se -- even if you can find somebody crazy enough to pay out LARGE software costs that scale per node, there simply aren't that many customers, and most of those customers always have several proven alternatives with costs that DON'T scale per node. Those customers will pay for support, they'll pay for service, but they don't like paying for software and REALLY hate paying for software and getting lousy service and poor support to go with it. Plenty of people make money on service and support, but they don't get (unduly) rich and they work for a living earning what they earn. rgb > > > James Lux, P.E. > Spacecraft Telecommunications Section > Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 > 4800 Oak Grove Drive > Pasadena CA 91109 > tel: (818)354-2075 > fax: (818)393-6875 > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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The 17 Best Fashion DIYs From Pinterest
We scoured Pinterest for the best do-it-yourself fashion projects on the web, and are thoroughly thrilled to present our 17 favorites. Click through for crafty inspiration, and don't forget to share your favorite DIYs in the comments!
The friendship bracelet is pretty much your DIY bread and butter, so why not spruce it up with some fresh colors and chain details?
Source: A Beautiful Mess
We're big fans of the statement sweatshirt, which is why we're obsessed with this easy and fun DIY.
Source: Studs & Pearls
The best part of this DIY is how little it cost its creator. She picked up a leather skirt for a few dollars from a thrift store, and turned it into a piece with high fashion appeal. It's low cost and large impact: the ultimate goal of a DIY, in our humble opinion.
Source: A Pair & A Spare
A statement clutch is useful year round, so if you're feeling crafty, try this no-brainer DIY to add an extra punch to your look.
Source: Miss Kris
Before you know it, a pair of lace shorts will come in handy, and, thanks to this easy, ladylike project, you'll have a pair worth reaching for.
Source: Sincerely, Kinsey
We were genuinely shocked when we saw how easy a pair of gladiator sandals could be made. Once the weather warms up, these will be perfect with a pair of cutoffs and your favorite t-shirt.
Source: A Pair & A Spare
Admittedly, the most involved project of our roundup, we promise your hard work will be well worth it. This DIY author got a step-by-step breakdown from the designer at Jujumade on how to make her insanely cool handbags, and the process is remarkably doable.
Source: A Pair & A Spare
Oh, Honestly WTF, how are you so good at DIY? We're always checking in to see their latest crafts, and we're still swooning over a recent Chanel-inspired pearl project.
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What better way to put your personal touch on something than with a monogram? Answer: there is no better way.
Source: Because I'm Addicted
Since ombre anything remains to be popular, we were immediately drawn to this stylish DIY. Grab an old or affordable pair of white jeans (the author used a pair from Uniqlo) and get dippin'!
Source: The Work Is Getting To Me
We're total suckers for embellished shoes, and because this craft doesn't include any potentially tacky textures (we're talking about you, puffy paint) it's virtually impossible to get it wrong.
Source: …love Maegan
Play jewelry designer for the day with this shockingly simple and thoroughly chic DIY. The minimal look of this necklace will make it all the more surprising you made it yourself.
Source: …love Maegan
When in doubt, put a zipper on it! We adore this project because it reinvents an old knit that would have inevitably ended up at the Salvation Army. Talk about a comeback, eh?
Source: Fall For DIY
Because of smoking slippers' spike in popularity (thank you, Alexa Chung) finding an affordable pair to experiment with is easy (try this pair for $50). No tricky needlework necessary, just an iron-on applique and you're set.
Source: I Spy DIY
This no-cost project will be great for those hot summer days spent at the pool.
Source: Trash To Couture
If you have a tough time tossing out old brooches from grandma or jewelry pieces you haven't worn in years, this one's for you. This DIY will show you how to composite your old baubles together to create one-of-a-kind trinkets!
Source: Phosphene
If you've already experimented with the turban craze, take it to the next level with these embellishments. Bonus: no studding tools required!
Source: Trinkets In Bloom


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(Reuters) - Spectrum Pharmaceuticals forecast a steep drop in full-year sales as it expects uptake of its biggest-selling product, colon cancer drug Fusilev, to significantly decline as cheaper generics re-enter the market.
The Nevada company's shares fell more than 36 percent to $7.90 after the bell.
A supply shortage of levoleucovorin, the generic name of Fusilev, has steadily lifted sales of Spectrum's higher-priced drug in recent years. But Tuesday's forecast suggests that trend may be nearing its end.
Hospitals are increasingly turning toward generics of Fusilev, but demand for the drug at clinics remains stable, Spectrum said in a statement.
Since hospitals are typically more cost-sensitive than private clinics, an increase in supply of cheaper, generic levoleucovorin will likely curtail demand for Fusilev, RBC Capital Markets analyst Adnan Butt said.
Spectrum in February forecast a rise in full-year sales, but on Tuesday revised that and estimated sales of $160 million to $180 million - about $100 million less than in 2012.
