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Comment Re:Two million lines of code (Score 1) 160

by NotInHere (#49591061) Attached to: US Switches Air Traffic Control To New Computer System

The average enterprise class iPhone application isn't trusted lives with. Also, not inside an industry where an accident means deaths of hundreds of people at once. Nobody brings the average car accident in the news, for example when somebody kills themselves at the highway. But when a plane crashes, it comes in the news, so politicians and representatives of the airlines promise they do something, and tighten regulations. Meanwhile, car security is still shit as hell.

I guess its all formally proven. Is the average business iphone application formally proven?

Comment "scrambled" version (Score 5, Informative) 76

by NotInHere (#49581797) Attached to: Google Announces "Password Alert" To Protect Against Phishing Attacks

Can you please stop with this plebs speak? This is a site for nerds, not for non-technical people. Say "hash" when you mean "hash". I mean is researching actual technical info so hard? For everyone not wanting to click links: its comparing the first 37 bits of the hash, using the SHA-1 hash mechanism. And yes its salted.

Comment Re:Already FRONT DOORED (Score 1) 105

by NotInHere (#49573309) Attached to: Why Crypto Backdoors Wouldn't Work

Almost fully agree.

All those free messaging services that need all those permissions, you sign up and your contacts list is sent to them.

Suggest a better method. The developers of the popular app TextSecure have posted their thoughts on how to solve this problem, but found no way that both satisfied their needs, scalability, and the user's needs.

Submission + - Modern Supercomputers Have Just Hit the End of Another Architectural Era (theplatform.net)

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An anonymous reader writes: There has been a steady climb toward accelerators for top-ranked machines, but with the self-hosted model of the upcoming Knights Landing architecture, this offload model and the bottleneck of data movement between the GPU and other elements, will likely go away. The OpenPower efforts of IBM and Nvidia to use NVlink to speed that communication will be put to the test with the Power9 based systems coming to other centers in the next couple of years, including the future 150-petaflop “Sierra” machine coming to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, but Gara says that these are still using what amounts to an offload model in that data has to be pushed between multiple components.

It is not clear how the Top 500 folks will choose to classify systems that have a GPU that is part of the compute since the accelerators classification generally just refers to a coprocessor that sits across a bus. The main question, however, is how long it will take for this classification to disappear entirely. As it stands, the new top-tier systems that will start to come online, possibly for the November rankings, will sport Knights Landing, wherein the accelerator is not a discrete unit. Gara says the shift away from the offload model is already starting to happen, and will continue with the introduction of Knights Landing into the full HPC market (right now just the national labs—at least as far we know) are part of the early access program for these chips.

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