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Time to ask for another computer!

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  • L Lost User

    And nested conditionals.

    Visit http://www.readytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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    El Corazon
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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)

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      Stuart Dootson
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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.

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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.

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        El Corazon
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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)

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        • E El Corazon

          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)

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          RC Roeder
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          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)

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            firegryphon
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            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)

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              firegryphon
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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.

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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.

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                El Corazon
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                firegryphon wrote:

                What the heck is a Tesla?

                mmmmmmmmmmmmmm....[^] aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh![^]

                _________________________ 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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                • E El Corazon

                  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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                  Lost User
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                  "Run away, run away" (from you 'cuz your evilz!):((

                  Shohom67

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                  • S Stuart Dootson

                    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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                    PIEBALDconsult
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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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                    • P PIEBALDconsult

                      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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                      Stuart Dootson
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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.

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                      • S Stuart Dootson

                        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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                        PIEBALDconsult
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                        Stuart Dootson wrote:

                        not entirely quick

                        Well, it should do at least 32 ft/sec/sec, right? :-D

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                        • P PIEBALDconsult

                          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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                          MartyK2007
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                          pwah children !! bring back George II and CMS!!! God now I feel so old....... Martin

                          life is a bowl of cherries go on take a byte

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