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MWC 12: Android 5.0 this fall? Google drops sweet hints.
Subject: General Tech, Mobile, Shows and Expos | February 28, 2012 - 07:27 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: MWC 12, Android 5.0, Android
Android Ice Cream Sandwich is currently getting rolled out to compatible devices at a leisurely pace. The OS itself is for the most part well appreciated by both developers and end-users. As the rollout progresses and minor maintenance patches are created: Google is looking forward to the next major version.
Just get Ice Cream Sandwich and they already talking about the future. U Jelly? : D
ComputerWorld went out to Barcelona to check out Mobile World Congress and of course could not resist reporting on Android. In an interview with Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google VP of Engineering for Mobile, we are treated to a few indirect statements about the next major version of Android.
The major release timeframe for Android is said to continue to be an annual endeavor. An annual release schedule would slate Android J (5.0) to an autumn timeframe. During the discussion, Lockheimer noted that there is flexibility with when developers wish to roll out updated. While that personally sounds like Google is allowing OEMs and carriers to take as long as they desire to implement the new Android releases it appears as if ComputerWorld has heard rumors of Android 5-power phones appearing as early as summer.
Despite ComputerWorld's best effort, Google would not confirm the dessert associated with Android 5. Best guesses point to the name Jelly Bean, which are supported by a glass jar of Jelly Beans on the show floor.
MWC 12: NVIDIA Roadmap Outlines Tegra's Future Including 4G and Die Shrink
Subject: Mobile | February 27, 2012 - 01:53 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: wayne, tegra 3, tegra, tablets, nvidia, MWC 12, mobile, grey
This year is a big one for smaller silicon manufacturing processes with Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge, and NVIDIA and AMD moving to 28nm GPU processes. According to a report on VR-Zone, NVIDIA is already planning their next move for Tegra, including a die shrink to 28nm.
They managed to get their hands on a road map (shown below) for NVIDIA's Tegra SoC (system on a chip) lineup that extends into 2013. With Tegra 3, NVIDIA began by sampling the chip to Asus and the Transformer Prime. After that success, other partners and devices are starting to pick up the mobile chip, and they expect the situation to be the same for future Tegra iterations.
They company allegedly taped out a Tegra 4 (T40) SoC at the end of December 2011, and is starting to sample it to OEM partners to find someone to do a Tegra 3 like launch, with one device/platform to debut first and others to follow in later months.
The Tegra 4 chip is code named "Wayne" and will be comprised of multiple ARM Cortex A15 CPU cores and a new GPU on a 28nm process. The company alos plans to show off a dual core 28nm SoC that uses two Cortex A15 CPU cores, a revamped GPU, and an Icera 4G LTE radio at Mobile World Congress 2013 next year.
Further, the roadmap details a new Tegra 3 chip that is intended to be used with Windows on ARM powered notebooks and tablets. While the new Tegra 3 (T35) SoC will not be a die shrink, it will have higher clock speeds due to less restrictions placed on the maximum TDP (thermal design power) allowed for the devices. VR-Zone estimates that the T35 chips will run somewhere between 1.6 GHz and 1.7 GHz.
Currently there are some incompatibilities with Tegra and 4G LTE radios which has caused some LTE devices to go with Qualcomm SoCs, so it is good to see NVIDIA working on improving compatibility and then integrating the basebands into their future SoCs to rectify the issue.
As far as this year is concerned, we should see the updated Tegra 3 chip and a new version of Tegra 2 that integrates a Icera 4G LTE baseband. The Wayne and Grey chips will likely not be released until 2013 at the earliest. The expanded Tegra portfolio should help them to gain some market share, though exactly how much remains to be seen.
MWC 12: ASUS Unveils Infinity Tablets, Dockable Smartphone
Subject: Mobile | February 27, 2012 - 07:00 AM | Matt Smith
Tagged: MWC, Transformer, tablet, padfone, mobile world congress, eee pad, asus, MWC 12, infinity, transformer prime
While attending CES last month, ASUS showed us a Transformer Prime with a full HD display. It looked great, but it did feel as if the branding would be a bit perplexing, as this new model would also be sold as a Prime.
Apparently the company had this thought, as well. They've now unveiled the Transformer Pad Infinity Series, a new tablet with a 1920x1200 IPS+ display. It will come in two different variants. One is 4G LTE compatible and uses a Qualcomm MSM 8960 Snapdragon S4 Krait (whoa! Take a breath…) dual-core 1.5 GHz processor. The WiFi version, on the other hand, uses the now-familiar Nvidia Tegra 3. Both models have a 2MP front camera and an 8MP rear camera with LED flash. They also share the same 16GB, 32GB and 64GB storage options. The Infinity Series will be available in the same Amethyst Gray and Champagne Gold finishes already available on the current Transformer Prime.
(Editor's Note) If you are wondering why the LTE version of the new Transformer Infinity is not using the quad-core Tegra 3 SoC, we are hearing that the NVIDIA part is still not compatible with LTE radio controllers and won't be for another few months. This is also why the new HTC One X smartphone doesn't use the Tegra 3 processor on the AT&T LTE network while other phones in the family do. So will users of the LTE version of the Infinity miss the quad-core design when moving to the dual-core option from Qualcomm instead? While we can't be sure, the new Krait design is a "wider" CPU with a better memroy interface yet still runs at similar clock speeds and it should be faster in single or lightly threaded programs.
This new flagship will slot above the Transformer Prime. But ASUS hasn't just focused on the glitter and gold – they've also taken the wraps off the Transformer Pad 300, which is a new entry-level model. It features a 1280x800 IPS display and uses Tegra 3 in both the 4G LTE and WiFi models. The front camera is a 1.2MP unit and the rear camera is 8MP with LED flash. 16GB of internal storage is your only option. The 300 will offer new blue, white and red color schemes not yet available on any Transformer table
Both of these new models are Transformers, which means keyboard docks will be available as an option. They also include Android 4.0 and quote the same battery life of 10 hours without the dock.
