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2012-13 Crimson & Gold Cup - INDIANA VS. PURDUE
2012-13 Crimson & Gold Cup - INDIANA VS. PURDUE
The rivalry between IU and Purdue continues with the 2012-13 Crimson & Gold Cup. The overall winner of the contest will be awarded a trophy at the end of the season. Each sport can earn one point toward the overall championship. A total of 19 points can be won. The winner of regular season head-to-head competition earns the point for its institution. Should the teams split or tie in regular season competition the point is split between the two institutions.
Indiana won the 2011-12 Crimson & Gold Cup, 11.5-7.5. IU has a 5-1-2 record against Purdue in the competition over the last eight years.
If the two institutions do not compete in head-to-head regular season competition, the team that places higher at the Big Ten Championship will earn the point. Should they tie in conference championship competition the point will be split. In the sport of track & field, three-way meets that are scored as dual meets do not count as head-to-head competition.
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lights dont rise when undertaker is on the steps about to get in the ring
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anyone know how to fix these
undertakers hat appears under hood on hooded attire
lights dont rise when undertaker is on the steps about to get in the ring
you cant see the water that triple...
when do you guys or do you think the undertaker will ever return to smackdown because it was so much better when ever the deadman is on there
i heard he is returning on the 1000th raw could he...
im watching ROH tv and truth martini just said he is bringing in the "guardians of truth" so who do you guys think it is?
by the way i hope its Rhyno and Elgin they would be a powerhouse tag team...
i have a life i don't have time to type 30 pages this took like 4 minuets
here are a few guys who can really get the crowd going
New age outlaws
The rock
Stone cold Steve Austin
thanks for commenting guys and the title is best technical wrestlers not best technical wrestlers ever
Heres my opinion in random order
The New Age Outlaws Road Dogg Jesse James and The Bad ass Billy Gunn
Dean Malenko
Ken Shamrock
Billy Kidman
Bam Bam Bigelow
Lance Storm
Ronny Garvin
Here's my opinion for the best technical wrestlers in random order
Dean Malenko
Owen Hart
Bret Hart
Chris Benoit
Davey Boy Smith
Macho Man
Tyson Kidd
thanks, i forgot hardcore holly
these are some of the guys who i think have the best dropkicks in random order
Randy Orton
Maven Huffman
AJ Styles
Dolph Ziggler
John Morrison
Chris Jericho
Hardcore holly
nice comment TheBritishInvasion i agree with pretty much everything you said and i would really like to see damion sandow hold the IC title
People say the IC title has lost its significance but i dont think it has i just think the WWE doesn't market it enough. you never see an advertisement saying come to the blah blah blah arena on june...
One thing i think no one is talking about is how people could have forgotten that it moved to 8:00
I think he should because i believe Bam Bam and Mr.perfect are the best to never win a WWF championship and Perfect has already been inducted
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Ever since SandForce introduced data reduction technology with the DuraWrite™ feature in 2009, some users have been confused about how it works and questioned whether it delivers the benefits we claim. Some even believe there are downsides to using DuraWrite with an SSD. In this blog, I will dispel those misconceptions.
Data reduction technology refresher
Four of my previous blogs cover the many advantages of using data reduction technology like DuraWrite:
In a nutshell, data reduction technology reduces the size of data written to the flash memory, but returns 100% of the original data when reading it back from the flash. This reduction in the required storage space helps accelerate reads and writes, extend the life of the flash and increase the dynamic over provisioning (OP).
What is incompressible data?
Data is incompressible when data reduction technology is unable to reduce the size of a dataset – in which case the technology offers no benefit for the user. File types that are altogether or mostly incompressible include MPEG, JPEG, ZIP and encrypted files. However, data reduction technology is applied to an entire SSD, so the free space resulting from the smaller, compressed files increases OP for all file types, even incompressible files.
The images below help illustrate this process. The image on the left represents a standard SSD 256GB SSD filled to about 80% capacity with a typical operating system, applications and user data. The remaining 20% of free space is automatically used by the SSD as dynamic OP. The image on the right shows how the same data stored on a data reduction-capable SSD can nearly double the available OP for the SSD because the operating system, applications and half of the user data can be reduced in this example.
Why is dynamic OP so important?
OP is the lifeblood of a flash memory-based SSD (nearly all of them available today). Without OP the SSD could not operate. Allocating more space for OP increases an SSD's performance and endurance, as well as reduces it power consumption. In the illustrations above, both SSDs are storing about 30% of user data as incompressible files like MPEG movies and JPG images. As I mentioned, data reduction technology can't compress those files, but the rest of the data can be reduced. The result is the SSD with data reduction delivers higher overall performance than the standard SSD even with incompressible data.
Misconception 1: Data reduction technology is a trick
There's no trickery with data reduction technology. The process is simple: It reduces the size of data differently depending on the content, increasing SSD speed and endurance.
Misconception 2: Users with movie, picture, and audio files will not benefit from data reduction
As illustrated above, as long as an operating system and other applications are stored on the SSD, there will be at least some increase in dynamic OP and performance despite the incompressible files.
Misconception 3: Testing with all incompressible data delivers worst-case performance
Given that a typical SSD stores an operating system, programs and other data files, an SSD test that writes only incompressible data to the device would underestimate the performance of the SSD in user deployments.
Data reduction technology delivers
Data reduction technology, like LSI® SandForce® DuraWrite, is often misunderstood to the point that users believe they would be better off without it. The truth is, with data reduction technology, nearly every user will see performance and endurance gains with their SSD regardless of how much incompressible data is stored.
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I was asked some interesting questions recently by CEO & CIO, a Chinese business magazine. The questions ranged from how Chinese Internet giants like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent differ from other customers and what leading technologies big Internet companies have created to questions about emerging technologies such as software-defined storage (SDS) and software-defined datacenters (SDDC) and changes in the ecosystem of datacenter hardware, software and service providers. These were great questions. Sometimes you need the press or someone outside the industry to ask a question that makes you step back and think about what's going on.
I thought you might interested, so this blog, the first of a 3-part series covering the interview, shares details of the first two questions.
CEO & CIO: In recent years, Internet companies have built ultra large-scale datacenters. Compared with traditional enterprises, they also take the lead in developing datacenter technology. From an industry perspective, what are the three leading technologies of ultra large-scale Internet data centers in your opinion? Please describe them.
There are so many innovations and important contributions to the industry from these hyperscale datacenters in hardware, software and mechanical engineering. To choose three is difficult. While I would prefer to choose hardware innovations as their big ones, I would suggest the following as they have changed our world and our industry and are changing our hardware and businesses:
Autonomous behavior and orchestration
An architect at Microsoft once told me, "If we had to hire admins for our datacenter in a normal enterprise way, we would hire all the IT admins in the world, and still not have enough." There are now around 1 million servers in Microsoft datacenters. Hyperscale datacenters have had to develop autonomous, self-managing, sometimes self-deploying datacenter infrastructure simply to expand. They are pioneering datacenter technology for scale – innovating, learning by trial and error, and evolving their practices to drive more work/$. Their practices are specialized but beginning to be emulated by the broader IT industry. OpenStack is the best example of how that specialized knowledge and capability is being packaged and deployed broadly in the industry. At LSI, we're working with both hyperscale and orchestration solutions to make better autonomous infrastructure.
