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"It's like a dream," my friend from Hollywood was explaining. "It doesn't make any sense, and the special effects are straight from the dime store but if you give up trying to understand it, and just sit back and let it wash around in your mind, it's not bad." That was not exactly a rave review for a movie that someone paid $40 million to make, but it put me into a receptive frame of mind for "Dune," the epic based on the novels by Frank Herbert. I was even willing to forgive the special effects for not being great; after all, in an era when George Lucas' "Star Wars" has turned movies into high tech, why not a film that looks like a throwback to Flash Gordon. It might be kind of fun.
It took "Dune" about nine minutes to completely strip me of my anticipation. This movie is a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time. Even the color is no good; everything is seen through a sort of dusty yellow filter, as if the film was left out in the sun too long. Yes, you might say, but the action is, after all, on a desert planet where there isn't a drop of water, and there's sand everywhere. David Lean solved that problem in "Lawrence of Arabia," where he made the desert look beautiful and mysterious, not shabby and drab.
The movie's plot will no doubt mean more to people who've read Herbert than to those who are walking in cold. It has to do with a young hero's personal quest. He leads his people against an evil baron and tries to destroy a galaxy-wide trade in spice, a drug produced on the desert planet. Spice allows you to live indefinitely while you discover you have less and less to think about. There are various theological overtones, which are best left unexplored.
The movie has so many characters, so many unexplained or incomplete relationships, and so many parallel courses of action that it's sometimes a toss-up whether we're watching a story, or just an assembly of meditations on themes introduced by the novels (the movie is like a dream).
Occasionally a striking image will swim into view: The alien brain floating in brine, for example, or our first glimpse of the giant sand worms plowing through the desert. If the first look is striking, however, the movie's special effects don't stand up to scrutiny. The heads of the sand worms begin to look more and more as if they came out of the same factory that produced Kermit the Frog (they have the same mouths). An evil baron floats through the air on trajectories all too obviously controlled by wires. The spaceships in the movie are so shabby, so lacking in detail or dimension, that they look almost like those student films where plastic models are shot against a tablecloth.
Nobody looks very happy in this movie. Actors stand around in ridiculous costumes, mouthing dialogue that has little or no context. They're not even given scenes that work on a self-contained basis; portentious lines of pop profundity are allowed to hang in the air unanswered, while additional characters arrive or leave on unexplained errands. "Dune" looks like a project that was seriously out of control from the start. Sets were constructed, actors were hired; no usable screenplay was ever written; everybody faked it as long as they could. Some shabby special effects were thrown into the pot, and the producers crossed their fingers and hoped that everybody who has read the books will want to see the movie. Not if the word gets out, they won't.
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Ho Named to LASCO Board
Lasco Shipping Co.'s Chief Executive Officer Kenneth M. Novack announced that Steven T. Ho has joined the Lasco Board of Directors. Ho, President of Fairmont Shipping (Canada) Limited, headquartered in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, joins George Wood and Anthony Gurnee as outside directors of Lasco. "We're extremely pleased that Steven Ho has joined our Board," commented Novack, calling attention to Ho's over twenty-five years of global shipping experience, including senior management positions in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Over the years Ho has been involved in many aspects of shipping, from sales to brokering, technical management to operations, project development to financial management. Novack went on to note that Ho's background in privately owned shipping companies engaged in world-wide ocean transport brings additional expertise and depth to the Lasco board as Lasco continues to strategically position itself in the twenty-first century global market-place. This announcement is seen as the latest in a series of initiatives this past year by Lasco to strengthen its core management and Board, to strengthen its commercial flexibility through selective alliances and pool arrangements, and to renew its fleet through an active newbuilding program.
