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AnchorDesk Lounge: Processors what's new and what's ahead
IDC: Solid state drive, hard disk speed gap small
by Dango517 - 7/19/08 2:15 PM In reply to: On these applications by welrdelrhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-9993065-64.html
So your telling me a modified record player can beat a chip that travels at near the speed of electricity. Did you ever stop to think that all that RAM your buying is to side step the slowness of your mechanical Hard drive.
Possible New Chip-Cooling Technology on the Horizon
by Dango517 - 7/21/08 2:10 PM In reply to: On these applications by welrdelrhttp://www.purdue.edu/UNS/x/2008b/080701MudawarMicrojets.html
CPUs 2008 and beyond
by Dango517 - 4/21/08 6:07 PM In reply to: Processors what's new and what's ahead by Dango517http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3086_7-6715793-1.html?tag=bubbl_2
Unfortunately, this is the same.
by welrdelr - 4/22/08 12:23 PM In reply to: CPUs 2008 and beyond by Dango517Only one architecture is being covered here. Both companies are using the AMD64/x86_64/EMT64 architecture. C NET does not cover CPU or OS development that well, only what is popular.
Back on topic
by Dango517 - 4/23/08 4:53 PM In reply to: Processors what's new and what's ahead by Dango517SSDs:
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9925737-1.html?tag=nl.e501
Flash has limitations
by welrdelr - 4/25/08 5:39 PM In reply to: Back on topic by Dango517Only block 0 can be rewritten numerous times, the rest are not guaranteed. If you are one who is doing a lot of programming or heavy use of graphics, it would be better to use a disc until flash technology improves.
See these
by Dango517 - 4/25/08 6:52 PM In reply to: Back on topic by Dango517http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
Memory wear
Endurance
Flash memory as a replacement for hard drives
Also see wear leveling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling
Of special interest:
"Rather than entirely replacing the hard drive, hybrid techniques such as hybrid drive and Ready Boost attempt to combine the advantages of both technologies, using flash as a high-speed cache for files on the disk that are often referenced, but rarely modified, such as application and operation system executable files" .......Source Wikipedia
I'm working with this now. 4 GB, Ready Boost flash configured as a Fat32 drive (2 GB did not work, not large enough). Plugged permanently into the back of My PC (do not remove this drive once configured). The entire contents of this drive have been set-a-side as "virtual memory". Problems: Might wear out. Unable to disable other hard drive virtual memories (I have two hard drives). Cost (I pick this 4Gb Ready Boost, flash drive for $30.00(US) on sale, normally $60.00). Surprises: CPU temperature dropped 6C. Comment: Virtual memory is referenced often not just at start up.
In that case...
by welrdelr - 4/26/08 10:37 AM In reply to: See these by Dango517You can install a basic Linux distro on 2G- 256M as swap, 256 as /home, the rest as a minimalist system. Small distributions with more functionality can use 3.5G with 512 as swap, but you can just use 256M. Swap is rarely used. These flags can be set- wear leveling and *nix file systems- by setting them at the install point. See Gentoo docs for a better description. UFS and UFS2 have the swap contained within the slice. Use the minimum amount, have enough space to add X later, and start each installation. Net and Open have similar install methods.
Add grub to the boot menu.
In the effort for equal time
by Dango517 - 4/29/08 1:35 PM In reply to: Processors what's new and what's ahead by Dango517http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9931070-64.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Nanotech:TheCircuitsBlog
Fix for Phenom processors
by Dango517 - 5/1/08 10:17 PM In reply to: Processors what's new and what's ahead by Dango517Seems the boards might be the problem. I'd call it a cooling issue myself. Hum, wonder what would happen if they did them all this way?
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9933567-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Cell processors
by Dango517 - 5/10/08 3:30 AM In reply to: Processors what's new and what's ahead by Dango517http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9940771-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Finally covering RISC architectures?
by welrdelr - 5/14/08 6:49 PM In reply to: Cell processors by Dango517I'm amazed.
Amazed by Cell processors or that they've been listed?
by Dango517 - 5/15/08 1:11 AM In reply to: Finally covering RISC architectures? by welrdelrThere's never been anything keeping you from listing them yourself. 
Haven't seen you around in awhile.
More on Cell Processors
by Dango517 - 5/15/08 1:14 AM In reply to: Cell processors by Dango517http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
These are being used in some of the new "state of the art" super computers by the way. sorry I've forgot who is using them.
Here you go, Cell processors and Supercomputers
by Dango517 - 5/15/08 1:39 AM In reply to: More on Cell Processors by Dango517http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enUS258US258&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=cell+processors%2Bsupercomputers&spell=1
Actually this isn't two surprising, if the can run the number through them they want and the way they want. Might be good for geometry applications but these aren't generally the programs they use supercomputers for. Hmmmmm, maybe NASA? What would they need advanced geometry for? The cost here is "through the roof" so it would have to be very important. Climate maybe, certainly need the numbers there, fluid dynamics needs some serious number crunching. I haven't read through these I have some other things going on right now. Enjoy!
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