High availability at datacenter level vs. machine level
As systems get bigger they have more components, more modes of failure and they get more complex and expensive to maintain reliability. As storage is used more, and more aggressively, drives tend to fail. They are simply being used more. And yet there is continued pressure to reduce costs and complexity. By the time hyperscale datacenters had evolved to massive scale – 100's of thousands of servers in multiple datacenters – they had created solutions for absolute reliability, even as individual systems got less expensive, less complex and much less reliable. This is what has enabled the very low cost structures of the cloud, and made it a reliable resource.
These solutions are well timed too, as more enterprise organizations need to maintain on-premises data across multiple datacenters with absolute reliability. The traditional view that a single server requires 99.999% reliability is giving way to a more pragmatic view of maintaining high reliability at the macro level – across the entire datacenter. This approach accepts the failure of individual systems and components even as it maintains data center level reliability. Of course – there are currently operational issues with this approach. LSI has been working with hyperscale datacenters and OEMs to engineer improved operational efficiency and resilience, and minimized impact of individual component failure, while still relying on the datacenter high-availability (HA) layer for reliability.
Big data
It's such an overused term. It's difficult to believe the term barely existed a few years ago. The gift of Hadoop® to the industry – an open source attempt to copy Google® MapReduce and Google File System – has truly changed our world unbelievably quickly. Today, Hadoop and the other big data applications enable search, analytics, advertising, peta-scale reliable file systems, genomics research and more – even services like Apple® Siri run on Hadoop. Big data has changed the concept of analytics from statistical sampling to analysis of all data. And it has already enabled breakthroughs and changes in research, where relationships and patterns are looked for empirically, rather than based on theories.
Overall, I think big data has been one of the most transformational technologies this century. Big data has changed the focus from compute to storage as the primary enabler in the datacenter. Our embedded hard disk controllers, SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) host bus adaptors and RAID controllers have been at the heart of this evolution. The next evolutionary step in big data is the broad adoption of graph analysis, which integrates the relationship of data, not just the data itself.
CEO & CIO: Due to cloud computing, mobile connectivity and big data, the traditional IT ecosystem or industrial chain is changing. What are the three most important changes in LSI's current cooperation with the ecosystem chain? How does LSI see the changes in the various links of the traditional ecosystem chain? What new links are worth attention? Please give some examples.
Cloud computing and the explosion of data driven by mobile devices and media has and continues to change our industry and ecosystem contributors dramatically. It's true the enterprise market (customers, OEMs, technology, applications and use cases) has been pretty stable for 10-20 years, but as cloud computing has become a significant portion of the server market, it has increasingly affected ecosystem suppliers like LSI.
Timing: It's no longer enough to follow Intel's ticktock product roadmap. Development cycles for datacenter solutions used to be 3 to 5 years. But these cycles are becoming shorter. Now, demand for solutions is closer to 6 months – forcing hardware vendors to plan and execute to far tighter development cycles. Hyperscale datacenters also need to be able to expand resources very quickly, as customer demand dictates. As a result they incorporate new architectures, solutions and specifications out of cycle with the traditional Intel roadmap changes. This has also disrupted the ecosystem.
End customers: Hyperscale datacenters now have purchasing power in the ecosystem, with single purchase orders sometimes amounting to 5% of the server market. While OEMs still are incredibly important, they are not driving large-scale deployments or innovating and evolving nearly as fast. The result is more hyperscale design-win opportunities for component or sub-system vendors if they offer something unique or a real solution to an important problem. This also may shift profit pools away from OEMs to strong, nimble technology solution innovators. It also has the potential to reduce overall profit pools for the whole ecosystem, which is a potential threat to innovation speed and re-investment.
New players: Traditionally, a few OEMs and ISVs globally have owned most of the datacenter market. However, the supply chain of the hyperscale cloud companies has changed that. Leading datacenters have architected, specified or even built (in Google's case) their own infrastructure, though many large cloud datacenters have been equipped with hyperscale-specific systems from Dell and HP. But more and more systems built exactly to datacenter specifications are coming from suppliers like Quanta. Newer network suppliers like Arista have increased market share. Some new hyperscale solution vendors have emerged, like Nebula. And software has shifted to open source, sometimes supported for-pay by companies copying the Redhat® Linux model – companies like Cloudera, Mirantis or United Stack. Personally, I am still waiting for the first 3rd-party hardware service emulating a Linux support and service company to appear.
Open initiatives: Yes, we've seen Hadoop and its derivatives deployed everywhere now – even in traditional industries like oil and gas, pharmacology, genomics, etc. And we've seen the emergence of open-source alternatives to traditional databases being deployed, like Casandra. But now we're seeing new initiatives like Open Compute and OpenStack. Sure these are helpful to hyperscale datacenters, but they are also enabling smaller companies and universities to deploy hyperscale-like infrastructure and get the same kind of automated control, efficiency and cost structures that hyperscale datacenters enjoy. (Of course they don't get fully there on any front, but it's a lot closer). This trend has the potential to hurt OEM and ISV business models and markets and establish new entrants – even as we see Quanta, TYAN, Foxconn, Wistron and others tentatively entering the broader market through these open initiatives.
New architectures and new algorithms: There is a clear movement toward pooled resources (or rack scale architecture, or disaggregated servers). Developing pooled resource solutions has become a partnership between core IP providers like Intel and LSI with the largest hyperscale datacenter architects. Traditionally new architectures were driven by OEMs, but that is not so true anymore. We are seeing new technologies emerge to enable these rack-scale architectures (RSA) – technologies like silicon photonics, pooled storage, software-defined networks (SDN), and we will soon see pooled main memory and new nonvolatile main memories in the rack.
We are also seeing the first tries at new processor architectures about to enter the datacenter: ARM 64 for cool/cold storage and web tier and OpenPower P8 for high power processing – multithreaded, multi-issue, pooled memory processing monsters. This is exciting to watch. There is also an emerging interest in application acceleration: general-purposing computing on graphics processing units (GPGPUs), regular expression processors (regex) live stream analytics, etc. We are also seeing the first generation of graph analysis deployed at massive scale in real time.
Innovation: The pace of innovation appears to be accelerating, although maybe I'm just getting older. But the easy gains are done. On one hand, datacenters need exponentially more compute and storage, and they need to operate 10x to 1000x more quickly. On the other, memory, processor cores, disks and flash technologies are getting no faster. The only way to fill that gap is through innovation. So it's no surprise there are lots of interesting things happening at OEMs and ISVs, chip and solution companies, as well as open source community and startups. This is what makes it such an interesting time and industry.
Consumption shifts: We are seeing a decline in laptop and personal computer shipments, a drop that naturally is reducing storage demand in those markets. Laptops are also seeing a shift to SSD from HDD. This has been good for LSI, as our footprint in laptop HDDs had been small, but our presence in laptop SSDs is very strong. Smart phones and tablets are driving more cloud content, traffic and reliance on cloud storage. We have seen a dramatic increase in large HDDs for cloud storage, a trend that seems to be picking up speed, and we believe the cloud HDD market will be very healthy and will see the emergence of new, cloud-specific HDDs that are radically different and specifically designed for cool and cold storage.
There is also an explosion of SSD and PCIe flash cards in cloud computing for databases, caches, low-latency access and virtual machine (VM) enablement. Many applications that we take for granted would not be possible without these extreme low-latency, high-capacity flash products. But very few companies can make a viable storage system from flash at an acceptable cost, opening up an opportunity for many startups to experiment with different solutions.
Summary: So I believe the biggest hyperscale innovations are autonomous behavior and orchestration, HA at the datacenter level vs. machine level, and big data. These are radically changing the whole industry. And what are those changes for our industry and ecosystem? You name it: timing, end customers, new players, open initiatives, new architectures and algorithms, innovation, and consumption patterns. All that's staying the same are legacy products and solutions.
