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Seeley built 252 wooden boxes of different shapes and sizes and scattered them in forests and fields to test how particular bees were about these qualities. Swarms only moved into boxes that had the same features that Seeley had found in their tree cavities. "It's really important to get them all right," Seeley said.
The architectural tastes of honeybees are not mere whims. If honeybees live in an undersized cavity, they won't be able to store enough honey to survive the winter. If the opening is too wide, the bees won't be able to fight off invaders.
He took his research to Appledore Island because no native honeybees live here, and it has no big trees where the insects could make their homes. Seeley and his colleagues would bring their own honeybees and nest boxes. "This is our laboratory," Seeley said. "This is where we gain control."
In one experiment, Seeley set up five boxes of different sizes. Four of the boxes were mediocre, by honeybee standards, while one was a dream home. In 80 percent of the trials, the swarms chose the dream home.
Through years of study, Seeley and his colleagues have uncovered a few principles honeybees use to make these smart decisions. The first is enthusiasm. A scout coming back from an ideal cavity will dance with passion, making 200 circuits or more and waggling violently all the way. But if she inspects a mediocre cavity, she will dance fewer circuits.
Enthusiasm translates into attention. An enthusiastic scout will inspire more bees to go check out her site. And when the second-wave scouts return, they persuade more scouts to investigate the better site.
The second principle is flexibility. Once a scout finds a site, she travels back and forth from site to hive. Each time she returns, she dances to win over other scouts. But the number of dance repetitions declines, until she stops dancing altogether. Seeley and his colleagues found that honeybees that visit good sites keep dancing for more trips than honeybees from mediocre ones.
This decaying dance allows a swarm to avoid getting stuck in a bad decision. Even when a mediocre site has attracted a lot of scouts, a single scout returning from a better one can cause the hive to change its collective mind.
"It's beautiful when you see how well it works," Seeley said. "Things don't bog down when individuals get too stubborn. In fact, they're all pretty modest. They say, 'Well, I found something, and I think it's interesting. I don't know if it's the best, but I'll report what I found and let the best site win.'"
During the time I visited Seeley, he was in the midst of discovering a new principle. Scouts, he found, purposefully ram one another head-on while deciding on a new nest location. They head-butt scouts coming from other locations—pink scouts bumping into blue scouts and vice versa—causing the rammed bee to stop dancing. As more scouts dance for a popular site, they also, by head-butting, drive down the number of dancers for other sites.


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It's a modern picnic in Little Tokyo. Come to Angel City Brewery and join 13 Extreme Variety of Food Trucks including two of the BEST dessert trucks in Los Angeles! The brewery is open to all ages and will have picnic tables inside.
Who: Angel City Brewery and FYLT Events
Where: Angel City Brewery in the Dab Middle of LITTLE TOKYO
216 S Alameda St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
What: FOOD TRUCK HAVEN with a Soft-Opening Party on Saturday, March 30, 2013.
Extreme Variety of Elite Food Trucks will be present:
-White Rabbit Filipino Truck
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TWO of THE BEST Dessert Trucks in Los Angeles:
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HOUSTON - After years of hiding their smiles, record numbers of adults are now getting orthodontic treatments, more than half of them are women.
A Houston company has patented a breakthrough in braces that experts say will cut the patient wear time in half.
Hailey Wammack, 14, has had crooked teeth for years.
"My teeth they were all cluttered together and so I didn't want them to be like that anymore," she said.
The eighth grade cheerleader and aspiring actress was ready for a smile that would reflect her shining personality, even if that meant braces.
"I didn't want them all through my high school years like my mom did," Hailey said.
"I wore them from eighth grade to my senior year of high school and so if she can have hers off before she goes in high school, that's awesome," Hailey's mother, Jennifer, said.
Created by a Houston company, Acceledent is an FDA approved, specially prescribed, vibrating mouthpiece the patient wears over their braces just 20 minutes a day to speed up results.
"She had the eye tooth buried up in the gum bones, etc. and normally it's well over a year for that to all come down and get in place and here she is," said Dr. Lyles explaining in Hailey's case. " In seven months, it's all in place now."
"When I saw the (before and after) pictures, I was like, 'Those are my teeth?!' It's so crazy to see the difference in what they look like," Hailey said. "The Acceledent device comes in six different sizes and is custom fit to the patient. It's not only faster, but it's gentler. So you don't get the same pain and sensitivity often associated with braces."
Hailey added she usually wears the Acceledent while reading or watching TV or doing homework.
Dr. Lyles said Acceledent helps convince adults who are wary of wearing braces for years.
"Research has shown that nine months is pretty much the line that... adults, especially females, are willing to go and so if we can do it for nine months or less, they'll go for it," he said.
Now, Hailey says she's ready for the spotlight.
"I just feel like when I walk into high school, I'm going to be smiling without braces on," she said.
The Acceledent device can cost anywhere from $750 to $950 or about 15 percent of the total orthodontic treatment fee.
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The province introduced a new comprehensive anti-bullying action plan Tuesday that it hopes will further protect kids from bullying at school and on the internet.
"What we want to do is up our game." said education Minister Nancy Allan. "We've already done a lot of work by passing legislation to make sure kids feel safe. We've expanded it to make sure kids feel safe not only in the schools but on the playground, on the school bus and on field trips. Everyone is responsible so if we see bullying there is a responsibility to report that."
The plan will work to give more resources to kids, teachers and parents when dealing with bullying issues, and has new provisions to protect students against cyber-bullying.
"We know the Amanda Todd story. She was a young bright student who was a victim of cyber-bullying. She put something on Facebook and once you put something on Facebook it is forever. You can't take it back. Her tragic story shows us that bullying is not only in schools but on social media and the Internet."
Allen also said she has been very impressed with Garden City Collegiate's work to make kids from the LGBTQ community feel safe.
Cassandra Julyan, 17, is a member of the school's Gay Straight Alliance. She says things have improved but there is still work to be done to fight discrimination in her school.
"There are certain parts of the school that are open to us and there are certain parts that are not, said Julyan. "It would be a lot better if we made it the entire school so everybody feels safe. I haven't had any trouble but I know others have."
Julyan has a message for those who may be bullying others because of their sexual orientation.
"Just stop. You need to look through a different perspective than the one you are looking through because it is not working and it is very wrong."


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HOUSTON - Students from Bellaire High School's FFA program were heartbroken to learn someone burglarized their barn late Sunday night or early Monday morning and stole their expensive livestock trailer among other things.
"They got nine bags of feed, they took hay, they took shavings. It's crazy," said Angel Armstrong, president of the booster club. Her daughter Shelby is a member of FFA, known to most people as the Future Farmers of America. She keeps her two heifers in the barn.
"At about 3:30 this morning it was HPD calling saying we had cattle out," Armstrong said.
Armstrong rushed over to the barn located in the 11000 block of Riceville School Road and quickly realized what the thieves had taken. She told KPRC Local 2 her first concern was the animals because they were found walking in the road not too far from West Bellfort, which tends to get pretty busy.
"It's just devastating, I've been upset all day," she said.
It's unclear exactly how many animals got out but they are all safe and accounted for. It appears the thieves cut the lock on the gate, took the trailer and then left the gate open.
With a show this weekend in Washington County, the students aren't sure how they're going to transport their animals.
"There are 12 animals that are going and now we're stuck with one trailer. What do you do?" asked Armstrong. "Tell half the kids they can't go and the other half they can? How do you choose?"
The high school students are hoping the thieves have a change of heart.