MWC 12: Intel branded, Atom-powered smartphone to be sold by Orange
Subject: Mobile | February 26, 2012 - 08:06 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: z2460, SoC, smartphone, orange, MWC 12, MWC, Intel, atom z2460
Reuters is reporting that European cell phone carrier Orange will be selling a reference design Medfield smartphone under the Intel brand name. The Atom Z2460 SoC will find its first major distributor to be one of the world's largest service providers - this could potentially be a big opening for Intel in a market it desperately wants to compete for.
I find it very interesting that not only has Intel developed a processor that has finally garnered attention for the mobile market but the team at Intel has built a reference design that was fine tuned enough to direct sell to consumers. Will the company avoid becoming a typical, low margin SoC company by focusing on vertical implementations like this one? It is an interesting thought and no other vendor has really done it, with possibly the exception of Samsung that owns the entire device process already.
Anandtech has the major specifications of the phone, codenamed "Santa Clara":
These are basically identical to the reference design we saw at CES with only some minor changes to the form factor. Ice Cream Sandwich isn't included out the gate but we are hoping the upgrade will get pushed soon since Intel showed ICS on the Atom SoC in January.
I haven't been able to find anything about availability or pricing yet but I'll be sure to report it when I find it. The mobile market continues to intrigue...
MWC 12: NVIDIA Tegra 3 To Power Quad Core HTC One Smartphone
Subject: Mobile | February 26, 2012 - 04:35 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: tegra 3, smartphone, quad core, nvidia, MWC 12, htc, Android
Earlier rumors suggested that the LG Optimus 4X HD would be the first quad core Tegra 3 powered smartphone; however, HTC and NVIDIA made an announcement today that shows that LG is not the only company showing off a Tegra 3 smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2012!
NVIDIA announced in a press release today that their Tegra 3 mobile SoC would be powering the new HTC One X smartphone which is to be shown off at MWC 2012. According to HTC, the phone features 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of on-board storage to power the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) mobile OS on a 4.7" display with 1280x720 resolution. It further includes an 8 MP (megapixel) rear camera capable of 1080p video with stereo sound, a VGA resolution front camera for video conferencing and claimed 720p video, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, support for LTE 4G networks, and a 1,800 mAh battery.
Kouji Kodera, Chief Product Officer at HTC stated that "the HTC One X with Tegra 3 provides an experience that consumers will absolutely love." The HTC One X is the first smartphone that HTC and NVIDIA have worked together on.
The mobile market is advancing rather quickly, and Mobile World Congress 2012 is only just getting started! Stay tuned to PC Perspective for more MWC 2012 announcements!
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MWC 12: Samsung to compete with Tegra on quad-core CPU
Subject: Processors, Mobile | February 26, 2012 - 01:56 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: tegra, Samsung, quad-core, MWC 12, MWC, exynos
While details are still sparse as we await the official start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona tonight/tomorrow, it appears that Samsung plans to announce a new quad-core processor as part of its Exynos line. It will be the first Samsung SoC based on 32nm technology rather than the 45nm currently in production and will be available in both quad- and dual-core variant.
According to the story over at Unwiredview it will be available in frequencies ranging from 200 MHz all the way up to 1.5 GHz while offering lower power consumption than current options. I am curious how this actually stacks up though as we have seen that Tegra 3 doesn't REALLY offer lower power consumption and longer battery life even though that was a promise from NVIDIA. It definitely can offer less power consumption per performance unit, but in the end battery life is king for these mobile devices.
What about graphics performance? The story had this to say:
The new Exynos comes paired with the latest version of Samsung's own graphics chip, which has 4 pixel processors and 1 geometry engine with 128 KB L2 cache. The graphics support OpenGL ES 2.0 and can generate up to 57 MPolygons/s.
Samsung claims that the new processor will offer 26% more performance compared to Exynos parts based on the 45nm process and I assume they are referring to dual-core vs dual-core results. Other claims include battery life improvements of "up to 50%" - we'd love to see it but we'll wait for actual devices to ship and showcase it before really getting excited.
The good news is that quad-core performance will be coming to more devices and NVIDIA won't be the only SoC designer on the block offering them. The use-cases for quad-core performance on a mobile device, phone or tablet, may still be in question though we never doubt the software side of the equation to utilize as much horsepower as it is provided.
MWC 12: TI OMAP5 will beat your A9 with its own two cores
Subject: General Tech, Processors, Mobile, Shows and Expos | February 25, 2012 - 07:06 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: texas instruments, MWC 12, arm, A9, A15
Texas Instruments could not wait until Mobile World Congress to start throwing punches. Despite their recent financial problems resulting in the closure of two fabrication plants TI believes that their product should speak for itself. Texas Instruments recently released a video showing their dual-core OMAP5 processor based on the ARM Cortex-A15 besting a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 in rendering websites.
Chuck Norris joke.
Even with being at a two core disadvantage the 800 MHz OMAP5 processor was clocked 40 percent slower than the 1.3 GHz Cortex A9. The OMAP5 is said to be able to reach 2.5 GHz if necessary when released commercially.
Certain portions of the video did look a bit fishy however. Firstly, CNet actually loaded quicker on the A9 processor but it idled a bit before advancing to the second page. The A9 could have been stuck loading an object that the OMAP 5 did not have an issue with, but it does seem a bit weird.
About the fishiest part of the video is that the Quad-Core A9, which we assume to be a Tegra 3, is running on Honeycomb where the OMAP5 is running Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich has been much enhanced for performance over Honeycomb.