SeacorHoldings OrderTwo LPG Carriers
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Demand Rising to Keep Stuff Cool on Ocean Voyages
Søren Skou, CEO of container shipping giant Maersk Line is keynote speaker at the 4th Cool Logistics Global conference, 24-26 September in Antwerp, Belgium. Mr. Skou will outline Maersk's position on the critical actions now needed to sustain the future of global refrigerated transport. Over the past decade and more, expansion of refrigerated container ocean services has underpinned growing world trade in an ever-widening range of perishable commodities
Navy Transport Dock Ship Tests Spacecraft Recovery
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Qatar Navigation (Milaha) Q.S.C. announce its financial results for the first half of 2012, ending June 30th. Summary financial results are as follows: • Operating revenues of QR 1.164 billion vs. QR 1.159 billion for the same period in 2011, an increase of 0.4% year over year. • Operating Profit of QR 320 million vs. QR 300 million for the same period in 2011, an increase of 6.6% year over year.
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Two 171 MW Floating Power Plants for Venezuela
Waller Marine, Inc of Houston, Texas will soon launch and christen what will become the world's largest floating power generation facility when installed at a designated site in Venezuela. The two power barges, which Waller has under construction at the Signal International Shipyard in Orange, Texas, will be transferred from their land based construction locations to the water during the next few days and christened by Venezuelan dignitaries at a ceremony at the shipyard on August 21
WWH Q3 2013 Results Impacted by Weak Shipping Market
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IMO Signs Global Maritime Energy Efficiency Partnerships Project
International Maritime Organization (IMO) the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed an agreement to allocate US$2.0 million to a two-year global maritime energy efficiency partnership project
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Canada Invests in a Greener Coast Guard College
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Djibouti Training Center Build on Pace
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Ocean Safety's New Liferaft Facility Opens
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New Binding Law of The Sea Agreement Advanced
WOC Sustainable Ocean Summit (Singapore, 9-11 November 2015) Will Enable Industry to Organize its Input to this Major New Ocean Treaty Development The U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) last week adopted a formal resolution to develop a legally-binding treaty for the conservation of marine
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Ocean Safety, Richard Irvin Marine Safety Merger
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China Says Indian Ocean Not Backyard of India
The perception that Indian Ocean is India's "backyard" may result in clashes, Chinese military officials and experts have cautioned. The Indian Ocean cannot be a backyard of India which navies of other countries could not visit
Huge Yacht Carrier Headed for South Pacific
New policies making it easier for foreign-flagged vessels to explore the coastlines of Australia have lead DYT Yacht Transport (DYT) to schedule its largest semi-submersible yacht carrier, the 686-foot (209-metre) Yacht Express, to deliver yachts to the South Pacific


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A: There are those who suspect Wildflower Center volunteers are the culpable and capable culprits. Yet, others think staff members play some, albeit small, role. You can torture us with your plant questions, but we will never reveal the Green Guru's secret identity.
Did you know you can access the Native Plant Information Network with your web-enabled smartphone?
Ask Mr. Smarty Plants is a free service provided by the staff and volunteers at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
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From: Bulverde, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Propagation, Seeds and Seeding, Herbs/Forbs
Title: Golden groundsel plants or seeds for Bulverde TX
Answered by: Barbara Medford
QUESTION:Where can I find golden groundsel, plants or seeds?
According to this USDA Plant Profile Map, Packera obovata (Golden groundsel) does grow naturally in Comal County, so it shouldn't be too hard. According to our webpage (read by followng plant link above) on that plant, it needs shade (less than 2 hours of sun a day) or part shade (2 to 6 hours of sun). From the Propagation Instructions on our webpage on this plant:
Description: Propagate by fresh seed or root division during winter dormancy.
