Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > A colleague of mine narrowly escaped having to explain gravity to Kip > Thorne by pleading a recent diagnosis of possible brain tumor. That's > in the nature of "tricking the snake", I suspect. I like it, I like it. Well played, sir. I've thought t

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
A colleague of mine narrowly escaped having to explain gravity to Kip Thorne by pleading a recent diagnosis of possible brain tumor. That's in the nature of "tricking the snake", I suspect. Jim Lux -Original Message- From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.or

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Jonathan Dursi wrote: > On 25 Oct 9:22AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >>> Well, there was the propeller-top beanie and hazing when I first arrived >>> at graduate school, the secret physics handshake, the decoder ring, and >>> the wierd robes they made us wear in quantum mechanics "t

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > On 10/25/12 09:22, Andrew Holway wrote: >>> Well, there was the propeller-top beanie and hazing when I first arrived >>> at graduate school, the secret physics handshake, the decoder ring, and >>> the wierd robes they made us wear in quantum mechan

Re: [Beowulf] [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva

2012-10-25 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Tim, a) The factories to produce 28 nm technology have a cost of what is it 10 billion dollar a factory or so? Make it afew bilion dollar less. So what they produce in that factory must pay back for those billions it costs to build that factory and the operational costs of the factory. The

Re: [Beowulf] [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva

2012-10-25 Thread Tim Mattox
Vincent, They already have the 28nm design taped out from Global Foundries. The short intro video on the http://www.adapteva.com/ front page has that. Where are you getting that they would need to do a whole new chip design? This is simply a matter of the cost to scale up production beyond the sam

Re: [Beowulf] [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva

2012-10-25 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Tim, Producing this at 28nm requires a total new design. Every single transistor. And if they wrote it in verilog or something, which is typical language used for FPGA, they have yet another problem... ...of learning a new language. In the video the guy promises basically a SOC with a dual co

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Heh Josh, Maybe this job is something for you. Dear Vincent Please see attached document showing exactly what client is seeking for the above position. This is a fantastic NATO SECRET contract at SHAPE HQ in Mons, Belgium, with occassional short spells in Afg. This is start in Novemb

Re: [Beowulf] [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva

2012-10-25 Thread Tim Mattox
Vincent, They already have working silicon for both the 16 and 64 designs. It's not a fairy tale. What they don't have is the full set of photomasks for mass production. That is what the primary expense is that they are trying to fund thru kickstarter. It is a little out of date, but this wikipedi

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
From: Josh Catana mailto:jcat...@gmail.com>> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:20 PM To: Vincent Diepeveen mailto:d...@xs4all.nl>> Cc: "beowulf@beowulf.org" mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org>> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Degree As some working in HPC as an indefinite length c

Re: [Beowulf] [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva

2012-10-25 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Provided that the fairy tale table is true at: http://www.adapteva.com/products/epiphany-ip/epiphany-architecture-ip/ under "example configurations'. Then secondly the cpu is supposed to be 28 nm. How's he gonna produce that with just 750k dollar? Having 75 million dollar maybe he can just sta

[Beowulf] [tt] [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva

2012-10-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
If you can spare the cash, please support this project. I'll be pledging 100 USD myself. - Forwarded message from Jeff Bone - From: Jeff Bone Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:09:55 -0500 To: f...@xent.com Subject: [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapte

Re: [Beowulf] Report critique

2012-10-25 Thread Andrew Holway
2012/10/25 Sabuj Pattanayek : > link? I should have explained, I'm not allowed to publish it. I was planning on emailing the link to those interested. > > Thanks, > Sabuj > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Andrew Holway > wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Would anyone like to volunteer to critique an e

Re: [Beowulf] Report critique

2012-10-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
link? Thanks, Sabuj On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: > Hello. > > Would anyone like to volunteer to critique an engineers report on > storage benchmarks that I've just completed? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > ___ > Beowulf mailing list,

[Beowulf] [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva

2012-10-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Jeff Bone - From: Jeff Bone Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:09:55 -0500 To: f...@xent.com Subject: [FoRK] (Pimpin' for) Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10A403) Reply-To: Friends of Rohit Khare Ok folks. This looks

[Beowulf] Report critique

2012-10-25 Thread Andrew Holway
Hello. Would anyone like to volunteer to critique an engineers report on storage benchmarks that I've just completed? Thanks, Andrew ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode o

[Beowulf] Facebook Adapts Open Compute for Colo Space

2012-10-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/10/25/facebook-adapts-open-compute-for-colo-space/ Facebook Adapts Open Compute for Colo Space By: Rich Miller October 25th, 2012 A rack of Facebook servers in a third-party data center in Virginia, adapted to work with Open Compute designs norm

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Peter Clapham
On 25/10/2012 14:26, Jonathan Dursi wrote: > On 25 Oct 9:22AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >>> Well, there was the propeller-top beanie and hazing when I first arrived >>> at graduate school, the secret physics handshake, the decoder ring, and >>> the wierd robes they made us wear in quantum mechanics "to

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Landman
On 10/25/2012 09:26 AM, Jonathan Dursi wrote: > On 25 Oct 9:22AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >>> Well, there was the propeller-top beanie and hazing when I first arrived >>> at graduate school, the secret physics handshake, the decoder ring, and >>> the wierd robes they made us wear in quantum mechanics

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Jonathan Dursi
On 25 Oct 9:22AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Well, there was the propeller-top beanie and hazing when I first arrived >> at graduate school, the secret physics handshake, the decoder ring, and >> the wierd robes they made us wear in quantum mechanics "to keep us safe >> from virtual photons", but by i

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Ellis H. Wilson III
On 10/25/12 09:22, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Well, there was the propeller-top beanie and hazing when I first arrived >> at graduate school, the secret physics handshake, the decoder ring, and >> the wierd robes they made us wear in quantum mechanics "to keep us safe >> from virtual photons", but by

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Andrew Holway
> Well, there was the propeller-top beanie and hazing when I first arrived > at graduate school, the secret physics handshake, the decoder ring, and > the wierd robes they made us wear in quantum mechanics "to keep us safe > from virtual photons", but by in large, no. I mean, except for The > Ritu

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Joe Landman wrote: > On 10/24/2012 04:25 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > >> Just my (admittedly biased) 2c of course, but I am very interested to be >> corrected here if there are some secret society components to a "hard >> science" PhD I'm unaware of. > > The first rule of

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Josh Catana
As some working in HPC as an indefinite length contractor in the U.S. this topic intrigues me. Even though the company I contract for has me training their new employees and basically in control of everything in their environment for the last 3 years, they refuse to hire me on directly because I do

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Florent Calvayrac
Here in France you can get 1 year of university equivalence for 5 years of professional activity if you explain what you have done in a written application ; then typically you only need to study for 1 year in order to get the degree you need (bsc, msc, engineering..) . Usually students doing t

Re: [Beowulf] Degree

2012-10-25 Thread Joshua mora acosta
The most exceptional people I have met on any field did not had a formal educational process. Formal education though sets in most cases a foundation to start building the professional skills. These professionals are good because of learning as they needed with high motivation or better said with p