Posts by ToddRundgrensUtopia

Re: != Brexit dodging

Demersal fish aren't like pelagic species, they don't swim hundreds of miles per day, they stay at the bottom looking for worms

Re: Let's recall the other definition of MIPS

I'd like to think Amazon are serious about supporting ARM. But designing chips is not their core business,

Correct that's why they bought a company that does design CPUs.

Re: Inquiring minds

Big John

Why should they change it? There is no reason why all privacy regimes should be the same.

Re: 6 cores vs 32 ??

@ Duncan McDonald.

It said 48 cores for the Cascade Lake thingy!

Re: IBM?

IBM and the University of Bradford, you couldn't make it up!

Surely its hello CentOS?

Weren't the purple boxes SGI?

Re: The SQL Empire Strikes Back

or Mathew O'Keefe?

Advanced Risc Machines

Of course it will work. Crapita aren't involved

Re: SELL SELL SELL

@ Tom 64

I did that 15 years ago when AMD's Opteron was the best server chip by miles, so I bought AMD and sold Intel. AMD stock went down and Intel's went up. 2 -3 years later when the first P3 Xeons came out and delivered better Price/performance that Opteron the stocks reversed and I lost again.

Either Wall Street knows nothing or they know everything, they just tell you or I, ever.

Re: I'm a little skeptical about this kind of industrial policy...

@ David Lester.

"Historically, since custom Mainframes died, that's always meant using Intel processors."

No quite right. Contemporary with mainframes we had bespoke supers from Cray, CDC, NEC and IBM SP2/3. Post those we had oddities like Thinking Machines, ELIXI and then the first ccNUMA super from Convex, which you can still today as an HP something or other. Then just before we got to Intel based clusters, we had DEC Alpha as the main HPC cluster processor of choice. Once Intel developed the PentiumPRO there was only going to be one $/flop winner and that was x86.

On the stock component side, you can't use Ethernet, due to latency and so the cost is in the interconnect, such as Infiniband, (which is by far the biggest). Earlier high speed low latency interconnects included, SCI and Myrinet.

Re: White mice or brown mice?

Brown mice is healthier to eat

Re: Will they be Fined?

@DavCrav

I'd be very surprised if VW sell fewer diesels in Germany than they do in the USA. VW is part owned by the Government of Lower Saxony, (or something similar), so you are fining yourself.

Re: Minister for Defence Procurement, Guto Bebb

Both Guto and Bebb are welsh!

Re: Cashless society

Archtech are you John McDonnel in disguise?

One law does not trump another, so HMRC is a lawful basis for keeping/processing personal data

Re: The odd bridge

Yes but its not 14000 between London, Birmingham and Manchester is it?

Re: mystery

Ole Juul,

Yes no one in cabinet with any technical background at all, (not IT), no engineers, physicists, just economists, lawyers and history grads, (oh and May was a pebble counter). The last labour gov' was the same; what hope do we have?

Re: Microsoft was regularly using Unix by 1982...

Hugo, they owned Xenix, which was a early Lunix port. From memory they never implemented record locking, so it didn't attract that many customers. Nortel in Hemel Hempstead (Northern Telecom in those days) built a 16bit (can't remember the name of Intel's 16bit bus architecture that competed with VersaBus and VME), Xenix system in the early 80s. 16MHz 8086 CPU I seam to recall.

Re: Why should ARM Holdings help?

@Doug,

I think your £5 per server chip is out by a couple of orders of magnitude. For something that competes on power/watt with Intel, they cab charge £500 and be very very competitive with Xeon. Two problems remain however, a) how much does the server motherboard cost and b) where are the applications outside of webservers?

Re: And how...

It's possible from the 25th May, yes. One of the basic tenets of the GDPR

Re: Fucking Brexit

That must be it Malcolm. British music is so piss poor compared to our European and Australian stuff we need special dispensation to enter it. Go name me some european and aussie music artists between 1964 and now and don't you dare mention Men At Work and sodding Vegemite

Re: Why all the sham theatre?

GDPR This year, in fact this month

Re: "not that I'm a member of NatWest or RBS now"

MJB7 that's interesting

Re: SFO with egg on their faces?

Nope batfink it's the same reason american films always win at the Oscars

Re: @Rob. D.Whats the issue?

Sunderland about Nissan effectively winding down operations. Utter nonsense. The lay offs are because of a cliff edge, (proper usage), fall in the purchase of diesel engined cars, due to confused government policy and lying German car makers.