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Comment Re: ARM Host support (Score 0) 24

by killmode (#58782104) Attached to: Nvidia Will Support ARM Hardware For High-Performance Computing

You're correct that arm was already supported by the NVIDIA chips you listed, but now in addition to those, external licensees of Arm Holdings companies can use Cuda with arm. Off the top of my head, Applied Micro's X-gene, Thunder-X by Cavium, 64core from Ampere and eventually others.
Who knows, maybe Qualcomm and Apple. They are just adding Arm to the existing supported CPU flavors, X86 and Power.
good deeper dive here: https://hexus.net/tech/news/industry/131783-nvidia-announces-cuda-software-stack-coming-arm-year/

Submission + - The Periodic, Somewhat Obligatory "Earth is Flat" Argument Rears It's Head Again

Submitted by mjjochen
mjjochen writes: A little something to make you smile (or cry). NPR reports on astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson calling out rapper B.o.B. in a twitter (& rap) argument over the status of the earth (are we round or flat?), article can be found here: http://www.npr.org/sections/th.... Rapper B.o.B. references the usual conspiracy theories to support his case in his throw down. Neil deGrasse Tyson responds, actually his nephew responds, on why B.o.B.'s points are not very well-informed: https://soundcloud.com/drtyson.... As Tyson puts it, "Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn't mean we all can't still like your music." Shall we start leaching the four humors from the body again to achieve balance? Hrm.
The Courts

9th Circuit Rules Netflix Isn't Subject To Disability Law 278

Posted by samzenpus from the not-subject-to-your-laws dept.
An anonymous reader writes with news that the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ruled that Netflix doesn't have to caption their videos. "A federal appeals court ruled (PDF) yesterday that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) doesn't apply to Netflix, since the online video provider is 'not connected to any actual, physical place.' Donald Cullen sued Netflix in March 2011, attempting to kick off a class-action lawsuit on behalf of disabled people who didn't have full use of the videos because they aren't all captioned. A district court judge threw out his lawsuit in 2013, and yesterday's ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upholds that decision. The decision is 'unpublished,' meaning it isn't intended to be used as precedent in other cases. However, it certainly doesn't bode well for any plaintiff thinking about filing a similar case in the 9th Circuit, which covers most of the Western US."

Comment Re:Currently? (Score 0) 951

by killmode (#42052273) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux?

I'd agree with that list , especially BF3. also, don't a lot of games have driver specific patch add-ons? my nvidia drivers just updated a few days ago, and I check the release notes: many different games listed, tweaks here, bug fixes there. are the steam/valve folks going to be able to have the same level of Nvidia/AMD video card drivers for Xorg?

right now i'm dual booting a Macbook pro 15" just so i can run BF3, and World of Warcraft. plus some older flight sims.

mark

Comment You can use Air to cool 35KW why bother with oil? (Score 0) 230

by killmode (#41231073) Attached to: Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers

Oil immersion works, but why bother?
99.99% of datacenters still rely on moving cool air through hot servers to cool them. in some instances you could make a case for mineral oil bath cooling. if you want to push the envelope of server cooling, try using our Vertically cooled servers. www.cirrascale.com. we believe that hot air naturally wants to rise.
we pack 72 18"tall 1U wide servers in one rack, or 96 13" tall servers. 10's of thousands deployed
we've been able to cool over 30KW of load in one rack with Air on a non raised floor datacenter. We've been doing it for years, and we don't void warranties to do it.
"excuse me, Mr. Dell/HP/IBM service center person... this server isn't working.. can you take a look at it please"
"Be happy to... Um uh, why is it in a plastic ziplock bag?"
"oh that's to keep the mineral oil from dripping on your service lab floor"
    RMA declined!, Warranty Null & Void!
mark.skinner@cirrascale.com

Comment I just left a message for the CEO of Linksys (Score 1) 524

by killmode (#6145222) Attached to: Is Linksys Violating The GPL?
My dad once told me, "Always go to the top to get a problem solved, while that CEO/COO may not fix the problem directly, he/she will at least be annoyed with an underling that allowed the problem to rise enought to bother the CEO/COO." or words to that effect.

Nothing nasty was said, just my name, phone number, that I used their products, and that there are online discussions on weither or not there is undocumented GPL code on their equipment. I also asked him to have his legal department check out if they had recieved notice from Busybox software maintaner regarding Linksys' use of Busybox in Linksys products.

If he doesn't review his v-mail directly, then at least the polite informative tone of the message will prod the listener to forward the message accordingly.

my $0.02, (though sent to Irvine first)

Mark

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