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It's the start of the new year, and it's traditional to make predictions – right? But predicting the future of the datacenter has been hard lately. There have been and continue to be so many changes in flight that possibilities spin off in different directions. Fractured visions through a kaleidoscope. Changes are happening in the businesses behind datacenters, the scale, the tasks and what is possible to accomplish, the value being monetized, and the architectures and technologies to enable all of these.
A few months ago I was asked to describe the datacenter in 2020 for some product planning purposes. Dave Vellante of Wikibon & John Furrier of SiliconANGLE asked me a similar question a few weeks ago. 2020 is out there – almost 7 years. It's not easy to look into the crystal ball that far and figure out what the world will look like then, especially when we are in the midst of those tremendous changes. For some context I had to think back 7 years – what was the datacenter like then, and how profound have the changes been over the past 7 years?
And 7 years ago, our forefathers…
It was a very different world. Facebook barely existed, and had just barely passed the "university only" membership. Google was using Velcro, Amazon didn't have its services, cloud was a non-existent term. In fact DAS (direct attach storage) was on the decline because everyone was moving to SAN/NAS. 10GE networking was in the future (1GE was still in growth mode). Linux was not nearly as widely accepted in enterprise – Amazon was in the vanguard of making it usable at scale (with Werner Vogels saying "it's terrible, but it's free, as in free beer"). Servers were individual – no "PODs," and VMware was not standard practice yet. SATA drives were nowhere in datacenters.
An enterprise disk drive topped out at around 200GB in capacity. Nobody used the term petabyte. People, including me, were just starting to think about flash in datacenters, and it was several years later that solutions became available. Big data did not even exist. Not as a term or as a technology, definitely not Hadoop or graph search. In fact, Google's seminal paper on MapReduce had just been published, and it would become the inspiration for Hadoop – something that would take many years before Yahoo picked it up and helped make it real.
Analytics were statistical and slow, and you had to be very explicitly looking for something. Advertising on the web was a modest business. Cold storage was tape or MAID, not vast pools of cheap disks in the cloud at absurdly low price points. None of the Chinese web-cloud guys existed… In truth, at LSI we had not even started looking at or getting to know the web datacenter guys. We assumed they just bought from OEMs…
No one streamed mainstream media – TV and movies – and there were no tablets to stream them to. YouTube had just been purchased by Google. Blu-ray was just getting started and competing with HD-DVD (which I foolishly bought 7 years ago), and integrated GPS's in your car were a high-tech growth area. The iPhone or Android had not launched, Danger's Sidekick was the cool phone, flip phones were mainstream, there was no App store or the billions of sales associated with that, and a mobile web browser was virtually useless.
Dell, IBM, and HP were the only real server companies that mattered, and the whole industry revolved around them, as well as EMC and NetApp for storage. Cisco, Lenovo and Huawei were not server vendors. And Sun was still Sun.
7 years from now
So – 7 years from now? That's hard to predict, so take this with a grain of salt… There are many ways things could play out, especially when global legal, privacy, energy, hazardous waste recycling, and data retention requirements come into play, not to mention random chaos and invention along the way.
Compute-centric to dataflow-centric
Major applications are changing (have changed) from compute-centric to dataflow architectures. That is big data. The result will probably be a decline in the influence of processor vendors, and the increased focus on storage, network and memory, and optimized rack-level architectures. A handful of hyperscale datacenters are leading the way, and dragging the rest of us along. These types of solutions are already being deployed in big enterprise for specialized use cases, and their adoption will only increase with time. In 7 years, the main deployment model will echo what hyperscale datacenters are doing today: disaggregated racks of compute, memory and storage resources.
The datacenter is now being viewed as a profit growth enabler, rather than a cost center. That implies more compute = more revenue. That changes the investment profile and the expectations for IT. It will not be enough for enterprise IT departments to minimize change and risk because then they would be slowing revenue growth.
Customers and vendors
We are in the early stages of a customer revolt. Whether it's deserved or not is immaterial, though I believe it's partially deserved. Large customers have decided (and I'm doing broad brush strokes here) that OEMs are charging them too much and adding "features" that add no value and burn power, that the service contracts are excessively expensive and that there is very poor management interoperability among OEM offerings – on purpose to maintain vendor lockin. The cost structures of public cloud platforms like Amazon are proof there is some merit to the argument. Management tools don't scale well, and require a lot of admin intervention. ISVs are seen as no better. Sure the platforms and apps are valuable and critical, but they're really expensive too, and in a few cases, open source solutions actually scale better (though ISVs are catching up quickly).
The result? We're seeing a push to use whitebox solutions that are interoperable and simple. Open source solutions – both software and hardware – are gaining traction in spite of their problems. Just witness the latest Open Compute Summit and the adoption rate of Hadoop and OpenStack. In fact many large enterprises have a policy that's pretty much – any new application needs to be written for open source platforms on scale-out infrastructure.
Those 3 OEMs are struggling. Dell, HP and IBM are selling more servers, but at a lower revenue. Or in the case of IBM – selling the business. They are trying to upsell storage systems to offset those lost margins, and they are trying to innovate and vertically integrate to compensate for the changes. In contrast we're seeing a rapid increase planned from self-built, self-architected hyperscale datacenters, especially in China. To be fair – those pressures on price and supplier revenue are not necessarily good for our industry. As well, there are newer entrants like Huawei and Cisco taking a noticeable chunk of the market, as well as an impending growth of ISV and 3rd party full rack "shrink wrapped" systems. Everybody is joining the party.