We have no doubt that the ARM Cortex-A15 will be much improved over the current A9. The issue here is that TI cannot successfully prove that with this demonstration.
MWC 12: Lots of industry support for NVIDIA DirectTouch
Subject: General Tech, Mobile, Shows and Expos | February 24, 2012 - 06:18 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: nvidia, DirectTouch, MWC 12
As a part of their Tegra 3 product, NVIDIA embedded the ability to control some of the touchscreen processing onto the CPU. The offloading allows for increased power efficiency by reducing the number of powered components as well as increased touch responsivity. Atmel, Cypress, and Synaptics are three leading touch-controller companies who join N-Trig, Raydium, and Focaltech in supporting the DirectTouch architecture.
Touchy subject, I know -- but...
Advancements in touch technology are definitely welcome especially when the words power efficiency or responsiveness are involved. Both NVIDIA and Intel have been looking for ways to reduce the number of electronics behind your phone or tablet. The less required to do the most the better we are. It is great to see NVIDIA taking the lead in innovation when it is needed the most.
While I do not mean to rain upon NVIDIA's bright blue skies -- I must make a note. Despite the precision brought by high sample rate, there does appear to be quite a bit of latency between where his finger is and where the touch is reported. I would be curious to see where that latency occurs.
Of course this issue probably has nothing to do with NVIDIA. Videogames, particularly on consoles, are known to have latencies floating up to 100ms as the input device does not influence the frames being rendered often enough. The latency could come in from the touch device itself, from the software, the operating system, and/or whatever else.
We do not know where the latency occurs, but I expect that whoever crushes it will have a throne awaiting them somewhere in Silicon Valley.
MWC 12: LG gives Mozilla Marketplace a try to boot to Gecko?
Subject: General Tech, Mobile, Shows and Expos | February 24, 2012 - 04:29 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: MWC 12, mozilla, B2G, LG
Mozilla will show off their marketplace for web apps at Mobile World Congress 2012. Mozilla Marketplace will support the upcoming Boot to Gecko (B2G) operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. It is rumored that they will announce LG as a partner to develop either a tablet or a phone for developers of the B2G platform.
I ~ <3 Paypal... I guess.
Mozilla Marketplace will be a store where developers can distribute and sell their applications based upon HTML 5, Javascript, and CSS. The marketplace will support both free and paid apps with a variety of terms. Developers can have their users paid for the app up front, within the app for microtransactions, within the app for demo unlock, on a subscription basis (not yet implemented), or by donations.
Paypal has been announced as the payment processor for the Mozilla Marketplace. Paypal is not universally adored although we can understand why Mozilla would need to use an existing package. Prices are locked to one of 30 tiers so pricing is not entirely flexible but does run the gamut from 99-cents to $50 as well as of course free.
Hopefully we will get more details about Boot to Gecko or the Mozilla-powered LG phone at MWC in the coming days.


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GENEVA (Reuters) - With the Higgs boson in the bag, the head of the CERN research center urged scientists on Tuesday to push on to unveil the "dark universe" - the hidden stuff that makes up 95 per cent of the cosmos and is still a mystery to earthbound researchers.
Rolf Heuer spoke after the Nobel physics prize went to Briton Peter Higgs and Belgian Francois Englert for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle, which explains how fundamental matter got the mass to form stars and planets.
"We have now completed the Standard Model," Heuer told reporters, referring to the portrait of the known universe drafted in the 1980s.
"It is high time for us to go on to the dark universe," added the director general of the world's main institution focusing on the basic particles of nature, based near Geneva.
The Higgs boson and its associated force field were among the last major building blocks of that model of how the cosmos works.
Their existence was confirmed, after three decades, when the particle was seen last year in CERN's underground particle smasher, the giant Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The LHC, now in the middle of a two-year refit and upgrade, is due to resume operations in early 2015 with its power doubled.
"That will open promising territory into new physics," Heuer's deputy Sergio Bertolucci said. New physics is the term used by scientists for the realms beyond the Standard Model that currently remain as elusive as science-fiction.
First among these - highlighted in Nobel acceptance comments by Englert - is super-symmetry, the theory that all basic particles have a heavier but invisible partner, which is linked to concepts like string theory and extra dimensions.
No sign of super-symmetry has yet appeared in CERN's collider, leading some science writers to voice doubts about the concept.
But Heuer said that just because it was elusive did not mean it did not exist. "It took us 30 years to find the Higgs," he added.
The LHC, in its 27-kilometre (17-mile) circular tunnel under a corner of Switzerland and France, was conceived in the early 1990s at a time when particle physicists, astrophysicists and cosmologists were increasingly talking together.
The interchange between experts in once separate fields has brought theories about the universe and its nature - as well as what came before and whether there are parallel undetected worlds - into sharper focus.
This has also been fueled by the increasing power of telescopes, allowing scientists to detect indirectly that there must be some strange substance massing around the galaxies to keep them together. This has become known as dark matter because it cannot be seen, although its effects are evident.
Recent measurements by the European Space Agency's satellite-borne Planck telescope found dark matter accounted for 27 percent of the universe and the even more enigmatic dark energy - driving galaxies apart - 68.3 percent.
Visible matter in open space - galaxies, stars and planets - accounts for just 5 percent.
String theory says particles are in fact tiny oscillating strings that can appear differently depending on how they are viewed. It requires multiple extra dimensions that have yet to be detected.
The theory, which has partly morphed into the M-theory espoused by British scientist Stephen Hawking, has fierce critics. It also allows for parallel universes - a multiverse where universes spring into existence and die spontaneously.
"But proving that," says CERN theoretician James Wells, "won't come in our lifetime."
Editing by Andrew Heavens

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The Texas cotton crop is setting up to be a basket buster, according to experts speaking at the Ag Market Network's June teleconference.
