Re: Hi performance computing [was: potus blah blah]
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Now it must be said :-) > In 1998 I was running usenet's 19th largest NNTP transit point. On a > discarded Pentium with a 100Mbit ethernet card for external comms. > Luckily I could attach it to a full-duplex port on a router, not > half-duplex. Way more effective bandwidth :-D Was that by... let me think -- Chris Adams at uunet's accounting of NNTP traffic? -dsr-
Re: Hi performance computing [was: potus blah blah]
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 3:31 AM wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:19:28PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 6:05 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > > It's also important to understand that NNTP is a peer to peer > protocol. > > > > > Any group of NNTP servers configured to connect to each other form > a > > > > > network. Anyone can run an NNTP server. While it once required a > VAX > > > > > with a T1 to act as a Usenet "backbone" site any desktop with > broadband > > > > > can easily handle it now. > > > > > > > > > > > > A Raspberry Pi is overkill. > > > > > > > > > > Then my Arduino Mega is full-on High Performance Computing > > > > By the standards of 1975, it is a minicomputer suitable for > > supporting a business with four terminals: accounting, sales, > > secretarial, and production. > > To resurrect another paleontological meme (the older among us > will know): "can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?" [1], > [2] (How time passes: ref [2] tells me the joke was already > "pathetic" and "died a long time ago" in... 2005 :-) > Now it must be said :-) In 1998 I was running usenet's 19th largest NNTP transit point. On a discarded Pentium with a 100Mbit ethernet card for external comms. Luckily I could attach it to a full-duplex port on a router, not half-duplex. Way more effective bandwidth :-D (Trying to quench a zombie thread with a zombie meme might lead > to something... interesting, don't you think?) > > Cheers > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster > [2] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beowulf_cluster#What_Is_Funny_About_.2F._Jokes.3F > > - t >
Hi performance computing [was: potus blah blah]
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:19:28PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 6:05 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > It's also important to understand that NNTP is a peer to peer protocol. > > > > Any group of NNTP servers configured to connect to each other form a > > > > network. Anyone can run an NNTP server. While it once required a VAX > > > > with a T1 to act as a Usenet "backbone" site any desktop with broadband > > > > can easily handle it now. > > > > > > > > > A Raspberry Pi is overkill. > > > > > > > Then my Arduino Mega is full-on High Performance Computing > > By the standards of 1975, it is a minicomputer suitable for > supporting a business with four terminals: accounting, sales, > secretarial, and production. To resurrect another paleontological meme (the older among us will know): "can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?" [1], [2] (How time passes: ref [2] tells me the joke was already "pathetic" and "died a long time ago" in... 2005 :-) (Trying to quench a zombie thread with a zombie meme might lead to something... interesting, don't you think?) Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beowulf_cluster#What_Is_Funny_About_.2F._Jokes.3F - t signature.asc Description: Digital signature