"I'm hoping they'll come forward and understand what they've done to our FFA program," said Shelby Armstrong. "Or, get caught."
The trailer is valued at between $15,000 - $20,000 and transports eight animals at a time. It was donated to the program recently and still had a paper license plate.
"It's just sad that somebody would come through....they're stealing from kids," Armstrong said.
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StudioCanal secures Traitor sales
EXCLUSIVE: Bucking the trend in a tough Berlin market, StudioCanal has closed significant pre-sales on new John Le Carré adaptation Our Kind Of Traitor.
Late on Sunday (Feb 10), sales chief Harold van Lier confirmed that eOne has taken rights for Canada, Spain and Benelux.
Russia (Top Film), Swizterland (Impuls) and Poland (ITI) have also closed on the $35m spy thriller, for which Ralph Fiennes and Mads Mikkelsen are in advanced talks to star.
It is StudioCanal's second Le Carré spy adaptation after its success with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Van Lier said: "After our recent successes with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Serena and Two Faces of January, we have had a fantastic Berlinale this year with yet another quality commercial thriller.
"It has a very strong ensemble cast, excellent director and producers and an ambitious budget to do justice to this modern, fast paced and gripping story.
"Looking at the amount of great pre-sales we have achieved in three days with top distributors, it goes to show buyers have real confidence in StudioCanal's ability to deliver successful and prestigious films."
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - President Barack Obama on Thursday named two Jacksonville Port Authority projects to a list of seven priority infrastructure projects, pledging to accelerate the federal review process.
The president has committed that the Jacksonville Harbor Navigation Deepening Study will be completed by April, about one year ahead of schedule.
In addition, the president has pledged to expedite the federal review process for JaxPort's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility Project allowing review completion by July 2013. The $30 million ICTF, funded through both federal and state Department of Transportation grants, will increase the capacity of the port to move containers by on-dock rail, cutting truck traffic and increasing efficiency.
Once completed, the deepening and ICTF projects will work together to significantly enhance JaxPort's competitiveness and ability to generate positive economic impact regionally and nationally, JaxPort officials said.
The initial list of projects, which is part of the administration's "We Can't Wait" initiative, is targeted to expedite the most critical infrastructure projects in the country. As part of a Presidential Executive Order issued in March of this year, the Office of Management and Budget is charged with overseeing a government-wide effort to make the permitting and review process for infrastructure projects more efficient and effective, saving time while driving better outcomes for local communities.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown, Ander Crenshaw and Cliff Stearns contacted federal partners on JaxPort's behalf earlier this year requesting that these projects be included on the list of priority infrastructure needs.
"We are moving from talk to action, and that's what it's going to take to keep this nation competitive globally," said JaxPort CEO Paul Anderson. "Expediting careful review of the process toward our deepening project and ICTF construction and the other projects on the president's list will create benefits for generations to come. By elevating the discussion of the critical needs of U.S. ports to the highest levels of government, our president and our lawmakers are sending a clear message to the world: We are not going to fall behind; we are improving our process every day and we will create the ports of the future."
A White House statement Thursday acknowledges that one of the critical steps in modernizing and expanding JaxPort is to finalize the federal feasibility study examining the costs and benefits of deepening the harbor. Nationally, feasibility studies take an average of 10 years, and the expedited process announced Thursday will shorten that timeline.
Officials said the commitment to complete all federal permits for the Jacksonville ICTF will allow the two projects to be completed in a timely manner and begin working together to create jobs and opportunity.
The Jacksonville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently working on the feasibility study to examine the benefits and costs of deepening the Jacksonville federal navigation channel at the port from its existing authorized project depth of 40 feet up to maximum project depth of 50 feet to accommodate larger cargo vessels.
"This announcement endorses the growth of Jacksonville's port, and it epitomizes why growing our exports is a top priority for me as mayor and as chairman of the Task Force on Metro Exports and Ports for the U.S. Conference of Mayors," Mayor Alvin Brown said in a statement. "JaxPort is a huge part of who we are and what we do, as more than 65,000 northeast Floridians working port-generated jobs can attest. Its growth is integrally tied to our future."
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Project Number: 6602-21220-016-00-D
Project Type: In-House Appropriated
Start Date: Feb 6, 2013
End Date: May 19, 2013
1. Identify new sources of germplasm with resistance to Aspergillus flavus/aflatoxin contamination, and to multiple earfeeding insect damage. 2. Determine biochemical and physiological bases and associated key phenotypic traits conferring resistance/susceptibility to chewing and piercing-sucking insects in corn and pearl millet germplasm. 3. Identify quantitative trait loci associated with reduced aflatoxin accumulation in corn. 4. Develop maize germplasm with desirable agronomic traits and reduced aflatoxin accumulation and increased resistance to ear-feeding insects for use in the Coastal Plain region.
In comparison with molecular (gene to trait, or top-down) approach, a trait to gene (bottom-up) approach will be taken for this project. Diverse (exotic and temperate) germplasm will be screened under field conditions for resistance to aflatoxin and insect pests (i.e., corn earworm, fall armyworm, maize weevil, and stink bugs). Field-proven germplasm entries will be further evaluated for key unique phenotypic traits in relation to resistance mechanisms and underlying genetics using both conventional and molecular techniques. Following rigorous field and laboratory screenings, selected germplasm will be further examined for biochemical and physiological bases that confer resistance to multiple insect pests and aflatoxin. Insect resistance mechanisms in the selected corn and pearl millet germplasm will be categorized and the biochemical and physiological processes that confer certain insect resistance will be identified. Segregating populations with resistance to aflatoxin contamination and multiple insect damage will be developed. These new populations will serve as the sources of favorable alleles for ultimately developing aflatoxin- and insect-resistant corn inbred lines with elite agronomic traits, which will improve corn production under biotic and abiotic stresses in our region.


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Trying to orchestrate a trade this close to the post-season has been said to only be possible if you don't have any qualms about swapping a battleship for a canoe. With Sunday's trade of Alex Hall to Saskatchewan for Patrick Neufeld, the Bombers exchanged an expiring destroyer for a non-import tugboat, in spite of a rough outing by Neufeld in the Banjo Bowl.
Well, you know what they say, if you can't block 'em, join 'em.
With every team -- save for the Eskimos and Bombers -- in the thick of playoff seeding, though, persuading a contender to mess with their mojo and give up one equitable asset for another has to be easier said than done.
Yet this is all about to change. In fact, during the 14 days immediately following the 2013 Grey Cup, and the deadline of Dec. 9 teams have to submit their list of protected players, the phone lines to the offices at IGF should be ringing off the hook.
For there has never been a better season to not have a franchise quarterback on your football team.
It is becoming clear the greatest thing that will happen to this edition of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is the fact the Ottawa Redblacks will be joining the CFL in 2014 and the subsequent dispersal draft that will take place at the end of this year.
As depressing as it is to have to rely on the ability of other teams to discover a viable QB, at this point it doesn't matter if it happens by hook or crook. This team needs a pitcher that can compete in this league, and it needs one ASAP.
While it may seem like the only luck the Blue and Gold had this year was bad luck, those in and around the league will attest that the last time there was this much depth and number of capable pivots in the CFL, was between the seasons of, 'Never happened before,' and, 'Are you kidding me?,' and never will there be a time when they are more attainable by this football team.
