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This list is the Letterboxd version of The Oxford History of World Cinema.
The book celebrates and chronicles over one…
1985 Directed by Luc Besson
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals. Despite being pursued by the henchmen, Fred finds the time to flirt with Helena, blow a safe, rob a train, evade the hapless Metro police and start a rock band
Subway is boss. The music, the underground network and everyone within it, the quirks of the characters. Often hilarious, so fun and intriguing. Fred is cool as fuck. The secondary plot involving the band is just as cool as the lead plot. Batman and Robin. I felt genuinely sorry for Batman during his constant failures. The drummer doesn't divulge his name, brilliant. I rated this 4.5 stars in my mind after watching it. I was lying to myself. As fun as anything I've watched all year/ that I can remember.
Subway is one of those rare films that make me feel physically good - like I'm in love or something crazy like that. Ah fuck, I just feel so great! Everything about this masterpiece is flirting with me, and it's doing a hell of a good job. It just won't take no for an answer, and it should never have to.
And damn it, that score - makes it impossible to sit still throughout the film! Added to list of favourite films upon this rewatch - absolument!
Je t'aime Subway, je t'aime.
This film is a little strange in some ways. There is a vague plot, but really the narration wanders from one event to another in ways that don't seem particularly meaningful to that plot. However I want to say its meditative rather than banal.
Besson seemed to have found some something arresting about this subway in the way it exuded both 80's pop-culture, as well that sunless industrial underbelly in a complementary way. In response, he planted some characters in it and used them as a vehicle to demonstrate the edgy beauty of the setting.
Luc Besson + Highlander welding tube + Miami Connection-style musical scenes + Batman + Taking of Pelham 1,2,3. Like if that doesn't scare you off this movie is just for you. Lots of fun - great companion to the more serious French films like Diva and Mauvais Sang but sharing that same visual vocabulary.
At least google the Guns Don't Kill People/People Kill People song and wish that Vampire Weekend would cover it.
if Besson's mid-80s so-called cinema du look was ever actually a thing, this overtly aspires to be its eurotrash BREATHLESS, right down to Lambert's slightly funky Belmondo-meets-Sting presenting to Adjani's high class moll, all ennui, yearning to bust out of her gilded cage. i don't think this ever achieves the electricity or offhanded grace of, say, Beineix's DIVA, but some really confident stuff.
MTV was launched in 1981. 4 years later came Luc Besson's Subway, a film which represents many aspects of music video culture.
Along with Leos Carax and Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Besson was part of a movement known as "cinéma du look"; a term bestowed upon them by French film critic Raphaël Bassan and a label which they wanted to shake. The term referred to their emphasis on slick visualisations and proposed that they sought style over substance, substituting narrative and content for spectacle.
We wouldn't be going out on a limb if we were to say that most of what was shown on MTV in the 1980s would be considered of the "cinéma du look" state of mind. This music…
A+ for subway sax player.
Me encanto la manera en que Luc Besson organizo las historias de los personajes, a todos les dio motivos reales y se encargo de no dejar un solo momento sin que algo sucediera, las persecuciones fueron divertidas y creativas, una joya como las que espero vuelva a hacer.
You like the eighties? Check out this subway, it's inhabitants and their haircuts. Cinéma du look back then, cinéma du Luc by now. Tongue in cheek filmmaking, where fun is more important than logic, a plot or something like that. It's amusing at times, especially around the coppers, and it's hard not to laugh seeing Reno's young face when he starts a drum solo, but as a whole it never really flourishes. The Rollerskater guy is cool though.
Yes! I don't know what took me so long to watch this as The Fifth Element is in my top 3 (got a problem with that?) so I've definitely made a point to see Besson's other films (plus I have a pretty big crush on Isabelle Adjani who is looking bad ass in this movie). This is definitely my second favorite of his. It's very much the precursor to The Fifth Element.
It's got that anime vibe that his films have and I'm pretty convinced Cowboy Bebop creators were highly influenced by it (and his other films). Also, you will never see Jean Reno look cooler (which is a big deal cuz that guy usually looks pretty fuckin cool!)
This is such a great euro 80's film! Loved it.
I was only half-paying attention, and it was a shitty English dubbed, fullscreen version, but this still seemed pretty silly. I'd watch it again, but only if I find a better, French-language, transfer.
Subway is boss. The music, the underground network and everyone within it, the quirks of the characters. Often hilarious, so fun and intriguing. Fred is cool as fuck. The secondary plot involving the band is just as cool as the lead plot. Batman and Robin. I felt genuinely sorry for Batman during his constant failures. The drummer doesn't divulge his name, brilliant. I rated this 4.5 stars in my mind after watching it. I was lying to myself. As fun as anything I've watched all year/ that I can remember.
This movie is like being in a nightmare back in the 80s on a subway in Paris and wishing Lambert would come and save you while playing in a rock band. The plot is vague, the acting is all over the place as if the actors don't really understand it either which makes it all great fun.
Directed by Luc Besson. His second feature.
REWATCH: but it was at least 25 years since.
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean Reno, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Bouise.
As the title says; the subway is the main actor in this film. Passive, enormous, labyrinthic, bustling with activity at day and less at night.
The characters are changeable but the subway prevails.
Some persons seems to live in the Paris subway. One day a thief, hiding from an important man's thugs, gets accepted by the inhabitants. The rich man's trophy wife is infatuated with the thief.