Storage, cold storage and storage-class memory
Stepping further out on the limb, I believe (but who really knows) that by 2020 storage as we know is no longer shipping. SMB is hollowed out to the cloud – that is – why would any small business use anything but cloud services? The costs are too compelling. Cloud storage is stratified into 3 levels: storage-class memory, flash/NVM and cool/cold bulk disk storage. Cold storage is going to be a very, very important area. You need to save that data, but spend zero power, and zero $ on storing it. Just look at some of the radical ideas like Facebook's Blu-ray jukebox to address that, which was masterminded by a guy I really like – Gio Coglitore – and I am very glad is getting some rightful attention. (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/facebook-robots/)
I believe that pooled storage class memory is inevitable and will disrupt high-performance flash storage, probably beginning in 2016. My processor architect friends and I have been daydreaming about this since 2005. That disruption's OK, because flash use will continue to grow, even as disk use grows. There is just too much data. I've seen one massive vendor's data showing average servers are adding something like 0.2 hard disks per year and 0.1 SSDs per year – and that's for the average server including diskless nodes that are usually the most common in hyperscale datacenters. So growth in spite of disruption and capacity growth.
Data will be pooled, and connected by fabric as distributed objects or key/value pairs, with erasure coding. In fact, Object store (key/value – whatever) may have "obsoleted" block storage. And the need for these larger objects will probably also obsolete file as we're used to it. Sure disk drives may still be block based, though key/value gives rise to all sorts of interesting opportunities to support variable size structures, obscure small fault domains, and variable encryption/compression without wasting space on disk platters. I even suspect that disk drives as we know them will be morphing into cold store specialty products that physically look entirely different and are made from different materials – for a lot of reasons. 15K drives will be history, and 10K drives may too. In fact 2" drives may not make sense anymore as the laptop drive and 15K drive disappear and performance and density are satisfied by flash.
Enterprise becomes private cloud that is very similar structurally to hyperscale, but is simply in an internal facility. And SAN/NAS products as we know them will be starting on the long end of the tail as legacy support products. Sure new network based storage models are about to emerge, but they're different and more aligned to key/value.
SoC servers
Rack-scale architectures will have taken over clustered deployments. That means pooled resources. Processing will be pools of single socket SoC servers enabling massive clusters, rather than lots of 2- socket servers. These SoCs might even be mobile device SoCs at some point or at least derived from that – the economics of scale and fast cadence of consumer SoCs will make that interesting, maybe even inevitable. After all, the current Apple A7 in the iphone 5S is a dual core, 64-bit V8 ARM at 1.4GHz and the whole iPhone costs as much as mainstream server processor chips. In a few years, an 8 or 16 core equivalent at 1.5GHz or 2GHz is not hard to imagine, and the cost structure should be excellent.
Rapidly evolving open source applications will have morphed into eventually consistent dataflow tasks. Or they will be emerging in-memory applications working on vast data structures in the pooled storage class memory at the rack or larger scale, which will add tremendous monetary value to businesses. Whatever the evolutionary paths – the challenge for the next 10 years is optimizing dataflow as the amount used continues to exponentially grow. After all – data has value in aggregate, so why would you throw anything away, even as the amount we generate increases?
Clusters will be autonomous. Really autonomous. As in a new term I love: "emergent." It's when you can start using big data analytics to monitor the datacenter, and make workload/management and data placement decisions in real time, automatically, and the datacenter begins to take on un-predicted characteristics. Deployment will be autonomous too. Power on a pod of resources, and it just starts working. Google does that already.
The network
Layer 2 datacenter network switches will either be disappearing or will have migrated to a radically different location in the rack hierarchy. There are many ways this can evolve. I'm not sure which one(s) will dominate, but I know it will look different. And it will have different bandwidth. 100G moving to 400G interconnect fabric over fiber.
So there you have it. Guaranteed correct…
Different applications and dataflow, different architectures, different processors, different storage, different fabrics. Probably even a re-alignment of vendors.
Predicting the future of the datacenter has not been easy. There have been, and are so many changes happening. The businesses behind them. The scale, the tasks and what is possible to accomplish, the value being monetized, and the architectures and technologies to enable all of these. But at least we have some idea what's ahead. And it's pretty different, and exciting.
Tags: 10 gigabit ethernet, 2020, Amazon, Apple, China, Cisco, cloud storage, cold storage, datacenter, Dell, EMC, Facebook, flash, Google, Hadoop, HP, Huawei, hyperscale datacenter, IBM, iPhone, kaleidoscope, Lenovo, NAS, NetApp, non-volatile memory, NVM, Open Compute, OpenStack, rack scale architecture, SAN, SoC, Sun, VMware, YouTube
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No, you are not about to read some Luddite rant about how smart phones are destroying our society. I love smart phones and most of you do too. It's remarkable how quickly we have gone from arguing over the definition of a smart phone to not being able to live without them. In fact, the rapid adoption of smart phones has led to the problem I am going to talk about: smart phones can overwhelm dumb wireless networks.
Many of the networks that carry the wireless data to and from our smart phones are built with chips that were designed before Apple announced the first iPhone® in June of 2007. It takes a year or two to get a new semiconductor chip designed and built. Then another year or two for network equipment manufacturers to get their products into the market. By the time that new equipment has been deployed into networks around the world, five or six years have passed since chip designers decided what features their networking chips would have.
Even the latest 4G networks are built with chips that were designed before Apple invited everyone to store their music libraries in the cloud and before Vine enabled every kid with a phone to create and distribute videos. Today's networks were not designed with these wireless data applications in mind and they are struggling to keep up.
Making dumb networks smarter
The problem is proving hard to solve because data traffic is growing faster than the obvious ways to cope with it. Network operators can't simply deliver more network capacity. Available spectrum is limited as is the capital to invest in expanded networks. The seemingly inevitable improvements in technology performance aren't enough to solve the problem either. Demand for data traffic is growing faster than Moore's law can answer. Doing more of the same thing or doing the same thing faster isn't enough. Networking companies need to figure out new ways to handle data. We need to make dumb networks smarter.