These were great questions. Sometimes you need the press or someone outside the industry to ask a question that makes you step back and think about what's going on. Great questions.
Restructuring the datacenter ecosystem (Part 2)
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I often think about green, environmental impact, and what we're doing to the environment. One major reason I became an engineer was to leave the world a little better than when I arrived. I've gotten sidetracked a few times, but I've tried to help, even if just a little.
The good people in LSI's EHS (Environment, Health & Safety) asked me a question the other day about carbon footprint, energy impact, and materials use. Which got me thinking … OK – I know most people in LSI don't really think of ourselves as a "green tech" company. But we are – really. No foolin'. We are having a big impact on the global power consumption and material consumption of the IT industry. And I mean that in a good way.
There are many ways to look at this, both from what we enable datacenters to do, to what we enable integrators to do, all the way to hard-core technology improvements and massive changes in what it's possible to do.
Back in 2008 I got to speak at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference. (I was lucky enough to be just after Elon Musk– he's a lot more famous now with Tesla doing so well.
http://www.smartplanet.com/video/making-the-case-for-green-it/305467 (at 2:09 in video)
IT consumes massive amounts of energy
The massive deployment of IT equipment, all the ancillary metal, plastic wiring, etc. that goes with them, consumes energy as its being shipped and moved halfway around the world, and, more importantly, then gets scrapped out quickly. This has been a concern for me for quite a while. I mean – think about that. As an industry we are generating about 9 million servers a year, about 3 million go into hyperscale datacenters (or hyperscale if you prefer). Many of those are scrapped on a 2, 3 or 4 year cycle – so in steady state, maybe 1 million to 2 million a year are scrapped. Worse – there is amazing use of energy by that many servers (even as they have advanced the state of the art unbelievably since 2008). And frankly, you and I are responsible for using all that power. Did you know thousands of servers are activated every time you make a Google® query from your phone?
I want to take a look at basic silicon improvements we make, the impact of disk architecture improvement, SSDs, system and improvements, efficiency improvements, and also where we're going in the near future with eliminating scrap in hard drives and batteries. In reality, it's the massive pressure on work/$ that has made us optimize everything – being able to do much more work at a lower cost, when a lot of cost is the energy and material that goes into the products that forces our hand. But the result is a real, profound impact on our carbon footprint that we should be proud of.
Sure we have a general silicon roadmap where each node enables reduced power, even as some standards and improvements actually increase individual device power. For example, our transition from 28nm semi process to 14nm FinFET can literally cut the power consumption of a chip in half. But that's small potatoes.
Ethernet abounds
How about Ethernet? It's everywhere – right? Did you know servers often have 4 ethernet ports, and that there are a matching 4 ports on a network switch? LSI pioneered something called Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE). We're also one of the biggest manufacturers of Ethernet PHYs – the part that drives the cable – and we come standard in everything from personal computers to servers to enterprise switches. The savings are hard to estimate, because they depend very much on how much traffic there is, but you can realistically save Watts per interface link, and there are often 256 links in a rack. 500 Watts per rack is no joke, and in some datacenters it adds up to 1 or 2 MegaWatts.
How about something a little bigger and more specific? Hard disk drives. Did you know a typical hyperscale datacenter has between 1 million and 1.5 million disk drives? Each one of those consumes about 9 Watts, and most have 2 TBytes of capacity. So for easy math, 1 million drives is about 9 MegaWatts (!?) and about 2 Exabytes of capacity (remember – data is often replicated 3 or more times). Data capacities in these facilities are needed to grow about 50% per year. So if we did nothing, we would need to go from 1 million drives to 1.5 million drives: 9 MegaWatts goes to 13.5 MegaWatts. Wow! Instead – our high linearity, low noise PA and read channel designs are allowing drives to go to 4 TBytes per drives. (Sure the chip itself may use slightly more power, but that's not the point, what it enables is a profound difference.) So to get that 50% increase in capacity we could actually reduce the number of drives deployed, with a net savings of 6.75 MegaWatts. Consider an average US home, with air conditioning, uses 1 kiloWatt. That's almost 7,000 homes. In reality – they won't get deployed that way – but it will still be a huge savings. Instead of buying another 0.5 million drives they would buy 0.25 million drives with a net savings of 2.2 MegaWatts. That's still HUGE! (way to go, guys!) How many datacenters are doing that? Dozens. So that's easily 20 or 30 MegaWatts globally. Did I say we saved them money too? A lot of money.
SSDs sip power to help improve energy profile
SSDs don't always get the credit they deserve. Yes, they really are fast, and they are awesome in your laptop, but they also end up being much lower power than hard drives. Our controllers were in about half the flash solutions shipped last year. Think tens of millions. If you just assume they were all laptop SSDs (at least half were not) then that's another 20 MegaWatts in savings.
Did you know that in a traditional datacenter, about 30% of the power going into the building is used for air conditioning? It doesn't actually get used on the IT equipment at all, but is used to remove the heat that the IT equipment generates. We design our solutions so they can accommodate 40C ambient inlet air (that's a little over 100F… hot). What that means is that the 30% of power used for the air conditioners disappears. Gone. That's not theoretical either. Most of the large social media, search engine, web shopping, and web portal companies are using our solutions this way. That's a 30% reduction in the power of storage solutions globally. Again, its MegaWatts in savings. And mega money savings too.
But let's really get to the big hitters: improved work per server. Yep – we do that. In fact adding a Nytro™ MegaRAID® solution will almost always give you 4x the work out of a server. It's a slam dunk if you're running a database. You heard me – 1 server doing the work that it previously took 4 servers to do. Not only is that a huge savings in dollars (especially if you pay for software licenses!) but it's a massive savings in power. You can replace 4 servers with 1, saving at least 900 Watts, and that lone server that's left is actually dissipating less power too, because it's actively using fewer HDDs, and using flash for most traffic instead. If you go a step further and use Nytro WarpDrive Flash cards in the servers, you can get much more – 6 to 8 times the work. (Yes, sometimes up to 10x, but let's not get too excited). If you think that's just theoretical again, check your Facebook® account, or download something from iTunes®. Those two services are the biggest users of PCIe® flash in the world. Why? It works cost effectively. And in case you haven't noticed those two companies like to make money, not spend it. So again, we're talking about MegaWatts of savings. Arguably on the order of 150 MegaWatts. Yea – that's pretty theoretical, because they couldn't really do the same work otherwise, but still, if you had to do the work in a traditional way, it would be around that.
It's hard to be more precise than giving round numbers at these massive scales, but the numbers are definitely in the right zone. I can say with a straight face we save the world 10's, and maybe even 100's of MegaWatts per year. But no one sees that, and not many people even think about it. Still – I'd say LSI is a green hero.
The future
Hey – we're not done by a long shot. Let's just look at scrap. If you read my earlier post on false disk failure, you'll see some scary numbers. (http://blog.lsi.com/what-is-false-disk-failure-and-why-is-it-a-problem/ ) A normal hyperscale datacenter can expect 40-60 disks per day to be mistakenly scrapped out. That's around 20,000 disk drives a year that should not have been scrapped, from just one web company. Think of the material waste, shipping waste, manufacturing waste, and eWaste issues. Wow – all for nothing. We're working on solutions to that. And batteries. Ugly, eWaste, recycle only, heavy metal batteries. They are necessary for RAID protected storage systems. And much of the world's data is protected that way – the battery is needed to save meta-data and transient writes in the event of a power failure, or server failure. We ship millions a year. (Sorry, mother earth). But we're working diligently to make that a thing of the past. And that will also result in big savings for datacenters in both materials and recycling costs.