Drama ensues.
Sad things happen, but the subway prevails.
It is another time: real telephones you pay with coins, walkmans, cassette tapes,…
En términos de historia es quizás la más corriente y sencilla de las películas que ha hecho Besson. Sin embargo desde lo plástico es una película que difícilmente pierda su atractivo. De hecho creo que, y a pesar de ser una cápsula del tiempo, ha envejecido muy bien.
Es extraño que nadie mencione esta película cuando se habla de Christopher Lambert, me parece una de sus mejores actuaciones; pocas veces ha sido capaz de transmitir tanto con tan poco (la historia del accidente es el mejor ejemplo).
Eric Serra.
Siempre he tenido la curiosidad de saber si las estaciones del metro en París son tan llenas de vida.
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The Belligerents and the Cluster Munitions Used
The conflict in Georgia highlights the nature of the global problem of cluster munitions. Both sides employed the weapon, causing civilian casualties, yet their military profiles and histories with the weapon are quite different. This case underlines the risks of continued production, transfer, and stockpiling. Whoever the user, and whatever the type used, cluster munitions pose unacceptable risks to civilians and must be eliminated.
Russia produces and exports its own cluster munitions and has stockpiles of millions of submunitions of various types. It has used cluster munitions previously, notably in Chechnya. Georgia does not manufacture its own cluster munitions but is an importer that received the models it used in this conflict from Israel. It has a smaller arsenal than its larger neighbor and claims that it now possesses only one active type. Human Rights Watch is not aware of any evidence that Georgia used the weapon prior to the August 2008 conflict.
Between the two of them, Russia and Georgia also employed cluster munitions that exemplify the variety of the weapon, including both air-dropped and ground-launched models delivered from bombs, rockets, and missiles.
Use, Production, Transfer, and Stockpiling
The two parties to this conflict have participated in the worldwide use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster munitions. At least 77 states stockpile cluster munitions, amounting to caches of at least hundreds of millions of individual submunitions. Thirty-four countries have produced more than 210 different types of cluster munitions, both air- dropped and surface-launched, including projectiles, rockets, missiles, bombs, and other dispensers. At least 13 countries have transferred more 50 different types of cluster munitions to at least 60 other countries as well as non-state armed groups.[36] At least 15 states and a small number of non-state armed groups have used cluster munitions in at least 32 countries and disputed territories.[37]
Russia has not made information regarding national stockpiles or inventories readily available to the international community, but it is known to be a major producer, exporter, and stockpiler of cluster munitions. Several Russian companies are associated with the production of cluster munitions: Bazalt State Research and Production Enterprise (air-dropped bombs), Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (120mm, 152mm, and 203mm artillery projectiles), and Splav State Research and Production Enterprise Rocket (122mm, 220mm, and 300mm rockets and missiles).[38] Cluster munitions of Russian/Soviet origin have been reported in the stockpiles of at least 29 countries: Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, Georgia,[39] Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya, Moldova, Mongolia, North Korea, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine, and Yemen.[40]
Russia's own stockpiles are estimated to be in the hundreds of millions or more of submunitions. The following chart, which draws on information from open sources, lists current Russian stockpiles for which Human Rights Watch has evidence.
Types of Russian/Soviet Cluster Munitions in Russian Stockpiles[41]
Georgia is not the first location where Russia has used cluster munitions. It repeatedly used cluster munitions in Chechnya between 1994 and 1996 and again in 1999. The attacks led to at least 636 casualties, including 301 deaths, according to Handicap International.[42] The attack on the Grozny market on October 21, 1999, probably the most high-profile one in Chechnya, caused more than 100 deaths according to HALO Trust, a UK-based demining organization.[43] All but 24 of the 636 documented casualties came during strikes, not afterwards. Not all post-conflict casualties, however, may have been reported.[44] Russian forces made use of multiple types of cluster munitions: air-dropped bombs, tactical missiles, and multiple rockets systems.[45] HALO Trust confirmed that the Grozny attack was by an SS-21 missile, a precursor of the Iskander.[46] Russia directed many of its cluster attacks at civilian areas.[47] The Soviet Union also used cluster munitions in Afghanistan during the conflict that lasted between 1979 and 1989.[48]
According to then-Georgian First Deputy Minister of Defense Batu Kutelia, interviewed by Human Rights Watch in October 2008, M85s are the only submunitions that Georgia currently stockpiles for active use.[49] He said Georgia bought its M85s from an Israeli company. Although the ministry would not release the name of the company, Israel Military Industries is the only known Israeli manufacturer of the weapon. Israel Military Industries also made the M85s used by Israel during its 2006 war with Lebanon. Those submunitions had high failure rates and caused civilian casualties and socioeconomic harm.[50]
In 2004 Jane's Information Group reported that the Georgian Air Force also had KMGU and RBK-500 cluster bombs, both of which can carry a variety of submunitions.[51] The Georgian Ministry of Defense told Human Rights Watch in February 2009 that it still has RBK-500 cluster munitions and BKF blocks of submunitions that are delivered by KMGUs, but that their shelf-lives have expired and they are slated for destruction.[52] Kutelia said its air force planes are not fitted for delivering these air-dropped weapons.[53] Human Rights Watch is not aware of any evidence that Georgia used cluster munitions before the 2008 conflict. Georgia is also not known to have produced or transferred cluster munitions.