According to Jay Yates, risk management specialist, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, conditions are still a little dry in central and east Texas, but overall crop condition and stand establishment across the state are above average.
According to Yates, the state had planted around 98 percent of its intended cotton acreage by early June. According to USDA's report on crop condition, 96 percent of the Texas cotton crop is listed fair to excellent, with only 4 percent rated poor, and zero rated as very poor.
In addition, Yates says there appears to be far less abandoned acreage in Texas than usual. "Unless we get a lot of hail, we're probably going to stay that way. The last time we had a year like this was in 2007, when we had only 3 percent abandonment in our dryland crop. In 2009, abandonment in the dryland crop was in the 40 percent to 50 percent range."
Yates says Texas growers "have been extremely disappointed in the alternative crops they've planted, such as sunflowers and grain sorghum. Across the board, a lot of people are going back to cotton. Although we had a good rainfall in our wheat in the High Plains, low protein levels have made it nearly worthless. A lot of farmers saw what was happening with the wheat, cut it for silage and planted no-till cotton in the stubble."
When you put the good conditions for growth together with timely planting and reduced abandonment, it could add significantly to the anticipated size of the 2010 U.S. cotton crop, which USDA has pegged at 16.7 million bales. "I could put just our four crop reporting districts around Lubbock at 8.2 million bales alone," Yates said. "We're poised to produce at least 50 percent of the U.S. crop."
Texas A&M Extension economist Carl Anderson says preliminary indications are that Texas producers have planted 5.6 million acres to cotton this spring, versus 4.7 million acres in 2007. "With a small abandonment, we're looking at a Texas crop that could get to 8.5 million to 9 million bales."
Anderson noted that with cotton off to a good start in the Delta and Southeast as well, USDA's early projection of 16.7 million bales "could grow without any problem into the 17 million to 18 million bale range, which is 5 million to 6 million bales bigger than last year."
A large crop "is needed to supply the world numbers," Anderson said, with foreign production showing an 18.6 million bale shortfall to foreign consumption. "We have a good strong outlook going into our export market. We have several bullish factors under the market today that we didn't have a week ago. We have decertification of a large number of bales, which means that cotton is now moving into the market.
"The export market was excellent this week, with USDA projecting that the United States will export at least 37 percent of the world exports, which are around 36 million bales, which would easily keep us in that 13.5 million area, which is about 8 percent more than last year. We are competing and we need to be."
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Some serious business went down at the second stop of the Vans Triple Crown, held Saturday, January 25 at Mammoth, California. Riders punched in their time cards at ten a.m. and went to work on a sprawling course layed out on the back of the mountain. Step downs, mail boxes, c-rails, transfer kickers; it was all in there. And with a perfect blue-sky backdrop, photographers filled the air with the whir of camera motor drives.
Despite being slightly under the weather, Shaun White met no less than the standard he has set for himself: Cab nine, backside seven, backside 540 the hard way over the transfer kicker (making it sort of alley oop), never an arm out of place. Jersey-kid Mark Reilly was in the lead post first run after murdering a frontside nine and a mean backside five rodeo. But it wasn?t until the later moments of the second run that Eddie Wall clinched first place with amazing stompage of a 900, a 720, another 720, and a backside 270 twirly move on the step-down box at the bottom.
As the women?s finals started in the late afternoon, the announcer told everyone to head over to the other base area where a rail jam on an S box was going down. So the women were left to cheer themselves on. Typical. But no big deal. They don?t need no crowd to get nasty. Girls like Hana Beaman and Janna Meyen were switchin? it up form the usual backside 360 routine. Beaman Cab threed her way through the mid section of the course and hopped on the bottom step-down box switch for some fakie 50-50 action. Janna Meyen Cab 360ed a kicker or two, as well, busted a beautiful backside 180, and backside 270ed onto the box at the bottom. It was Brit Jenny Jones, however, who took itóher third major win in two weeks with a backside 360 off the big kicker and solid, stomped riding throughout.
Meanwhile, the ?BFT Rail Jam? on the S box had an audience full of groms and a mean snake session for the drop in. Although I was over on the other side of the mountain watching the women shreds, I heard reports of Colin Langlois dominating with a frontside boardslide, and Joe Eddy, Scotty Arnold and Jason Robinson all gettin sick with some smooth boardsliding maneauvors.