Analysts on average expect total sales of $297.3 million for the year, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
A majority of the impact from a decline in demand for Fusilev will be reflected in the first half of this year, Spectrum said.
The drugmaker expects Fusilev to bring in sales of about $80 million to $90 million this year, down significantly from $204.3 million last year.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-495?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12751952#action_12751952 ] Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-495: ------------------------------------------- You know, I have absolutely no idea why I used Res when Res == 0 there. +1 for 0 -> > Make views twice as fast > ------------------------ > > Key: COUCHDB-495 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-495 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: JavaScript View Server > Reporter: Chris Anderson > Fix For: 0.11 > > Attachments: binary_collate.diff, couch_perf.py, less_json.patch, outputv.patch, term_collate.diff > > > Devs, > Damien's identified view collation as the most significant bottleneck for the view generation. We've done some testing, and some preliminary patches, and the upshot seems to be that even removing ICU from the collator is not a significant boost. What does speed things up greatly is using raw Erlang term comparison. Eg, instead of using couch_view:less_json, using fun(A,B) A < B end. provides a roughly 2x speedup. > However, the patch is challenging for a few reasons: Making the collation strategy switchable at all is tough. It's actually quite easy to get an alternate less function into the btree writer (all you've got to do is set it in couch_view_group:init_group). The hard part is propagating the same less function to the PassedEndFun. There's a secondary problem that when you use raw term comparison, a lot of terms turn out to come before nil, and after {}, which we use as artificial first and last terms in the less_json function. So just switching to raw collation alone will leave you with a view with unreachable rows. > I tried two different approaches to the problem last night, and both of them led to (instructive) dead ends. I'll attach them for illustration purposes. > The next line of attack we think should be tried is this: > First - remove _all_docs_by_seq, as it is just adding complexity to the problem, and has been deprecated by _changes anyway. Along the same lines, _all_docs should no longer use couch_httpd_view:make_view_fold_fun as it has completely different collation needs than make_view_fold_fun. We'll end up duplicating a little code in the _all_docs implementation, but it should be worth it because it will make the other work much simpler. > Once those changes have laid the groundwork, the next step is to change make_view_fold_fun and couch_view:fold, so that rather than make_view_fold_fun being responsible for detecting when we've passed the endkey. That means make_passed_end_fun and all references to PassedEnd and PassedEnd fun will be stripped from couch_httpd_view and moved to couch_btree. > couch_view:fold (and the underlying btree) will need to accept not just a start, but also an endkey. This will make it much easier to use the less fun that is stored on View#view.btree#btree.less to determine PassedEnd funs. This will move some complexity to the btree code from the view code, but will keep the concerns more aligned. This also means that the btree will need to accept not only an endkey for folds, but also an inclusive_end parameter. > Once we have all these refactorings done, it will be easy to make the less fun for an index configurable, as both the index writer and the index reader will look for it in the same place (on the #btree record). > My aim is to start a discussion and get someone excited to work on this patch. Think of all the fast-views glory you'll get! Please ask questions and otherwise force me to clarify the above discussion. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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text: In this Anna Wintour-approved music video the Glee kids cover David Bowie's 1980 hit "Fashion." Weirdly, Sam, who won't be on the show next season, is more visible than Kurt, the most fashionable student at McKinley High. Artie's wheelchair is also conspicuously absent. We'll assume that the cast isn't supposed to be in character, not that Vogue can't figure out how to style the chair.


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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics cut The Lorax down to size. Next, Gabfesters weigh in on the new ABC series GCB, starring Kristin Chenoweth. Finally, the Gabfest is joined by Slate's design columnist Julia Felsenthal to discuss the curious history of the "African" fabrics knows as Dutch wax prints.
Here are some links to the things we discussed this week:
Slate's David Haglund on the politics of The Lorax.
The New York Times' review of The Lorax.
The Atlantic's round up of all the negative reviews of The Lorax.
Dr. Seuss' original children's book remains an enduring classic.
The Lorax's very orange official site.
Slate's Troy Patterson reviews GCB.
The New York Times' feature piece on GCB.
NPR's interview with GCB star Kristin Chenoweth.
Kim Gatlin's original novel Good Christian Bitches.
GCB's official site.
Julia Felsenthal's Slate article and slideshow on Dutch wax prints.
Vlisco's remarkable collection of authentic Dutch wax prints.
Arnhem's Museum of Modern Art in The Netherlands is now featuring an exhibit on Dutch wax prints.
Teen Vogue's Hayley Phelan called "African fabrics" a Spring 2011 runway trend.