Cluster Munitions Used in Georgia and their Submunitions
During the 2008 conflict in Georgia, Russia used two types of submunitions, the AO-2.5 RTM (carried in RBK bombs) and 9N210 (carried in Uragan rockets), and Georgia used one, the M85 (carried in Mk.-4 rockets). According to a Dutch investigation discussed later, Russia also used the surface-to-surface Iskander missile carrying unknown types of submunitions.[54] Human Rights Watch researchers found physical evidence of each of these weapons, including submunitions and the canisters they were carried in, in the towns and villages they visited. All these types, like most cluster munitions, endanger civilians because of their broad area effect and the fact that they leave unexploded duds after the conflict.
AO-2.5 RTM Submunition
The air-dropped AO-2.5 RTM submunition used by Russia is an antipersonnel and anti-materiel weapon. It is designed to attack both troops and equipment with its blast and fragmentation. The silver submunition has spherical ends and a spin, or separation, ring around the middle. The latter consists of a circular metal band with five semicircular pieces attached. The submuntion weighs 2.5 kilograms and measures 90 by 150mm. Upon impact, it splits into two halves before detonating. It has a kill radius of 30 meters for materiel and 20 meters for personnel. In Georgia, Russia delivered these submunitions by RBK series bombs. The RBK-250 contains 60 bomblets, and the RBK-500 series contains 108 bomblets.[55]
9N210 Submunition
The ground-launched 9N210 submunition used by Russia is also an antipersonnel and anti-materiel weapon. It is designed to attack both troops and most types of equipment with its blast and fragmentation. The silver submunition consists of a soda can-sized cylinder with six flat fins at the tail end and weighs 1.8 kilograms. A hard plastic-like core just inside the cylinder contains 370 metal fragments, which spray out in every direction upon detonation. The fragments are identical small cylinders, measuring six millimeters in length and having a six millimeter diameter. The 9N210, which has an explosive mass of 0.3 kilograms, has a self-destruct device that is supposed to detonate the submunition within 110 seconds if it does not explode on impact.[56] As shown during this conflict, however, it often fails. In one area being cleared in Ruisi, NPA reported a 35 percent dud rate.[57] In Georgia, Russia delivered its 9N210s in 220mm surface-to-surface Uragan (Russian for Hurricane) rockets, each of which carry 30 of these submunitions.[58]
Iskander Missile
According to a Dutch investigative report into an attack on Gori, Russia also used at least one surface-to-surface Iskander (also called SS-26) missile carrying submunitions. Little is know about this weapon, except that it is in Russia's arsenal and, according to the Dutch report, carries 20 submunitions.[59] Russia has denied using the Iskander in this conflict, but as will be explained below, both Human Rights Watch and the Dutch investigative team found evidence of the weapon.
M85 Submunition
The ground-launched M85 submunition used by Georgia is a type of Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition (DPICM) bought from Israel. It is an antipersonnel and anti-armor weapon, designed to attack troops and armored vehicles, including tanks, with blast, fragmentation, and a penetrator. This black, cylindrical-shaped submunition with one open end is often said to resemble a battery or light socket. It is topped with a red or white ribbon[60] that unfurls upon discharge, releasing a firing pin that arms the submunition and directing the open end with a shaped charge downwards.[61] The shaped charge is a concave copper cone that turns into a molten slug and pierces armor when it hits perpendicular to its target. The outside fragmentation shell, which consists of a series of stacked rings, is designed to shoot out metal shards and kill people. In Georgia, Mk.-4 160mm rockets delivered 104 M85s each.[62] The GRADLAR 160 multiple launch rocket system launched the Mk.-4s, which have an outside range of 45 kilometers.[63]
M85s come in two models, with and without self-destruct devices. Human Rights Watch found many unexploded M85s in Georgia, and they were only of the non-self-destruct variety. Then-First Deputy Minister of Defense Kutelia said Georgian military deminers also found primarily non-self-destruct models, but he could not explain their presence. He claimed Georgia bought M85s exclusively with self-destruct mechanisms from Israel.
The 2006 Lebanon war demonstrated that M85s have unacceptably high dud rates regardless of the type. Many military experts had argued the self-destruct version was one of the most reliable and sophisticated submunitions in existence.[64] In testing, the M85 has a 1.3 to 2.3 percent reported failure rate. Based on a study of strike locations where the self-destruct models landed in Lebanon, however, weapons experts and United Nations (UN) deminers estimated that the self-destruct M85s had an actual failure rate of 10 percent or higher.[65]
[36] Human Rights Watch, "Overview of Cluster Munitions in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia," September 2008, http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/ClusterFactSheet_ECA.pdf, p. 2. The true scope of the global trade in cluster munitions has not been fully determined. Mark Hiznay, "Operational and Technical Aspects of Cluster Munitions," Disarmament Forum, vol. 4 (2006), p. 20.
[37] Human Rights Watch, "Cluster Munition Information Chart," March 13, 2009, http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/03/19/cluster-munition-information-chart.