As you should know, because the Redblacks begin play in 2014, every team can only protect one quarterback for the dispersal draft. That means in Toronto, either Ricky Ray or Zach Collaros will be available. In Calgary, two of the Kevin Glenn, Bo Levi Mitchell and Drew Tate threesome will be up for grabs, and it's even plausible Hamilton's Henry Burris could be available. Judging from what we have seen thus far, Calgary and Toronto are both likely to lose one of the quarterbacks they don't protect to Ottawa -- for nothing in return -- so they would be foolish to not trade away their exposed QB to Winnipeg for most anything they can get.
It is true if a team loses a QB, they can protect two more non-imports, but the seventh- and eighth-best Canadians on any teams are essentially the worst starter and a special-teamer. Not a hard deal to beat in a trade.
This may be the one time, going as far back as I can remember, the Bombers will have more leverage than anybody else, and can play the heavy at the swap market. For no matter what the Bombers decide is fair trade value for a potential franchise QB, it is better than the near-zero compensation that team will receive when Ottawa takes what they want.
The Bombers should be one of maybe two, at maximum three teams, that will be at all interested in trading for one of these backups.
Winnipeg's advantage is the fact they are the only team in the CFL right now that doesn't give a hoot if Ottawa selects one of their gunslingers, and it does not make sense for any other team, other than possibly Montreal, to trade for a QB if they won't be able to protect more than one.
Even if a team such as Hamilton decides Burris is too old to protect anymore, and trades for one of these young upstarts, it would be in their best interests to swap him over to the Bombers.
That being said, the time for the Blue and Gold to sort through the smoke of other teams' manoeuvring has to be over.
Until a 10th team joins the CFL, there will never be a better opportunity for this team to go after what it wants without mortgaging the farm. By the end of this season, it should be even clearer which teams have an abundance of riches at the pivot position, and those teams should be tripping over themselves to get something before they get nothing.
So stop anguishing over the recent failings of your local pro football team. Sit back, relax and compile your quarterback wish list watching the other teams play, because Christmas should be coming early to Winnipeg this year.
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays and the days following game days in the Free Press.
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In Greece, this cake is baked and brought to church on August 27th, the feast of Saint Fanourios. He is the patron saint of lost things, and eating this cake is said to help you find what you are looking for. What I love is that "lost" is interpreted broadly—some people hope to retrieve literal lost objects, but equally popular is for unmarried women to eat it in hopes of finding a husband.
Though my goats are all accounted for and I don't need the cake to play matchmaker, I have been feeling, well, a little lost. I think it's a product of being semi bicoastal and being just around the age when friends start to peel off in various directions. It's a time to start to wonder about hitting life goals or, on the flip side, if maybe I should move to Cape Town or Tokyo or London before it's too late.
And so I found myself eating this cake, just one slab at a time, but insistently, for a few days until it was gone. I'd eat it standing at the counter, crumbs falling onto the blue kitchen tiles, or perched over my computer, trying to will writing inspiration to come. I found comfort in the moist crumb that tastes of fruity olive oil and orange and a hint of cinnamon. The last piece was eaten on my back deck at 5 pm, when it was still light out but cool enough to be warmed by a steaming mug of Earl Grey tea. I felt found, then, and momentarily settled. Maybe it was because I wanted the cake to work, or maybe because finding yourself can, for a moment, be as easy as eating a slice of cake and drinking some tea in the open air of oncoming twilight.
A note on the assembly: the batter for this cake is more like a dough. Just press it into the pan like and let the oven do its magic. It will bake up to the right dense yet moist consistency.
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Vessel Traffic Systems (VTS) are used principally for identification of vessels at sea. This is similar to systems identifying aircraft in air traffic control. One of the emerging components of VTS systems in recent years is Automatic Identification System (AIS). AIS uses transponders which operate in the VHF maritime band and are capable of sending information such as vessel identification, positions, heading, vessel length and hazardous cargo information to other vessels and land- based stations.
Structures that support maritime aids to navigation usually represent the single largest investment by an aid to navigation authority. These include buoys towers, piles, composite structures and heritage lighthouses. AMS holds turnkey contracts for the management of specialised marine assets and is able to draw on an extensive vein of experience and knowledge to apply best practice to the inspection, assessment, maintenance and repair of marine assets.
Australian Maritime Systems has provided numerous solutions in regards to meteorological and defence applications throughout the Asia-pacific region. Let AMS find a turnkey solution for your meteorological and/or defence project requirements.
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Times are tough. Many folks are out of work, and many more are underpaid and worried about becoming unemployed. What little extra cash families can find in their monthly budgets is subsequently squirreled away in a savings account or similar "rainy day" fund. A common personal finance mantra is that you should have at least three months salary stuffed under the mattress for emergencies.
But if you make the median U.S. household income of nearly $50k a year, you're pulling in $3,000 to $3,500 a month after taxes — meaning an emergency fund of about $10k. That's a huge chunk of change to have just sitting around earning a fraction of a percentage point in annual interest through your bank's savings account. That doesn't even keep up with inflation!
Of course, if you're nervous by nature that's the price of peace of mind. But if you want to put a few thousand bucks of that emergency fund to work for you, there are many ways to do so. Here are five easy and reasonably low-risk ways to invest as little as $1,000 now.


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NYSE Euronext says it has already pre-sold more than 20,000 square feet of colocation space in its new data center in northern New Jersey, reflecting strong interest in the exchange's expansion into the data center services arena. The new facility, which opens next year, is the engine driving NYSE Euronext's transformation into a technology platform for high-speed trading.
"We really see our data centers as the future of our market," said Stanley Young, CEO of NYSE Technologies and co-global CIO of NYSE Euronext (NYX). "To show how vital this is, we have pre-sold space in that data center a year before our matching engines come online."
Young discussed the NYSE's new data centers and the role they play in its business during a panel as it hosted a recent energy efficiency summit with The Green Grid. Young said the 400,000 square foot data center in Mahwah will include 170,000 square feet of raised-floor data center space.
Large Footprint for Colocation
But NYSE Euronext will require just 20 percent of that space for its own infrastructure, Young said. The rest will be available for lease to trading firms seeking high-speed access to the servers – known as "matching engines" – that execute electronic trades.
In the increasingly data-driven environment on Wall Street, access to those servers has enormous value. "For our data center space I can get a multiple of three times what normal data center vendors can get for that space due to the proximity to the matching engines," said Young. "You can see how valuable that real estate becomes."
The Data Center as 'Virtual Marketplace'
That has changed NYSE Euronext's approach to its business. "We think of our data centers as the exchanges used to think of our trading floors years ago," said Young. "What we're seeing with our data centers is that we're creating that virtual marketplace.
"We've actually changed our model," he continued. "We're moving from being a place where transactions occur to being what we call a fabric player. We allow industry participants to meet virtually and we get paid for that. That model is now driving all of our thinking."
This evolution follows decades of market changes that have altered the primacy of the NYSE's trading floor, once the iconic image of stock trading in the U.S. The emergence of computer-driven trading venues like the NASDAQ market has created a more diverse and competitive trading ecosystem.
Building A Platform Through Acquisitions
These forces have shaped NYSE Euronext's adoption of technology to extend its reach as the rise of electronic trading shifted a growing percentage of financial trades to loe-latency platforms. In early 2006 the NYSE acquired electronic trading platform Archipelago Holdings to become a public company, and then expanded globally with a deal to buy EuroNext in 2007.
The NYSE built its technology warchest with acquisitions of trading platform management specialists TransactTools (2006) and Wombat Financial (2008). It is currently in the process of consolidating these tools into a single Universal Trading Platform for the exchange and its partners.
NYSE Euronext sees this infrastructure – including the data center, network fabric and trading platform -as its competitive edge in the new Wall Street.