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text: Brand Marketing Best Female Brand Mascots These women ruleBy Robert Klara|February 26, 2013Share By Robert Klara|February 26, 2013Share They've been with us for over a century now, greeting shoppers in store aisles, striking a pose on packaging, and popping up in TV spots and on the Web. If you're a marketer, there's more than a passing chance you've worked with one—and if you're a shopper, there's probably at least one of them already in your home. They are mascots—people or creatures who pitch brands to the public—and for a really old idea (the Michelin Man dates back to 1898), they have incredible staying power. By our count, there are some 140 major brand mascots out there. And yet, only a handful are female. From old-timers like Mr. Clean and Count Chocula to newcomers like the Kia hamsters and the Geico gecko, the most popular and enduring brand characters are all boys. But considering that women make 85 percent of all consumer purchases, doesn't it seem like something's off? "I've talked to people about this issue, and I don't know why it is," says Jennifer Smith, owner of character creator AvantGarb, which made the mascot for TiVo (which, Smith points out, has no gender). Smith ventures that the dearth of female characters is a function of "a kind of Mad Men ethos" that still pervades the marketing trade. "But," she adds, "we'd totally like to make more girl characters." Here, a look at some of the few female characters out there. Maybe in time they'll have more company. Click here to view the Best Female Brand Mascots Share http://adweek.it/2jH2HHZ copy Adweek Adweek


text: Just a couple of comments; g03_C.02_w_LINDA is a 64bit build on the Opteron under linux. for example: file l502.exe l502.exe: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Note that it uses the old thread libs i.e. it needs an LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 on Fedora Core2 I've installed it on several Opteron cluster running Fedora Core2. Runs well and scales good at least out to the 16 processes that I've tested. I don't know about big memory jobs since I've only done minimal testing to be sure that things are working correctly. Gaussian asks that we not benchmark it, and we don't. I'll be doing Mandrake10.1-x86_64 clusters soon and expect to do G03 installs on some of them too. Gaussian tests with SuSE 9.0 for the Opteron and had some difficulties with SuSE 9.1. They usually recommend SuSE 9.0. I've installed 32bit G03 on RedHat 8.0,9, Mandrake9.0,9.1,9.2,10.0 SuSE9.0, ... no real problems. Compiling is sometimes a nuisance but no more than you'd expect for a huge program that is supported on so many platforms. Cheers -Don > We do have it running on two clusters here, it was not > trivial. The hardest part was using a supported platform > and integrating that into our environment. We ended up > using Redhat 8 for it, not willingly. I chatted with the folks > at Gaussian and different people gave me contradictory > information as to whether it worked on more modern > Redhat variants (RHEL, Centos, WBEL and the like). > > I tested it on Centos and ran into problems. > > On RH8, we the trick was to make sure we were calling > the linda binaries and using scratch files that were accessible > across the cluster. > > Also, g03 (according to Gaussian) is still 32-bit in Linux > environments and may be memory bound as a result. -- Dr. Donald B. Kinghorn Parallel Quantum Solutions LLC http://www.pqs-chem.com


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I've mostly only had to read my own code. As such, I've had no need to visualize the code as I already know how each and every class and module communicate with one another.
But the few times I've had to read someone else's code - let us now assume we are talking about at least one larger module which contains several internal classes - I've almost always found myself wishing "This would have been so much easier to understand if I could just visualize it!"
So what are the common methods or tools for enabling this? Which do you use, and why do you prefer them over the others? I've heard stuff like UML, module and class diagrams, but I imagine there are more. Furthermore, any of these is most likely better than anything I can devise on my own.
EDIT: For those who answer with "Use pen and paper and just draw it": This isn't very helpful unless you explain this further. What exactly am I supposed to draw? A box for each class? Should I include the public methods? What about its fields? How should I draw connections that explain how one class uses another? What about modules? What if the language isn't object-oriented but functional or logical, or even just imperative (C, for instance)? What about global variables and functions? Is there an already-standardized way of drawing this, or do I need to think up of a method of my own? You get the drift.


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On his first day at his new job, Falcons linebacker Brian Banks said he's delighted that his mom can say she has a son in the NFL.
Banks, the onetime high school football star who lost his scholarship to USC and spent five years in prison after he was falsely accused of rape, signed with the Falcons today and told reporters on a conference call that the person he's thinking about the most on the day his NFL dream finally came true is his mom.
"I want to thank the Atlanta Falcons, the entire organization," Banks said. "This is beyond me, this opportunity — my family, my mother who's gone through so much, my mother who raised me to be the man I am today, who stood by me as I went through hell and back. When you talk about coming from the bottom, I know all too well what that is. . . . She is the strongest woman I know, and without her this would not be happening."
Banks said his family always believed in his innocence, and believed he would be exonerated eventually. And he said that while getting a spot on an NFL offseason roster is a great first step, it's not his ultimate goal.
"Besides getting my life and my freedom back, this is the biggest accomplishment of my life. But it is also just the beginning," Banks said. "Making it onto the 53-man roster with the Atlanta Falcons is definitely, for me, in my situation and everything that I've overcome, that is a successful career for me."