[38] SeeRobert Hewson, ed., Jane's Air-Launched Weapons, Issue 44 (Surrey, UK: Jane's Information Group Limited, 2004), pp. 414-415, 422-432; Leland S. Ness and Anthony G. Williams, eds., Jane's Ammunition Handbook 2007-2008 (Surrey, UK: Jane's Information Group Limited, 2007), pp. 572, 597-598, 683, 703-706, 715-716, 722-723; US Defense Intelligence Agency, "Improved Conventional Munitions and Selected Controlled-Fragmentation Munitions (Current and Projected)," DST-1160S-90, June 8, 1990 (partially declassified and made available to Human Rights Watch under a Freedom of Information Act request); Human Rights Watch, "Overview of Cluster Munitions in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia," p. 5.
[39] The Georgian Ministry of Defense reports having RBK-500 cluster munitions and BKF blocks of submunitions that are carried in KMGUs, but it told Human Rights Watch that their shelf-lives have expired and they are slated for destruction. Response of Georgian Ministry of Defense to Human Rights Watch Questions, February 12, 2009.
[40] See, for example,Hewson, ed., Jane's Air-Launched Weapons, pp. 835-848; Jane's Air-Launched Weapons, Issue 24, July 1996, pp. 840-841; Ness and Williams, eds., Jane's Ammunition Handbook 2007-2008; US Defense Intelligence Agency, "Improved Conventional Munitions and Selected Controlled-Fragmentation Munitions (Current and Projected)"; Human Rights Watch, "Overview of Cluster Munitions in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia," p. 4.
[41] This chart comes from a tabulation of information in Hewson, ed., Jane's Air-Launched Weapons, pp. 414-415, 422-432; Ness and Williams, eds., Jane's Ammunition Handbook 2007-2008, pp. 572, 597-598, 683, 703-706, 715-716, 722-723; US Defense Intelligence Agency, "Improved Conventional Munitions and Selected Controlled-Fragmentation Munitions (Current and Projected)." This chart has been previously published in Human Rights Watch, Survey of Cluster Munition Policy and Practice, February 2007, http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/cluster0207web.pdf.
[42] Handicap International, "Circle of Impact: The Fatal Footprint of Cluster Munitions on People and Communities," 2007, http://en.handicapinternational.be/Circle-of-Impact-,-report-on-the-human-impact-of-cluster-bombs_a467.html (accessed April 1, 2009), p. 85.
[43] Mennonite Central Committee, "Clusters of Death: Global Report on Cluster Bomb Production and Use," 2000, http://mcc.org/clusterbombs/resources/research/death/chapter3.html (accessed January 28, 2009), chapter 3. The chapter cites an email attachment, "Summary of Incidents in Chechnya," from HALO Trust to Virgil Wiebe, Landmine Monitor Researcher, May 10, 2000. This report also has information on additional civilian casualties caused by cluster munitions in Chechnya. See also Human Rights Center Memorial, "Counterterrorist Operation: Starye Atagi, September 1999–May 2002," 2002, http://www.memo.ru/hr/hotpoints/N-Caucas/atagi/Chapter3.htm (accessed February 17, 2009). It reports approximately 140 people killed and more than 200 wounded, the "absolute majority" of whom were civilians.
[44] Handicap International, "Circle of Impact," p. 85.
[45] Mennonite Central Committee, "Clusters of Death," chapter 3.
[46] Ibid. The chapter cites HALO Trust, "Summary of Incidents in Chechnya."
[47] Ibid. See also O. Orlov and A. Cherkasov, "Russia–Chechnya: A Chain of Mistakes and Crimes," Human Rights Center Memorial, http://www.memo.ru/hr/hotpoints/chechen/checheng/czecz.htm (accessed April 1, 2009).
[48] Human Rights Watch, "Cluster Munition Information Chart"; Mennonite Central Committee, "Drop Today, Kill Tomorrow: Cluster Munitions as Inhumane and Indiscriminate Weapons," June 1999, http://www.mineaction.org/downloads/1/MCC_drop%20today%20kill%20tomorrow.pdf (accessed February 18, 2009), p. 5.
[49] Human Rights Watch interview with Batu Kutelia, then Georgian first deputy minister of defense, Tbilisi, October 21, 2008.
[50] Human Rights Watch, Flooding South Lebanon, pp. 45-48.
[51] "Country Inventories: Analysis," in Hewson, ed., Jane's Air-Launched Weapons, p. 839.
[52] Response of Georgian Ministry of Defense to Human Rights Watch Questions, February 12, 2009.
[53] Human Rights Watch interview with Batu Kutelia, October 21, 2008.
[54] Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "Report of the Storimans Investigative Mission," October 20, 2008, http://www.minbuza.nl/binaries/en-pdf/scannen0001.pdf (accessed January 28, 2009), p. 6.
[55] "RBK-500 AO-2.5 RTM Cluster Bomb," in Hewson, ed., Jane's Air-Launched Weapons, p. 425.
[56] "220 mm Uragan Rockets," in Ness and Williams, eds., Jane's Ammunition Handbook 2007-2008, p. 716.
[57] Human Rights Watch interview with Amir Musanovic, technical advisor, Norwegian People's Aid, Ruisi, October 15, 2008.
[58] For information on how many submunitions Uragan rockets carry, see "220 mm Uragan Rockets," in Ness and Williams, eds., Jane's Ammunition Handbook 2007-2008, p. 716.
[59] Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "Report of the Storimans Investigative Mission," p. 6. See also Human Rights Watch telephone interview with Adriaan Jacobovits, former ambassador and head of Storimans Investigative Mission, November 19, 2008.