When I say "dumb networks," I am referring to the fact that most of the existing wireless data networks were designed to move a packet of data from point A to point B in a reasonably short time. That's a fine approach when wireless networks can easily carry occasional stock updates and photo uploads from a few million early adopters. But now, when 90% of handset sales are iPhones or Android® phones, the networks have become overwhelmed with data. Treating data packets with equal importance – whether they are part of a VOIP phone call, business critical data or the 40 thousandth download of a cute panda video – doesn't make sense anymore.
Prioritizing data for higher speed
As networks get smarter, they will be able to triage data – for example, identifying voice packets to maintain call quality. Smart networks will know if the same video has been downloaded 5 times in the last minute, and will store it locally to speed the next download. Smart networks will know if a business user has contracted for a guaranteed level of service and prioritize those packets accordingly. Smart networks will know if an application update can wait until times of the day when the volume of network traffic is lower. Smart networks will know if a flow of packets contains virus software that could damage your phone or the network itself.
To be smart about the data being transported, networks need a higher level of real-time analytical intelligence. We are now seeing the introduction of networking chips and equipment designed in the era of the smart phone. Networks are now gaining the ability to distinguish the nature of the data contained in a packet and to make smart decisions about the way the data is delivered. Networks are, in a word, becoming smarter – better able to manage the crush of data coursing through them every day. Smart networks may soon be able to stand up to smartphones, and perhaps even outwit them.
Tags: 4G, Android, Apple, iPhone, Moore's law, Networking, smart phones, wireless networks
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Have you ever seen the old BBC TV show "Connections"? It's a little old now, but I loved how it followed threads through time, and I marveled at the surprising historical depth of important "inventions." I think we need to remember that as engineers and technologists. We get caught up in the short-term tactical delivery of technology. We don't see the sometimes immense ripples in society from our work – even years later.
I got a flurry of emails yesterday, arranging an anniversary get-together in August at the Apple campus. Why? It's the 20th anniversary of the Newton. Ok – so this has nothing to do with LSI really, but it does have a lot to do with our everyday lives. More than you think.
So you either know the Newton and think it was a failure (think Trudeau's famous handwriting cartoon), or you don't and you're wondering what the *bleep* I'm talking about. Sometimes things that don't seem very significant early on end up having profound consequences. And I admit, the Newton was a failure, too expensive and not quite good enough, and the world couldn't even get the concept of a general-purpose computer in your hand.
But oh – you could smell the future and get a tantalizing hint of what it would be. Remember – we're talking 1993 here.
First – why does Rob Ober care? It's personal. While I didn't remotely help create the Newton, I did help bring it to market, mature the technology, and set the stage for the future (well – it's not the future any more – it's now). I was at Apple wrapping up the creation of the PowerPC processor and architecture, and the first Power Macs. I have a great memory around that time of getting the first Power Mac booted. Someone had the great idea of running the beta 68K emulator (to run standard Mac stuff). That was great, it worked, and then someone else said – wait – I have an Apple II emulator for the 68K Mac. So we had the very first PowerPC Mac running 68K code as a Mac to emulate a 6502 as an Apple II … and we played for hours. I also have a very clear memory of that PowerPC Mac standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Robotron game in the Valley Green 5 building break room. It was a state-of-the-art video game and looked like this.
Yea, that shows you it was a while ago. (But it was a good game.)
A guy named Shane Robison pulled me over (yea, the same HP CTO, now CEO of FusionIO) to come fix some things on the super-hush Newton program. In the end, I took over responsibility for the processors, custom chips, communication stacks and hardware, plastics and tooling, display, touch screen, power supply, wireless, NiMH and LiION batteries… A lot. We pushed the limits of state of the art on all those fronts. It was a really important wonderful/terrible part of my career. I learned an amazing amount.
(If you're interested in viewing a Newton from today's perspective, there is a fascinating review here: http://techland.time.com/2012/06/01/newton-reconsidered/)
Let me start with some boring effects. We were using the ARM processor because of its low power. But. It wasn't perfect, and ARM itself was on the edge of insolvency. We invested a sizable chunk of money, and gave it guidance on how to transition from ARM 6 to 7 to 9. ARM is alive today because of that, and the ARM 9 is still in 100's of millions of products. And we also worked with DEC to create the StrongARM processor family, which became XScale at Intel, then went to Marvel, and also bootstrapped Atom, and, and…
The Newton needed non-volatile storage. Disks were immense, expensive and power-hungry. 2-1/2" disk? Didn't exist. 3-1/2" was small. The only remotely cost-effective technology was called NAND flash, which was fundamentally incompatible with program execution, and nightmarish for data storage/retrieval, and unbelievably expensive per bit. I think the early Newtons were 8 Mbytes? (that's mega not giga…). The team figured out how to make that work. Yep – that was the first use of Toshiba NAND for program/data. (I've been playing with flash for storage since then.)
Then some more interesting things…
I wired the Apple campus with wireless LAN base stations (it would be 6 years until Wifi, and 802.11 wasn't even dreamt up yet) and built the wireless LAN receivers into Newtons, gave them to the Apple execs and set up their mail to be forwarded. You couldn't even do that on laptops. We could be anywhere in the campus and instantly receive and send emails. More – we could browse the (rudimentary) web. I also worked with RIM (yea – Research In Motion – Blackberry) and Metricom to use their wireless wide area net technology to give Newtons access to email and the Web anywhere in the Bay Area. Quite a few times I was driving to meetings, wasn't sure where to go, so pulled over and looked up the meeting in my Newton calendar, then checked the address on my browser with MapQuest. 1995. Sound familiar?
We also spent time with FedEx pitching it on the idea of a Newton-based tablet to manage inventory (integrated bar code scanner), accept signatures on screen with tablet/pen (even the upside down thing to hand it to the customer), show route maps, and cellularly send all that info back and forth for live tracking. FedEx was stunned by the concept. Sound familiar? I still have the proposal book with industrial designs in my garage. Yes, another Silicon Valley garage. Here's what it rolled out 10 years later… which is ultimately pretty similar to our proposal.