Can we do more? Sure. I know I am trying to get us the core technologies that will help reduce power consumption, raise capability and performance, and reduce waste. But we'll never be done with that march of technology. (Which is a good thing if engineering is your career…)
I still often think about green, environmental impact, and what we're doing to the environment. And I guess in my own small way, I am leaving the world a little better than when I arrived. And I think we at LSI should at least take a moment and pat ourselves on the back for that. You have to celebrate the small victories, you know? Even as the fight goes on.
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I want to warn you, there is some thick background information here first. But don't worry. I'll get to the meat of the topic and that's this: Ultimately, I think that PCIe® cards will evolve to more external, rack-level, pooled flash solutions, without sacrificing all their great attributes today. This is just my opinion, but other leaders in flash are going down this path too…
I've been working on enterprise flash storage since 2007 – mulling over how to make it work. Endurance, capacity, cost, performance have all been concerns that have been grappled with. Of course the flash is changing too as the nodes change: 60nm, 50nm, 35nm, 24nm, 20nm… and single level cell (SLC) to multi level cell (MLC) to triple level cell (TLC) and all the variants of these "trimmed" for specific use cases. The spec "endurance" has gone from 1 million program/erase cycles (PE) to 3,000, and in some cases 500.
It's worth pointing out that almost all the "magic" that has been developed around flash was already scoped out in 2007. It just takes a while for a whole new industry to mature. Individual die capacity increased, meaning fewer die are needed for a solution – and that means less parallel bandwidth for data transfer… And the "requirement" for state-of-the-art single operation write latency has fallen well below the write latency of the flash itself. (What the ?? Yea – talk about that later in some other blog. But flash is ~1500uS write latency, where state of the art flash cards are ~50uS.) When I describe the state of technology it sounds pretty pessimistic. I'm not. We've overcome a lot.
We built our first PCIe card solution at LSI in 2009. It wasn't perfect, but it was better than anything else out there in many ways. We've learned a lot in the years since – both from making them, and from dealing with customer and users – about our own solutions and our competitors. We're lucky to be an important player in storage, so in general the big OEMs, large enterprises and the hyperscale datacenters all want to talk with us – not just about what we have or can sell, but what we could have and what we could do. They're generous enough to share what works and what doesn't. What the values of solutions are and what the pitfalls are too. Honestly? It's the hyperscale datacenters in the lead both practically and in vision.
If you haven't nodded off to sleep yet, that's a long-winded way of saying – things have changed fast, and, boy, we've learned a lot in just a few years.
Most important thing we've learned…
Most importantly, we've learned it's latency that matters. No one is pushing the IOPs limits of flash, and no one is pushing the bandwidth limits of flash. But they sure are pushing the latency limits.
PCIe cards are great, but…
We've gotten lots of feedback, and one of the biggest things we've learned is – PCIe flash cards are awesome. They radically change performance profiles of most applications, especially databases allowing servers to run efficiently and actual work done by that server to multiply 4x to 10x (and in a few extreme cases 100x). So the feedback we get from large users is "PCIe cards are fantastic. We're so thankful they came along. But…" There's always a "but," right??
It tends to be a pretty long list of frustrations, and they differ depending on the type of datacenter using them. We're not the only ones hearing it. To be clear, none of these are stopping people from deploying PCIe flash… the attraction is just too compelling. But the problems are real, and they have real implications, and the market is asking for real solutions.
Of course, everyone wants these fixed without affecting single operation latency, or increasing cost, etc. That's what we're here for though – right? Solve the impossible?
A quick summary is in order. It's not looking good. For a given solution, flash is getting less reliable, there is less bandwidth available at capacity because there are fewer die, we're driving latency way below the actual write latency of flash, and we're not satisfied with the best solutions we have for all the reasons above.
The implications
If you think these through enough, you start to consider one basic path. It also turns out we're not the only ones realizing this. Where will PCIe flash solutions evolve over the next 2, 3, 4 years? The basic goals are:
One easy answer would be – that's a flash SAN or NAS. But that's not the answer. Not many customers want a flash SAN or NAS – not for their new infrastructure, but more importantly, all the data is at the wrong end of the straw. The poor server is left sucking hard. Remember – this is flash, and people use flash for latency. Today these SAN type of flash devices have 4x-10x worse latency than PCIe cards. Ouch. You have to suck the data through a relatively low bandwidth interconnect, after passing through both the storage and network stacks. And there is interaction between the I/O threads of various servers and applications – you have to wait in line for that resource. It's true there is a lot of startup energy in this space. It seems to make sense if you're a startup, because SAN/NAS is what people use today, and there's lots of money spent in that market today. However, it's not what the market is asking for.
Another easy answer is NVMe SSDs. Right? Everyone wants them – right? Well, OEMs at least. Front bay PCIe SSDs (HDD form factor or NVMe – lots of names) that crowd out your disk drive bays. But they don't fix the problems. The extra mechanicals and form factor are more expensive, and just make replacing the cards every 5 years a few minutes faster. Wow. With NVME SSDs, you can fit fewer HDDs – not good. They also provide uniformly bad cooling, and hard limit power to 9W or 25W per device. But to protect the storage in these devices, you need to have enough of them that you can RAID or otherwise protect. Once you have enough of those for protection, they give you awesome capacity, IOPs and bandwidth, too much in fact, but that's not what applications need – they need low latency for the working set of data.
What do I think the PCIe replacement solutions in the near future will look like? You need to pool the flash across servers (to optimize bandwidth and resource usage, and allocate appropriate capacity). You need to protect against failures/errors and limit the span of failure, commit writes at very low latency (lower than native flash) and maintain low latency, bottleneck-free physical links to each server… To me that implies:
That means the performance looks exactly as if each server had multiple PCIe cards. But the capacity and bandwidth resources are shared, and systems can remain resilient. So ultimately, I think that PCIe cards will evolve to more external, rack level, pooled flash solutions, without sacrificing all their great attributes today. This is just my opinion, but as I say – other leaders in flash are going down this path too…
What's your opinion?
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It may sound crazy, but hard disk drives (HDDs) do not have a delete command. Now we all know HDDs have a fixed capacity, so over time the older data must somehow get removed, right? Actually it is not removed, but overwritten. The operating system (OS) uses a reference table to track the locations (addresses) of all data on the HDD. This table tells the OS which spots on the HDD are used and which are free. When the OS or a user deletes a file from the system, the OS simply marks the corresponding spot in the table as free, making it available to store new data.
The HDD is told nothing about this change, and it does not need to know since it would not do anything with that information. When the OS is ready to store new data in that location, it just sends the data to the HDD and tells it to write to that spot, directly overwriting the prior data. It is simple and efficient, and no delete command is required.
Enter SSDs
However, with the advent of NAND flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) a new problem emerged. In my blog, Gassing up your SSD, I explain how NAND flash memory pages cannot be directly overwritten with new data, but must first be erased at the block level through a process called garbage collection (GC). I further describe how the SSD uses non-user space in the flash memory (over provisioning or OP) to improve performance and longevity of the SSD. In addition, any user space not consumed by the user becomes what we call dynamic over provisioning – dynamic because it changes as the amount of stored data changes.