[60] Human Rights Watch has not been able to determine the significance of the difference between the red and white ribbons. This conflict was the first in which it saw the red ribbons. British forces used white-ribboned versions in Iraq, and the Israelis did the same in Lebanon. Norway possesses, but has not used, the red-ribboned variety. The Georgian Ministry of Defense told Human Rights Watch it knows of "no technical difference" between the two models. Response of Georgian Ministry of Defense to Human Rights Watch Questions, February 12, 2009.
[61] "Ribbon Oriented Dual Purpose Submunition," Database of Demining Incidents and Victims, 2008, http://www.ddasonline.com/SubsKB1-M42.htm (accessed November 17, 2008).
[62] "IMI LAR-160 and AccuLAR 16 mm Rockets," in Ness and Williams, eds., Jane's Ammunition Handbook 2007-2008, pp. 714-715.
[63] For technical information, see "Georgian Ministry of Defence's Response to the Human Rights Watch Inquire [sic] about the Usage of M85 Bomblets," Georgian Ministry of Defense press release, September 1, 2008, http://www.mod.gov.ge/?l=E&m=11&sm=0&id=1046 (accessed March 30, 2009).
[64] Military experts from numerous countries that stockpile the M85 or variants of it have made this claim in discussions with Human Rights Watch during sessions of the CCW in recent years.
[65] For a detailed discussion of the M85 with self-destruct device and its failure in Lebanon, see C. King Associates, Ltd., Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, and Norwegian People's Aid, M85: An Analysis of Reliability (Norway: Norwegian People's Aid, 2007). See also information provided by Ove Dullum, Chief Scientist, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, April 19, 2007; Chris Clark, program manager, Mine Action Coordination Center–South Lebanon, "Unexploded Cluster Bombs and Submunitions in South Lebanon: Reliability from a Field Perspective," presented at the International Committee of the Red Cross Expert Meeting, Montreux, Switzerland, April 18-20, 2007; email communication from Dalya Farran, media and post clearance officer, Mine Action Coordination Center–South Lebanon, to Human Rights Watch, January 16, 2008. For further information on the use and failure of M85s in Lebanon, see Human Rights Watch, Flooding South Lebanon, pp. 30-32, 45-48.


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Rudy Caparas of Lynnwood also recorded a 75 to join Hatch at the top of the leaderboard, while Snohomish's Ethan Casto and Jackson's Kyle Cornett trail the co-leaders by two shots.
The Knights' Brian Moon, Steven Cabanday and Tyler Singer each shot a 78, among 12 golfers tied for fifth, and Matt Kornegay finished at 8-over as Kamiak edged Snohomish by four strokes for team honors.
After play on Monday, 37 of 49 players remain for today's final round. The top 13 finishers qualify for the 4A state tournament, which will take place at Camas Meadows Golf Club on May 21-22.
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Team scores: Kamiak 389, Snohomish 393, Mount Vernon 424, Cascade 424, Arlington 427, Edmonds-Woodway 440.
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy's incoming prime minister said on
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zswap" is discussed, with some initial performance data provided to demonstrate the potential benefits for a system (partition or guest) which has constrained memory and is beginning to swap memory pages to disk. The technique improves the throughput of a system, while significantly reducing the disk I/O activity normally associated with page swapping. We also explore how zswap works in conjunction with the new compression accelerator feature of the POWER7+ processor to potentially improve the system throughput even more than software compression alone.
What is zswap?
Zswap is a new lightweight backend framework that takes pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to compress them and store them in a RAM-based memory pool. Aside from a small reserved portion intended for very low-memory situations, this zswap pool is not pre-allocated, it grows on demand and the max size is user-configurable. Zswap leverages an existing frontend already in mainline called frontswap. The zswap/frontswap process intercepts the normal swap path before the page is actually swapped out, so the existing swap page selection algorithms are unchanged. Zswap also introduces key functionality that automatically evicts pages from the zswap pool to a swap device when the zswap pool is full. This prevents stale pages from filling up the pool.
The zswap patches have been submitted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (lkml) for review, you can view them in this post.
Instructions for building a zswap-enabled kernel on a system installed with Fedora 17 can be found on this wiki.
What are the benefits?
When a page is compressed and stored in a RAM-based memory pool instead of actually being swapped out to a swap device, this results in a significant I/O reduction and in some cases can significantly improve workload performance. The same is true when a page is "swapped back in" - retrieving the desired page from the in-memory zswap pool and decompressing it can result in performance improvements and I/O reductions compared to actually retrieving the page from a swap device.
Performance Results
Using the SPECjbb2005 workload for our engineering tests, we gathered some performance data to show the benefits of zswap. SPECjbb2005 uses a Java™ benchmark that evaluates server performance and calculates a throughput metric called "bops" (business operations per second). To find out more about this benchmark or see the latest official results, see the SPEC web site. Note that the following results are not tuned for optimal performance and should not be considered official benchmark results for the system, but rather results obtained for research purposes. We liked this benchmark for this use case because we could more carefully control the amount of active memory being used in increments.