And don't forget Object Programming. (You remember when OOPS was a high-tech term?) I'm not really a software guy – just not my thing – but I loved programming on the Newton. In 10 minutes you could actually bang out a useful, great-looking program. Personally, I think the world would have been way better off if those object libraries had been folded into the Java object library. Even so, I get a nostalgic feel when I do iOS programming.
I even built a one-off proto that had cellphone guts inside the plastic of the Newton. (OK – it was chunky, but the smallest phones at the time were HUGE). I could make phone calls from the contacts or calendar or emails, send and receive SMS messages, and rudimentary MMS messages before there was such a thing – used just like a very overweight iPhone (OK – more like the big Samsung galaxy phones). I could even, in a pinch, do data over the GSM network – email, web, etc. It was around that time Nokia came calling and asked about our UI, our OS, our ability to used data over the GSM network… Those talks fell apart, but it was serious enough I made trips to Nokia's mothership in Helsinki and Tampere a few times. (That's north even for a Canadian boy…)
And then years later I got a phone call from one of the key people at Apple – Mike Culbert (who, sadly, recently passed away) – to ask about cellular/baseband chipsets and solutions. He knew I knew the technology. I introduced him to my friends at Infineon (now Intel Mobile) for a discussion on a mystery project… Those parts ended up in the iPhone. A lot of the same people and technology, just way more advanced…
iPad? Sure. A lot of the same people were involved in a Newton that never saw the light of day. The BIC. Here it is with the iPad. Again – 15 years apart.
And you remember the $100 laptop (OLPC?). As a founding board member, I brought an eMate kids Newton laptop to show the team early on. And of course the debate on disk vs. flash followed the same path as it had in Newton. Here they are together, separated by more than 10 years. And then of course, OLPC has direct genetic parentage of netbooks, which then lead to Ultrabooks… (Did you know at one point Apple was considering joining OLPC and offering Darwin/OSX as the OS? Didn't last long.)
And then there are the people. Off the top of my head there were founders or key movers of Palm, Xbox, Kindle, Hotmail, Yahoo, Netscape, Android, WebTV (think most set-top boxes), Danger phone (you remember the sidekick?), Evernote, Mercedes research and a bunch of others. And some friends who became well-known VCs. And I still have a lot of super-talented friends from that time, many of whom are still at Apple.
Sometimes things that don't seem very significant have profound follow-on consequences. I think we need to remember that as engineers and technologists. We don't see the sometimes immense ripples in society from our work – even years later. Today we're planting the seeds for all those great things in the future. I admit, the Newton was a failure, but oh – you could smell the future and get a tantalizing hint of what it would be. Remember – we're talking 1993 here.
Tags: 802.11, Android, Apple, Apple II, ARM, BIC, Blackberry, Darwin, DEC, eMate, Evernote, FedEx, FusionIO, Hotmail, HP, Intel, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Marvel, Mercedes, Metricom, Mike Culbert, MMS, Netscape, Newton, Nokia, object programming, OLPC, Palm, Power Mac, PowerPC, Research in Motion, Robotron, Shane Robison, SMS, StrongARM, Toshiba, Ultrabook, Web TV, Wifi, Xbox, XScale, Yahoo
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I was lucky enough to get together for dinner and beer with old friends a few weeks ago. Between the 4 of us, we've been involved in or responsible for a lot of stuff you use every day, or at least know about.
Supercomputers, minicomputers, PCs, Macs, Newton, smart phones, game consoles, automotive engine controllers and safety systems, secure passport chips, DRAM interfaces, netbooks, and a bunch of processor architectures: Alpha, PowerPC, Sparc, MIPS, StrongARM/XScale, x86 64-bit, and a bunch of other ones you haven't heard of (um – most of those are mine, like TriCore). Basically if you drive a European car, travel internationally, use the Internet , if you play video games, or use a smart phone, well… you're welcome.
Why do I tell you this? Well – first I'm name dropping – I'm always stunned I can call these guys friends and be their peers. But more importantly, we've all been in this industry as architects for about 30 years. Of course our talk went to what's going on today. And we all agree that we've never seen more changes – inflexions – than the raft unfolding right now. Maybe its pressure from the recession, or maybe un-naturally pent up need for change in the ecosystem, but change there is.
Changes in who drives innovation, what's needed, the companies on top and on bottom at every point in the food chain, who competes with whom, how workloads have changed from compute to dataflow, software has moved to opensource, how abstracted code is now from processor architecture, how individual and enterprise customers have been revolting against the "old" ways, old vendors, old business models, and what the architectures look like, how processors communicate, and how systems are purchased, and what fundamental system architectures look like. But not much besides that…
Ok – so if you're an architect, that's as exciting as it gets (you hear it in my voice – right ?), and it makes for a lot of opportunities to innovate and create new or changed businesses. Because innovation is so often at the intersection of changing ways of doing things. We're at a point where the changes are definitely not done yet. We're just at the start. (OK – now try to imagine a really animated 4-way conversation over beers at the Britannia Arms in Cupertino… Yea – exciting.)
I'm going to focus on just one sliver of the market – but it's important to me – and that's enterprise IT. I think the changes are as much about business models as technology.
Hyperscale datacenters drive innovation
I'll start in a strange place. Hyperscale datacenters (think social media, search, etc.) and the scale of deployment changes the optimization point. Most of us starting to get comfortable with rack as the new purchase quantum. And some of us are comfortable with the pod or container as the new purchase quantum. But the hyperscale dataenters work more at the datacenter as the quantum. By looking at it that way, they can trade off the cost of power, real estate, bent sheet metal, network bandwidth, disk drives, flash, processor type and quantity, memory amount, where work gets done, and what applications are optimized for. In other words, we shifted from looking at local optima to looking for global optima. I don't know about you, but when I took operations research in university, I learned there was an unbelievable difference between the two – and global optima was the one you wanted…
Hyperscale datacenters buy enough (top 6 are probably more than 10% of the market today) that 1) they need to determine what they deploy very carefully on their own, and 2) vendors work hard to give them what they need.