When less data is stored by the user, the amount of dynamic OP increases, further improving performance and endurance. The problem I alluded to earlier is caused by the lack of a delete command. Without a delete command, every SSD will eventually fill up with data, both valid and invalid, eliminating any dynamic OP. The result would be the lowest possible performance at that factory OP level. So unlike HDDs, SSDs need to know what data is invalid in order to provide optimum performance and endurance.
Keeping your SSD TRIM
A number of years ago, the storage industry got together and developed a solution between the OS and the SSD by creating a new SATA command called TRIM. It is not a command that forces the SSD to immediately erase data like some people believe. Actually the TRIM command can be thought of as a message from the OS about what previously used addresses on the SSD are no longer holding valid data. The SSD takes those addresses and updates its own internal map of its flash memory to mark those locations as invalid. With this information, the SSD no longer moves that invalid data during the GC process, eliminating wasted time rewriting invalid data to new flash pages. It also reduces the number of write cycles on the flash, increasing the SSD's endurance. Another benefit of the TRIM command is that more space is available for dynamic OP.
Today, most current operating systems and SSDs support TRIM, and all SandForce Driven™ member SSDs have always supported TRIM. Note that most RAID environments do not support TRIM, although some RAID 0 configurations have claimed to support it. I have presented on this topic in detail previously. You can view the presentation in full here. In my next blog I will explain how there may be an alternate solution using SandForce Driven member SSDs.
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The term global warming can be very polarizing in a conversation and both sides of the argument have mountains of material that support or discredit the overall situation. The most devout believers in global warming point to the average temperature increases in the Earth's atmosphere over the last 100+ years. They maintain the rise is primarily caused by increased greenhouse gases from humans burning fossil fuels and deforestation.
The opposition generally agrees with the measured increase in temperature over that time, but claims that increase is part of a natural cycle of the planet and not something humans can significantly impact one way or another. The US Energy Information Administration estimates that 90% of world's marketed energy consumption is from non-renewable energy sources like fossil fuels. Our internet-driven lives run through datacenters that are well-known to consume large quantities of power. No matter which side of the global warming argument you support, most people agree that wasting power is not a good long-term position. Therefore, if the power consumed by datacenters can be reduced, especially as we live in an increasingly digitized world, this would benefit all mankind.
When we look at the most power-hungry components of a datacenter, we find mainly server and storage systems. However, people sometimes forget that those systems require cooling to counteract the heat generated. But the cooling itself consumes even more energy. So anything that can store data more efficiently and quickly will reduce both the initial energy consumption and the energy to cool those systems. As datacenters demand faster data storage, they are shifting to solid state drives (SSDs). SSDs generally provide higher performance per watt of power consumed over hard disk drives, but there is still more that can be done.
Reducing data to help turn down the heat
The good news is that there's a way to reduce the amount of data that reaches the flash memory of the SSD. The unique DuraWrite™ technology found in all LSI® SandForce® flash controllers reduces the amount of data written to the flash memory to cut the time it takes to complete the writes and therefore reduce power consumption, below levels of other SSD technologies. That, in turn, reduces the cooling needed to further reduce overall power consumption. Now this data reduction is "loss-less," meaning 100% of what is saved is returned to the host, unlike MPEG, JPEG, and MP3 files, which tolerate some amount of data loss to reduce file sizes.
Today you can find many datacenters already using SandForce Driven SSDs and LSI Nytro™ application acceleration products (which use DuraWrite technology as well). When we start to see datacenters deploying these flash storage products by the millions, you will certainly be able to measure the reduction in power consumed by datacenters. Unfortunately, LSI will not be able to claim it stopped global warming, but at least we, and our customers, can say we did something to help defer the end result.
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I've been travelling to China quite a bit over the last year or so. I'm sitting in Shenzhen right now (If you know Chinese internet companies, you'll know who I'm visiting). The growth is staggering. I've had a bit of a trains, planes, automobiles experience this trip, and that's exposed me to parts of China I never would have seen otherwise. Just to accommodate sheer population growth and the modest increase in wealth, there is construction everywhere – a press of people and energy, constant traffic jams, unending urban centers, and most everything is new. Very new. It must be exciting to be part of that explosive growth. What a market. I mean – come on – there are 1.3 billion potential users in China.
The amazing thing for me is the rapid growth of hyperscale datacenters in China, which is truly exponential. Their infrastructure growth has been 200%-300% CAGR for the past few years. It's also fantastic walking into a building in China, say Baidu, and feeling very much at home – just like you walked into Facebook or Google. It's the same young vibe, energy, and ambition to change how the world does things. And it's also the same pleasure – talking to architects who are super-sharp, have few technical prejudices, and have very little vanity – just a will to get to business and solve problems. Polite, but blunt. We're lucky that they recognize LSI as a leader, and are willing to spend time to listen to our ideas, and to give us theirs.
Even their infrastructure has a similar feel to the US hyperscale datacenters. The same only different. ;-)
A lot of these guys are growing revenue at 50% per year, several getting 50% gross margin. Those are nice numbers in any country. One has $100's of billions in revenue. And they're starting to push out of China. So far their pushes into Japan have not gone well, but other countries should be better. They all have unique business models. "We" in the US like to say things like "Alibaba is the Chinese eBay" or "Sina Weibo is the Chinese Twitter"…. But that's not true – they all have more hybrid business models, unique, and so their datacenter goals, revenue and growth have a slightly different profile. And there are some very cool services that simply are not available elsewhere. (You listening Apple®, Google®, Twitter®, Facebook®?) But they are all expanding their services, products and user base. Interestingly, there is very little public cloud in China. So there are no real equivalents to Amazon's services or Microsoft's Azure. I have heard about current development of that kind of model with the government as initial customer. We'll see how that goes.
100's of thousands of servers. They're not the scale of Google, but they sure are the scale of Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft…. It's a serious market for an outfit like LSI. Really it's a very similar scale now to the US market. Close to 1 million servers installed among the main 4 players, and exabytes of data (we've blown past mere petabytes). Interestingly, they still use many co-location facilities, but that will change. More important – they're all planning to probably double their infrastructure in the next 1-2 years – they have to – their growth rates are crazy.
Often 5 or 6 distinct platforms, just like the US hyperscale datacenters. Database platforms, storage platforms, analytics platforms, archival platforms, web server platforms…. But they tend to be a little more like a rack of traditional servers that enterprise buys with integrated disk bays, still a lot of 1G Ethernet, and they are still mostly from established OEMs. In fact I just ran into one OEM's American GM, who I happen to know, in Tencent's offices today. The typical servers have 12 HDDs in drive bays, though they are starting to look at SSDs as part of the storage platform. They do use PCIe® flash cards in some platforms, but the performance requirements are not as extreme as you might imagine. Reasonably low latency and consistent latency are the premium they are looking for from these flash cards – not maximum IOPs or bandwidth – very similar to their American counterparts. I think hyperscale datacenters are sophisticated in understanding what they need from flash, and not requiring more than that. Enterprise could learn a thing or two.
Some server platforms have RAIDed HDDs, but most are direct map drives using a high availability (HA) layer across the server center – Hadoop® HDFS or self-developed Hadoop like platforms. Some have also started to deploy microserver archival "bit buckets." A small ARM® SoC with 4 HDDs totaling 12 TBytes of storage, giving densities like 72 TBytes of file storage in 2U of rack. While I can only find about 5,000 of those in China that are the first generation experiments, it's the first of a growing wave of archival solutions based on lower performance ARM servers. The feedback is clear – they're not perfect yet, but the writing is on the wall. (If you're wondering about the math, that's 5,000 x 12 TBytes = 60 Petabytes….)