It would seem you might find another gardener who has this in their garden, and would be happy to share either seeds of root cuttings. From The Weekend Gardener, here is how to Propagate Your Favorite Plants with Root Cuttings. Failing that, you can go to our National Suppliers Directory, put your town and state in the "Enter Search Location" box; you will get a list of native plant nurseries, seed suppliers and consultants in your general area. From the resulting list we tried Native American Seeds in Junction, TX and Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg, but neither of them listed Golden Grounsel in the seeds they had available. All the firms listed have contact information, so you might get in touch with some of them and find out if they have a source for the seeds you need or perhaps could give you information on ordering. Perhaps the plant is so common in our area that nurseries do not stock it. Here are additional pictures that might help you locate plants where you can take cuttings or gather seeds.
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Enchanter's Garden - Hinton, WV
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Last month, we had the pleasure of premiering a new single from SD's new album Truly Blessed entitled "Circles." With the project slated to arrive next Tuesday, November 18th,] the GBE associate has decided to share a video for the single.
On November 18th, Chicago's SD will release his debut album, which is titled Truly Blessed. Having dropped the project's first single, "Loyalty," in June, he frees the second one today, premiering exclusively on HNHH.
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Rex: Turn the Emotion into Passion to Win the Game
Posted by Erik Manassy on Sep 13, 2011 in Main, News, Opinion | 1 comment
|janesports Rex Ryan opened the press conference with: "After watching the film again, we still won." #Jets 9/12/11 4:37 PM
Here are my thoughts:
Whoever plays the hardest and longest will win the game according to Rex. He believes that the Cowboys are one TOUGH team and when they have a record of 241-0 when they have a 14 point lead heading into the 4th quarter. For the Jets to win the game speaks volumes that this was a full team effort. Now the Boys are 241-1 thanks to the NEW YORK JETS!
Rex credits the team effort and the players feeding off the energy of the fans. Well there were times when we were quiet, I think because we were in shock of their early play, but NO ONE left the stadium early. Obviously with the game being played on 9-11 and many emotions in the air, no one was going to leave. It was great to witness first hand how LOUD that game was and it was one for the ages.
Offensive Line
Rex believes they have a ton of work to do, and I completely agree. Where to begin! Well for one, let's start with the offensive line. Wow. I love Wayne Hunter but man did he have a tough game. I would normally defend him and say that Ware was the reason he was killed on some plays, but it didn't matter who you lined up against him, he was having trouble.
The entire line didn't give Mark any time to stand in the pocket. He was running for his life and if he wasn't getting sacked, he was scrambling and hitting his check down receivers. LT and the Tight Ends benefits most from those plays. Forget about having any type of running game as well. When Rex calls us a ground and pound team, the only pound I saw was our offensive line getting pounded. They had no push and couldn't open holes for any of the running backs so I can't put the blame on Shonn Greene.
Special Teams
They are the heroes of the game. Joe McKnight's punt block was huge to cause the Jets to score a TD. The stadium was rocking and the momentum changed even more at that point. And what can be said about Nick Folk. For all the criticism the guy takes, he lets it roll off his back and he nails a 50 yarder. When are Jets Fans going to get off his back and give the guy some credit. I know it was one kick, but guess what, it was the kick heard all around New York.
Rex would not give out any game balls for the defensive side, but I have to give credit to Revis for making big plays. Also the Mike DeVito knocking the ball out from Tony Romo and Sione Pouha jumping on the ball was the game changer. I know why Rex called out his defense. He's a defensive guy, and he wants that unit to be the best. He wants them perfect. I don't believe for one second that he didn't think that his D played well, but he's not going to tell them. This is a tactic to have them step up their games.
As a Cowboys fan I'm a little ticked we let this win get away from us, but I cannot take away anything from the Jets. They played a mediocre game for 3 quarters and turned it up when they needed it most. That's what good teams do. Defense wins championships and the Jets D played championship football when it counted most. Kuddos to the Jets for winning a game they were almost certain to lose. Ain't no shame losing to a good team. Wish Dallas was playing the Jets again next week……in Dallas. Lol
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We would like to thank the following companies for supplying and supporting us with our test system hardware and equipment: Intel, ASUS and Corsair.