That means innovation used to be driven by OEMs, but now it's driven by hyperscale datacenters and it's driven hard. That global optimum? It's work/$ spent. That's global work, and global spend. It's OK to spend more, even way more on one thing if over-all you get more done for the $'s you spend.
That's why the 3 biggest consumers of flash in servers are Facebook, Google, and Apple, with some of the others not far behind. You want stuff, they want to provide it, and flash makes it happen efficiently. So efficiently they can often give that service away for free.
Hyperscale datacenters have started to publish their cost metrics, and open up their architectures (like OpenCompute), and open up their software (like Hadoop and derivatives). More to the point, services like Amazon have put a very clear $ value on services. And it's shockingly low.
Enterprises are paying attention
Enterprises have looked at those numbers. Hard. That's catalyzed a customer revolt against the old way of doing things – the old way of buy and billing. OEMs and ISVs are creating lots of value for enterprise, but not that much. They've been innovating around "stickiness" and "lock-in" (yea – those really are industry terms) for too long, while hyperscale datacenters have been focused on getting stuff done efficiently. The money they save per unit just means they can deploy more units and provide better services.
That revolt is manifesting itself in 2 ways. The first is seen in the quarterly reports of OEMs and ISVs. Rumors of IBM selling its X-series to Lenovo, Dell going private, Oracle trying to shift business, HP talking of the "new style of IT"… The second is enterprises are looking to emulate hyperscale datacenters as much as possible, and deploy private cloud infrastructure. And often as not, those will be running some of the same open source applications and file systems as the big hyperscale datacenters use.
Where are the hyperscale datacenters leading them? It's a big list of changes, and they're all over the place.
But they're also looking at a few different things. For example, global name space NAS file systems. Personally? I think this one's a mistake. I like the idea of file systems/object stores, but the network interconnect seems like a bottleneck. Storage traffic is shared with network traffic, creates some network spine bottlenecks, creates consistency performance bottlenecks between the NAS heads, and – let's face it – people usually skimp on the number of 10GE ports on the server and in the top of rack switch. A typical SAS storage card now has 8 x 12G ports – that's 96G of bandwidth. Will servers have 10 x 10G ports? Yea. I didn't think so either.
Anyway – all this is not academic. One Wall Street bank shared with me that – hold your breath – it could save 70% of its spend going this route. It was shocked. I wasn't shocked, because at first blush this seems absurd – not possible. That's how I reacted. I laughed. But… The systems are simpler and less costly to make. There is simply less there to make or ship than OEMs force into the machines for uniqueness and "value." They are purchased from much lower margin manufacturers. They have massively reduced maintenance costs (there's less to service, and, well, no OEM service contracts). And also important – some of the incredibly expensive software licenses are flipped to open source equivalents. Net savings of 70%. Easy. Stop laughing.
Disaggregation: Or in other words, Pooled Resources
But probably the most important trend from all of this is what server manufacturers are calling "disaggregation" (hey – you're ripping apart my server!) but architects are more descriptively calling pooled resources.
First – the intent of disaggregation is not to rip the parts of a server to pieces to get lowest pricing on the components. No. If you're buying by the rack anyway – why not package so you can put like with like. Each part has its own life cycle after all. CPUs are 18 months. DRAM is several years. Flash might be 3 years. Disks can be 5 to 7 years. Networks are 5 to 10 years. Power supplies are… forever? Why not replace each on its own natural failure/upgrade cycle? Why not make enclosures appropriate to the technology they hold? Disk drives need solid vibration-free mechanical enclosures of heavy metal. Processors need strong cooling. Flash wants to run hot. DRAM cool.
Second – pooling allows really efficient use of resources. Systems need slush resources. What happens to a systems that uses 100% of physical memory? It slows down a lot. If a database runs out of storage? It blue screens. If you don't have enough network bandwidth? The result is, every server is over provisioned for its task. Extra DRAM, extra network bandwidth, extra flash, extra disk drive spindles.. If you have 1,000 nodes you can easily strand TBytes of DRAM, TBytes of flash, a TByte/s of network bandwidth of wasted capacity, and all that always burning power. Worse, if you plan wrong and deploy servers with too little disk or flash or DRAM, there's not much you can do about it. Now think 10,000 or 100,000 nodes… Ouch.
If you pool those things across 30 to 100 servers, you can allocate as needed to individual servers. Just as importantly, you can configure systems logically, not physically. That means you don't have to be perfect in planning ahead what configurations and how many of each you'll need. You have sub-assemblies you slap into a rack, and hook up by configuration scripts, and get efficient resource allocation that can change over time. You need a lot of storage? A little? Higher performance flash? Extra network bandwidth? Just configure them.
That's a big deal.
And of course, this sets the stage for immense pooled main memory – once the next generation non-volatile memories are ready – probably starting around 2015.
You can't underestimate the operational problems associated with different platforms at scale. Many hyperscale datacenters today have around 6 platforms. If you think they are rolling out new versions of those before old ones are retired they often have 3 generations of each. That's 18 distinct platforms, with multiple software revisions of each. That starts to get crazy when you may have 200,000 to 400,000 servers to manage and maintain in a lights out environment. Pooling resources and allocating them in the field goes a huge way to simplifying operations.
Alternate Processor Architecture
It didn't always used to be Intel x86. There was a time when Intel was an upstart in the server business. It was Power, MIPs, Alpha, SPARC… (and before that IBM mainframes and minis, etc). Each of the changes was brought on by changing the cost structure. Mainframes got displaced by multi-processor RISC, which gave way to x86.
Today, we have Oracle saying they're getting out of x86 commodity servers and doubling down on SPARC. IBM is selling off its x86 business and doubling down on Power (hey – don't confuse that with PowerPC – which started as an architectural cut-down of Power – I was there…). And of course there is a rash of 64-bit ARM server SOCs coming – with HP and Dell already dabbling in it. What's important to realize is that all of these offerings are focusing on the platform architecture, and how applications really perform in total, not just the processor.