Yes, it's important, but maybe more than we're used to. It's harder to get licenses for power in China. So it's really important to stay within the envelope of power your datacenter has. You simply can't get more. That means they have to deploy solutions that do more in the same power profile, especially as they move out of co-located datacenters into private ones. Annually, 50% more users supported, more storage capacity, more performance, more services, all in the same power. That's not so easy. I would expect solar power in their future, just as Apple has done.
Here's where it gets interesting. They are developing a cousin to OpenCompute that's called Scorpio. It's Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and China Telecom so far driving the standard. The goals are similar to OpenCompute, but more aligned to standardized sub-systems that can be co-mingled from multiple vendors. There is some harmonization and coordination between OpenCompute and Scorpio, and in fact the Scorpio companies are members of OpenCompute. But where OpenCompute is trying to change the complete architecture of scale-out clusters, Scorpio is much more pragmatic – some would say less ambitious. They've finished version 1 and rolled out about 200 racks as a "test case" to learn from. Baidu was the guinea pig. That's around 6,000 servers. They weren't expecting more from version 1. They're trying to learn. They've made mistakes, learned a lot, and are working on version 2.
Even if it's not exciting, it will have an impact because of the sheer size of deployments these guys are getting ready to roll out in the next few years. They see the progression as 1) they were using standard equipment, 2) they're experimenting and learning from trial runs of Scorpio versions 1 and 2, and then they'll work on 3) new architectures that are efficient and powerful, and different.
Information is pretty sketchy if you are not one of the member companies or one of their direct vendors. We were just invited to join Scorpio by one of the founders, and would be the first group outside of China to do so. If that all works out, I'll have a much better idea of the details, and hopefully can influence the standards to be better for these hyperscale datacenter applications. Between OpenCompute and Scorpio we'll be seeing a major shift in the industry – a shift that will undoubtedly be disturbing to a lot of current players. It makes me nervous, even though I'm excited about it. One thing is sure – just as the server market volume is migrating from traditional enterprise to hyperscale datacenter (25-30% of the server market and growing quickly), we're starting to see a migration to Chinese hyperscale datacenters from US-based ones. They have to grow just to stay still. I mean – come on – there are 1.3 billion potential users in China….
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There's no need to wait for higher speed. Server builders can take advantage of 12Gb/s SAS now. And this is even as HDD and SSD makers continue to tweak, tune and otherwise prepare their 12Gb/s SAS products for market. The next generation of 12Gb/s SAS without supporting drives? What gives?
It's simple. LSI is already producing 12Gb/s ROC and IOC solutions, meaning that customers can take advantage of 12Gb/s SAS performance today with currently shipping systems and storage. As for the numbers, LSI 12Gb/s SAS enables performance increases of up to 45% in throughput and up to 58% in IOPS when compared to 6Gb/s SAS.
True, 12Gb/s SAS isn't a Big Bang Disruption in storage systems; rather it's an evolutionary change, but a big step forward. It may not be clear why it matters so much, so I want to briefly explain. In latest generation PCIe 3 systems, 6Gb/s SAS is the bottleneck that prevents systems from achieving full PCIe 3 throughput of 6,400 MB/s.
With 12Gb/s SAS, customers will be able to take full advantage of the performance of PCIe 3 systems. Earlier this month at CeBIT computer expo in Hanover, Germany, we announced that we are the first to ship production-level 12Gb/s SAS ROC (RAID on Chip) and IOC (I/O Controllers) to OEM customers. This convergence of new technologies and the expansion of existing capabilities create significant improvements for datacenters of all kinds.
At CeBIT, we demonstrated our 12Gb/s SAS solutions with the unique DataBoltTM feature and how, with DataBolt, systems with 6Gb/s SAS HDDs can achieve 12Gb/s SAS performance.
DataBolt uses bandwidth aggregation to create throughput performance acceleration. Most importantly, customers don't have to wait for the next inflection in drive design to get the highest possible performance and connectivity.
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Continuing day four, 9-24-12:
After leaving the ferry, we find Cedar Island to be mostly a rural area and some fun roads actually.
Moving the wind on the big motor....thinking about Willie Nelson singing "On th' Road Again....
Some neat sweepers along the channels...
Hard times maybe?
Think they could use a little paint...
Thinking about an afternoon snack on the way to Morehead City but maybe not here....
The Sanitary Restaurant? Uh, ...no thanks! It may be good, just does not sound like it...
We run a few errands in Morehead City so unless you want to see WalMart or the CVS, we'll skip that we check into our room for the night then go hunting for dinner. We stumble, well, not that happy yet, on this place and it was absolutely fantastic. Great awesome food!
We split a great salad and order a variety of small menu items and got to meet the owner and chef. We enjoyed his food, the service was great, and he brought us desert on the house...wow! It was a chocolate creme crepe or something but it was sooo good! Well, that's all for this day and the next day will be a big run down through Salter Path, a lunch stop in Snead's Ferry, and a bunch of fun on Topsail Island. Will post asap....
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By Matthew Chapman, marketingmagazine.co.uk, Tuesday, 09 October 2012 08:00AM
The energy firm's new marketing team is leading an overhaul of its ad strategy in an attempt to appear less "remote".
Anthony Ainsworth, who now holds the combined role of sales and marketing director, following the departure of marketing director Jeremy Davies last month, is spearheading the changes.
Daren Carter, the head of marketing communications who joined E.ON last year following the exit of Catherine Woolfe, has also been instrumental to the roll-out of the plan.
A multimillion-pound campaign breaking on Saturday (13 October) will focus on the company's "best deal for you" push.
This will seek to position E.ON as "simple, fair and transparent". Last month E.ON reduced its number of tariffs from 11 to five in a drive to help achieve these aims.
The TV spot will demonstrate the various ways in which people use a kettle and seek to convey the message that, though everyone uses energy differently, each customer wants to be on the best tariff.
Carter said E.ON had made changes to the ads' style because it was "concerned" about several factors, including the issue that consumers saw the "big six" suppliers as one homogenous group due to their use of illustration in ads.
Strategically, E.ON's future marketing will place more emphasis on existing customers, with a greater focus on rewarding their loyalty, according to Ainsworth.
The brand has already launched a tariff that gives a discount to customers who have been with the company for more than 12 months.
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A post! It's only been a year and a half...
Ok, we've added a modcenter profile for UnWheel2.
Basically modcenter amalgamates a lot of the tools developers use to track and manage a project with a nice little front end with a gallery and news updates for you guys. I've gone and added renders for the 10 confirmed vehicles for the first release of UnWheel 2. They're all by Steve, and they're all awesome. Go over there and have a look.
Also in news: We need a coder and some level designers to really get this project going. Check out our help requests on our modcenter profile to apply. Preferance will be given to people already familiar with the mod and what we stand for, but skill trumps all, so even if you don't know anything about us apply anyway, I'm fairly sure we can teach you everything you need to know.
And finally: Shiny ModCenter Linky
Oh yeah - I should point out that we're certainly not forsaking our wonderful BU fans. You'll still have a special place in our hearts. And besides, how else am I going to rack up the post-count :p
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Valley City High SchoolŌĆÖs artists will have one last chance to shine on Thursday at the VCHS Fine Arts Festival.
The exhibition in the school starts at 6 p.m. and comes days after several VCHS art students were honored for their achievements in the Junior Duck Stamp Competition at the stateŌĆÖs annual banquet in Bismarck.