We've got a number of video cards in our graphs today, but the main one we're going to be looking at is of course the performance of this 2GB model against the 1GB version.
The clock speeds of the two cards do have to be noted, though. The 2GB card as we mentioned comes in with a 1050MHz core and a 6400MHz QDR memory clock. The 1GB version on the other hand comes with a slightly elevated 1075MHz core - the memory is clocked the same at 6400MHz QDR.
A 25MHz difference in core clock is going to make very little difference to performance. It's of course something that we have to clearly mention - if the extra memory is going to really help, though, the extra 25MHz on the core will be negated easily.
Alongside these two others included are the HIS HD 7750 IceQ X Turbo, HIS HD 7770 iCooler overclocked to over 1100MHz on the core, along with a couple of NVIDIA cards including the reference GTX 650 Ti 2GB Boost, the pre-overclocked Palit GTX 650 Ti Boost and the MSI GTX 660 Hawk 2GB.
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When we benchmark our video cards and look at the graphs, we aim to get to a certain level of FPS which we consider playable. While many may argue that the human eye can't see over 24 FPS or 30 FPS, any true gamer will tell you that as we climb higher in Frames Per Seconds (FPS), the overall gameplay feels smoother. There are three numbers we're looking out for when it comes to our benchmarks.
30 FPS - It's the minimum number we aim for when it comes to games. If you're not dropping below 30 FPS during games, you're going to have a nice and smooth gaming experience. The ideal situation is that even in a heavy fire fight, the minimum stays above 30 FPS making sure that you can continue to aim easily or turn the corner with no dramas.
60 FPS - It's the average we look for when we don't have a minimum coming at us. If we're getting an average of 60 FPS, we should have a minimum of 30 FPS or better and as mentioned above, it means we've got some smooth game play happening.
120 FPS - The new number that we've been hunting down over recent months. If you're the owner of a 120 Hz monitor, to get the most out of it you want to get around the 120 FPS mark. Moving from 60 FPS / 60 Hz to 120 FPS / 120 Hz brings with it a certain fluidity that can't really be explained, but instead has to be experienced. Of course, if you're buying a 120 Hz monitor to take advantage of 3D, an average of 120 FPS in our benchmark means that in 3D you will have an average of 60 FPS, which again means you should expect some smooth gameplay.
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Sport Chalet, which operates an e-commerce site as well as bricks-and-mortar stores in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, has launched a new mobile commerce site with a rich feature typically reserved for traditional PC sites—a rotating home page banner.
Sport Chalet, which automatically directs mobile users who type in the standard URL to the m-commerce site, currently rotates between three home page hero shots: one promoting running gear, another advertising fishing equipment and a third advertising Adidas-branded Techfit workout gear.
The new mobile site was built by m-commerce vendor Mad Mobile , which has built mobile sites for such retailers as CafePress and Claire's. The vendor is currently working on mobile sites for retailers including Ron Jon Surf Shop and Toshiba Direct.
In addition to rich images, the home page features a large box that takes up about a quarter of the page to promote the new mobile site. The announcement covers several ways mobile shoppers can use the newly optimized site, including: to check in-store availability at Sport Chalet's bricks-and-mortar locations, to find nearby stores, and to research and buy goods directly from the mobile site.
"I love their use of Ajax web technology to create a more optimal page experience than you find on typical m-commerce sites," says Brian Klais, founder and president of mobile marketing firm Pure Oxygen. "For example, clicking the Search icon magically reveals the Search bar, without loading a new page. Similarly, when product reviews are available, just click the Reviews button to see comments without loading new pages. You can also hide those areas when no longer needed." Ajax is a technology used in building and designing web pages that eliminates the need for a page refresh each time a site visitor searches, refines search results or goes to the next page.
