Posts by ROlsen 14 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jul 2008
The US delayed chip because it was a big change and our fraud rate was relatively low. Europe pushed forward because their fraud rate was significantly higher, which EMV has brought down to match US rates.
In 2004 US card fraud rate was 0.05 and Europe was 0.11, more than double. By 2010, EMV brought Europe down to a fraud rate of 0.06 while the US rose to 0.08.
@David Lester: I'm not a neuro-scientist but I like to follow the research/read articles etc. It seems like there are complexities in synapse and neuron function that would need to be accounted for to make the model valuable.
I'm sure you are aware of many more examples, but two I've been reading about recently:
1-Dendrite preprocessing of information, seems like there is a lot more going on there than previously thought, not sure if the models take that into account.
2 - Neurons switching between slow and fast firing type depending on conditions.
Are the models being used (for synapse and neuron activity) good enough to think the entire model will provide a reasonable simulation of actual?
@Ru
You are correct. I ported my neural net program to cuda and found that it was not the best match. Either reads are in order but writes are random, or the reverse (depending on which direction you decide to slice and dice the calculation and how the data structure is sorted in advance).
One of the things I was looking forward to with the Intel chip is that it is less parallel than the GPU's but more parallel than a few cores. I have a simulation that has gained some from porting to GPU but it really requires an intermediate amount of parallelism and better random memory access. Intel's chip looked like it would be in the sweet spot for me, and I can't be the only one in this situation.
Hmmm. Let's count how many people we have running our Citrix farms, the number of people required just to solve our various printing problems, etc. and Muglia thinks mini's are a step backward? For enterprise business apps, what exactly is the advantage of using a PC server? If your answer is cost I would counter that it is more than made up for in headcount to support the environment.
"I certainly consider Sun the leader in the multi-core era, as it was the first mainstream vendor with a very, very aggressive design thanks to Afara."
I wouldn't disagree Sun has been the most aggressive. Although, at the same time, my thinking has really changed on all of this over the last few months as I've looked for an inexpensive way to get lots of processing power for a highly parallel application. I looked at multiple x86, cell, sun, fpga, etc. and finally found the answer (for me): GPU and in this case NVIDIA CUDA.
Clearly the battle is on as CPU and GPU head in each others direction. I seriously wonder if Sun can compete due to lack of volume compared to intel and gpu mfg's.
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