"In our business model we get paid by the transaction," Young said. "(The number of) trades executed is a big revenue driver. If our market share is under pressure, being able to extend our platform becomes an important part of replacing our revenue from lost transactions."
The Primacy of Power
As the activity shifts from the exchange post to the matching engine, those transactions are viewed in terms that matter most in the data center – the amount of power consumed.
"Our real business is power consumption and capacity of compute," said Young. "That is our bread and butter. We sell space in our data centers by the kilowatt. We meter people's cabinets. The more (trading) they do in those cabinets and the hotter they run, the more we earn. The cost of power is getting down to where people are making trading decisions based on it."
That trend drove NYSE Euronext's decision to get into the data center business, building its own facilities in northern New Jersey and London to anchor a next-generation trading operation. "We were running out of power, and had to look at our data centers, our trading floors for the future," said Young. "We had to make some strategic decisions to build new data centers. It was critically important."
Building From Scratch
At the time, NYSE Euronext operated out of data centers it leased from third parties. "When we looked around, there was nothing available that met the needs of our markets and business at all, so we decided to build from scratch," said Young. "That gave us the opportunity to look at every single piece of green technology that was available in order to build these data centers as efficiently as we could."
Young says billions of transactions every day will flow through the New Jersey facility, known internally as a "liquidity hub" rather than a data center. "You can understand why we build these data centers to 2N+1," he said. "Everything is double backed up, at least."
The facility will be able to support power densities of up to 14 kilowatts per cabinet. The company is using a modular design so it can deploy new space as needed.
The NYSE is focused on managing its power, but some popular efficiency measures are non-starters for the NYSE, including virtualization. "We can't virtualize our trading engines because they're running full blast all the time," said Young. "What we're starting to look into is putting shared memory access onto a matching engine."
Looking at RDMA as Accelerator
NYSE has also worked with Cisco Systems on an Ethernet-based trading solution using Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) accelerators to reduce latency between compute nodes. RDMA allows data to move directly from the memory of one computer into that of another without involving either one's operating system. Young says this technology could result in latency of 10 to 15 microseconds when used over 100 gigabit Ethernet connections.
"Our world is a world where microseconds count," said Young. "My users measure my abilty to serve them in tens of microseconds, and if they had the technology they would get down to nanoseconds."


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Topic: Nausea relief...finally
For those of you who have issues with uncontrollable nausea, here is something that finally worked for my sister. The drug is called Cesamet and it's generic name is Nabilone. It is marijuana based, but it's doing the job. The only problem is that as a side effect, besides drowsiness, it causes tremors and shakes in her arms and legs which she despises. So from one thing to the next with my dear, poor sister. Maybe I should have posted this on the pain relief link...whatever I'm too tired to think--two nights up with her and I'm a bit out of it. TTy all later, Belle


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"If you don't move forward, sooner or later you begin to move backward. Unless you have the brakes on."
Backwardness is a theory developed by Alexander Gerschenkron that states that the more backward something is when it begins then the more likely it is to do better than something that is in front of it. This theory is most commonly explained through the parable of the tortoise and the hare. The hare was winning early on in the race, but because he had expended so much energy establishing the course of the race he became exhausted, meanwhile the tortoise was able to take advantage of all his hard work.
edit Applications
edit Economy
Gerschenkron postulated that the more backward a country was economically when it started to grow the faster and stronger it would grow...when it eventually did start to grow. There are a couple of African countries that question the validity of this theory as they have slipped further and further into backwardness as the years have gone on. According to the backwardness theory Somalia, a war torn splintered nation suffering from famine, rampant corruption, warlords, piracy, and hot temperatures, is the country that stands to grow the fastest and strongest in the world.
Gerschenkron furthermore failed to mention just exactly how backwardness was to be measured[1] but he left a clue for wily individuals to discover. He took a map of Europe and drew two lines from the United Kingdom, one leading to Russia and one leading to the countries of the Balkans. He then wrote 'developed' above the picture of the UK and 'backward' above Russia and the Balkan countries. Questions were subsequently raised over Gerschekron's racial bias. He also received an unsolicited visit from the KGB a few days later and hasn't been seen since.
There has been some elements of the backwardness theory being displayed in the growth of modern day China. While China had a wealth of history going back over 5000 years and at the time of the Roman Empire had their own empire to rival the Romans, but starting sometime around the 1800's it all went downhill. The european countries tricked most of the chinese into becoming druggos, and then withheld their juice until the Chinese government gave them a significant amount of loot. This plan backfired on the Europeans as the resulting stagnation and subsequent backwardness that lasted for almost 200 years ended up making the Chinese citizens tolerate working for a pittance. They were also able to steal all of the business and management acumen that had been acumulated by the Europeans throughout the years[2]. This then allowed the country to become the premier cheap and poor quality manufacturing capital of the world. As a result of the economic growth that followed the majority of chinese now work for two pittances instead of one.
edit Social
Applying the theory to a social setting means that someone with a low friend quotient when they are younger should end up with more friends by the time they have graduated from high school. So far there has been a lack of supporting evidence.
The theory also holds that nations who institute social reforms such as women's suffrage, civil rights, an emphasis upon freedom etc, the later they institute those reforms the more socially progressive they should become in a shorter amount of time han those who instituted those reforms earlier. As many Africaican and middle eastern countries have yet to institute any form of social reform the theory has yet to be tested in this way.
edit Education
A lot of experiments have been conducted in which slack jawed yokels have been placed into university and hoped that going to university will cure them of their chronic slackness. This usually doesn't work, although there are a few minor reports of high achievers in high school dropping out of university, much to the smugness of the rest of the gaping slack jawed yokels.
edit Running
As in the tale of the tortoise and the hare the backwardness theory applies perfectly to running. This is most obvious in the 400 metre race. In that race people are spaced out several metres behind one another at the start of the race, then once the gun is fired the ones who are farthest at the back close the gap with the person who is closest to the front at a faster rate than those who are closer to the front.
edit Comparison
The backwardness model is often compared with the Rotovian take-off model developed by W.W. Rostow, which presents a much more linear model of growth. It states that a country that starts off more 'forward'[3] will end up more forward in the end than the backward company. He points to countries such as those in western Europe, which despite being less backward than China are economically, socially, and educationally more...forward than China. The theory falls down when it comes to the Olympics, as the Chinese earn significantly more Olympic gold medals than any European country.[4]
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edit Footnotes
- ↑ Which makes the whole theory pointless.
- ↑ Although they decided that bribing someone was a crime only if you weren't in the employ of the Chinese government
- ↑ Rostow also refuses to say how exactly you are meant to measure this concept.
- ↑ It is clearly not based upon population as Australia earns way more medals per capita.


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In one of the swankiest spot in New York's Chinatown this week, the Women's Venture Fund (WVF) held its 14th annual gala, and honoured two highly successful women in business, writes Devon Portney. They are Ida Liu of Citibank, and Alitia Faccone of McCarter & English, the law firm.
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As the maritime industry seeks to expand its presence into Arctic waters, a report today from Russia may be cause for pause.According to an Itar-Tass report, more
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration will hold three public meetings to gather data and comments for the agency's U.S.-Flag Great Lakes Fleet Revitalization Study.
On 10 December 2010, the state commercial court in Arkhangelsk decided in favour of Odfjell and approved our application concerning the recognition and enforcement
Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a fixed-price-incentive contract for the fiscal 2010-2015 block buy of Flight 0+ Littoral Combat Ships (LCS).