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The ES Robbins Workstation Medium Plush Carpet Chair facilitates movement on carpet while protecting the carpeted floor from damage caused due to the casters of the desk chair. This chair mat is ideal for use on medium pile carpets in L-shaped areas. It has a beaker shape with a lip that acts like an extension that fits well under the desk opening, while allowing free movement of the chair. Available in numerous sizes, this chair mat has a cleated backing, which prevents skidding. The Workstation Medium Plush Carpet Chair Mat from ES Robbins is eco-friendly and it has a Greenguard certification, which ensures minimal impact on the indoor environment.
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|Weight Capacity: 200 Pounds
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|Edge Type (54" W x 60" D Size): Beveled
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Pleased with chairmat purchase! Celeste from Durham, NC on 03/13/2015 – Verified Buyer
I needed a home office chair mat in this exact shape and size to go with my corner desk. Most of the other mats I found online in this shape were way too large to fit the area where it was needed. This one is absolutely perfect. Getting the mat unrolled after it's arrival took some effort, but following the enclosed instructions made it an easy process. I was fearful that it would not unroll properly and/or crack, but it did not. Highly recommend this product for your home office chair rug protection.
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This carpet chair mat is well made and thicker than other models that cracked (which is the reason for my purchase). Since it was rolled up and shipped in a box, it required some time to straighten it out before using. Don't worry; just follow the instructions that come with it. Also, there was no significant odor from the plastic material. Looking forward to a life-long investment given the product warranty!
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Hard to uncurl, but overnight it smoothed out just fine. Smell went away also after 24 hours. I liked the shape. No issues.
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This chair mat is designed to put on plush carpet and that is what it sits on. When I sit at my desk and the chair rolls over the mat the mat moves causing it to jam into the corners of my desk and it has taken of the finish of the corners of my desk. I have to constantly take the chair off the mat and reposition it so it doesn't jam into the corners of my desk and do more damage to the finish. The only thing that I like about the mat is the appearance of it. The shape is nice. Pros: The appearance and shape is nice Cons: Not as described-Does not work well on plush carpet-The grippers on the back of mat do not work on carpet


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A new memory controller
Along with the rework pixel shader engine, ATI has designed a brand-new memory controller for the R520. Past ATI graphics chips used a centralized memory controller located in the center of the chip, and this placement caused problems. Lots of wires had to come into the center of the chip, and high wire density caused hotspots. The R520's new memory controller adopts a more distributed form of organization: a ring topology.
Communication is handled by means of a pair of 256-bit rings running in counter directions around the periphery of the chip. That makes for 512 bits of internal bandwidth, but external bandwidth to memory remains 256 bits, as in ATI's past high-end GPUs. ATI expects this new design to be capable of much higher memory clock speeds. The new memory controller also offers more access granularity by dividing its external memory interface up into eight 32-bit channels rather than four 64-bit channels. This memory controller's "smart" arbitration logic is programmable, and ATI expects to tune in on a per application basis in the future using the Catalyst A.I. facility of its graphics drivers.
The R520 is tweaked in a number of other ways to help improve memory performance, as well. The texture, color, Z, and stencil caches are now fully associative, making them more effective than in the past. The chip's Z compression has been revamped to achieve higher compression and maintain it longer. And the GPU's hidden surface removal technique for its hierarchical Z buffer has now uses floating-point math for more precise operation.
A grab-bag of other enhancements
There's much more to R520 and its derivatives, of course, but time is running short, so I'm going to bust out the machine gun and spray you with bullet points to cover the rest of the highlights. Many of them are quick but notable. Among them:
Interestingly enough, ATI claims the Avivo display engine in the R500 series can do tone mapping, converting HDR images to display color depths with no performance penalty. Unfortunately, DirectX 9 doesn't currently offer a way to expose this capability to developers, and it's not in the drivers yet, but apparently the hardware can do it.
Another driver checkbox addresses a long-standing complaint of mine: angle-dependent anisotropic filtering. The R500 series includes a new, higher quality anisotropic filtering method that's not angle dependent. Most newer GPUs haven't included the ability to turn off angle-dependent aniso, and I'm pleased to see that ATI has made it happen.