As glad as Banks is to be where he is today, he also discussed how tough it was to be falsely accused and imprisoned. Even after his prison sentence ended, before his accuser admitted she made the whole thing up, Banks had a difficult life as a man who wasn't really free: Banks talked today about how difficult it was being a registered sex offender, which meant that he couldn't find any company willing to hire him for any job and couldn't ever go within 2,000 feet of a school, as monitored by the GPS device locked to his ankle.
"I wish that no one has to experience what I've been through," Banks said.
Banks has been through a lot, but he doesn't sound like a bitter man. He sounds mostly like a man who's glad to know he made his mom proud.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Eating fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids doesn't appear to stave off the blues in women, U.S. researchers have found.
Their study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, adds to the conflicting evidence on the benefits of fish oil, which some research has hinted might help certain people with depression.
"We know that omega-3s are important in brain function," study researcher Dr. Alberto Ascherio, a nutrition expert at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, told Reuters Health.
"We approached this work thinking that when it comes to preventing depression, it's conceivable that you are what you eat," he said.
But the researchers' findings didn't bear out that prediction.
The team followed nearly 55,000 nurses over 10 years. All the women, between 50 and 77 years old, were free of depression when the study began in 1996.
Over the next decade, five percent of them eventually developed clinical depression. But the risk was the same regardless of how much DHA and EPA -- two omega-3 fatty acids -- women got from eating fish.
Fish rich in omega-3s include salmon, trout, sardines and herring.
The researchers did find preliminary signs that a plant-based omega-3 called alpha-linolenic acid could play a role in mood.
For every increase of half a gram in daily intake of the substance --common in walnuts and canola oil, for instance -- there was an 18-percent reduction in the risk of depression.
A study like the current one can't prove cause-and-effect, and Ascherio said the area needs further research before any recommendations can be made.
His team also examined omega-6 fatty acids, but was unable to come up with conclusive findings on its impact on depression. Omega-6s are found in refined vegetable oils and are ubiquitous in snack foods, sweets and fast foods.
Depression strikes twice as many women as men, with one in five U.S. women experiencing the problem at some point.
Dr. Teodore Postolache, who directs the mood and anxiety program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, told Reuters Health he is not yet ready to give up on fish oil.
"There are inherent limitations on studies about depression, including determining with certainty what exactly depression is for patients," Postolache said.
Using data from nurses, for example, can skew results because nurses are more educated in matters of health and diet than the general population.
"If groups who may have underlying deficits in fish oil were studied, like lower socioeconomic groups, we might have seen a more powerful effect of the omega-3s in preventing depression," he said.
He also noted that the study excluded women who had previous episodes of depression, although this group is one of "the most important targets for intervention because they are at high risk for a repeat episode."
He called for more research on animals and in broader swaths of the population.
Fish oil may not prevent depression: study
Started by 330d , May 08 2011 03:16 PMnews 2011 usa omega 3
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Posted 08 May 2011 - 03:16 PM
Posted 29 January 2012 - 12:52 PM
Woot! I'm glad this article wasn't saying there were no benefits to taking fish oil. I was afraid to click on it but it's talking about if fish oil can prevent depression...nope, I wouldn't think that would occur anyway.
If they can come up with a way the fish oil doesn't leave a fishy taste in mouth when I've consumed a pill then I'd be happy!
If they can come up with a way the fish oil doesn't leave a fishy taste in mouth when I've consumed a pill then I'd be happy!


text: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Gus Correa wrote: > "we've tried to lower the bar in terms of the talent required to deploy one > of these at a customer site" But this is always the point of a turnkey vs home-engineered system. Do it yourself is cheaper, but you have to do it yourself. This means you have to be CAPABLE of doing it yourself. To my direct experience, the humans on this planet self-partition into two groups. The partitioning isn't strictly on talent or intelligence, although both can be factors, but on something else, an element of the human psyche. One group can do "it" themselves and, truth be told, PREFERS to do it themselves (for nearly any value of it). They may not have the talent to do it when they start, but they do when they are done within the natural limits of their God-given intelligence, strength, wisdom, and number of hit points. The other, simply put, does not. They do it themselves in the natural regime of it imposed on them by a cruel nature that won't feed them or provide them with shelter unless they do it, and bitterly resent both it and any other it they are ever forced, kicking and screaming, to attempt and half-assedly master. They are ever willing to let other people do it on their behalf, and will often pay large sums of money not to have to do it. This partitioning extends through life from young to old, across national and cultural boundaries, across social strata from top to bottom (in spite of the fact that one would expect doing it to provide social or economic benefits -- and liking to do it does -- there are plenty of blue-collar workers who passionately try to do it within their spectrum of talents and opportunities