Working in cooperation, Napa Ltd and DRS Defense Solutions, LLC, Advanced Marine Technology Center (DRS DS AMTC) have created a new interface between NAPA and MAESTRO software.
Effective from 5 January 2011, Hamburg Süd will expand its presence in the trade between Asia and India/Pakistan by joining the new service operated in cooperation with Evergreen and Simatech.
Wärtsilä introduced a more powerful version for marine applications of its Wärtsilä 32 engine. The engine was first introduced in the 1980s, and to date more than
The 'A' rated 125 million GT North P&I club has confirmed its strategy for the start of its next 150 years will remain focused on service, strength and quality.
STEP Offshore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aker Solutions, has won a contract from South Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. LTD to supply equipment for a new,
As the new year approaches, NOAA ships and independent contractors are preparing for the nation's 177th hydrographic surveying season, aiming to collect critically
The Maritime Administration (MARAD) will conduct three public listening sessions to gather data and comments to inform the US-Flag Great Lakes Fleet Revitalization Study.
The USA division of Australian-headquartered Austal has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract to construct one Independence Class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The total value of the contract is $432.
The Salwico Emission Monitoring Systems is a continuous measuring NOx, SO2 and CO2 analyzing equipment for marine applications. Unlike other solutions based on electrochemical sensor technology,
OceanServer Technology announced that it has received purchase orders for 12 new Iver2 AUVs from seven different customers during the last two months. Vehicle orders
1941 - Admiral Ernest J. King assumes duty as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet.
1959 - Commissioning of first fleet ballistic missile submarine, USS George Washington (SSB(N)-598),
1876-The British ship Circassian was destroyed off Bridgehampton, Long Island, following a successful rescue of 49 persons on December 11 by the Life-Saving Service.
Many ship owners and operators repair ship structures with temporary steel patches known as doublers. The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy, as well as other maritime authorities,
Famous Pacific Shipping recently shipped six scrubber modules from the U.S. to Australia, working with its U.S. agent, Oakland-based Sea Shipping Lines (SSL) Lines.
On December 4, the third in a fleet of 13 new tugboats purchased by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) began making its way from Hong Kong to Panama. The Sixaola
According to a report from the Contra Costa Times, Ship recycling facilities in Texas and Virginia have been awarded dismantling contracts for three more Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet mothball vessels.


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Thanks for this. Iv been putting off figuring out how to do this (/Google it) you just made it a whole lot easier.
Something that I feel is a holdover from back when I used fedora was the separate entries in the home directory. I prefer not to store everything in my home directory on my desktop like Ubuntu loves doing. This is how to change the default directories for your documents, desktop, pictures, music, and everything else.
I make the assumption that people would want to use leafpad, another holdover from fedora, you can replace it with any text-editor you like, kate, nano, vi, etc
It's very well commented, and it's mostly user preference what they want each to be, but in mine I set it to:Code:leafpad ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Please log out and log in to see the changes, This should make things a bit cleaner for your desktop, and for me, it's the first thing I do when I work in any Ubuntu system. Hope you enjoyed this little tweak as much as I do.Code:XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.Desktop" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Pub" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
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Thanks for this. Iv been putting off figuring out how to do this (/Google it) you just made it a whole lot easier.


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No Smarter stand for the ipad???
Smarter Stand for iPad by Dotan Saguy — Kickstarter
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I backed the pear.
I would back the magskin depending on exactly how thin it is.. I prefer to not use cases or add extra thickness..
The charge card.. I would back BUT since the new iphone is going to have a different dock connector it seems useless.. Hopefully they update it to include the new connector..
I would never stick my iPhone, iPod, or iPad onto a fridge....if you stuck an adhesive on the back I think it would ruin your device. The possibility of it falling alone is enough for me not to do it. Children would find a way to get to it...who knows what could happen. Just not for me, maybe someone else though.
Too bad that two out of three of these things are useless, what with the new iPhone sporting (according to all rumors), a new dock connector...
Anybody notice that the iPhone at 55 seconds already shows the charging screen before the charge card even touches the phone? This can be done via Jailbreak but still....
All good/fun ideas though...
To see if you would like something like this Just buy a cheapo case/cover for your iphone then get a couple of business card magnets available at any office depot/staples. Attach to your phone and try it out! These magnets will not be custom cut of course BUT its a good way to see if this would benefit you or not. I tried it with a cheapo case total cost $5.00. I just put the case on my phone if I want to use the magnet.
The pear is not a new idea. They are sold for $10 on hong kong sites in all different colors: Ultra-thin Bluetooth V2.0 Music Receiver for Apple 30pin Speaker - Blue - Free Shipping - DealExtreme
I bought one years ago at best buy on clearance (and still use it).
Does look nice though.


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September 07, 2012
ROCKLIN, Calif. - The Master's College volleyball team opened play in the 2012 William Jessup Tournament Friday, September 7, with an afternoon matinee against Simpson University and a nightcap against tournament host William Jessup University.
TMC vs. Simpson University:
The Mustangs handled the Simpson Red Hawks with little problems, winning in three sets (25-12, 25-7, 25-17).
Rachel Taylor (Sun Valley, CA) led TMC with nine kills, four digs, one block assist, and a .182 hitting percentage. Tori Callihan (Simi Valley, CA) added six kills, two blocks assists, and a .857 hitting percentage. Sam Dougherty (Madera, CA), Ashley Newton (Henderson, NV), and Britney Jones (Northridge, CA) all chipped in four kills. Dougherty also led the team with 10 digs. Not to be overlooked, sophomore setter and libero Olivia Gwinn (Santa Clarita, CA) made her season debut and contributed two digs.
The No. 16 Mustangs were dominant to begin the first set and controlled the match for the entirety of the day. TMC hit .333 as a team and highlighted the second set by hitting .529. TMC's stingy defense held the Red Hawks to a -.107 hitting percentage on the match.
The matinee was a solid win for TMC, but the Mustangs knew another challenge was just around the corner.
TMC vs. William Jessup University:
Head coach Bobby Blanken and his prevailing Lady Mustangs lifted their 2012 season record to 11-1 Friday night in a showdown against the William Jessup Warriors. The Mustangs made quick work of the tournament hosts, winning the match in three sets (25-14, 25-20, 25-14).
Tori Callihan spearheaded the effort with eight kills, three digs, and a .400 hitting percentage. Ashley Newton contributed five kills, three digs, two blocks assists, and a .714 hitting percentage. Rachel Taylor added eight kills, Alyssia Gergins (Woodland Hills, CA) had seven more, while Stacey Jones and Sam Dougherty both had four apiece, and Jenna Kapuscinski (Sylmar, CA) tacked on two more. Gergins also led the Mustangs with a match-high 29 assists.
TMC hit .320 in the first set to win 25-14 and followed with a slow .121 in the second stanza to win 25-20. However, the third set showed a red-hot .478 to win 25-14. The Mustangs hit .284 on the match, compared to .039 for William Jessup.
No. 16 TMC is back in action tomorrow for the final day of the tournament. The Mustangs will face Menlo at 11:00 AM and conclude with Daemen (NY) at 3:30 PM.
Quick Facts:
Friday proved to be a great opportunity for a variety of TMC athletes to gain valuable game-time experience and work on different rotations. The more game experience that the Lady Mustangs bench can receive, the better, as TMC is one week away from opening league play against fourth-ranked Biola.


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A 24-year-old learner driver has a headache on top of his hangover after losing his permit for being caught drink-driving.