Measurement method
The SPECjbb2005 workload ramps up a specified number of "warehouses", or units of stored data, during the run. The number of warehouses is a user-controlled setting that is configured depending on the number of threads available to the JVM. As the benchmark increases the number of warehouses throughout the run, the system utilization level increases. A bops score is reported for each warehouse run. For this work, we focused on the bops score from the warehouse that keeps the system about 50% utilized. We also increased the default runtime for each warehouse to 5 minutes since swapping can be bursty and a longer runtime helps to achieve more consistent results.
To demonstrate the performance effects of swapping and compression, we started with a JVM heap size that could be covered by available memory, and then increased the JVM heap size in increments until we were well beyond the amount of free memory, which forced swapping and/or compression to occur. We recorded the throughput metric and swap rate at each data point to measure the impacts as the workload demanded more and more pages.
Settting up zswap
With the current implementation, zswap is enabled by this kernel boot parameter:
Compression metrics
We looked at several new in-kernel stats to determine the characteristics of compression during the run. The metrics used were as follows:
pool_pages - number pages backing the compressed memory pool
reject_tmppage_fail - rejected pages due to tmppage failure (cumulative)
reject_flush_fail - reject flush failed (cumulative)
stored_pages - number of compressed pages stored in zswap
outstanding_flushes - the number of pages queued to be written back
flushed_pages - the number of pages written back from zswap to the swap device (cumulative)
saved_by_flush - the number of stores that succeeded after an initial failure due to reclaim by flushing pages to the swap device
pool_limit_hit - the zswap pool limit has been reached
There are two user-configurable zswap attributes:
max_pool_percent - the maximum percentage of memory that the compressed pool can occupy
failed_stores - how many store attempts have failed (cumulative)
loads - how many loads were attempted (all should succeed) (cumulative)
succ_stores - how many store attempts have succeeded (cumulative)
invalidates - how many invalidates were attempted (cumulative)
To observe performance and swapping behavior once the zswap pool becomes full, we set the max_pool_percent parameter to 20 - this means that zswap can use up to 20% of the 10GB of total memory.
Baseline results
The following graphs represent the SPECjbb2005 performance and swap rate for a run using the normal swapping mechanism.
Note that as "available" memory is used up around 10GB, the performance falls off very quickly (the Blue Line) and normal page swapping (the Red Line) to disk increases. The behavior is consistent both on Power7+ and x86 systems.
As you can see, performance dramatically decreased once the system started swapping and continued to level off as the JVM heap was increased.
zswap results
The following graphs represent the SPECjbb2005 performance and swap rate for a run when zswap is enabled. In these cases, memory is now being compressed, which significantly reduces the need to go to disk for swapped pages. Performance of the workload (the blue line) still drops off but not as sharply, but more importantly the system load on I/O drops dramatically.
Looking at the zswap metrics for each run, we can calculate some interesting statistics from this set of runs - keep in mind the base page size is different between Power (64K pages) and x86 (4K pages), which accounts for some of the different behaviour. Also note that we set the max zswap pool size to 20% of total memory for these runs, as mentioned above - this max setting can be adjusted as needed. On Power, the average zswap compression ratio was 4.3. On x86, the average zswap compression ratio was 3.6. For the Power runs, we saw entries for "pool_limit_hit" starting at the 17 GB data point. For the x86 runs, the pool limit was hit earlier - starting at the 15.5 GB data point. For the Power runs, at most the zswap pool stored 139,759 pages. For the x86 runs, the max number of stored pages was 1,914,720. This means all those pages were compressed and stored in the zswap pool, rather than being swapped out to disk, which results in the performance improvements seen here.
POWER7+ hardware acceleration
The POWER7+ processor introduces new onboard hardware assist accelerators that offer memory compression and decompression capabilities, which can provide significant performance advantages over software compression. As an example, the system specifications for the IBM Flex System p260 and p460 Compute Nodes found here mention the "Memory Expansion acceleration" feature of the processor.
The current zswap implementation is designed to work with these hardware accelerators when they are available, allowing for either software compression or hardware compression. When a user enables zswap and the hardware accelerator, zswap simply passes the pages to be compressed or decompressed off to the accelerator instead of performing the work in software. Here we demonstrate the performance advantages that can result from leveraging the POWER7+ on-chip memory compression accelerator.
POWER7+ hardware compression results
Because the hardware accelerator speeds up compression, looking at the zswap metrics we observed that there were more store and load requests in a given amount of time, which filled up the zswap pool faster than a software compression run. Because of this behavior, we set the max_pool_percent parameter to 30 for the hardware compression runs - this means that zswap can use up to 30% of the 10GB of total memory.
The following graph represents the SPECjbb2005 performance and swap rate for a run when zswap and the POWER7+ hardware accelerator are enabled. In this case, memory is now being compressed in hardware instead of software, and this results in a significant performance improvement. Performance of the workload (the blue line) still drops off, but even less sharply than the zswap software compression case, and the system load on I/O still remains very low.
As you can see, the swap (I/O) rate was dramatically reduced. This is because most pages were compressed using the hardware accelerator and stored in the zswap pool instead of swapped to disk, and taken from the zswap pool and decompressed in the hardware accelerator instead of swapped in from disk when the page was requested again. The small amount of "real" swapping that occurred is due to the fact that some pages compressed poorly - which means they did not meet a user-defined max compressed page size - and were therefore swapped out to the disk, and/or stale pages were evicted from the zswap pool.