VCHS art instructor Kelly Callahan said as an art instructor, she can only do so much, but her students help teach and motivate each other.
ŌĆ£They push each other, they see what the other students are doing, if theyŌĆÖve reached their level or a higher level, and they inspire each other.
ŌĆ£ThatŌĆÖs what IŌĆÖm amazed by, every year, whether thereŌĆÖs competition or not IŌĆÖm always really pleased with the kids work.
ŌĆ£The sad thing about competition is thereŌĆÖs not that many places for winners,ŌĆØ she said.
In the duck stamp competition, freshman Jazzlyn Statema was one of the first place winners for the grade 7-9 division, freshman Alexa McCulloch and senior Tera Laney-Ueker were second place finishers in the 7-9 and 10-12 division, respectively, and freshman Arelle Kruger and senior Taylor Storhoff were third place contestants in their respective divisions.
Felicia Esch, a freshman, beat out over 1,100 other students to win the State Conservation Message.
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Re: "Vets' privileges" (letter, Nov. 24).
Entering the Air Force in 1965 was not a privilege; it was to avoid being drafted and sent to Vietnam. That started what I never imagined would be a 27-year journey. I never considered it a privilege working 12-hour shifts, sometimes for weeks at a time, being on duty during holidays; nor was it a privilege spending hours on end in a rubber suit and gas mask practicing wartime operations.
I wasn't sent to a combat area, but I watched many who returned from Vietnam being spit on and slandered. That went on for 25 years, and then the Gulf War happened, and suddenly America recognized that the military was made up of dedicated people who had sworn to give their lives in defense of this great country. And suddenly they said, "Thank you."
The first time the gate guard at Hurlburt Field returned my ID and said "Thank you for your service," it was something I'd never heard before. It still gets me a little choked up.
In my case, I don't think my retirement is at all generous, and I appreciate it, but then again, like other retirees, I earned it.
When others want to show their appreciation to veterans and are in a position to offer special discounts or recognize them on Veterans Day with a thank-you meal, then I consider it THEIR privilege, and I would never diminish their gesture.
It's not about money or being offered a handout. It's simply other Americans' way of saying, "Thanks for what you did for us."
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True range capacity of these speakers?
I can't listen to these locally, unfortunately. I want to hear some user-based opinions on the range of these speakers. My home set up doesn't lend itself to a separate sub-woofer, so ideally I'm looking for full range satellites (dreaming?).
What are some opinions on tight highs and distortion-free lows on these monitors? I listen to music with deep and dark bass, and want the speakers to accurately represent low tones beyond what my ears can pick up.
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The frequency response is listed on the Focal website. I think these go down to 45hz, and 90% of music, let alone clubs and places like that never go below 40hz. There's no way a 2.0 set up will match a 2.1's sub for low bass, because the speakers are simply too small to move the air like that; if they were, then who would need a sub?
The Focals have clean, accurate bass but don't try and reproduce what they're incapable of doing well. They will faithfully give you low frequency response within the realm of nearly all music, and I've heard several people comment that it feels like they go lower than the stated response anyway.
As far as desktop solutions go, you'd want 8"+ monitors if you're after the lowest bass (the CMS 65's go lower than the 50s), but even then, bass is bass and if you don't want to annoy the neighbours, then a sub doing 30hz or a bookshelf speaker doing 30hz is still going to travel through the wall the same way. Remember, anything lower than 40hz is really where you start feeling the physical effects of bass rather than hearing it anyway, and this is more the preserve of movies than music. These monitors are among the best in their price point and have won awards, which should tell you enough about how good they sound with well-recorded music!
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Given the really small cabinet volume of these speakers it is really doubtful that they will achieve 45 hz at a 3db loss, more like a 10db loss from 1Khz, the optimism is present, but the laws of physics prevail. A 45 Hz wave length is mighty big for a box with no porting and not enough cabinet volume.
Take them for what they are, good computer speakers for folks without HTR systems.
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Wait...If you really want a full range satellite here you have a very professionnal product, and also Focal has just announced the launching of a brand new system XS 2.0 at the CES, try to get some reviews on the web on it, it will be another killer from the brand, cause none can do better mechanical transducers so far...
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Question Posted Monday April 12 2010, 4:42 pm
I just broke up with my long-distance boyfriend 2 days ago because I couldn't handle the distance. I really do still love him, and I'm not handling the break up well.
We decided mutually to be friends, but it's not really working. He's being unusually mean to me (which is to be expected I guess, since it's only been 2 days). This is too hard on me, and every time I end a call with him I end up crying. My feelings for him are still strong, but I do want to stick with my decision. Today we planned to chat at a certain time, and it's about 2 hours past & he's nowhere to be found.
My question is: should I cut off all contact? I really would like to be friends, but I can tell it is clearly going to take me some time. Also, if I do decide to cut all contact..should I tell him or just do it?
Btw, I'm leaning more towards the 'just doing it' option, without telling him, because after I talk to him it usually leaves me wanting to talk to him again. If I just stop contact, I won't have a chance to talk to him first. My only concern with this option is that when I am ready to be friends (maybe a month or so down the line), he won't want to speak with me/be my friend because I did the no contact thing without telling him. Ahh, please any advice would help!! I just want to be happy again. Thank you.
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answered Friday April 23 2010, 4:12 am:
Sorry for the late reply :)
You say you want to remain friends, but if you couldn't handle being in a relationship because of the distance - it will still be just as difficult to maintain a friendship as well.
A friendship isn't what you need at the moment - it will still leave you feeling down when you message/talk to him because you still love him.
I was in a long distance relationship, and the same thing happened to me. What I did is I said I'd still remain friends - but really I had no intention of doing that - because I would still think about him, miss him, check his facebook 24/7 etc.
I don't know if just doing it option is fair. If he cut you out of his life completly you'd have so many questions you wanted answered and he wouldn't answer them because he wouldn't want to know you anymore.
Prehaps you can remain "friends" but day by day, week, by week, speak to him less. Keep yourself busy. I did it completly the opposite - I deleted ihm straight away of facebook etc, any things he ever gave to me I moved out of my eyesight etc etc.
I do think you need some space from him.
So it's your choice either way you do it - because it will be painful all the same.
But make sure you leave it on a good note :D
And if you arranged to chat, and he blew off he'll do it again. He may have a reason - But I've been through this, and you'll feel like their reason isnt good enough. You'll see if you dont cut it off - you'll both just get busy and end up getting disappoitned when he doesn't bother to speak to you.
Cut of all contact, it's your choice how you do it.
Keep yourself busy.
You're mature enough to realise it isn't working.
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answered Monday April 19 2010, 9:32 pm:
Unfortunately, as much as we still want to be friends with our ex's, it can be too painful sometimes. I think you and I both know that this is one of those times. I would cut all contact with him and not tell him because as you mentioned, that will only lead to more talking, more heartache, etc. I think you'll find yourself a lot happier when you can break the ties with this guy and move on with your life.
However, you must know that he may not want to be friends with you later on, but if he's being mean to you now, what's the point? Good luck, friend.
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answered Friday April 16 2010, 11:39 pm:
Cut off all contact for at least a month, or even three months if you can handle it. If you don't, you'll just end up arguing and saying things you'll seriously regret. You don't need to tell him. You're broken up, and it's clear that you BOTH need time apart. If you're ready to be friends a few months from now, you can try reconnecting, and if he gets mad, explain why you did it. If he cares about you enough to be your friend, he'll understand. If he doesn't, then you wouldn't want him in your life anyway. Selfish people don't make good friends.
