Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-11 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Greetings Bruce, Interesting and challenging project! On Saturday 10 October 2009 15:20, Bruce Labitt wrote: For anyone that is remotely interested, here is the big picture for the problem I'm trying to solve. If you are not interested, hey delete the post. Won't irritate me in the

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes: What I'm trying to do: Optimizer for a radar power spectral density problem Problem: FFTs required in optimization loop take too long on current workstation for the optimizer to even be viable. Attempted solution: FFT engine on remote

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-11 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Have you considered using a fast compression/decompression algorithm before you transmit, one that isn't too computationally intensive for either compression or decompression? You won't get high compression (factor of 10) as you might with slower ones, but if you get even a factor of 2, you've

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-11 Thread Bruce Labitt
Lloyd Kvam wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 15:20 -0400, Bruce Labitt wrote: Nit in solution: TCP transport time FFT execution time, rendering attempted solution non-viable Researches TCP optimization: Reads countless papers on tcp optimization techniques... Fails to find a robust

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-11 Thread Bruce Labitt
Jim Kuzdrall wrote: Greetings Bruce, Interesting and challenging project! On Saturday 10 October 2009 15:20, Bruce Labitt wrote: For anyone that is remotely interested, here is the big picture for the problem I'm trying to solve. If you are not interested, hey delete the post.

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-11 Thread Bruce Labitt
Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes: What I'm trying to do: Optimizer for a radar power spectral density problem Problem: FFTs required in optimization loop take too long on current workstation for the optimizer to even be viable. Attempted

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-11 Thread Bruce Labitt
Drew Van Zandt wrote: Have you considered using a fast compression/decompression algorithm before you transmit, one that isn't too computationally intensive for either compression or decompression? You won't get high compression (factor of 10) as you might with slower ones, but if you get

Re: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

2009-10-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 10/10/09 14:51, quoth David Hardy: This discussion reminds me of a number of IT job interviews I had where the tech questions asked of me were delivered in a smug, condescending tone, and if I didn't know every single facet of their infrastructure when I walked through their door, then I