Performance comparison
The following graphs show the performance comparison between normal swapping and zswap compression, and the POWER7+ graph also includes the hardware compression results, showing that the hardware accelerator provides even more performance advantages over software compression alone:
As you can see, this workload shows up to a 40% performance improvement in some cases after the heap size exceeds available memory when zswap is enabled, and the POWER7+ results show that the hardware accelerator can improve the performance by up to 60% in some cases compared to the baseline performance.
Swap (I/O) comparison
The following graphs show the swap rate comparison between normal swapping and zswap compression, and the POWER7+ graph includes the hardware compression results, showing that the hardware accelerator also reduces the swap rate dramatically. Swap rates are dramatically reduced on both architectures when zswap is enabled, including the POWER7+ hardware compression results.
The new zswap implementation can improve performance while reducing swap I/O , which can also have positive effects on other partitions that share the same I/O bus. The new POWER7+ on-chip memory compression accelerator can be leveraged to provide performance improvements while still keeping swap I/O very low.
Oibaf, there are some notable differences.
- Status: In staging tree (as of 3.7) and looking to move into mainline
- Implementation: compressed block device, memory is dynamically allocated as data is stored
- Usage: Configure zram block device as a swap device to eliminate need for physical swap defice or swap file
- Benefits:
1. Eliminates need for physical swap device. This beame popular when netbooks first showed up. Zram (then compcache) allowed users to avoid swap shortening the lifespan of SSDs in these memory constrained systems.
2. A zram block device can be used for other applications other than swap, anything you might use a block device for conceivably.
- Drawbacks:
1. Zram's simple design means that the kernel swap path has no knowledge of zram; it just shows up as a regular swap device. If zram can not store the page it returns a write error to the swapper, and that swap slot will not be used in the future; this effectively shrinks the maximum capacity of the zram block device until the system is rebooted.
2. Once a page is stored in zram it will remain there until paged in or invalidated. The first pages to be paged out will be the oldest pages (LRU list), these are 'cold' pages that are infrequently access. As the system continues to swap it will move on to pages that are warmer (more frequently accessed), these may not be able to be stored because of the swap slots consumed by the cold pages. What zswap can not do (compcache had the option to configure a block backing device) is to evict pages out to physical disk. Ideally you want to age data out of the in-kernel compressed swap space out to disk so that you can use kernel memory for caching warm swap pages or free it for more productive use.
- Status: Posted to LKML on Dec 11th, 2012
- Implementation: compressed in-kernel cache for swap pages. In-kernel cache is compressed, the compression algorithm is pluggable using the CryptoAPI and the storage for pages is dynamically allocated. Older pages can be evicted to disk making this a sort of write-behind cache.
- Usage: Cache swap pages destined for regular swap devices (or swap files).
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1. Integration with swap code (using Frontswap API) allows zswap to choose to store only pages that compress well and handle memory allocation failures, in those cases pages are sent to the backing swap device.
2. Oldest pages in the cache are pushed out to backing swap device to make room for newer pages, this solves the LRU inversion problem that a lack of page eviction would present.
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Now, creating flat geometric shapes in bead-weaving is relatively easy. After all, I think most of us learned how to do that brick stitch decrease to create triangles and diamonds when we first started learning how to bead. (My collection of beaded earrings from the early days contains exactly two shapes of beaded earrings: diamonds and triangles!) Even circles can be done without too much hassle, right?
Bead artists these days are branching out into more shapes using more bead-weaving techniques. Take Beadwork magazine Designer of the Year Jean Power, for example. Jean's bead-weaving has led her to start designing with beautiful geometric shapes, worked in both flat and three-dimensional styles. If you've never made anything other than one of those brick stitch triangles, you have nothing to lose by trying some of Jean's fun and funky bead-weaving techniques to make beautiful shaped beadwork!
If you liked Jean's first DVD all about beaded triangles, you'll love her latest DVD, Bead Stitching Pentagons with Jean Power. Jean takes you step-by-step with clear, up-close shots through all of her favorite techniques for creating amazing beaded pentagons using your favorite bead-weaving stitches. I loved being able to follow along as Jean worked her magic with the seed beads, and then could pause the video while I got caught up.
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In Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Presents Circus XTREME, Ringmaster David Shipman guides audiences on a quest around the world with the help of hilarious adventure seekers, Alex and Irina Emelin. The show will thrill you as the Mongolian riders send arrows flying across the arena sky. This all-female troupe displays their skills in one of the most unique acts this year, performing a series of tricks and maneuvers atop elegant two-hump camels. Jaw-dropping freestyle BMX riders and free running tumblers fill the arena floor performing crazy-stunts mixed with acrobats leaping through a 15ft. transparent tower - and this is just one act! During this energetic show, personal introductions to our performing pachyderms will allow audiences to be on a first name basis with magnificent animals.


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YIELD: Makes 8 servings
Ingredients1 Prepared Pillsbury Pie Crust in box in Dairy Section (or make your own)
2 C Shredded Cheese (Cheddar, Mozzarella, or Italian Blend) Divided in half
4 to 6 Red Ripe Tomatoes (Sliced ¼" thick)
3 to 4 T of Chopped Fresh Basil (or 1 T of dried)
2 Eggs (beaten)
¾ C Mayonnaise in a jar (do not use the squeeze kind)
Preparation·Place pie crust in a deep-dish pie plate.
·Poke lots of holes in the pie crust.
