Phils back from the depths - must have given up trying to get that Audi to go ... ;-)
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:58 +0100, Phil Payne wrote: > It's hard to imagine a mainframe as a gaming machine Some of the super-computing folks have been playing with the cell processors - there's even an SDK out there for download. And IBM do have some experience with the Blades. I'm having trouble conceiving of how I might use the "extra" processors usefully (on a PS3 running Linux), but Sony seem to like them. Folding at home as well - but you can see the applicability of multiple vectors there. Attached processors that run assigned work but not normal dispatcher/scheduler - now where have we heard that before ???. > Shutting off FLEX-ES systems? That's one of the oddest things about the > lawsuit. Fundamental > Software is a one-product company and its product, market and livelihood have > been "taken" > from it. And without even a mouse [four-letter reference to flatulence > suppressed so as not > to inconvenience Darren] coming from Fremont? > > Doesn't anyone else think that a trifle odd? AFAIK Funsoft has said nothing > either in public > or private. > > Fundamental has been bought off. Or even bought, period. Nothing else makes > sense. A highly > suspicious deafening silence. Agreed - the whole thing is very odd. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