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Let me warp up with an email thread cut/paste from a smart friend – Wayne Nation. I think he summed up some of what's going on well, in a sobering way most people don't even consider.
"Does this remind you of a time, long ago, when the market was exploding with companies that started to make servers out of those cheap little desktop x86 CPUs? What is different this time? Cost reduction and disaggregation? No, cost and disagg are important still, but not new.
A new CPU architecture? No, x86 was "new" before. ARM promises to reduce cost, as did Intel.
Disaggregation enables hyperscale datacenters to leverage vanity-free, but consistent delivery will determine the winning supplier. There is the potential for another Intel to rise from these other companies. "
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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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Canadian army reinstates coloured patch on uniforms
Maroon patch will identify members of the 5th Canadian Division, roughly 8,000 soldiers in Atlantic Canada.
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HALIFAX — A division army commander says the resurrection of a coloured uniform patch brings the Canadian Army back to its roots and honours soldiers who fought for the country in both world wars.
The maroon patch will identify members of the 5th Canadian Division, which represents roughly 8,000 soldiers in Atlantic Canada, said Brig.-Gen. Nicolas Eldaoud.
"Be proud. Be very proud," Eldaoud told soldiers the 36 Canadian Brigade Group at a ceremony in Halifax on Sunday to mark the patch's return, nearly 70 years after it was last seen on a soldier's uniform.
"When you wear it, you're honouring all those soldiers who did wear that patch, or any patch, over the last two Great Wars."
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Eldaoud, commander of the 5th Canadian Division, said the patch was worn by soldiers during the First and Second World Wars as a means of identifying which division they were part of. The practice was dropped after the Second World War because the Canadian army was smaller and divisions were unnecessary, he said.
Eldaoud said reinstating the patches restores a piece of Canadian history.
"It makes a clear link with the soldiers that served before and did wear that patch," said Eldaoud after the ceremony at the historic Halifax Armoury in the city's downtown.
"It's even more pertinent now that we're at the eve of the centennial of the First World War and the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War."
Sgt. Ahmad Alqenai, who has served in the army for six years, said it will be an honour to add the two-inch-by-three-inch rectangular wool badge to the left shoulder of his dark green service dress jacket.
"A lot of soldiers in World War I and World War II wore that patch in battle, so now we can actually honour their memory by wearing it," said Alqenai.
The event in Halifax was the first of four similar ceremonies taking place this month in Gagetown, N.B., Charlottetown, and St. John's, N.L.
Eldaoud said all members of the 5th Canadian Division should have the patch on their uniforms by the end of the summer. The addition of the patch does not change normal operations.
There are a number of units of the 36 Canadian Brigade Group whose past members would have served in the 5th Canadian Division in the world wars, including the Cape Breton Highlanders and the 1st Armoured Brigade Headquarters Squadron, now known as the Prince Edward Island Regiment.
Members of the division provide land support both domestically and abroad.
A team of 50 engineers from Gagetown were deployed to the Philippines in November to help assess the damage of typhoon Haiyan.
Members have also helped with disasters at home, including the Swissair Flight 111 crash in Nova Scotia in 1998 and the aftermath of hurricane Juan in 2003.
The federal government announced last July that the coloured patches would be reinstated for the military divisions across the country.
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Replicating a table at the end of each day
Last Post 24 May 2011 11:39 PM by river1. 7 Replies.
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23 May 2011 07:28 AM
Hi Masters,
I have a database which as one table that i need to copy and send to other database.
I think i need do create a job on the source database with a bcp command to export the table structure and data (text file) to the other database.
In the other database (other computer) i think that i need to see if new files have arrived to the folder(some folder...) and if so, import them , by first deleting the actual table and copying the new one and the data rows.
How would you master do this?
Thnak you
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23 May 2011 09:56 AM
Table schema changes everyday? If not, you can just copy data with ssis package. Otherwise copy whole table with 'copy db object task' in ssis.
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23 May 2011 10:01 AM
What i need is something that needs to be done in SQL Server 2000 but in the next 6 months / 1 year will probably be migrated to SQL Server 2005.
What is the simplest way to achieve this without having to do big changes later because of migration?
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23 May 2011 11:38 AM
Sql2k has dts, you can do same as with ssis.
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24 May 2011 05:16 AM
Yes, but then i will have to migrate the DTS to SSIS.
What about if i do a stored procedure that executes a bcp comand?
This don't need any upgrade when updating to SQL Server 2005.
What do you think?
Thank you.
P.S - Table Schema does not change, only data needs to be copied.
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24 May 2011 07:03 AM
You can run dts package in sql2k5.
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24 May 2011 05:00 PM
If it's a single table and it is to be replaced in its entirety I would use bcp and bulk insert. I would use BCP to export the data to a file, copy it to the other server where another job would truncate the table and bulk insert the new one. Or something along those lines. If this needs to be more available you can load into another table first, drop the original and then rename this one. This is very flexable so you can adjust this to what ever your needs are. Since there is no data transformation I wouldn't bother with DTS or SSIS. Just my 2 cents.
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The Indiana Department of Transportation has extended the passenger rail service's contract while long-term negotiations on the Hoosier State line continue.
INDOT was looking to Corridor Capital to take over hoping it could improve service on the Hoosier State Line, but negotiations ended abruptly last weekend.
Just under 34,000 people road the Hoosier State line between Indianapolis and Chicago last year.
Funding for the Hoosier State Line runs out January 1, when another company is set to take over operations from Amtrak.
Officials at Corridor Capital, which is taking over management of the Hoosier State Line, are outlining their plans to improve service.
The extended contract runs through January, when the state hopes to hire a new company to operate the line from Indianapolis to Chicago.