·Bake in a 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes (until slightly browned)
·Remove pie crust from oven and immediately add 1 cup of the cheese.
·Pat the cheese into the hot pie crust. The cheese will melt and seal the bottom of the crust. Set aside for about 15 minutes until cooled.
·Layer tomatoes in the prepared pie crust.
·Sprinkle with Salt & Pepper.
·Pour the 2 beaten eggs over the tomatoes.
·Sprinkle with the Basil
·Mix together the Mayonnaise and the other cup of cheese.
·Spread the Mayo/cheese mixture on the tomatoes.
Note: At this point you can refrigerate until ready to bake. No more than a few hours.
·Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
·Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for about 20 minutes more. The cheese should be nicely browned.
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Bio Major's Eyes Wide Open at RIT Center for Imaging Science
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Austin Iovoli, a rising senior at Susquehanna University majoring in both biology and philosophy, is a man on the move. Iovoli, from Victor, N.Y., runs the steeple chase event for the men's track team. He's applying to medical schools, and he's drawing on his internship experience last summer at Susquehanna to help this summer with emerging research related to eye tracking at Rochester Institute of Technology's Carlson Center for Imaging Science. The center is a leading research facility dedicated to pushing the frontiers of imaging in all its forms and uses.
Tell us about your internship:
"Our lab is working on visual perception using eye trackers and virtual reality. The main project I'm working on is the latency test for our lab's motion capture system. The way we collect data in the lab is to use active marker motion capture systems. You hook up objects or people with LED markers that emit infrared light that's then picked up by cameras mounted around the edges of the room. That sends orientation and position data to the server. We're able to synchronize virtual objects with these physical objects attached to the markers. The latency test inspects what the lag time is for when you move an object in the physical world to when it moves in the virtual world. This is really important to the lab because a lot of the experiments involve eye trackers, which work on an order of magnitude of milliseconds. It's really important to know that you're getting accurate data when you're modelling natural behavior by having a low latency period."
How has Susquehanna prepared you?
"Last summer I performed research as part of the Research Partners program at Susquehanna with Dr. (Jack) Holt [professor of biology]. I was exposed to a lot of imaging technologies that I'm working with now, like the scanning electron microscope. Experiences like that and learning about research methods and procedures, how to work full time as a researcher, how to think out of the box and overcome challenges that come up, and how to put together a presentation have definitely helped me ease into this experience."
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"I think it's huge that undergraduates are able to do research at Susquehanna. Especially in the sciences, a lot of graduate and postgraduate opportunities involve research. The main purpose of grad school is to dive into an issue more in-depth. Having the background and experience to go into a lab is huge."
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For overclockers who really want to get an extra punch out of their GPU.. a stock cooler doesn't usually do it justice. Copper Heatsinks are becoming more and more popular, and Logisys has joined that bandwagon. Does their Copper cooler improve on a stock cooler?
As you can see, my GPU needs to be cleaned badly. However, I did not have any Thermal Paste remover handy, so I had to leave it the way it is. I highly recommend cleaning your chip prior to installing a new Cooler, and then putting fresh paste on. For the sake of making me look like I know what I am doing, try to envision the board as it would be after a cleaning.
Now the first step you will want to take, is mounted the Memory Heatsinks that are included, onto the board. The kit comes with some Thermal Tape ready to be used, so it's as easy as sticking them on the back of the Heatsinks, then mount the Heatsinks to the board. These are not going to be removed easily, so careful how you place them.
You don't have to worry if the Memory Heatsinks will take too much room, because the GPU Heatsink gives them enough clearance. After they are placed, you can now use some Thermal Paste on the GPU and mount the Heatsink.
Now you will need the A or B clip that's included with the kit. It's somewhat tricky doing this with only two hands, but if I managed it.. 'nuff said. While holding the Heatsink in place, you need to turn over the card and mount the Clip and screw it into place.
All done! I can't say I am that pleased with the fit of the Cooler.. it's just not as tight as I would like it to be. It felt that the screws could have gone in further to tighten it.. but they wouldn't. It's sufficiently tight enough, but I would have preferred it a little tighter.. just to know that the Heatsink is as snug as possible against the GPU


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Artist: Avery Storm
Featuring: N.O.R.E
Song: Head Over Heels
Album: Audiobiography EP
When you first fall in love, it feels like you've just jumped off of a cliff with no parachute. But let Avery Storm extend his hand and catch you before you fall too far. On his latest single,... More
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Featuring: Busta Rhymes
Song: Manners
Some emcees aspire to be the Lebron James of hip-hop. N.O.R.E. apparently wants to be its Judith Martin. On a brand new promotional single, the seasoned rhymesayer joins forces with a fellow East... More
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Artist: Blue Sky Black Death
Song: Valley of Kings
Blue Sky Black Death, the Seattle-based beat duo behind Deniro Farrar's Danger and Mr. MFN eXquire's The Message 1 and 2, make their first foray into the solo spotlight with Valley of... More
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Featuring: Brian McKnight
When it comes to knowledge of the female anatomy, N.O.R.E. can't be beat; according to his latest single, even women could stand to learn a few things from the NYC street vet. On Let Me Show You... More
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Featuring: N.O.R.E
Either the haters are getting really lazy or ¡MAYDAY!'s latest mixtape is a genuinely flawless musical masterpiece; more than two months after its release, Lords of the Fly has yet to receive a... More
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