Re: [Beowulf] Dunking for Density: New Projects Pursue 3M’s Take on Immersion Cooling

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Hahn
>> http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/11/13/3m-immersion-cooling/ tanks seems like more of a pain that figuring out a way to use node-level heatpipes and rack-level water loops. plumes of bubbles would seem fairly problematic, no? > However, (here begins a very possibly insane set

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Hahn
> My preference is COTS as well, but, in all fairness, I'm rather unsure > if COTS is more a commonplace term than SOHO or if I'm just acclimated > to it more due to having been on the Beowulf list for so long. > > Let's have google decide: > https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=COTS%2CSOH

Re: [Beowulf] Dunking for Density: New Projects Pursue 3M’s Take on Immersion Cooling

2013-11-15 Thread Ellis H. Wilson III
On 11/15/13 03:57, Eugen Leitl wrote: > (go visit the site for pretty pikchers) > > http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/11/13/3m-immersion-cooling/ Cool stuff, as immersion cooling always is. However, this got me thinking in the complete opposite direction... Obviously there are ca

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread Peter St. John
I"m well chastised, thanks all, but FWIW, I'll go with Self Organizing HOlotronics, which is way cooler. And now it's mentioned, Small Office Home Office rings a bell (I'm not a network guy obviously). The acronym should be added to the wiki disambiguation (/grumble) Peter On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread Bob Drzyzgula
FYI, FWIW: SOHO="Small Office/Home Office". Bob On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Peter St. John wrote: > Well that's amusing. The link has a clever animation of someone googling > on my behalf, and comes up with what I assume is the correct definition: > (from https://www.google.com/search?btn

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread Ellis H. Wilson III
On 11/15/2013 02:52 PM, Peter St. John wrote: > Well that's amusing. The link has a clever animation of someone googling > on my behalf, and comes up with what I assume is the correct definition: > (from https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=define%3A+soho ) > "relating to a market for relat

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread atchley tds.net
Small Office Home Office It's a 90s term used for small hub, etc. at the time. On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Peter St. John wrote: > Well that's amusing. The link has a clever animation of someone googling > on my behalf, and comes up with what I assume is the correct definition: > (from htt

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread Peter St. John
Well in all fairness, I checked, and yes the actual google result (not for SOHO but) for "Define: soho" is that definition. And well down the results, but on the "first page", is "Small Office Home Office", the probable source of the definition. So I'm guessing now that google knows that the majori

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread Peter St. John
Well that's amusing. The link has a clever animation of someone googling on my behalf, and comes up with what I assume is the correct definition: (from https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=define%3A+soho ) "relating to a market for relatively inexpensive consumer electronics used by individ

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread Ellis H. Wilson III
On 11/15/2013 12:28 PM, Peter St. John wrote: > I missed the 4-letter acronym; my grasp stops at TLA's :/ > By SOHO you don't mean "self organizing holons" although that idea is > germane to distributed processing. So what's a SOHO? Just because I find this service so snarky/funny: http://lmgtfy.

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread James Cuff
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Oh, and I just saw some interesting optical Thunderbolt news > http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/peripherals/world-s-first-all-fibre-optic-thunderbolt-cables-to-strike-in-coming-weeks--1180540 Agree - and some interesting tra

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread Peter St. John
I missed the 4-letter acronym; my grasp stops at TLA's :/ By SOHO you don't mean "self organizing holons" although that idea is germane to distributed processing. So what's a SOHO? Peter P.S. and I'm pretty sure pricing isn't cheaper South of Houston :) On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Eugen Leit

Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:38:46AM +, INKozin wrote: > Still, 10 years on and the market is not exactly booming. At 100 USD/port and twice that for NIC at the low end this is away from SOHO pricing, and hence economies of scale. Oh, and I just saw some interesting optical Thunderbolt news h

[Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market

2013-11-15 Thread INKozin
A good article in HPC wire imho http://www.hpcwire.com/2013/11/12/crash-boom-inside-10gbe-adapter-market/ The author intentionally steered away from 10GbE switch market and the troubled PHY evolution and by narrowing the discussion paints an interesting picture. It amusing to see his repeated refe

[Beowulf] Dunking for Density: New Projects Pursue 3M’s Take on Immersion Cooling

2013-11-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
(go visit the site for pretty pikchers) http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/11/13/3m-immersion-cooling/ Home Cooling » Low Latency Dunking for Density: New Projects Pursue 3M’s Take on Immersion Cooling Dunking for Density: New Projects Pursue 3M’s Take on Immersion Cooling Novemb