Re: (OT) The desktop supercomputer has arrived!

On 29 Jun, 16:02, "Judson McClendon" <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Alistair" <alist...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<hong...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.physorg.com/news102087207.html


Hello Alistair, how are things in the UK? :-)


Wet! Wet! Wet! Despite global warming the weather is cooler than
normal for this time of the year and much wetter than normal. We have
just had the wettest June (on record I think) and will probably have
the wettest start to July with 50mm of precipitation expected. My home
town is built on the side of a hill but it has been known to flood
here with torrential rain.

Good to see a response from you Judson. I do enjoy the emails, and I
liked the Globalization definition. However, where is the response to
my request for a repeat email detailing how to get multiple ftp
downloads under windows?


Where I see parallel processing helping on PCs is in two areas, running
multiple applications simultaneously and multithreaded applications (e.g.
graphics and video processing). My most common backup task involves burning
two separate DVDs. I haven't had much success burning two DVDs at once using
single core CPUs,

I have noticed that copying from one CD player and writing to another
directly doesn't work under XP either.

but my dual core Athlon X2 works well. It's also useful to
burn a CD/DVD and be able to continue working without concern you will cause
a problem on the burn.

That is worth remembering.


For most PC applications the primary bottleneck is disk I/O, and a
beneficial upgrade is striped (RAID0) drives.

Don't you lose the equivalent of one disk to the OS for Raid use?



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