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text: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Mike Davis wrote: > Mark Hahn wrote: >> huh? what value does big-A have to add here? the correct queueing system >> is >> the one that is cheap, low-maintenance, efficient, easy to use, etc. those >> are things that users and sysadmins know, not behind-desk-sitters... > > > Difference of definition here. I believe that Big-A administration is how to > best manage the resources of Technology to meet everyones needs. To hijack this theme (just a bit:-) it is important to note that I don't agree with Mark that HPC "has" to be done centrally to be done well. If this were true, cluster computing as we are discussing it would probably not exist as it would never have had the opportunity to grow in competition with the EXISTING central HPC paradigm of the time, e.g. the Cray or other big iron solutions. I actually think that we all benefit from having many kinds of clusters and cluster paradigms, ranging from small to enormous, built by everybody by kids through a team of professionals. Out of this rich mix comes innovation, invention, and new ideas, the fittest of which survive (sometimes in niches, although many are broadly adopted). This whole range of cluster computing structures can and often do actually exist at a single university and few other places in the known universe. Which means that there are significant problems that face big-A university Administrators when they try to sanely support cluster computing. Really any kind of computing, as there is always the same conflict between "easy" and "controllable" centralized computing support (which historically becomes institutionalized, stagnant, a haven for empire-builders, and ultimately very inefficient) and decentralized computing support, which is not easy at all, is intentionally only partially "controllable" in the sense that Adminstrators like, but which is dynamic, free, rapidly evolving, and which GENERALLY, if run by people who think like surfers and are constantly looking to catch the next good wave, remains just about as efficient economically as it is possible to be. Come to think of it, this is really an even broader polar conflict -- communism and centralized economy vs capitalism and free market economy, feudal government vs democracy, Windows vs Linux. To nearly any significantly complex problem, there is a solution that is easy, nominally controllable, expensive, and -- wrong. Wrong in the specific sense that it is like a gradient descent method in optimization theory -- it rapidly moves along the easy uphill pathways to the top of a local molehill and calls it the mountain, failing utterly to sample the richness of the landscape all around and find not necessarily the highest peak in all existence, but rather the best possible method for following a path that leads down through valleys and up the every-changing hills to find a pretty darn good peak. Nature, naturally, uses rich methods to generate its steady succession of ever higher evolutionary peaks including us. Wise institutions encourage a mix of rich, adaptive HPC and general computing environments that permit a large measure of choice AND a large measure of non-coercive guidance and support. Such wisdom does not come easy, though, not even in the ivory tower. Especially if you are a decision maker trying to intelligently spend limited resources. Large computer clusters require non-trivial infrastructure support of all sorts -- physical space with specialized engineering, large amounts of electrical power that meets certain specifications, equally large amounts of highly reliable fail-safed cooling, a certain amount of physical security and access control, and competent engineering, systems management, and programming support. None of these are free -- many of them aren't cheap. And THEN there is the cost of the cluster (nodes and network) itself, which really has to be viewed as an amortized annual expense just to keep a cluster of uniform relative (to Moore's Law progress) power going, the cost of consumable resources -- human and electrical and tapes and wires and so on. Smaller clusters are in a sense much easier, especially if they are built, administered, run, used by the same person -- take a bunch of shelving, slap together some computers and a simple network, install linux and utter a mystical incantation involving 1000 chickens vs an ass, ending up with "poof, you're a cluster", then just USE the cluster, paying the moderate electrical bill or getting it paid for by the university. You can't get much more cost efficient than that, which is why and how clusters got their start. It only gets inefficient when it gets too large, or if a single user cannot maintain a ~100% duty cycle. Then there is everything in between. Big-A admins have no good way to figure out how to allocate or partition resources required to support this wide range of needs. Centralized clusters are so expensive at the infrastructure level (however cheap they are at the management level or in terms of resource sharing to maintain a high duty cycle) that after paying for them there is often little money left, especially since there is ALWAYS an incentive to make the big bigger once you've made it at all, just as there are ALWAYS people suggesting that their basket is perfect for all the rest of the eggs and not just some of them. So, is there a point to having some sort of forum for the care, feeding, and education of Adminstrators who have to deal with University Computing (in general) and HPC (specifically)? Absolutely. Communication and debate and information exchange are key components of surfing and dynamical management -- with them it is actually possible to semi-centralize while still remaining dynamic and free. However, as always there is the problem of having people around who have a number of the largest possible views of the terrain, so that their views overlap and complement one another and give participants a real perspective, an eagle's eye view rather than an ant's-eye view, of the changing and complex landscape of HPC. That's what's so damn good about this list. There are real eagle-eye views available for the asking on nearly any aspect of cluster computing. I may not agree with Mark on everything, but his view and description of running a large compute cluster as if it were a small personal cluster (only bigger) resonates strongly with me. So do the many descriptions of smaller clusters, of big superclusters, of "grids" or specialized clusters. Listening carefully, it becomes very clear that cluster computing is about diversity, not homogeneity, and that the "standard recipe" cluster is, like so many recipes, just a starter recipe to get you going where the real reward comes from the herbs and spices and little bit of love that goes into that recipe as you change it around and make it your own. There is much wisdom, much experience. However, it is NOT terribly accessible to big-A adminstrators, who may view "solving the HPC resource allocation problem for the year" as ONE thing on their calendar for THIS week and not want to have to completely rethink it for a year or four thereafter. It isn't that they don't want to do a good job -- they just don't have the time or the knowledge to do so on their own, and the easy, controllable, expensive and wrong solution is always there, beckoning, often with at least one subordinate who stands to benefit by being placed in charge of a new big centralized resource cheering the whole thing on. The question is, how does one fix this situation? Most places that I know of that "succeed" fix it the same way Mark does, the way Duke does -- one or more good, knowledgeable people who have the eagle's-eye view sit down in the most collegiate of traditions with Deans and other decision makers and articulate, over and over again, how and why things should be done thus and so. Places that "fail" usually do so because they just plain don't have such a champion and the adminstrators take the easy wrong road and "call Microsoft". At least metaphorically, although recently it sounds like a real possibility. Perhaps they refuse to support cluster computing at all, perhaps they insist that cluster owners build, run, manage their own clusters, perhaps they REQUIRE that all cluster computing WILL be in the One True Cluster and I hope your code will run well on Intel Xeons with GbE interconnects and nothing else running Microsoft's new cluster product because that's what we've got and all you are permitted to buy into, babeee... So how to turn failures into successes, given that Hahns are a relatively rare species? How to ensure that more institutions succeed first cluster around, get their entire cluster infrastructure projects off of the ground effectively, avoid pitfalls and mistakes, even have the maximal number of informed choices so that they can really intelligently select infrastructure and support models that meet their needs and their budget? I don't know. Really. The beowulf list is a memetic breeding ground where little Hahns all over the world CAN get their start from the memes Mark so delicately scatters, so it has doubtless been instrumental in most of the recorded successes in cluster support to date. However, it has not really closed the loop to eliminate the need for that critical "cluster expert on the premises" that I think characterizes most real success, it doesn't provide big-A-dministrators what they need to do the right thing >>directly<<. Perhaps a dedicated list or wiki or other communications channel that reaches out to the right people WOULD do it (or is doing it, as at least some doubtless exist already). I'm just a bit skeptical of this, though. Big-A people are PEOPLE people, not list people or wiki people, by virtue of a lifetime of career selection choices. They are often intelligent and very good at listening, learning rapidly, and making an informed decision, but they usually need HUMANS to do the articulation and don't (can't, really) use google, the web, textbooks, or lists to figure it all out for themselves... rgb -- 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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So far the outbreaks don't seem to have affected Minnesota's loon
population, said Carrol Henderson, Nongame Wildlife Program supervisor at
the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Henderson said the population
appears stable at more than 10,000 adult loons, so it's still unclear how
many of the loons dying in Lake Michigan spend their summers in Minnesota.
