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jackangel said:
Must be a good company Jack, their using Intels with
HYPER-THREADING EXTREME EDITION CPUS!
This is one sexy bitch!
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Must be a good company Jack, their using Intels with
HYPER-THREADING EXTREME EDITION CPUS!
NoDaddyNo
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I know a guy at MIT that works for days at a time in his "cave" - he has a room with a wide wall and a desk in front of it.
He has a dual head video card going out to dual high res projection systems that display on that white wall in front of him.
Essentially he has a high res monitor that is over 12 feet wide and 10 feet high.
The resolution he runs that at is hilarious - but it rules for programming. the graphics card is designed for high end CAD stuff, but he programs.
He hardly ever spends money on anything - his apartment consists of a TV on top of an overturned cardboard box that it came in and his futon which he eats and sleeps on - and then the side room that has the cool computer equipment.
I haven't gone to this link that Wodin has yet
The coolest setup I've ever seen is in Akamai - their control station is this little room that have setup that is all monitors with switches that allow control of the feed - you can pick any TV station off of a satellite feed, or over to any number of server feeeds.
It is for watching weather and what networks are up/down and it charts out over a map what is working and what is busy and whatnot.
I used to have an image of it that was amazing - but I have long since lost it. I used to work in the room next to the thing and would lean in to look at it just because it looked so cool.
It looked super high tech, but it was essentially just a really nice big cubical that went all the way to the ceiling.
The computing power of it was very low, but it the visual action was fantastic.
Reminds me of "The Eye" in Stephen Bury's "Interface".
He has a dual head video card going out to dual high res projection systems that display on that white wall in front of him.
Essentially he has a high res monitor that is over 12 feet wide and 10 feet high.
The resolution he runs that at is hilarious - but it rules for programming. the graphics card is designed for high end CAD stuff, but he programs.
He hardly ever spends money on anything - his apartment consists of a TV on top of an overturned cardboard box that it came in and his futon which he eats and sleeps on - and then the side room that has the cool computer equipment.
I haven't gone to this link that Wodin has yet
The coolest setup I've ever seen is in Akamai - their control station is this little room that have setup that is all monitors with switches that allow control of the feed - you can pick any TV station off of a satellite feed, or over to any number of server feeeds.
It is for watching weather and what networks are up/down and it charts out over a map what is working and what is busy and whatnot.
I used to have an image of it that was amazing - but I have long since lost it. I used to work in the room next to the thing and would lean in to look at it just because it looked so cool.
It looked super high tech, but it was essentially just a really nice big cubical that went all the way to the ceiling.
The computing power of it was very low, but it the visual action was fantastic.
Reminds me of "The Eye" in Stephen Bury's "Interface".
NoDaddyNo
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jackangel said:
There are many 17" laptops out there now. If you want a name on it, there is the Apple 17" PowerBook, the Toshiba, the HP, or you can go to the supplier directly which is Sager (not for Apple) and they resell through www.powernotebooks.com.
They all run at the same shitty 1400Xsomething resolution.
NoDaddyNo said:
Its the "extreme" and the "hyperthreading", but more so the latter. OK so it is a multi threading CPU, they all now for the last, what, five or six years? Hyperthreading is just meaningless hyperbole to excite people who dont know any better.
But I totally agree that machine is rocksteady. It would be a great toy to have.
NoDaddyNo
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Technically it is an Intel name and not these guys.
Intel's Extreme version of the P4 has the 2MB L3 cache.
Essentially it is an MP Xenon that doesn't have to have the same heat tolerance - but they make up for that by using their cooling system after overclocking its default bus speed up to 900 something.
I think the L3 cache is still on the "chip" level of the Extreme, but it doesn't really matter too much - if they put the L2 cache up to that level, then that would be nice.
And Hyper-Threading is more than just muilti-threading. Peniums have been multithreaded since they started - as were the 486 chips - it was largely up to the OS to make use of this, which Windows did starting with Windows NT (back when it still looked like Windows 3.51). Win 95 came right after that and was multithreaded as well.
Unix had been doing this for ages, Linux was doing it that year as well - Mac didn't do it for a few years still after that.
Hyper-threading is different - the OS sees the processor as two processors, but there is only a single physical processor. As with a dual processor system, you don't get the truly double inncrease, but more like 1.5 increase. (a truly dual processor system will give you slightly better than that depending on how much disk access you are doing and what disk controller type you have)
I think all new P4s that are 2.8 or higher can do the hyperthreading. The earlier P4s technically could, but they are hardware disabled from doing it while at the factory.
The only thing that I find cool about the machine is the RAM disk -and even that is pretty useless for me. The stuff I do is relatively small on disk and normal EIDE is plenty fast for me - even at a slow 4200rpm. I need high processor speed, and I don't care about graphics since I don't do any 3D with my work.
But I do think that multi-headed displays are nice - depending on the setup, they can make it annoying - but the right setup is very nice.
Intel's Extreme version of the P4 has the 2MB L3 cache.
Essentially it is an MP Xenon that doesn't have to have the same heat tolerance - but they make up for that by using their cooling system after overclocking its default bus speed up to 900 something.
I think the L3 cache is still on the "chip" level of the Extreme, but it doesn't really matter too much - if they put the L2 cache up to that level, then that would be nice.
And Hyper-Threading is more than just muilti-threading. Peniums have been multithreaded since they started - as were the 486 chips - it was largely up to the OS to make use of this, which Windows did starting with Windows NT (back when it still looked like Windows 3.51). Win 95 came right after that and was multithreaded as well.
Unix had been doing this for ages, Linux was doing it that year as well - Mac didn't do it for a few years still after that.
Hyper-threading is different - the OS sees the processor as two processors, but there is only a single physical processor. As with a dual processor system, you don't get the truly double inncrease, but more like 1.5 increase. (a truly dual processor system will give you slightly better than that depending on how much disk access you are doing and what disk controller type you have)
I think all new P4s that are 2.8 or higher can do the hyperthreading. The earlier P4s technically could, but they are hardware disabled from doing it while at the factory.
The only thing that I find cool about the machine is the RAM disk -and even that is pretty useless for me. The stuff I do is relatively small on disk and normal EIDE is plenty fast for me - even at a slow 4200rpm. I need high processor speed, and I don't care about graphics since I don't do any 3D with my work.
But I do think that multi-headed displays are nice - depending on the setup, they can make it annoying - but the right setup is very nice.
NoDaddyNo said:
OK I defer to you big Daddy. Thanks for the info.