My last boyfriend had to sever all contact between us because I couldn't bring myself to do it. As time passed, I realized that he had done the right thing. Your boyfriend will probably realize this too. Take some time for yourself - you won't regret it.
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answered Tuesday April 13 2010, 10:09 am:
no matter how much you try you can never stay friends with your EX its always going to come back, so its best if you just cut off all contacts with him i understand its hard as ive had to break up with my boyfriend after a 3yrs relationship, give it time everythings going to get better.
good luck
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answered Tuesday April 13 2010, 9:53 am:
Yes, you need to cut off contact. No, you shouldn't do it without warning.
Refusing to talk to someone you've broken up with is what you do when you're walking away without regrets because the person's deserves to be alone. Or for when they're creepy/stalkerish.
You owe him some level of closure. And honestly if you're going to make decisions like this based on what you need, you need to have the balls to stand behind them. You broke up because you can't handle it, don't run away from that decision because you're not happy with your level of self control.
Friends won't work, just so you know. You can't be friends with someone you care about deeply and want to date still. It doesn't work, there's too much raw emotion to work through, too much resentment on both sides.
If you can't do distance, apologize, tell him that you cant' talk to him anymore for all the honest reasons you're feeling right now, and THEN cut contact. Give him a closure conversation, then cut him out so that your heart has time to heal.
It won't if you keep reopening the wound with his presence.
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answered Tuesday April 13 2010, 1:51 am:
He sounds like my boyfriend. We were together 8 months. We broke up in October for two months because I was so stressed out (we're 4 hours apart during college months). He was really confused, blah blah blah its not my story its yours. I still always wanted to talk to him even though he was a complete ass when I tried. Being friends after that type of break up is really hard. First we went from angry texts a couple times a week, it was basically him flipping out on me and me just taking it. Couple weeks later our conversations would start off civil and end in some awkward way. I tried giving him space and we didn't talk for two weeks until some little thing on tv reminded me of him and I couldn't stand not talking to him. Two months later, after begging him to take me back for a month (my all-time low) he told me he missed me and now we're back together.
Sorry I rant a bit. If you want to cut off contact I suggest you do it slowly. If you talk everyday, challenge yourself to only talk to him twice a week, then once, then none. Its just easier than completely shutting off contact, i just feel like that'd leave him really confused or hurt. If you felt the need to break up with him you obviously felt the need for space somewhere within you. I know the hurt, I've been there and was there for far too long.
If you've got any other questions on this situation or anything that happens later on I'd be glad to help.
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answered Monday April 12 2010, 8:49 pm:
I don't see any problem with you two trying to be friends. However, right now, you're both clearly not over the breakup. I can almost guarantee that's the reason he's being so mean to you. People handle breakups in different ways. You both need some time to focus on yourself and getting over this. Stop contact for now, and sometime in the future when you think you've both had enough time to recover, then try the friendship thing again.
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answered Monday April 12 2010, 8:28 pm:
The correct answer is to follow your heart. The heart wants what it wants. if your going to feel pain leaving him and if you still love him and are emotionally attached why leave? i understand the long distance. i used to see my boyfriend everyday then he got a job and is a few hours away but our soulution to this is to still talk and be together but also spend time working on our lives so we can have a great future see im 16 and he's 18. so he's working and saving money and im working on my grades. so basiclly my advice is to stay with him but while your away from eachother do something productive to work on your life. little things i do is look for jobs focus on my school. but dont hurt yourself if you love him. Love doesnt always come often so if you find it grasp on and do not let go hun and dodge and learn to deal with any obsticles that might come in your way.
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answered Monday April 12 2010, 7:24 pm:
HI afvs,
It is always best to end as friends. Because you are right, you will some day see each other down the road, and you'll be glad that it ended in a friendly manner. And there is no reason not to be friends, you have not done such horrible things to each other that you would not want to be friends some day. The decision to break off the relationship because you didn't like being in a long distance relationship is a mature decision to make. No one likes long distance relationship. And many of them do break up for the same reason that you want to break up yours. And of course it is sad. You had a lot of hope when you met him and thought that you would both be able to overcome the distance thing. There is no shame in not being able to overcome it. It does not mean that you are selfish, it means that you are normal. And yes it is going to hurt. There is no way to get through life without experience the pain of lost love. We have all gone through it. There is not way to make it stop hurting any faster, than exactly what you said. YOu guess you need some time, and yes you do. It will take time. But instead of breaking things off completely why not suggest the date and time of your next call and make it three days or a week from now. It will be easier. You'll have a few things to share, and then say goodbye again. If he asks again about when he could call, give him a later date and time. And it will all just fall off naturally. Because he does understand the relationship is over, and he is going to find other things to take up his time.
And if he is being mean it is because he is hurt. But that does not make it acceptable. Call him out on it. And don't copy him. Always be kind. But firm, and you will get through it.
Good luck to you dear.
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answered Monday April 12 2010, 7:13 pm:
Its admirable that you still want to be friends. However, its unrealistic to think that will happen right away. You guys are still emotionally attached. You need to go with your instincts on this one and cut off all contact. Its the only way the two of you will be able to heal. He's being so mean right now because he's hurting. He will probably calm down with a little time and space. So quit the calls and emails. They're really not helping. Now, as to just doing it or telling him ahead of time, my thinking is just do it. He obviously doesn't really want to be in contact with you right now. He may not even say anything. But you know the situation better than I do. You may think its better to let him know. If you do, just send an email explaining that you don't want to hurt him any more than you already have, but you see that being in contact is making things worse for the both of you. Tell him you won't be calling him or emailing him for a few months, and ask him to do the same. Listen, he's going to be hurt. It can't be avoided. The best thing you can do for him is treat him fairly and the FAIR thing is to give him time to heal. Good luck.
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answered Monday April 12 2010, 5:17 pm:
Honestly, Is he worth the heartbreak? Look where keeping contact has gotten you. The biggest thing a breakup comes with is sometimes not knowing the real reason why. If he is being mean to you, making you cry and ignoring you then you need to use that as a focus towards moving forward. Should you cut contact? Yes. Show him you are stronger than this, You can take care of yourself and most of all show him what he is missing. Cutting contact is the first big step to moving on. Your main focus right now is you and only you. Spend time with friends and family show him he doesn't deserve you because he doesn't. Also, If he can't be a good boyfriend to you then he sure as hell doesn't deserve your friendship either.
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answered Monday April 12 2010, 4:53 pm:
You got it in one. It's too soon to be friends on this occasion. Some people break up and get on fine after, some people cut off all contact permanantly and others take time to be friends.
To be honest, if I were in your position, after breaking up with him, I wouldn't be calling him up and making set times to speak anyway. Especially since its only been 2 days. If you 2 are to speak, it shouldn't really be planned.
Perhaps if you're both online at the same time, maybe say hey, or see if he wants to start a conversation first. Just try not to hassle him, it must be hard for him still having you call him up etc, knowing you aren't with him any more.
I doubt I'd cut off all contact either, especially if I wanted to be friends in the long run. I'd just tone it down, a lot and maybe wait to see if he speaks to me first.
Things take time, don't rush it.
I remember with an ex of mine, I did the no contact thing for a few weeks and we turned friends after and are still good friends now.. but since this is long distance, you won't get that opportunity to bump in to him and if you delete his contacts.. then you may have deleted him for good.
Hope this helps in some way.
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