just as there are plenty of lazy-ass white collar workers who do it only if it involves oddly shaped sticks and a small white ball or telling other people to do it (the one it people in the latter category often feel uniquely qualified to do at all levels and values of it). So (to go back on topic after that deep philosophical observation to a list composed almost entirely of people who love doing it:-) lowering the bar actually doesn't really help. Anyone actually capable of doing it (where "it" = "program a serious parallel application involving MPI and a pile of computers") doesn't need the bar lowered. They might go turnkey to save time, especially when they are lavishly funded so that they aren't forced to do it to save money to be able to afford larger resources and actually finish faster. They might go turnkey because they are already doing it for values of it such as "doing immense amounts of laboratory research on genetics" so that they simply don't have the time to mess with it -- where "it" in the latter case almost certainly includes using a cluster to develop applications, so that they'd also just purchase/install free turnkey software to do the required genomics. Nearly everyone else would RATHER do it because it is fun, because it is satisfying, because they can get 40-60% more hardware capacity with the money they save, because doing it themselves they learn far more in the process and end up actually able to use the resource that they've built at its full capacity instead of just knowing it as a sort of black box front ended by a Visual screen that obscures all of the all-important detail that might have one day taught them what the hell they're doing with it so that they could do it well. I'm not making it up. The lesson that Cray et. al. (and now Microsoft too, jumping on the bandwagon so to speak) have apparently still failed to learn is that the REASON that fifteen years ago nearly all the supercomputers in the world were big iron fronted by expensive, proprietary operating systems and custom and highly non-portable compilers and programming tools (often purchased for millions of dollars from Cray) where today these have all but disappeared from the world is that the people that actually use HPC are overwhelmingly in the category that can do it, that likes doing it, that know that doing it themselves gives them a degree of ownership and control and knowledge that is utterly inaccessible to those who shy away from doing it and want it done for them, especially if they can spend other people's money to get it without mental engagement on their part. The latter people rarely succeed in doing it. Darwin slowly but surely acts against them in the highly competitive research environment. The end result is that "successful" turnkey vendors in HPC (as opposed to HA or "server farms" aren't black-box providers, they are integrators and educators like Joe. Joe (correct me if I'm wrong, Joe) doesn't JUST engineer a system to meet some customer's requirements, plug it in, and leave -- he might engineer it and build it, but he builds it WITH the client, teaching the client what it's all about, working with the client to the point where the client in the end has full ownership and has learned what they need to learn to use the tool and perhaps take care of it. Scyld/Penguin provides much the same sort of thing. Bottom line: you don't do HPC if you aren't capable and naturally inclined to do it yourself, and the top 500 list has over fifteen years come to overwhelmingly -- overwhelmingly -- reflect that simple fact. This is a true dynamic phase transition and not particularly likely to suddenly revert to the earlier phase just because Cray and Microsoft try to get the research world to regress to a state where customers pay THEM most of the money they'd otherwise spend getting more processors. If they were likely to do that now, they never would have stopped then instead of running like bunnies away from Crays and towards commodity clusters. > However, my feeling is that teaching 101 courses in Unix/Linux proficiency > (directory tree, command redirection, etc), Unix programming environment > (make, etc), > and Unix tools (vi or emacs, sed, awk, basic shell scripting, etc), > for science and engineering students would increase the "talent required" > at a much lower cost and with much higher benefits than buying Windows > deskside supercomputers. > Who would need a Windows based HPC then? It's far past that. Who in the world is CAPABLE of programming a parallel HPC who doesn't already know all of these things? Does Microsoft seriously think that there exist fifty competent programmers in the world that can write brilliant HPC-class programs using only Microsoft compilers and tools but who have no idea what Unix is and how it works and how to program in a Unixoid programming environment? Not even their OWN programmers are that ignorant -- or rather, where they are that ignorant they give us (gulp) >>Vista<< as an example of superbly optimized, unbloated high performance code. I can see it now: "Trust in the people that brought you Vista to provide you with high performance tools that will produce the fastest code that will run on the leanest resources." Right. Like the 4 GB needed just to BOOT THE OPERATING SYSTEM of their latest "desktop" version of Windows so that it doesn't run like a pig. > To entice the freshmen students, RGB could give a few cool special lectures > about Turing machines, > cellular automata, etc, on these 101 classes. > This would pay off much better than teaching C and C++ (say, with Visual > Studio) to freshmen, > would give them a background to use Unix/Linux machines effectively, > and would prepare them to go beyond Matlab and Windows. > Programming languages could be 201 or higher level courses. I don't know offhand of any University that teaches Visual Studio to freshmen as a means to learn C or C++, period. Damn few schools teach C++ to freshmen, and nobody nowhere teaches C. Duke certainly doesn't, and Duke and Microsoft are practically family. Community colleges might teach it, and