Time to ask for another computer!
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El Corazon wrote:
and given a month that it takes to order anything around here, my timing isn't as far off as you might think....
hmmm So your purchase request is going to say "..The new nVidia card coming out next month that I can't put the name of here because everyone who knows is gagged by an NDA. Quantity: However many can be SLIed together. Price: TBD". Getting that approved sounds like it's going to be an 'interesting' experience. :rolleyes:
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dan neely wrote:
hmmm So your purchase request is going to say "..The new nVidia card coming out next month that I can't put the name of here because everyone who knows is gagged by an NDA. Quantity: However many can be SLIed together. Price: TBD". Getting that approved sounds like it's going to be an 'interesting' experience.
Now see, I just got my first call in.... customers already drooling and going to set aside FY08 (starting October) money for us. Given time it takes to transfer that kind of stuff, the money will be here when the products arrive on the shelf, we'll order them and still wait 30 days.... Unfortunately, I probably won't be keeping any myself.... :sigh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Or rather, I just have to limit my scaling to the appropriate number of cores.... darn.... I was going to say that.
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My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistpeterchen wrote:
I was going to say that.
:laugh: ya caught that did you? :-D I had to find out where the top end was before I capped it. But it made a good joke about getting a new machine since I did order an oct-core (dual quad) for a customer. but I won't even see it, he'll get it and put it together because of location. Just ordered a quad-core for one of my team to replace a failed dual processor and save money. Hoping next year could mean some new hardware. One project in particular could use an nVidia Tesla. Next couple of months will tell. In the mean time, I am ready for FY08 funding with a new design finished. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
but I don't have The Grand Negus' compiler.
That's okay, his doesn't do threading. and all that atomic stuff just overcomplicates everything. ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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And nested conditionals.
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Trollslayer wrote:
And nested conditionals.
Those are just silly after all. Everyone knows RPG II was ahead of its time, and only needed an english front end to be useful! :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I just beat this one up. Yup, got my auto-scaling (based on data, not processors) threading model running well, and knocked out all four cores with a large dataset. That justifies a new computer right? Or rather, I just have to limit my scaling to the appropriate number of cores.... darn....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Never mind a new computer - just turn the computers on the LAN into your own private compute cluster, MWAHAHAHA!!!! I did that about 13 or 14 years ago on our VAXcluster - spawned jobs on remote nodes to parallel compute Mandelbrot sets, displaying the results on the local node. Wish I could remember what VMS system services I did it with.
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Never mind a new computer - just turn the computers on the LAN into your own private compute cluster, MWAHAHAHA!!!! I did that about 13 or 14 years ago on our VAXcluster - spawned jobs on remote nodes to parallel compute Mandelbrot sets, displaying the results on the local node. Wish I could remember what VMS system services I did it with.
Stuart Dootson wrote:
just turn the computers on the LAN into your own private compute cluster, MWAHAHAHA!!!!
considering I have 2 dual/dual machines at my desk, and the software group has on the order of about 25+ cores with the 5 of us, I haven't counted recently, but we have considered it on more than one occasion and pitched it as a possibility before. So far few have been interested because I tend to solve the problems on one computer as the computers grow. Time will tell if we jump back into something that needs grid computation. But if it does, I am prepared. :) (but I would still rather have a Tesla to add to my systems)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I just beat this one up. Yup, got my auto-scaling (based on data, not processors) threading model running well, and knocked out all four cores with a large dataset. That justifies a new computer right? Or rather, I just have to limit my scaling to the appropriate number of cores.... darn....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Yeppers time to get a new computer, however management got a good deal on on of those AMD tri core machines, you know the AMD Quad Core chip with one dead core. You can rewrite the code right to work in 1,2, 3 or 4 cores.., oh it also has to be Window ME compatatble. RC
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I just beat this one up. Yup, got my auto-scaling (based on data, not processors) threading model running well, and knocked out all four cores with a large dataset. That justifies a new computer right? Or rather, I just have to limit my scaling to the appropriate number of cores.... darn....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Heck, I've got my IT people trained so well that they just give me additional new computers before I even think to ask now. Of course my cores are spread out and not as handy as your current 4 core machine.
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Stuart Dootson wrote:
just turn the computers on the LAN into your own private compute cluster, MWAHAHAHA!!!!
considering I have 2 dual/dual machines at my desk, and the software group has on the order of about 25+ cores with the 5 of us, I haven't counted recently, but we have considered it on more than one occasion and pitched it as a possibility before. So far few have been interested because I tend to solve the problems on one computer as the computers grow. Time will tell if we jump back into something that needs grid computation. But if it does, I am prepared. :) (but I would still rather have a Tesla to add to my systems)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
El Corazon wrote:
(but I would still rather have a Tesla to add to my systems)
What the heck is a Tesla? Google didn't give me any good responses.
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El Corazon wrote:
(but I would still rather have a Tesla to add to my systems)
What the heck is a Tesla? Google didn't give me any good responses.
firegryphon wrote:
What the heck is a Tesla?
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_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Andy Brummer wrote:
you use all those pesky floats and doubles.
and half-floats and long double floats, if it floats, I use it. I think that qualifies me as evil incarnate to PEC.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Never mind a new computer - just turn the computers on the LAN into your own private compute cluster, MWAHAHAHA!!!! I did that about 13 or 14 years ago on our VAXcluster - spawned jobs on remote nodes to parallel compute Mandelbrot sets, displaying the results on the local node. Wish I could remember what VMS system services I did it with.
Yar, VMS! I recently bought a used DS10L to run OpenVMS. It's just one unit from one of these beauties: http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/download/ds10l_67_ts.pdf[^] :cool:
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Yar, VMS! I recently bought a used DS10L to run OpenVMS. It's just one unit from one of these beauties: http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/download/ds10l_67_ts.pdf[^] :cool:
The quickest VMS machine I ever used was one of these[^] - not entirely quick :-) We had (still have - I don't use them, though) 10-20 VAXStations, of varying performance, and supported up to 8 users on each workstation using X11 (i.e. graphical) terminals. And we still use them for various applications (e.g. a 680x0 Ada cross-compiler, used on legacy projects) that haven't been /can't be migrated to Windows.
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The quickest VMS machine I ever used was one of these[^] - not entirely quick :-) We had (still have - I don't use them, though) 10-20 VAXStations, of varying performance, and supported up to 8 users on each workstation using X11 (i.e. graphical) terminals. And we still use them for various applications (e.g. a 680x0 Ada cross-compiler, used on legacy projects) that haven't been /can't be migrated to Windows.
Stuart Dootson wrote:
not entirely quick
Well, it should do at least 32 ft/sec/sec, right? :-D
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Yar, VMS! I recently bought a used DS10L to run OpenVMS. It's just one unit from one of these beauties: http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/download/ds10l_67_ts.pdf[^] :cool:
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