Corridor Capital, a passenger rail development company based in Chicago, has emerged as lead candidate to replace Amtrak as operator of the Hoosier State Line.
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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank J. Santoro denied a motion Tuesday to require Vick to attend an April 28 status hearing on his case in Newport News. Vick's lawyers had hoped such an order would prompt U.S. marshals to leave him at the Western Tidewater Regional Jail in southeastern Virginia until then.
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Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
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|Ernest II
|Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
|Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
|Frederick III
|Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen
|Ernest, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Frederick IV
Prince Ludwig
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|Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
|Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen
30 January 1745
|20 April 1804
(aged 59)
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Gotha, 30 January 1745 – Gotha, 20 April 1804), He was the third but second surviving son of Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen. The death of his older brother Frederick in 1756 made him the heir to the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
The Duchess Luise Dorothea was intensely worried about the training of her surviving sons, Ernest and her youngest son August, and had them educated by a selected group of teachers. During 1768–1769 both princes took an educational journey to the Netherlands, England and France, and Ernest met important people in Politics, Science and Arts.
In 1772 his father died, and Ernest inherited the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. He was interested as liberal and enlightened rulers versatile artistically and scientifically and developed a purposeful regime. He promoted the Educational System, the Economy, Theatre, Art collections and Libraries as well as the Natural Sciences in his duchy, which reached thereby in the top place of the Saxony Duchies in Thuringia. Privately, he was interested particularly in Astronomy and Physics. He appointed competent specialists in all these areas like mechanic and clockmaker Johann Andreas Klindworth, to whom he granted the title of court mechanic.[1]
For his special interests he had the services of the important astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach for Gotha. With him, he established the Observatory of Gotha (Sternwarte Gotha), which developed into a European centre of Astronomy. His will stated that this institution should represent the only visible indication of his existence. It succeeded to such an extent, that Gotha despite its size was thought of as a place that important people of the time should visit. One such person was Goethe who visited several times.
Since 1774 he was a Freemason in the Zinnendorf system and member of the Gotha Lodge Zum Rautenkranz; in 1775 was appointed Grand Master of the Landesloge of Germany (Zinnendorf system). In 1783 Ernest became a member of the Bavarian Illuminati under the name of Quintus Severus and/or Timoleon, and in 1784 he was created Supervisor of Abessinien (a name for Upper Saxony). In 1787, he granted Adam Weishaupt, the founder of this secret society, asylum in Gotha. As a freemason he was buried wrapped in a white cloth on the park island.
In Meiningen on 21 March 1769, Ernest married Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (cousin of his mother, Luise Dorothea, but much younger). They had four sons:
- Ernest (b. Gotha, 27 February 1770 – d. Gotha, 3 December 1779).
- Emil Leopold August, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. Gotha, 23 November 1772 – d. Gotha, 27 May 1822), known as Augustus.
- Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. Gotha, 28 November 1774 – d. Gotha, 11 February 1825).
- Ludwig (b. Gotha, 21 October 1777 – d. Gotha, 26 October 1777).
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- ^ Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1992). Schriften und Briefe: Kommentar zu Band I und II (in German). Hanser Verlag. p. 432. ISBN 3-446-11971-X.
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-AltenburgBorn: 30 January 1745 Died: 20 April 1804
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Veterans Day is Nov. 11, and that day, people all over the country will be attending ceremonies to honor those who served this country.
But some people do much more for our veterans throughout the year.
Sherburne County has a veterans transportation program that helps hundreds of veterans get to their medical appointments each year. It is run from the Sherburne County Veterans Service office.
"It's for veterans of all ages," says County Veterans Service Officer (CVSO) Eugene Graff. "If they need rides to their medical appointments at the St. Cloud VA or Minneapolis VA, our county will transport them free of charge. It's a service we provide from our office for any veteran in Sherburne County."
"I just can't say enough about this service," says Lyle, a Sherburne County veteran who served as a combat engineer in France during the Korean War. "It's just a joy that they have this van."
Lyle was taking his fifth trip to the St. Cloud VA last week, this time to get a hearing aid. He doesn't know the St. Cloud area very well and prefers to ride with someone who knows how to get there.
"My blood pressure really would have been high if I had to drive to St. Cloud," he says.
The county has two minivans used to transport veterans. Four drivers receive a small stipend for their time. They are all volunteers.
"We just have numerous people who stop in and volunteer their services to be drivers," says Graff. "They're all trained through the Disabled American Veterans. They're given a yearly physical so we know they're healthy and they go through a license check so we know we have good drivers taking care of our veterans."
Three of the four volunteer drivers have been transporting veterans more than five years. Another just started this month.
Lyle's driver was Richard Boecker, also a Korean War veteran who served in the Air Force. He has a great sense of humor and gets along well with the veterans he transports.
"I enlisted in the Air Force for four years instead of being drafted for two years because I didn't want to go to Korea," he says. "A year after I enlisted I was in Korea."
"Three years, nine months and one day - but who's counting?" he jokes.
Boecker, 84, lives near Big Eagle Lake. He has served a lot more time transporting veterans than he did in Korea.
"It's been 14 years. My neighbor was driving veterans and he had too many trips. I said I'd help out once in awhile." he says. "Then pretty soon this fellow who talked me into driving moved to Florida and left me with the whole works," he says.
He started in April, 1999 using his own car. He's been driving a few times a week ever since.
"It's really something I think that's helped me stay younger," he says. It's something to look forward to."
Boecker says many of the veterans he's driving now are younger than he is. But he gets to hear lots of stories during his trips, and he's making friends too.
"I've met an awful lot of nice guys," he says. "Even Lyle."
Veterans who need the service can contact the office to request a ride. They are encouraged to call at least two days before their medical appointment so a driver and van can be scheduled.
Most veterans are transported directly from the Government Center to their appointment and back. The driver waits for the veteran during the appointment and sometimes transports them to a secondary location if they require a special test.
But veterans can also be picked up from their homes if necessary.