The man was detected in Harmsworth Street, Collingwood, about 11.30pm on Wednesday and blew 0.223 per cent - almost four times the legal limit for fully licensed drivers.
Learners are not allowed to have any alcohol in their system when they drive.
The man's learners' permit was immediately suspended, a police spokeswoman said.
The 24-year-old is expected to be charged on summons with drink-driving, breaching alcohol interlock conditions and unspecified learner-driver offences.
Inspector Stephen White warned that police would continue to target drink-driving over summer.
"Every police vehicle is a mobile booze bus. If you drink, plan another way home," he said.


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Meagan Shapanus has been awarded the Consuelo W. Gosnell Memorial Scholarship, which honors the achievements of students pursuing a master's degree in social work who have demonstrated a commitment American Indian/Alaska Native and Hispanic/Latino populations.
"The scholarship will be very helpful in financing my graduate education and ultimately this will enable me to pursue a social work job that I am passionate about," said Ms. Shapanus, who in September will return for her second year in BSU's MSW program.
The scholarship, which is funded by the National Association of Social Workers Foundation, issues awards of up to $4,000, and is named for Consuelo Gosnell, a social worker who was born in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The honor especially resonates with Ms. Shapanus, who spent 2008-2009 living one mile from the U.S.-Mexican border in El Paso, with Ciudad Juarez on the other side. There she volunteered through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps from 2008-2009, working full time in a legal aid clinic assisting families completing immigration paperwork seeking family-based immigration visas, temporary protected status, humanitarian visas and political asylum. She also taught English and citizenship classes.
From 2009-2013, Ms. Shapanus was a case worker at Lutheran Social Services in the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program. She worked primarily with teenagers from Central America. A year ago, she left that job to come to BSU full time for her MSW.
At BSU, she served as an intern at Latino Health Institute in Brockton, working with clinicians to provide therapeutic services to youth and their families in the home and community, many of her clients were from Latin America as well as Cape Verde. This summer, she is back at her old place of employment, Social Services in the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program, now working in the family resource department with the foster parents and teaching a healthy relationships and sexual education class to a group of teens in the program.
This fall, she will intern at YouthConnect, a program through the Boys and Girls Club in Roxbury.
Her career goal is to continue to work with the Latino community, particularly at-risk adolescents and immigrants, and to be able to connect them to a supportive adult, community project, or group that gives them the support they need to reach their goals. "To effectively reach and connect with this group I think it is absolutely necessary to recognize the many talents and interests they already have," Ms. Shapanus said. (University News)


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DETROIT - The Wayne County Commission has censured Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano.
In a 14-1 vote Thursday, the commissioners noted the county had "endured a marked setback in public trust."
"The more we learned of the goings on in Wayne County the less we liked," said Commissioner Joseph Palamara. "I believe he's on notice, he's been on notice that the public is unhappy with what's transpired on his watch and that hopefully we can get some positive change here right now."
READ: Robert Ficano censure resolution
In their resolution, the commissioners noted the controversial "lucrative" severance and compensation packages for several employees, most notably that of Turkia Mullins.
Mullins was fired three months after her appointment last year to the Wayne County Airport Authority Board after it was revealed she got a $200,000 severance deal when she left her job as Wayne County's economic development director for the CEO position. Mullin later agreed to repay it and gave the county a check for the after-tax amount of $135,900. The FBI is investigating.
"These events have overshadowed country progress, which in a number of respects has been significant, but certainly less well documented," the commissioners wrote. "All of these events took place under the watch and control of CEO Robert Ficano. Whether actual or perceived, the lack of institutional oversight and control, and lack of effective leadership by the CEO is pervasively felt by the citizens of Wayne County."
Commissioner Laura Cox says censure isn't strong enough
The commission met in May to accept language that would put the measure on the agenda for Thursday's meeting.
Vice Chair Pro-Tem Laura Cox, the dissenter, and only Republican on the commission, had originally drafted a resolution asking for Ficano to step down for "the good of the country."
Cox was upset when the censure resolution was put forward.
She angrily opted out.
"I'm not going to back down. I am not going to participate in the good old boy network," Cox said. "I think that Mr. Ficano is not recognizing the mess he's made. I'm not saying he isn't trying to fix things, but he made a big mess and I think he should take responsibility for it, and that's why I want him to resign."
Commission Chairman Gary Woronchak had a sharp rebuttal to Cox's remarks.
"I absolutely support this censure resolution. I reject any notion that it is pathetic, watered down or good old boy network. This is an absolute repudiation of this body to send a message to the CEO that we hold him responsible for what's happened in Wayne County," Woronchak said.
Wayne county residents told Local 4 News they, too, are getting frustrated with the controversy.
"I think he should step down," said one resident who did not give his name.
Wayne County resident William Ferry said the controversy raises a lot of questions. "It does make you wonder if there are other things that have gone on in county government. So maybe it is time for him to go."
Read: Wayne County Commission's resolution
Ficano has said he won't resign and has done nothing wrong.
After the censure vote, he repeated his apologies for the actions some appointees had taken.
"I did apologize at the end of last year. I apologized at my State of the County and I'll continue to apologize for people that I did trust who betrayed that trust," Ficano said.
The commission is also putting together a committee that would look into how to get a measure on the ballot in November that would allow the commission to remove an elected county official is they saw fit.
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Intel Launches "Centerton" Atom S1200 Family, First Atom For Serversby Ryan Smith on 12/11/2012 10:30 PM EST
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nofumble62 - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkARM will have to break through this first rock, then more bigger rocks behind.
Even ARM can get their CPU ready by next year, there is a long lead time needed by server OEM to certify new product. Coupling with the new architect, new software, and everything, it is really a long road.
I hope it is not too little too late for the ARM camp to redesign. Reply
extide - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - link"Though Intel has not confirmed it, coupled with the fact that Centerton uses a new socket (FCBGA1283), we believe that Centerton is a new Atom design rather than just being a server-branded version of Cedarview."
How different are you talking? Different atom core entirely? Or just a different die with slightly different stuff on it?
Do these chips have on-die graphics? Reply
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkDifferent in that it's not just a Cedarview rebrand. It's a unique die, similar to how Intel's 2C IVB parts are different from their 4C IVB parts, or 4C SNB-E is different from 4C SNB.
Basically you're looking at a Saltwell-based SoC with a more capable IMC (for ECC) along with a PCIe controller supporting more lanes.
And no, it does not have on-die graphics (at least not any that are listed in any official document). Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkThe easiest way to check would be to get die sizes and compare them. Intel has a history of fusing off such features as well as offering the same die in different package with such variety. Reply
UpSpin - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkIt's a SoC, so it contains everything to run the thing. CPU, GPU, memory controller, bus controller, ...
So if Intel adds ECC support, 4 more PCIe lanes etc. they have to integrate it in the SoC. But this means more pins are required. So they have to change to a different Socket with more pins.
Thus, it's a bit far fetched to say that Centerton is, because of the socket change, a newly designed Atom. The CPU core is most probably plain old Cedarview, whereas some parts in the SoC got replaced with server specific things which require more pins but consume less power.
Else they would have switched to 22nm already, which they didn't, so it's probably Cedarview with the consumer parts replaced with server parts. Reply
MySchizoBuddy - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkAMD should make a great product using this CPU from Intel via it's subsidiary Seamicro. Reply
Wolfpup - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkSeems like AMD could just use their Atom equivalent which is better anyway.
I'm confused by Atom (or ARM) for servers though...what are they good for? I mean is Atom/ARM actually more efficient than Intel (or AMD)'s mainstream CPU lines? Yeah those use more power-but they're also vastly more powerful. Atom has comparably terrible single threaded performance too, which of course can matter in any environment depending.