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The initial wave of data efficiency features for primary storage focus on silos of information organized in terms of individual file systems. Deduplication and compression features provided by some vendors are limited by the scalability of those underlying file systems, essentially the file systems have become silos of optimized data. For example, NetApp deduplication can't scale beyond a 100 TB limit, because that's the limit in size of its WAFL file system. But ask anyone who's ever used NetApp deduplication if they've done it on a 100 TB file system, and you're likely to hear "are you crazy?" It's one thing to claim that data efficiency features can scale, quite a different one to actually use them with performance at scale.
Challenges around scalability generally center on two areas: scalability of random IO and memory overhead. Older solutions, like the one from NetApp, face the first challenge while newer flash-based storage systems are struggling with the second. I'll review both here:
The IO Challenge
Primary data-oriented storage devices handle both streaming and random throughput and therefore are sensitive to latency effects. Data efficiency requirements for primary storage must have fast hashing techniques to reduce the impact of latency. Fast hashes are non-cryptographic in nature and so require data comparison when used to do deduplication. It works like this:
- When a new chunk of data is read in it is first given a name using the hash algorithm.
- The system then checks a deduplication index to see if a chunk with that name has been seen before (note that this can consume disk IO and tremendous amounts of memory if done wrong).
- If the name has been seen we need to take extra steps. Because fast hashes are non-cryptographic, it is possible to have a name match while the data content differs. This is known in computer science as a hash-collision. To account for this, the existing copy of the chunk must be read in and compared bit-by-bit to the new. If they match, only a reference to the chunk is created. If not, then the new chunk must be written.
Essentially, this form of deduplication means trading a write of a duplicate chunk for a read. Depending on the design of the underlying block virtualization layer, duplicate chunks may be widely dispersed throughout the system. In that case, the bigger the system gets, the more expensive reads get - so processing of duplicate data becomes slower and slower as the storage system fills - this is why you won't find many 100 TB NetApp file systems with deduplication turned on. Certainly not for primary storage applications, the system would be flooded with random read requests and NetApp's deduplication process can end up taking months, years or even never complete.
A number of techniques have been used to reduce the impact of IO in other products. For example, the Hitachi NAS (HNAS) and Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) solutions from HDS make use of hardware-acceleration to generate cryptographically secure hashes that do not require a data compare at all - this allows for linear scaling of deduplication performance on volumes up to 256 TB in size. Data is also written out before it is deduplicated to avoid introducing any latency through the hash computation process itself.
Permabit's own Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) product, a plug-in module for Linux-based storage solutions, takes a different approach but with a similar result. VDO works inline to provide immediate data reduction. When data is written out, the VDO process intelligently lays it out in a sequential pattern, so that subsequent read compares of duplicates are more likely to be sequential as well. Both solutions do a fine job at solving the problem in real world scenarios, they just take different approaches.
The Memory Challenge
Many of today's flash array vendors are providing deduplication using similar fast hashing techniques to what I outlined above. With flash, the cost of doing random reads for read compares is a non-issue (random seeks on flash are much less expensive than for hard drive environments) so the use of the fast hash alone is enough to minimize latency. These systems (such as EMC's recently launched XtremIO product) are focused on delivering performance and the big challenge to performance at scale is available memory (DRAM). As above, after chunks are read in, they are named using a fast hashing algorithm. After that, the flash system must determine whether or not a chunk has been seen before. To get at this information as quickly as possible, flash-based storage systems have tended to use huge amounts of DRAM to cache chunk names in memory. It's not uncommon to see flash storage systems that allocate 16 GB of working cache per TB of storage. To support a 256 TB storage volume, such a system would require a TBs of DRAM. The increased hard costs in terms of more expensive (denser) DIMMS, as well as the increased cost of the server board required to support this many DIMMs combine to make this an extremely costly and unpopular proposition. Combine this with the fact that DRAM prices are not falling at the same rate as flash prices, and you can see why no vendor today makes a 256TB flash storage array with global deduplication capabilities.