Last October, Damon McCormick, a wildlife biologist with Common Coast
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seven-mile stretch of Lake Michigan beach near the Upper Peninsula town of
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Elephants march through downtown L.A. [Updated]
It may have caught some weary-eyed commuters off guard Tuesday morning to see the streets of downtown Los Angeles turned over to a predawn parade of pachyderms.
Seven Asian elephants linked tail-to-trunk in an orderly line lumbered along a 3-mile route from a train at 25th and Alameda streets to Staples Center. [For the record: This post previously stated incorrectly that the elephants marched from Union Station.]
The annual elephant walk was meant to drum up publicity for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. This year's show, "Barnum's FUNundrum!" will run at Staples Center from Wednesday through July 18.
-- Tony Barboza
Photo: Six elephants from the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus complete a predawn walk from Union Station to Staples Center. Credit: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times


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Photos: "Arrested Development" Cast Reunion
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The hottest ticket in town on October 2, 2011 was the cast reunion of the TV show "Arrested Development" as part of the New Yorker Festival. Before I get into what the program for this afternoon was all about – here's the information you are all dying to know:
Writer/Creator Mitchell Hurwitz confirmed that an "Arrested Development" movie is happening. The script is half way finished and they are aiming to begin shooting in the summer of 2012. Leading up to the film, there will be up to 10 installments (one per character) letting the audience know what everyone's been up to since the show went off the air. Distribution methods are still being worked out, but one might expect webisodes or non-traditional means of delivery.
Ron Howard called in and Liza was not in attendance, but the rest of the principals on "Arrested Development" were on stage talking about the ups and downs of the show, some of their heroes and influences and there was also a brief question and answer session with the audience.
As you can expect from the cast, they cracked jokes constantly and also spoke about their proudest moments on the show. The audience consisted of "Arrested Development" die-hards and you could hear a pin drop when the cast spoke about the show.
The cast would not reveal too much about the plot on the upcoming film, but they did advise that each character will probably screw things up when the script is locked.
At the end of the hour long presentation, the cast did the chicken dance!
Gail said,
I love David Cross! It looks like this was a fun event!


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Review - GF104 and the budget Fermi
More than just a shrink
The Need for GF104
UPDATE: The new GTX 460 is already for sale at Newegg starting at $199 - check it out after reading our review!!
It is a normal trend for us to see both NVIDIA and ATI take their current generation GPU designs and shrink them down for lower cost and lower performing markets. For example, we first saw the G84 GPU from NVIDIA (known as the 8600 series of GPUs) just about 5 months after the release of the G80-based GeForce 8800 cards. The dies are smaller, cheaper to make, and more power efficient, as a general rule of thumb. The same general trend is seen with the AMD/ATI cards as well but on slightly differing schedules.
This time around, the GF104 design, a remake of the GF100-based Fermi GTX 400-series cards, is much more critical for NVIDIA. While the GF100 is a powerful GPU it has some critical deficiencies when put head to head with the Radeon 5000 cards from ATI; it is larger, hotter and just generally hard to make. Because of that we know that NVIDIA's margins on GF100 are not where they want them to be and the highly competitive market they current sit in makes the financials all that more difficult.
GF104 and the new GeForce GTX 460 are an attempt to address these issues by offering a smaller version of the Fermi architecture from the outset rather than take larger GPUs and disabling portions to sell at a lower cost. GF104 should be smaller, cheaper, and be more easily produced at much higher yields. At least, that's the theory.
Let's see what the new $199 (768MB) and $229 (1GB) Fermi cards from NVIDIA are made of.
A surprise shift in the new GPU
The new GeForce GTX 460 and the GF104 not only have fewer CUDA processing cores than any other Fermi card out there (336 to be exact) but much more has changed under the hood than that. As it turns out, NVIDIA has taken this as a chance to reorganize the architecture at a pretty basic level.
Also worth noting is that just like the GF100, the GF104 is being released with one SM completely disabled - the remaining seven SMs add up to the total 336 CUDA cores.
Most interesting is the fact that the PolyMorph Engines are now balanced quite differently with one per 48 SMs rather than one per 32 SMs. Remember that NVIDIA has been highly touting its advantage in tessellation performance and games that use the technology though this change moves the tessellation performance per CUDA core value down some. While the GTX 480 saw 30 cores per PolyMorph Engine the new GTX 460 will see 41.5 cores per tessellation engine.
For reference, here is a GF100 GPU with the same quarter size comparison
With such a dramatic shuffling of the GF100 architecture it seems obvious that NVIDIA found a couple of things worth changing as they built the GF104 chip for use in the GTX 460. By reducing the number of PolyMorph Engines per CUDA core in the GPU NVIDIA has lowered the amount of relative tessellation performance in comparison to the GTX 480 and GTX 470. I doubt they have lowered it too much but NVIDIA obviously thought the tessellation engines were idling a bit too much so by increasing the number of cores for shader processing per PolyMorph the balance should be shifted in the other direction.
This type of adjustment happens pretty often as GPU companies move from process node to process node or between redesigns like this. NVIDIA is simply adjusting its estimates for GPU performance and utilization across games, GPGPU functionality, etc, in hopes that they will find better power efficiency in the long run.