I've just not been understanding what the point of ARM and now Atom for this use IS. Is it just kind of an inane "of these CPUs use less power so we are saving money!" thing or is there actually something to it? Reply
extide - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkThey should be good for things like serving up static content to lots of users. Reply
Kyrra1234 - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkFor me, the biggest advantage I see is VT-x support on the Atom CPU. That will allow me to run VMWare ESXi or something similar on the base hardware of an Atom system and they run some OS on-top of that with having minimal impact on performance.
At least for home, I use an Atom based system as my low-power routers and for other general purpose linux systems. Being able to virtualize it makes it easier to manage.
I could see server makers building a 1U rackmount system with 10 Atom CPUs in them, and then that system could run 10 VMs under it. This would give each VM a dedicated CPU, without having to pay the price for the power of Xeon CPUs... Assuming it would be possible to put a lot of Atom CPUs in a single system. Reply
Krysto - Thursday, December 13, 2012 - linkCortex A15 has hardware virtualization, too. Reply
eanazag - Friday, December 14, 2012 - linkI was thinking that but...
$54 per CPU for the cheapest is $540 and 60-80 Watts for 20 cores/40 threads. A suck ass GPU, so no GPU workload. More sockets on a mobo mean a more expensive motherboard.
It may still make sense to roll with a single Xeon because of the IPC performance. We need system power numbers and a little more details like memory DIMM size (like laptop SODIMM or full sized DIMMs).
I really think it make more sense for low compute need, dispersed systems. i would snatch one up for a small NAS or home proxy server. UPS needs are lower with this vs. a Xeon.
What would kick ass is to get these on a PCIe add-on card. And make a desktop blade server. A poor man's blade system for small business.
I would have rather saw an AMD bobcat variant with ECC. Reply
bsd228 - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkAs Haswell promises to drop power draws to the 15Watt range as soon as next year, I don't know if there's is a low term point to atom/arm for the server realm. But there is a density option.
A 6W atom cpu + msata SSD + single NIC system on a board would allow for a blade chassis of incredible density without putting out the heat of a fusion reactor. One use case would be offering colo/web services to people who don't want to share. A single rack could have hundreds to close to perhaps a thousand of these and still be at only 10KW.
But I have a hard time seeing a use case for singular units that would sell significantly. Certainly there would be a few good spots where saving another 5-10 watts is helpful, but enough to make it worth everyone's time to develop/support? Reply
Krysto - Thursday, December 13, 2012 - linkThese are server parts. Basically the "same" Atom that goes into mobile devices maybe have 2-4W, but has 8W for servers. The same would go for the Haswell part of Xeon. It would be a lot more power hungry. Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, December 13, 2012 - linkIntel has has 17W dual core IVB Xeon; the same TDP as their coolest mobile IVB parts at the time it was launched. They also have a 45W quad core Xeon; the same TDP as all but one of hteir mobile quadcore chips. At the moment they only offer a single Xeon at each power point; but if the demand is there nothing stops them from offering more choices in the future. The dual core Xeon is actually faster than any of the 17W mobile parts available. Granted there's probably binning involved in; but as long as they don't dominate demand Intel can skim off the top of production to badge as Xeon to absorb the higher TDP of ECC at all but the lowest base levels.
http://ark.intel.com/products/65728 Reply
name99 - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkOn the one hand, Intel doesn't sell Xeons at $54...
If a Xeon is the right solution for your task, buy a Xeon --- but expect to pay for it. Just like, if a POWER7 is the right solution for your task, buy it --- but you will pay for it.
The point of Atom (or server ARM) is not to replace Xeon, it is to be a cheaper alternative for those (frequent) cases where a Xeon is way more CPU than is needed, as I described above.
The REAL issue you all should be focussing on is not the quality of these CPUs (as measured by things like CPI), it is the quality of the memory system.
At the memory controller level, who is doing the better job of predicting which pages should be opened or closed?
Who is using advanced academic (not yet commercial) techniques like Idle Rank Prediction (the idea here is when you have cache write back, you don't write immediately, you store the write in a buffer and use a prediction mechanism to predict when the RAM is likely to be idle, so your write does not block a read).
There are even fancier things you can do like much more sophisticated rank/bank mapping. Don't just extract bits from the address. If you have, say, 32 banks available, don't just extract bits from the address for chip-routing, use a divide-by-31. This gives you 31 virtual banks which will have their addresses effectively scrambled over 32 physical banks, so that long stride sequential accesses don't keep hitting the same bank (just like Cray was doing back in the 1970s).
Even at the basic level, does ARM have something equivalent to Intel's SMI/SMB? (This splits the memory controller into a part on the main CPU, doing the real thinking, connected via a custom very high speed bus to a baby memory controller sitting right next to the actual DIMMs. The point of this is that the physical path from the DIMMs to the baby memory controller is made as short as possible, which means the DIMM bus can be run at higher speeds. The long run from the DIMMs to the CPU goes over the custom bus, which has separate read and write lanes and so can be way faster.)
And if not, what is their plan here? One solution (IMHO) would be for ARM to get heavily into packaging, and to encourage that their server chips are all sold with DRAM stacked PoP on the chip.
The point is, the days of decoupled CPU and memory are gone --- you cannot drive a decoupled bus fast enough. ARM needs a server solution to this fact which plays to ARM's strengths, not a mindless copying of the way Intel and AMD and IBM handle this (which reflect there rather different markets and strengths). Reply
name99 - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - link"I'm confused by Atom (or ARM) for servers though...what are they good for?"
SOME computers do a substantial amount of computation. You want those computers to have powerful execute cores.
But OTHER computers mainly route data from disks to memory to the network. Computers like this have little need for a powerful execute core, since most of their time is spent waiting on memory. They are best served by having a sophisticated memory controller (which can predict accurately which DRAM pages to open or close) hooked up to a number of independent threads of execution, each of which can just pause while it waits on RAM.
Atom and ARM in servers target this latter market.
IBM does so as well, through a very interesting design. Hooked up a massively powerful memory system (way beyond what we are talking here) a POWER7 core consists of two sub cores, each of which can run two threads. For compute-intensive tasks, a core runs one thread which uses the resources of both subcores (so it has two integer units, two load-store units, two FPUs available to it). For memory intensive tasks, each subcore runs two threads, so you have four threads per core, and you're back in the world I described above --- each thread spends most of its time waiting, and the memory system is 100% busy serving up data to each waiting thread.
You will NEVER understand the design of modern CPUs until you realize that computation is cheap, memory access is expensive, so everything is twisted around making your memory work as hard as possible; and if that means your logic is idle 90% of the time, well, that's life. Reply
SunLord - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkSo this is basically meant for low load servers that don't have to do much real work ever and instead of letting a powerful Xeon server waste power while they idle along under very low load you use a low power atom server at higher load levels?
It does make sense as long as the load never changes or increases much then an atom will be fine but a xeon server would be able to scale far better across all sorts of different workloads if there any possible future changes. I guess I can see a place at the very low end or specialized projects where things won't change much.
I'd really like the list of the "light" server apps by name where an atom can beat a xeon as the hp graphic implies with it's performance per watt as things scale out but I have to wonder how the per dollar aspect comes into play when you start scaling up with multiple servers and what loads/app scale out across multiple atom servers vs xeon servers . Reply
name99 - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - link"It does make sense as long as the load never changes or increases much then an atom will be fine but a xeon server would be able to scale far better across all sorts of different workloads if there any possible future changes"
(a) Don't throw around words like "scaling" without thinking what they mean. If your scaling dimensions are along the axes of disk or network, the CPU doesn't matter much.
