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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> I bet I'm an older fart than you are! nya-nya-nya-naaaaaa! <sung to the |
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> tune of a teasing 6 year old) |
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With all due respect, I was an " old-fart" in my youth. I use |
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to love sitting around campfires with old hunter (gathers?) |
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and shoot the shi____ about life. |
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Beside my tantrums are so ledgendary, they often lead to |
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a circle of folks joining in and chanting childish limricks |
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to a rythymic dance. The Tequila goddess usually follows |
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up my antics with show stopper (hoot_nanny) you cannot |
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believe......... |
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> Nah, the specs need replacing. There are some funky tri-focal jobs that |
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> distort my depth vision, and I have to turn my head straight to look at |
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> anything (no more looking out of the corner of my eyes). Makes |
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> motorcycle riding a real pain |
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preening code and riding a harley are differnt things? Boy, I did |
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not get that memo. |
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> I'm waiting for our approved hardware suppliers to come out with a range |
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> of 1U pizza box ARM servers that management will buy into. But first |
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> they need to lose the idea that virtualization is the go-fast solution |
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> for anything. |
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Virtualization is easy to shoot down for management types. Just start |
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them on a task force adressing all of the security issues opened up |
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related to virtualization.... [1] |
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> Almost every single machine I run except the database servers will fly |
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> along on ARM. I'm especially eager to see what ARM does with high |
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> traffic DNS caches. Intuition tells me they will handle 20,000 |
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> queries/sec without breaking a sweat and the Gig ethernet will max out |
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> long before the cpu does; all at 1/4 of the price. |
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Well, 10 G Ethernet is coming to systems near you, sooner than later. |
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100 GE is availabe for routers now, if you have loads of CASH.... |
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Once again, Juniper is killing the competition, imho. |
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Beside, virtualization is about to take on new meaning. [2] Imagine |
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a state machine for handling low-level register-memory tasks, whilst a |
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concurrent, real-time linux kernel handles traditional routing engine tasks, |
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both running on the same "bare metal" in a new twist of |
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virtualization....... Very secure to boot, unless the NSA influences |
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the foundry's methologies for laying out the "bare metal"...... |
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On the memory side of things, there are many viable options that the |
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different ARM [3] vendors can choose from for such challenges. |
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Personally, the memory type that accompany the GPU, I think will change the |
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game for such needs, when the GPU become fully integrated with the cpu |
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cores (like what happend to FPU) in various SOC offerings. Granted, Arm is |
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late to the communications embedded systems efforts, but many of the top |
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hardware designers in routing and networking, are working on |
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ARM implementations for comm gear, as we speak. |
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ARM is simply whipping the dog_snot out of the other architectures....... |
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later, |
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James |
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[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2431216 |
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[2] |
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http://www.arm.com/products/processors/instruction-set-architectures/armv8-r-architecture.php |
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[3] http://www.arm.com/products/processors/armv8-architecture.php |
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