there might be courses at some level that teach it, but generally speaking computer science departments -- once they get past the intro courses in java -- use and teach Unixoid operating systems (overwhelmingly Linux, but still quite a lot of e.g. Solaris) and programming tools such as C, C++ (and rarely Fortran), often at the same time. After all, what can you learn from a closed source broken piece of, um, "black box" like Windows (any flavor, any time)? How to fix a broken registry? And what operating system, exactly, is written entirely in C++ using a visual toolset? Does any professor WANT their students to learn how IT "works", even if they could know themselves well enough to teach it? The difficulty of teaching or learning Unix/C programming tools and methods is greatly exagerrated. I already teach this -- I'm teaching it to one student this semester who has to learn Linux and C just to work on a neural network project; I taught a student C from scratch last semester (and the student is this semester taking an advanced course in operating systems and programming and writing me lavish thank you notes as he is blowing away the course, way ahead of his classmates). I just loan them (and have them buy) a handful of books like Kernighan and Pike and Glass and Ables (the latter a much more modern and useful version of the venerable, nay classic, former). I teach them to use jove: "Hey, bring up an xterm and run 'teachjove'. Check back with me in a couple of days." I give them or show them a few free online or PDF C books plus teach them about the man pages. I show them how to run a Makefile from inside jove (Ctrl-X Ctrl-E, fingers stay right on those keys where they do all of their work). I give them a C program template (available on my website) to make it easy to get started with a functioning ready-to-build example. I have them write three or four very simple programs STARTING from that template to kind of get their feet wet. I show them how to use SVN and threaten them with the hell of utter failure if they don't use it and somehow lose their work by overwriting their non-backed up sources. I deconstruct their programs, whack them upside the head with a manual whenever the ratio of comment lines to code drops much below 1:1, tell them that unindented code is the invention of the Devil intended to lead poor lost souls into purgatory, that good variable names and function call names aren't too long, aren't too short, and DontUseSillyCaPS unless they mean something. I teach them something that Microsoft-based tool users never really figure out (witness the earlier posting from the Microsoft person) -- there is this thing called "ASCII" which compilers like, which produces perfectly readable straight text, and which is PORTABLE across viewing and editing environments, proprietary and non-proprietary. Good programmers consequently nearly invariably use a straight ASCII text editor, and eschew the use of the 8th bit and/or multibyte characters unless for them straight text happens to be in Chinese or Arabic. Email messages from good programmers to lists like this rarely contain those funny looking @?isms that basically signal to the world "Hey, I wrote this in a Microsoft mail program that uses an extended character set even for everyday English text characters that (of course) any Microsoft mail program will correctly render but that will (of course) look funny on your non-Microsoft screen, which proves that you should use Microsoft mail programs for all purposes so you can read my mail". I teach them that Unix tools can be used to work dark magic, but that there is a price to be paid in sweat and chickens slaughtered with black-handled knives before you can decide that your code needs to be completely reorganized into subdirectories and that as part of this reorganization every program module needs a certain code fragment to be changed to a different code fragment and you accomplish this with three lines from the shell in around a minute or two of actual effort. They don't call master programmers "wizards" for nothing, but knowledge is power, and power is never cheap. These students are obviously in the self-sorted "I can do it myself for any value of it" category, but the point is that all programmers ARE in this category unless they chose their profession to make money, as the value of "it" that they are reluctantly forced to choose in order to stay fed and clothed. Such "programmers" as often as not become marketing droids or pointy-haired bosses because they do not know the Tao of Programming and rarely become more than half-competent hacks. Only programmers who have learned to follow the Tao and slaughtered many chickens effortlessly write code that compiles flawlessly and runs like a category five hurricane over an ocean of processors. And they don't do it on Windows. > *** Number 3) "Finally, the CX1 starts at just $25,000, with fully configured > systems reaching the $80,000 range. The system is very affordable in terms of > both the initial capital investment and the lowered total cost of ownership > customers will see from ease of management and standard office power and > cooling requirements." > > Questions: > How many blades and cores come in the $25k configuration? (I will answer: > One blade, just like a > dual-socked quad-core workstation that you can buy for $5k or less.) > How "affordable" an investment you need to make install it in your office? > (See RGB's posting for the answers.) Just to end the speculation (however fun:-), here are a few facts from its spec sheet. The box is 7U in height. It takes >>4<< 1600 watt power supplies (2+2) to run the entire system in "fully populated, fully redundant" mode. Two power supplies only let you run "half populated, fully redundant mode" (1+1) or of course fully populated, not redundant (2+0). One power supply can only support four blades, obviouly not redundant, where the blades draw (as I learned from a different source) roughly 375W each, presumably peak/loaded but the only object I'd really trust here is a Kill-a-Watt -- well, 2 Kill-a-Watts -- plugged