If your workload is dominated by memory performance, then faster CPU doesn't matter much.
(b) The BIG boys (Apple, Google, MS, Facebook, etc) aren't buying servers on the idea that "well, let's get something fast and we'll figure out ways to use it". They have very definite roles that are played by different machines --- some are computer servers, some are cache servers, some are network servers, some are IO servers. These ARM and Atom CPus are targeted at all these roles except compute server. Reply
DuckieHo - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkWhy only 8GB if they already did the work for 64-bit support? Support for ECC registered 2x16GB would make it compelling for MemCached, NoSQL, and other distributed memory-capacity intensive workloads. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkThe memory controller likely does not support registered memory which would limit DIMM size to 8 GB. Being single channel that limits the memory controller to two DIMM slots. That does raise the question of why it does not support two 8 GB unbuffered ECC DIMMs for a total of 16 GB. Reply
DuckieHo - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkNo support for registered memory. Yup, 16GB is still better than 8GB. I know one of the things holding back ARM in the server market is the 4GB limit. This should easily be able to handle 2x8GB then and makes for a more compelling product at minimal cost. Reply
Jammrock - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkhttp://ark.intel.com/products/family/71263
$54 for S1220, $64 for S1260... the low power part, S1240, will likely be a hair more expensive, say $66, knowing Intel's pricing schemes.
Comparing that to existing Atom boards, and Atom server boards, I would expect a Supermicro Atom S1200 board to run from $149-$249, depending on features, when it hits retail.
My question is this: will the S1200 series support multiple sockets per motherboard? Most ARM concepts I've heard of are for 32+ ARM processors per server. Nothing I have seen so far says whether the S1200 Atoms can do SMP. Reply
DuckieHo - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkPrices will be higher for final products, I think. I believe current Atom pricing includes a bundled chipset while these may not. That means you may have to factor in the additional chipset cost.
These probably only have one QPI so single socket. By the way, that's why AMD bought SeaMicro.... for their "fabric" that connects the individual CPUs.
The 32+ ARM processors per server probabaly communicate over Ethernet? Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkThe main IO for this chip is likely the eight PCI-E lanes. QPI's main advantage are coherent, low latency links for usage in multi socket configurations. These Atom chips are strictly single socket.
I do think that there will be boards with several of these chips on them, but each chip will be seen as an independent node. Communication will either be done via a PCI-e to some hub or via embedded Ethernet. Reply
madmilk - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkARM needs those silly 32 processor-in-a-box setups to reach competitive performance per rack unit. I wouldn't expect Intel to do something similar with Atom, considering that Xeons are better in every way once a certain threshold of power is reached. Reply
tygrus - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkThere is also a 17w rated 2core Intel Xeon E3-1220L V2 nominal 2.30GHz (3.5GHz max). You just need to scale down the I/O, chipset and the reduce power consumption of other mainboard components. A low power CPU in a server board could still idle with >100W at the wall. It would be interesting if they could ad 5w to the Atom based cpu's to allow increasing the clock speed or additional CPU resources (increase IPC). Take the P3 and core2 etc. ideas and create a 2 or 3 decode, simple branch predictor, low power cache, 2 ALU, 1 slower FP/SSE/AVX multiply/div, 1 slower FP/SSE/AVX add/sub. Reduce the number of instructions in the pipeline and fast recovery from stall. Aim for a core <0.5 the complexity (&size) of Ivy Bridge at the same nm fab. Chipset & MB from notebook computer form factor and you have something to fit between Atom and i7 or just kill Atom in terms of perf/watt. Reply
Krysto - Thursday, December 13, 2012 - link"Given the relatively low pricing of these processors, it will be in Intel's interests to ensure that they are complementary to their existing Xeon processors and not significantly competitive."
This kind of says it all about Intel's own internal problem. They won't try to make Atoms as best as they can possibly make them, to compete with ARM chips, and eventually, they'll get to the point where they have to compete with ARM so much on performance, that it would endanger their Core chip market. And Intel will have a HUGE dilemma about what to do next then. Keep Atom wimpy? Or cannibalize the Core chips?
In the meantime, ARM has no such conflict of interest, and they'll be as aggressive as they can in the server market, and try to cannibalize the Core chip market as soon as possible. Intel can't, and more importantly, WON'T do that to their own chips, that cost 10x more for the same die area, and give them more than 10x the profit. Reply
wsw1982 - Thursday, December 13, 2012 - linkYes, Only if ARM can do that. And by the way, the ARM server chip is no where cheaper than the Intel S1200. The Calxeda ECX-1000 powered HP redstone server cost 1.2 million and have 1600, 4 chips node, which put the per-socket cost is 187.5$. Reply
A5 - Thursday, December 13, 2012 - linkYou're placing a lot of faith in ARM designs being able to hit Xeon-level performance without a Xeon-level TDP. Not sure that's going to happen anytime soon. Reply
Metaluna - Thursday, December 13, 2012 - linkYou're also ignoring the effect of virtualization. If my only choice is a big, expensive Xeon chip which is going to be under-utilized, there is a strong incentive to run something like VMware on it and run a bunch of VMs. That can add considerably to the cost, and Intel sees none of that money. On the other hand, if instead of one Xeon plus a hypervisor, I can buy 5 Atoms, and run the same workloads on the bare metal (and not even have to change my OS since it's all x86), Intel sees a larger chunk of revenue that otherwise would have gone to VMware or some other company, even if the margins per chip are lower. Reply
Dadofamunky - Friday, December 14, 2012 - linkThis is mostly a rehash of Intel slideware, after all (and would it really hurt the writer of this piece to spell out the use of every acronym the first time it's mentioned in an article? Basic tech writing principle. I would never hire Ryan for my tech pubs team). That said, it is good to know Intel is on the beat in this area, because I am highly skeptical of ARM's ability to do any serious damage here. I bought some Intel shares recently and plan on buying more due to the info presented in this article. Reply
Krysto - Friday, December 14, 2012 - linkHere's an indepth analysis by semiaccurate about why Centerton can't even keep up with current ARM server chips:
http://semiaccurate.com/2012/12/14/intel-and-arm-v... Reply
1008anan - Monday, December 17, 2012 - linkThanks for the article. Useful information:
"Calxeda is rightfully annoyed by these claims and put up a blog about it. Marvell seem to simply not understand the press, so we have no idea what they think, but you can be sure that they are not pleased with the terminology. "
Classic Marvell corporate communication!
This said the Centerton holds it own against its current 32 bit ARM server competitors. And Avoton more than holds its own. Calxeda is aimed at a subset of many threaded work loads and should do okay in its targeted market. The rapidly growing micro server TAM can support several product skews. Reply
DDR4 - Sunday, February 03, 2013 - linkFirst of all it's a foolish idea to have micro servers and an even more foolish idea for arm to try to get in. Intel should stick to Xeon and arm should stick to low power computing. Reply
lemonadesoda - Friday, March 29, 2013 - linkAtom servers are great for NAS with services, not just "dumb NAS", (home and SOHO) or micro servers and colo for small business. I run 3x Atom servers. We are a small Management Academy with just 3 employees and 10 contractors. One Atom runs the webserver. One runs the fileserver. One runs on an offsite location and mirrors the fileserver for local access and also to provide backup functionality.
Building and maintaining this setup is childsplay. And cheap.
Horses for courses. Reply


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