The solution to the memory challenge is coming, in the form of a next generation of flash storage products that utilize Albireo indexing and Albireo VDO. Unlike the flash arrays described above, flash-optimized arrays with VDO takes advantage of advanced caching techniques to operate with 128 MB of working cache per TB of storage and deliver excellent performance. With VDO, a 256 TB system can be delivered with as little as 32 GB of RAM while delivering 1M IOPS performance. The net result is a cost effective and easily deployed data efficiency solution for flash arrays.
Deduplication Scalability by Vendor
As you can see in the table above, forward thinking vendors like HDS have done a good job at overcoming limitations in their data efficiency features and have products on the market today that can scale to meet the requirements of the large enterprise. Many other vendors are lagging behind, because of their inability to address IO and/or memory requirements, a serious downfall since data efficiency is at the core of distinguishing storage solutions, a critical end user requirement, and a 'must have' component for 2014. Permabit's VDO product overcomes both of these limitations through the use of advanced memory-efficient caching techniques.
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Cumbrian digger driver's final wish granted - to be taken to his funeral by JCB
Last updated at 10:15, Saturday, 02 October 2010
His skill at the controls of a JCB digger was legendary during his lifetime.
So it was entirely fitting that 64-year-old Corby Hill man Des Young should be granted his dying wish – to be carried to his final resting place by the machine he so loved.
When doctors told him he was terminally ill with cancer, Des faced the prospect of his own death with courage and presence of mind.
He was determined to make his passing as bearable as he could for his family – including his daughters Andrea Bowe, 38, and Stephanie Marshall, 35, his five grandchildren and former wife, 59-year-old Linda.
He also resolved to leave this world with help from one of the machines that had kept him so happily employed since he was a young man in his 20s.
That final wish was granted yesterday thanks to the efforts of Carlisle funeral director John Walker and some of Des's old work colleagues.
Watched by grieving friends and relatives, Des's coffin was gently carried on the forks of a JCB digger to the entrance of Carlisle Crematorium.
"He loved driving his digger and he was brilliant at it," said mum-of-three Stephanie.
"They're such powerful machines and he loved working with them: he always had a reputation as somebody who was good with them.
"He was so good with them he could make them dance.
"My dad started his own business driving his digger 15 years ago and he just loved going to work."
Des became ill in April but despite chemotherapy sessions doctors had to tell him he could not be cured. It was then that Des began quietly to make his plans, organising a holiday with his family to Legoland in Windsor and secretly organising his final journey.
He contacted Carlisle funeral director John Walker – an old school pal – and asked him to sort it all out.
Stephanie added: "Dad was loving, reliable, loyal, generous, strong, and very, very brave. When he was in a lot of pain near the end, he didn't complain – he just said he was uncomfortable.
"He just got on with it.
"When he said he wanted to be taken to the crematorium on a digger I wasn't at all surprised, knowing how much he loved them. We arranged for flowers to be put on the JCB and having his funeral this way was entirely right."
John Walker recalled the day a few months ago when Des walked into his Wigton Road premises. He said: "I grew up with Des in Kirkbride – he was always a brilliant person.
"He just called in one day and asked me how I was and then said he had a bit of a problem. He told me he had cancer and there was no way back for him. He wanted to travel his last few hundred yards on a digger so I told him to leave it with me."
Des passed away at Eden Valley Hospice on Thursday, September 23 and his funeral service was held yesterday afternoon. The digger was provided by Scot JCB in Kingstown , for whom he often worked, and was driven by former colleague Robert Smith.
First published at 09:05, Saturday, 02 October 2010
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Anne Pickles
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- A595 is Cumbria's most dangerous road, police figures show (29 comments)
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