in between the fully populated CX1 and the wall and running at full load (maybe doing a good benchmark suite in parallel, so one can drive all the CPUs to draw peak power synchronously). So technically, the CX1 "can" run on an office power supply deskside, as long as you only populate it with <=3 blades (15 A) or <=4 blades (20A) and nothing else to speak of is on the circuit. The box is a 7U pedestal: 13" by 18" by 36" (!). In other words, this sucker is a yard long! Note that they only present you with tasteful photos of the FRONT of the enclosure, where perspective hides this last distasteful fact. They ONLY present this view -- check out their website or brochure: you only see either the front panel or a picture that at first makes it look like the entire box is the size of a shoebox, would fit nicely on the corner of your desk. Not. It weighs 140 pounds fully populated, 63 pounds empty. This makes it a bit more than 1/2 the width of a standard rack, and about as deep. Two observations: If you have the room for this puppy "under your desk" you have a bigger desk than I've got, and like to have very, very warm feet. Just perfect for those supercomputer users in Iceland and Alaska, and I'll bet Antarctic research stations are clamoring to get them and plan to run heavy applications all the time with one on each side of their desks. Also, one can easily find and order portable/deskside racks in sizes ranging from 8U to 24U, with wheels and/or shockmounts. A top-dollar, shipping grade shockmounted 12U travel rack looks like it costs around $1400 delivered. Into this one can put as many e.g. Penguin dual-quads in standard 1U ff as you wish, at ~$5000 each in the comparison configuration (3 GHz cores, 2 GB RAM/CPU). To these you can add the network of your choice -- gigabit ethernet is "free", of course -- inside an expected $2K budget for rack, cabling, switch, KVM, and for a bit more UPS or other gingerbread. Faster networks obviously add cost at market price. Eight additional inches of width and six+ in height let you install 88 cores instead of 64 and use true commodity parts instead of being locked forever to Cray if you want to upgrade or change vendors. Or, the volume occupied is very, very close to the space that four minitowers would occupy, which is all one can actually plug into even a lavishly wired office without renovation anyway. In this case one spends a straight up ~$4-4.5K per box and you're done (plus network) and once you go down this road, you can start thinking about a pile of minitowers with just one quad each etc. I admit you don't get that active noise cancellation, but noise cancellation headphones are $100 and play music too. > **** Number 4) "We believe that there are many workstation users today who > are used to working in a Windows environment and find the thought of moving > to a more powerful platform like an HPC cluster and the challenge of learning > a new operating system daunting. By offering an operating system that they > are familiar with, we believe the barriers to adoption are significantly > lowered. " And I believe that they are possibly right for a fairly small value of "many", especially if one emphasizes the term "user". This is not a coding or development platform -- it is a platform they want to sell to people to run canned, commercial code (and that is a sub-market right there -- several of the blades they sell are obviously HA server blades, not HPC). The only people likely to buy it for HPC development are people seeking to develop canned, commercial HPC code to sell those users, who will then use the programs to do what they are told to do with them by bosses who themselves don't understand what the systems are and how they work, only that they are told -- by a marketing droid -- that using the system will permit them to get their work done faster because, well, look at all the cores! And Cray MEANS supercomputer, doesn't it? A true rendering of the release headline might just as well be "Cray reinvents the SP2" -- five or ten years after the SP2 was rendered obsolete. A commodity SP2, to be sure. We've come at least that far. Beyond that, one can do a head to head comparison of this bladed system and other folks' bladed or other solutions, and I think that most of what you are getting is that ever so impressive CRAY on the front -- which has a certain cachet, does it not?;-) -- plus something that NO DOUBT is well engineered, solid hardware, sold for a premium price, that takes up less room than a rack of the same capacity (but well within a factor of two in VOLUME and with at least one troublesome yard-long dimension). > Comments > The system seems to be a regular cluster, nicely packed, and perhaps with an > easy setup procedure. > The main attraction is that it can run Windows, for those who are afraid of > Linux. > Other attractions are the nice looking enclosure and the brand name, that > make it an object of desire. I desire it, I desire it. Hell, I'd make room for it in my life and sweat for it just to run it. I just can't possibly PAY for it, and if I could I still wouldn't because I could get more for my money elsewise. Now if Cray is listening in and wants to just GIVE me one (fully populated, please -- I did install two 20A circuits just for my personal supercomputer setup in my attic and while I'm a BIT light on AC up there for 3.2 KW, I can probably scare up enough OPM to do an upgrade) hey, I'll do random number generator testing and other Good Works on it and tell everybody on this list what a great system it is! I admit it -- at heart I'm just a whore, easily bought:-). Oh, but not even for free would I accept one preinstalled with Windows unless I were permitted to just pop Fedora onto it first thing. I may be cheaply bought but I'm not stupid, and Windows would cost me way more than the value of the hardware in my time, on this just as it has every other system I've ever installed or managed with Windows on it. Windows management is expensive as all hell, whether you do it yourself or pay others to do it for you. One of the all-time great success stories