"Some of our veterans just wouldn't have the means to get to their appointments if they don't have family members or somebody else who could take them," says Graff.
The number of veterans requesting the service varies.
"Some days we have one rider. Some days we'll have three or four riders," says Graff.
In 2012, the county transported 411 veterans for a total of 28,752 miles. Through September of this year, 126 veterans have been transported to the St. Cloud VA, 95 to Minneapolis and five to the outpatient clinic in Ramsey.
"It's a heck of a good program and it's nice to be able see veterans get into the vans here in the morning on their way for their appointments," says Graff. "It's really a nice service the county offers."
The county can accommodate appointments scheduled at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center Monday through Thursday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Requests for transportation to the St. Cloud VA Medical Center can be made for appointments scheduled Monday through Friday between the hours of 8 a.m and 3 p.m. and are accepted based on the availability of a volunteer driver. The service is not available on holidays or weekends and cannot be used for emergencies.
For more information about the program or to schedule transportation, contact the Veterans' Services Office at 763-765-3100 or toll free at 1-800-433-5243.
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Thanks for all the responses. It is nice to know the ASUS has the G98 chip.
I should better explain what my needs are. I will be using it in my MythTV HTPC for playing programs recorded with an ATSC tuner so I am less concerned about H.264 and more concerned about MPEG-2. Although the streams are in HD, I will be downconverting them to SD as I don't have an HDTV yet, so I need the card to have TV-OUT (for S-VIDEO). When I get an HDTV, I can always upgrade my video card at that time.
Are there any fanless GF 210 cards with TV-OUT? All the ones I have seen have an HDMI connector instead.
I was also looking at a 9400 and a 9500 (both by Sparkle), but was told they actually aren't as good as the 8400 (and looking at the link provided by gradinaruvasile, it seems true as they only support feature set A).
Any other recommendations? Thanks again!
Right now I am only using the 8400 on atsc and it is down converting to SD. My tv has RGB in, so that is what I am using. And I can tell you, the asus 8400gs silent is too slow. It requires careful settings and still gets droped frames, looses A/V sync, gets stuck in some kind of video studder with no audio (fixable by chaning chanels). I use 1/2 spastal because one of the channels has more problems at full. I would not recommend this card. Also, think ahead. You may want to do more latter, even just add a dvd to play movies.
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ALPHONSE MUCHA (Czechoslovakian, 1860-1939). Les Fleurs (Rennert, Weill, 49, Var 1), circa 1898. Color lithographs. 40 x... (Total: 4 Items)
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Les Fleurs (Rennert, Weill, 49, Var 1), circa 1898
Color lithographs
40 x 16-1/4 inches (101.6 x 41.3 cm) (each image)
42 x 18-1/4 inches (106.7 x 46.4 cm) (each sheet)
Three signed lower right, one signed lower left in plate: Mucha
Published by La Plume, Paris, 1898
Printed by F. Champenois, Paris
Suite of four includes: The Rose, The Iris, The Carnation, and The Lily.
Condition Report*:All framed under glass; Each lithograph: minor surface soiling visible in margins, possible faint discoloration of paper, light toning along extreme edges, and scattered spots of foxing, most notably on paper verso. The Rose: Approx. 1.75-inch repaired tear at far right extreme bottom edge; 3 small repaired tears along upper extreme left edge; tiny loss to lower left corner; small crease in upper left corner. The Carnation: Scattered spots of skinning and an approx. 1-inch repaired tear along extreme bottom edge; approx. 1.25-inch repaired tear at far left extreme top edge. The Lily: Small pinhole puncture at upper right edge of image; light handling creases along extreme top edge. Framed Dimensions 45 X 21 Inches
Mucha, Alphonse:Born in Ivancice, Moravia, Alphonse Mucha was determined to become a painter when he graduated high school, despite his father's disapproval, and left to study at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1887 through the generosity of a patron in Moravia. After several years of painting murals for his benefactor, Mucha's funding ceased, and he was left a struggling artist in Paris, eventually falling deathly ill as a result of his poor diet. Upon recovery, he shared a studio space with fellow artist Paul Gauguin, and the two spent much of their time together traveling and exchanging creative feedback. This collaboration helped fortify Mucha's vision, and his compositions began to exhibit more and more of an ornamental quality, with byzantine inspired mosaic backgrounds and a balance of realistic and stylized elements. Using natural color palettes to complement his highly decorative drawing technique, Mucha defined his own concept of the Woman as a motif—in theme as well as in form. His revolutionary taste for sensuous, organic curves and forms intertwined with lush flora eventually caught the attention of actress Sarah Bernhardt in 1895, who signed him on a six year contract to produce stage and costume designs, as well as posters for her shows. With this commission, Mucha's reputation as a graphic artist was established and the exposure of his talents to a wider audience brought him rapid fame. Nevertheless, Mucha remained a virtuoso of many trades throughout his career, also spending time creating intricate jewelry, furniture, wallpaper and interiors in addition to the posters, drawings and paintings that made him a household name. Accordingly, despite his own personal rejection of the connection, Mucha's proclivity to transform everyday materials into works of art would forever affiliate his name with the Art Nouveau movement.
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Starting the 8th inning, Morrow picks up strikeout No. 15. One down.
Strikeout No. 16!!!
Two down.
Three outs in the 8th.
Amazing performance. He is now at 115 pitches heading to the 9th.
2 more to go...
Ah, broken up with 2 outs in the 9th with a base hit off of Aaron Hill's glove.
Ouch -- still one heck of a day for Morrow. How many times has that been for the Rays? So weird that one of the best teams in baseball has been on the wrong end of these.
Oh so close. Hill got to the ball but it kicked off his glove. Great start by Morrow. IIRC, he carried a no-no into the 8th inning with the Mariners a couple years ago. His stuff is filthy.
Just got the CGSO on strikeout #17. Still one of the more impressive games you'll see -- I wonder what the game score looks like. 136 pitches...
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Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
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