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It's hard to find the GTX460 1GB 256BIT None Over clocked.
However..they do have 192BIT Version...How much of decrease do you think it would be from the 256BIT?
everywhere i looked 256BIT was sold out...NEWEGG even said it was discontinued...But why! it's not even that old of a card....
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Earlier in the day Johnny Manziel had been scheduled to board a helicopter for a Memorial Day outing with his family. But after a long and occasionally chaotic night of partying in New York, he hadn't shown up. He wasn't answering calls or responding to texts, and so his family reached out to anyone who might've heard from him.
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A city man who died after being struck by a CSX train late Thursday night made no attempt to move away from the tracks despite the engineer blowing the train's horn, police said.
A city man who died after being struck by a CSX train late Thursday night made no attempt to move away from the tracks despite the engineer blowing the train's horn, police said.
"He was lying on the tracks," said Sgt. Matthew McCaffrey. "They blew the horn and hit the brakes but he never moved, and there was no way the train could have stopped in time."
The victim has been identified as 30-year-old William George Latremouille of 68 Broadway.
Latremouille was hit on a strech of track that runs through the woods between Hart and Ingell streets, police said.
McCaffrey, who responded to the scene with other officers and emergency personnel, said both of the man's legs had been severed, one near the thigh and the other below the knee.
"It was a tough, tough scene," said McCaffrey.
Despite those serious injuries, Latremouille was still breathing when first responders showed up at about 11:30 p.m., police said.
Latremouille was declared dead at Rhode Island Hospital, a hospital spokesman later confirmed.
Police officers on scene assisted AMR personnel by holding flashlights, McCaffrey said.
"There was very, very, very little blood," he said, noting that a traumatic amputation often results in muscle contraction which stems blood flow.
Boston MedFlight was contacted at 11:24 p.m., but inclement weather meant the pilot could not to fly to Taunton.
"It was a pretty straightforward weather decline. There was a low ceiling and visibility; it was not suitable for flying," said Andrew Farkas, a spokesman for Boston MedFlight.
Police said the rescue attempt was especially difficult due to the distance of Latremouille from either the Hart or Ingell street entry points.
Because the train came to a stop on the Ingell Street trestle bridge over the Taunton River, AMR's ambulance driver had to drive into the woods using the right side of the rail bed from Hart Street.
But the vehicle could only drive in about half the distance before it ran out of space, McCaffrey said. He said police and EMTs carried rescue equipment the rest of the way to the scene.
McCaffrey said half a dozen officers carried the victim to the ambulance, which was carefully driven backwards back to Hart Street by firefighter Jay Lawrence.
"I'm so proud of those guys," McCaffrey said.
He added that Chief Edward Walsh used two police off-road quad bikes to move the vicitm's belongings and some remaining personnel.
McCaffrey said Latremouille had a duffle bag containing a tool belt with various tools and a cell phone and charger.
Taunton Detective Shawn Mulhern and state police detectives were on scene to collect and examine evidence.
Latremouille had been at Bristol Lodging Sober House, the Broadway rooming house that McCaffrey owns. But McCaffrey said until Thursday night he had never heard of him.


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Had a disastrous week last week, or should I say, a difficult one. Hoping for a much better week this week!
Just to warm you up for a rather good week on Erocolle, I've got a special Caption This Challenge
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Monday, 3 March 2014
Of crochet, juicing and newbie nerves
Camel coat: Joseph via charity shop//Lace crochet jumper: SheLikes* //Black cami top: Primark//Check skirt: River Island//Loafers: Topshop
It was once again the case that the whole world + their nosy dog came out for a walk whilst we tried to take these photos. So we did it super speedily and consequentially they're not great. Oh well. I'm loving this little crochet top from She Likes (though I won't be wearing it with just my bra underneath like the model, I'm not that cool/slightly risque), and I still don't regret buying this River Island plaid skirt in two colours.
I'm currently enjoying my second day off (four day weekend for me)- tomorrow I start my new job at possibly the largest cancer charity in the UK. Scary stuff. Back to being the lame new girl.
I'm also quite getting into juicing (and colour coordinating glasses and straws to go with, like a pro) and so far having to omg! wash the juicer after making the juice isn't proving too taxing. Apparently that's a major bugbear for people.
PS: I'm also thinking of getting a blog redesign- anyone got some good recommendations for cheap designers?
Friday, 21 February 2014
The Valentine's Outfit
Dress: George@Asda*//Coat: Monki//Bag: Zatchel//Boots: H&M//Necklace: George@Asda*
Now Asda isn't a place I usually shop- not really for any snooty reasons, there just isn't one near me. Every now and again I do a home delivery as they stock excellent cider, but I have to say their clothing range has passed me by. However when browsing their Valentine's themed pages I was quite pleasantly surprised, and their range of dresses was pretty, pretty good! This skater dress was perfect for Valentine's Day- although admittedly D and I cooked up a storm in the flat so I didn't take it anywhere special..
Labels: George at Asda, it's Friday, peach dress, valentine's day
Monday, 17 February 2014
Getting to know me
I was tagged by lovely Charlotte and though I've probably done one of these things ages ago, Lord knows what strange answers I gave then, so let's start afresh.
1. Do you have a middle name? Yes, Alice for my great-grandmother and Kate because my mum liked it and the K is for her grandfather.
2. What was your favourite subject in school? Hmm, I think it's easier to think of what was the least bad (bad = Maths, Science, Physics, Chemistry). I always liked reading but studying Literature or Philosophy took the fun out of it at times. This all sounds quite negative, so I'll say History.