of marketing is that Microsoft has managed to hide or obscure this fact from a truly astounding number of people for well over a decade. > The problem with unsubstantiated statements like these on the HPC Wire > interview > is that they catch the attention of decision makers (Deans, department heads, > as someone mentioned here), and you may have a hard time to distill and > deconstruct them. > Unless the decision maker has a background or a very good guts felling for > computers and > the underlying physics/engineering, the shiny brochures, the movies, > and the big brand names can really make a dent. > > I had to write a long explanation, going down to details very similar to > those RGB raised here > (but not with the same sharp humor), to justify buying a cluster as opposed > to a > "turnkey" solution akin to this "deskside supercomputer" just two weeks ago. > I went through the same arguments that RGB used here: environmental issues > (power, A/C, floor space), TCO, > sys admin and maintenance, pros and cons of COTS vs. proprietary HW and SW, > etc. > I won, but now I'll probably have to "dejavu it all over again", > when people here learn about the CX1. Don't forget, one can get turnkey linux clusters too. Penguin/Scyld would love to sell you one. Joe and Scalable informatics would cheerily custom engineer you one. Or you can EASILY get "semi-turnkey" -- a rackful of 1U systems all wired up and ready for you to just drop on your own favorite OS image, which for DCHP/PXE installs is about as difficult as, well, configuring a server with a repo and e.g. kickstart file turning the nodes on. > If my boss was not knowledgeable in Physics and computing, > I would have to invite RGB to come here to give my boss a briefing. > And to recommend buying a beer keg refrigerator along with a cluster, of > course. And if you (or rather he) paid me vast sums of money, I'd be happy to come give him one, keg and all. However, if I didn't charge $250+/hour plus travel and expenses for my time, your boss wouldn't listen to me anyway, and baby needs a new pair of shoes... because he's away in college and shoes, they are EXPENSIVE in college. I do think we're on the track of something important here, though. A beer-cooled cluster. This is brilliant! Why hasn't anyone thought of it before? They make half- and quarter-keg sized refrigerators designed to keep a liquid at a steady 40F temperature. Beer contains alcohol, sort of like antifreeze only "less toxic" to the environment, um, acts like a preservative or something. The bubbles, lessee, they act as shock absorbers against thermal expansion as the cold beer absorbs the CPU's heat and returns to the keg for recooling. Best of all, when a node breaks the beer is much cheaper than antidepressants and therapy for the person who comes to replace it (and hey, one has to drain the entire system when that occurs and refill it with fresh beer, and one hates to waste anything, right?:-) rgb > > Gus Correa > > -- Robert G. 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text: On 4 Jun 2002, Jim Meyer wrote: > Howdy! > > We buy commodity boxes not only for our distributed computing needs (a > render farm) but also for our desktops. We like to use kickstart to set > up the box; we've honed the config for this pretty well. The problem is > we need to get the MAC address prior to kickstarting the box so that we > can give it a trusted IP which in turn allows it to NFS mount the disk > where the RedHat distributions are. > > This leads me to my question: anyone know of a clever way to get the MAC > address from an ethernet device without needing to power the machine up, > load an OS, and probe around a bit. Having noted that ethernet devices > often seem to display link and traffic lights even when the computer is > powered down, I was thinking that a fairly special purpose device might > be designed (RJ45 plug and simple digital readout kinda thing) which led > me to wonder if such a device already exists. > > Has anyone ever seen or heard of such a thing? We get our commodity box vendor (intrex.com) to determine the MAC address while building and/or burning in the system and to label the box with it/them. Then we can just read them and put them into the appropriate tables. Many NICs have the address printed on the device (on the Tyan 2466 motherboards, for example, with built in 3c920, there is a label on the RJ45 housing). It is easy for the vendor to do, a pain for you to do. The alternative(s) have been discussed on the list a few times fairly recently -- check the list archives for the last five or six months. If your systems use PXE/DHCP to install (and if they aren't, they should be) one can just power the system up with the bios set to boot from the PXE netbootable device, and then read the MAC address off of e.g. the dhcp logs. Some folks have automagicified this process so they boot, wait, (scripts work some magic) and boot again, with kickstart/pxe then completing the install the second time, concluding with a boot into production. BTW, I wouldn't recommend doing an NFS install. Our own experience is that an http kickstart install is the most robust and requires that the installing host have no special privileges. NFS is relatively slow, is safe only in a firewalled LAN sandbox, and requires all sorts of special privileges. HTTP is fast, recovers decently from network errors on a slow network (FTP doesn't, which is why I don't recommend it), works fine if you are on the east coast and your install coast is on the west coast (bandwidth permitting:-) and works fine without any special privileges even if the RPM server doesn't really "trust" the host doing the installing (obviously the installer must trust the install host). Installing via the web or ftp is easy. Just create a web server with your standard red hat directory laid out on it, and direct your kickstart file to look there. I can probably come up with an example kickstart file if it would help. rgb > > Thanks! > > --j > -- > Jim Meyer, Geek At Large purp at wildbrain.com > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu