Posts by Korev

AI augments humans to lead them through the (protein) crystal maze

Re: Techno-pomp?

This does mean that they can throw more "conditions" at the problem using lab automation as the crystal assessment will be much faster.

Heatwave shmeatwave: Brit IT departments cool their racks – explicit pics

Re: cooling is for wimps!

I used to work somewhere with a similar system called Clive. No matter what we did to enhance alerting we still weren't as fast as him.

Re: Never mind the H&S of attaching fans with cables

But they need to err 9 pin it on someone

Re: Have you hit upon an interesting way to cool your tech systems?

>Do you vote conservative?

Sounds like he's found an artory

Re: That last picture

Tying it to some wood also works well. I believe they call that a "Spanning Tree" in network circles

You just activated my battlecard: How IBM sales droids plan to whack flash array rivals

Battlecards?

Battlecards? I thought IBM used punchcards?

Cops suspect Detroit fuel station was hacked before 10 drivers made off with 2.3k 'free' litres

Re: Outrageous!

>A weak pound worth $1.32?

It was only a decade ago that each pound bought over $2.

Re: Outrageous!

A combination of fuel duty and the weak pound...

An $18m supercomputer to simulate brains of mice in the land of Swiss cheese. How apt, HPE

Re: White mice or brown mice?

That's just taking the mickey

I saw a presentation from them a few years ago, they're completely different things. They were stimulating the neurons in a mouse brain and had integrated data from "wet labs" into their model. They showed a video of the simulated neurons firing.

Re: $18M for something that looks like a wardrobe?

>Yes but at least Cray made them octagonal and provided built in seating

EPFL has one in one of their buildings that's used for seating!

They also have some other Cray and other HPC goodness in the Musée Bolo which is free to enter and worth a trip if you're in the area.

Freshly baked storage: Take a pinch of Intel Skylake silicon, some flash powder, sprinkle into IBM's FlashSystem

Power?

Any idea why they're not using their own Power CPUs?

Absolutely... fabless: Marvell swallows a large dose of Cavium

Re: Brilliant Heading

Yes sweetie, darling

Mine's the Armani -->

Cancelled in Crawley? At least your train has free Wi-Fi now, right?

The trains on the New Guildford Line* to London are like that too.

*opened in 1885

Tired sysadmin plugged cable into wrong port, unleashed a 'virus'

We had someone attempt to get their own smartphones on the network by plugging in a D-link SoHo router which also started generously handing out IP addresses. The corporate DNS servers (QIP?) then stopped doling out IP addresses for that subnet meaning a number of the laboratories went down.

We never found out who did it, but you'd expect scientists to know better -->

Open plan offices flop – you talk less, IM more, if forced to flee a cubicle

Re: Hard to Hear

Sounds like a Stairway to Heaven

At last – a use for AI! Predicting an England World Cup victory

I think things might get a bit tensor with the AI prediction

Ikea what you did there...

Brit bank Lloyds carves out role for ex-Microsoft design guy Dan Makoski

Re: Website

Of of interest when was the last time you saw an IE only site? These days I see Chrome only more often.

'Plane Hacker' Roberts: I put a network sniffer on my truck to see what it was sharing. Holy crap!

Re: What about the Toyotas that get sold to the Middle East ...

>I thought you said 'pringle-mounted' and wondered if that would extend the range.

"Once you pop you can't stop"

Vodafone drank Facebook's network Kool-Aid … and LIVED!

> Can someone please explain what backhoe-proofing is

Backhoe is Americanish for the rear digger on a JCB

So woke: Microsoft's face-recog can now ID more people who aren't pasty white blokes

>Any guesses, what "reducing an error rate by up to 20 times" might mean in English?

They mean a 95% reduction in errors, but trying to make it sound good...

UK Minister of Fun Matt Hancock opens London infosec upstart creche

Re: Swansea 0 London 13 mil

I'd have thought that near Cheltenham would be better for obvious reasons -->

Lazy parent Intel dumps Lustre assets on HPC storage bods DDN

A very good point AC

I think many Grid Engine shops went over to Slurm with the Oracle/Univa takeover.

Sadly, both the Gridengine forks don't seem to be maintained any more. The mailing list is still active though.

DDN - maybe a good place for Lustre

I've always liked DDN as a company and also their people and products, hopefully they'll keep Opensource Lustre open and the other providers will be able to continue.

Chrome sends old Macs on permanent Safari: Browser bricks itself

Re: Speaking of outdated kit

>there wasn't even a Pentium 4 non-desktop CPU

I had one in an IBM T20. It was unfeasibly slow, I'd start the boot process and head over to the canteen to buy a coffee instead of waiting for it...

The next machine work gave me was a Dell D620 with a Core 2 Duo, it felt soooo fast!

The suits helped biz PC makers feed their kids in bumper Q2

GDPR?

The GDPR deadline was also cited as a reason to upgrade ageing PC stock

My first impression when reading this was "WTF?"; but then I realised there's probably some good quality BOFHery using GDPR to justify raising the toy budget...

GDPR forgive us, it's been one month since you were enforced…

Re: Don't fret. It is all part of Trumps grand plan

Which is why the figures you quoted are on a per capita basis

The strife of Brian: Why doomed Intel boss's ex86 may not be the real reason for his hasty exit

Re: I sure hope he is fired for the specified reasons

I agree, upvoted

HR Policy

But it still happens – and is so commonplace, the biz's HR department has a set of procedures for dealing with such situations.

Surely any organisation the size of Intel would have procedures for this kind of thing*. It'd be much worse to invent policy on the hoof.

*My employer does, you can even enter employee relationships into a system alongside declaring other things like gifts from vendors, interests in other businesses etc.

It's getting more and more Azure'd: For Microsoft, sorry seems to be the hardest word

We love developers and we also love schools

You mean Developers, Developers, Developers?

Oracle Linux now supported on 64-bit Armv8 processors

Re: re: So the company that owns SPARC are pushing ARM

Although, they're still happily simultaneously selling Solaris and Linux support

Software changed the world, then died on the first of the month

Re: @Rich 11

"And the users replied with a laugh and a taunt,

'It's just what we asked for, but not what we want!'"

at $JOB-1 I heard a manager shout across the room "Do what I meant not what I said"!

The state of me when I left -->

Re: Data format parsing

Starting with a 1 is better than most places seem to manage in the USA, I normally see [phone].

Great news, cask beer fans: UK shortage of CO2 menaces fizzy crap taking up tap space

Re: Gas shortage

Those barrels are "on gravity", not "on tap".

But Cheers anyway -->

Azure North Europe downed by the curse of the Irish – sunshine

Re: Keep cool man

Or replace doors with Gates?

Visa fingers 'very rare' data centre switch glitch for payment meltdown

Re: Still not understanding

I've no idea why you were downvoted (apart from "rightshore"), that sounds depressingly plausible.

HPE CEO pledges $4bn Edge R&D splurge

Re: Another use of the word EDGE

So U2 don't like the Edge much?

Shiny new Capita boss to UK.gov: I know you are but what am I?

The department today handed Capita yet another contract, this time to run its fire and rescue services – covering 2,200 staff at 78 defence fire stations worldwide

Poor firefighters, after years of putting their lives on the line for their colleagues and country they get dumped into Capita...

Have a pint to say thanks for all your work and lives saved -->

UK footie fans furious as Sky Broadband goes TITSUP: Total inability to stream unfair penalties

Re: Seems to have affected Zen Internet too

Also from the link you gave ... "Fibre spicing engineers have arrived at the site and will begin work shortly."

Hopefully they have brought the correct mix of spices. Curry usually provides a very fast throughput.

LOL, a virtual pint to go with your curry

Cray slaps an all-flash makeover on its L300 array to do HPC stuff

Cray is marketing the L300F to the leadership class of supercomputing environments. With its performance numbers, it wouldn't stand much chance in business data centres compared to NVMe drive arrays and NVMe-oF-accessed arrays.

Modern large HPC shops have many PB of disc in use; the cost of migrating that to NVMe would presumably be massive.

Um, excuse me. Do you have clearance to patch that MRI scanner?

Re: Computerised medical devices need TWO computers

For something as large and critical as an MRI scanner, you'd think having a third computer as a warm spare would be a good idea too.

End-to-end NVMe arrays poised to resurrect external storage

Re: Genomics 100X?

I tried sending E8 a message to ask about the above, but their webform just shows a spinny icon once I'd successfully got past the reCaptcha...

Genomics 100X?

A UK customer found E8’s storage, used with Spectrum Scale (GPFS), enabled it to accelerate its genomics processing 100X, from 10 hours per genome to 10 genomes per hour. The E8 array was used as a fast storage tier and scratch space.

An 100X increase in throughput sounds too good to be true. Are there any details on what they actually did? I checked E8's website, but nothing leapt out.

How to stealthily poison neural network chips in the supply chain

Re: You can call me Mr Thickie here, but ...

The designer might be persuaded to put some "custom" functionality by a government on behalf of $SPOOK_AGENCY. In fact I'd be surprised if this hasn't already happened.

Swiss cops will 'tolerate' World Cup rabble-rousers – for 60 minutes

Re: Question

How do the Swiss feel about rugby?

There are a few teams around, but is a minority sport. It seems more common in the French-speaking areas though.

'No, we are not rewriting Office in JavaScript' and other Microsoft tales

Could be worse....

It could have been rewritten in VBA...

Tintri teeters on the edge of oblivion

Re: Storage - The promise of riches tomorrow

Yep, many are a flash in the pan...