3. What's your favourite drink? Alcoholic- Gin, cider (the proper sort, none of the Strongbow crap), good wine. Non-alcoholic- tea
4.What's your favourite song at the moment? I don't have a particular one. I listen to all sorts so potentially Inhaler by Foals, or La Boheme by Charles Aznavour, or anything by Major Lazer or Serge Gainsbourg.
5.What would you name your children? Boy- Ezra (no one else but me likes this, which makes me sad but there are some great Ezra's out there, and no it is NOT a girl's name which is D's objection), Noah, maybe Jacob (basically biblical) Girl- Matilda
6. Do you participate in any sports? In a word, no.
7. What's your favourite book? Far far too many to name just the one. Books that have stayed with me- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks, all the Song of Ice and Fire books (aka Game of Thrones), Any Human Heart by William Boyd, Brothers by Bernice Rubens... probably lots more.
8. What's your favourite colour? Not something I've thought about since primary school. Maybe blue or green.
9. What's your favourite animal? Cat (obvs). Also I've always loved elephants.
10. What's your favourite perfume? Vetyverio by Diptyque, or Miss Dior Cherie.
11. What's your favourite time of the year? Spring. I used to love Summer but it's not so fun when you don't have two months off school and you're commuting in a sticky sweaty train. Also seeing people's feet on the tube in flip flops makes me feel sick (put them away people).
12. Have you been out of the country? Yes I'll have a bash at naming the places: France (lots of places), Belgium (Brussels, Bruges, battlefields), Germany (Munich, Berlin), Switzerland (Zurich), Spain (Seville, Grenada, Cadiz, Cordoba, Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid, Benicassim), Portugal (Lagos), Italy (Rome, Venice, Naples, Pompeii), Poland (Warsaw, Krakow, Lublin), Sweden (Stockholm, Malmo), Denmark (Copenhagen), Hungary (Budapest), Czech Republic (Prague), Croatia (Zagreb, Split), Morocco (Marrakesh, Essaouira), Tunisia (Tunis, Sousse, Hammammet), Nepal (Kathmandu, Pokhara), St Kitts & Nevis, Ecuador (Quito, Ibarra, Otavalo), USA (New York). Phew, makes me sound like a ridiculous jet setter, which I am not, but I have been around for 27.5 years and this is a collection of holidays with my mum/friends/boyfriend, gap yah, year abroad etc.
13. Do you speak any other languages? French and Spanish.
14. Do you have any siblings? No, just little old me.
15. What's your favourite shop? Meh. I usually shop at a combination of Topshop, Urban Outfitters (sale time only), Monki, and various North London charity shops.
16. What's your favourite food? Avocado (with anything, on anything).
17. What's your favourite movie? There are probably lots- off the top of my head Drive, Amelie, The Dreamers, High Society, The Breakfast Club, Pan's Labyrinth, Labyrinth (David Bowie as Jareth the goblin king FTW)
18. What are some of your favourite TV shows? Game of Thrones, The Returned, Mad Men, Sherlock, The Killing, Flight of the Conchords and Mighty Boosh for old times sake. (Also I quite like Call The Midwife).
19. What phone do you have? iPhone 5c
20. How tall are you? Fairly short- around 5'3 maybe.
21. Any pets? Mr B, the gentleman cat.
22. Any kids? Not yet.
23. If you weren't you, would you be your friend? I'd like to think so- I'm funny and listen to my friends' tales of woe, I can cook a nice dinner... hmm I'd probably be too shy to approach myself, which is a weird thing to type.
24. What's the first thing you notice about someone? Eyebrows.
25. What is your eye colour? Boring brown.
26. Scary movies or happy endings? I really don't like scary movies, unless they're of the old classic variety (Psycho or Evil Dead).
27. Favourite smells? Mint, fresh flowers, the ground when it rains.
28. Do you have any special talents? I'm not sure really- languages, cracking my fingers and toes, flower arranging.
29. Where were you born? In Norf London.
30. What are your hobbies? People don't really have "hobbies" anymore do they? I enjoy eating nice food, reading, cuddling my cat (preferably all three at once).
I would tag anyone that wants to do this, if they have the time and inclination. Go on, you know you want to.
PS: eagle-eyed viewers may realise these photos are from many moons ago (March 2012 to be exact) but the post was deleted, so here they are again. I quite like this outfit and wanted to repost.
Sunday, 2 February 2014
There and back again
Camel coat: Joseph via charity shop//fluffy jumper: Topshop//Skirt: Zara//Flats: Topshop
It's been an age since I've posted.. I don't believe in apologies about this- it's my blog and I'll post when I want to, and I really don't think anyone suffers when I don't post. Now that's out the way, here is my new favourite skirt, which I snapped up in the Zara sale. I do love the last dregs of their sale- items go from £59.99 to £49.99 and then somehow right down to £12.99. Sadly Zara don't think they need lots of checkout counters as it probably damages the Spanish aesthetic of the shop so the queue was absolutely horrendous. Grr.
Since I last posted Christmas and New Year have come and gone, nothing majorly exciting has happened; I've baked, painted, read, walked.. and probably plenty more verbs too. I'm a bit more with it on Instagram so follow me on there if you like pictures of flowers, food, cats and pretty houses- ColdKnees.
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Monday, 16 December 2013
The Milk Maid
Smock: The White Pepper//Bag, Hat, (old) Boots: Topshop
So I finally caved and bought myself a White Pepper smock dress- D said I looked like I was going to go and milk some cows.. anyway it's nice and roomy. Eagle eyed readers may notice my hair is lighter than in the previous post, but shorter than two posts back. That's what happens when you don't post photos chronologically.
I still don't feel in the least Christmassy, despite helping at my charity's carol service in St Martin in the Fields last week, and doing so tonight at The Tower, and singing carols on the roof in half an hour (weird tradition if you ask me). Bah humbug.
Labels: bah humbug, christmas, gingham dress, smock dress, the white pepper
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