Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:50:29 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 02:45:29, Matt Taylor wrote: >On December 11, 2002 at 00:23:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 10, 2002 at 23:05:22, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>On December 10, 2002 at 22:51:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>Several post one set of results. One person posts another. And _that_ >>>>post is the "bible"??? >>> >>>No, but neither is the post totally worthless as you claim it to be. >> >> >>I've come to the conclusion that _most_ of his posts are worthless. >> >>A few examples: >> >>1. The xeons with hyper-threading are not available and probably won't be >>available for a year or two. Even though I just bought one from Dell and >>have it in my office. >> >>2. hyper-threading doesn't work. Even though both I and that "ferkin >>idiot" nalimov both posted results showing it _does_ work. >> >>3. parallel search is deterministic in its behavior. Even though every >>parallel researcher on the planet has discussed this non-deterministic behavior >>and how annoying it can be. >> >>4. speedups > 2.0 for two processors and > 4.0 for four processors can >>be done and he "proofed" it. Even though any textbook discussing parallel >>algorithms totally debunks this myth right off the bat... >> >>5. If a program isn't "diep" it is "crap" or "buggy" or "rude" or "simple" >>or whatever else you want... even though he can't reliably beat those >>programs with his. >> >>6. The Intel compiler is buggy and can't produce correct code, even though it >>is used by professionals all over the world. >> >>7. Crafty produces _no_ speedup when running on a dual processor. Even though >>everyone that tried it came up with numbers close to the 1.7X I have mentioned >>for several years. >> >>I will get tired of typing before I run out of examples... >> >>The list goes on and on... >> >>crap, crap and more crap. Covered with crap. With crap on the top. > >Look on the bright side. I find him very entertaining. He told me that my system >was incapable of running with a single DIMM. I double and triple-checked to make >sure: yep. I have my single 1 GB Samsung DIMM in there. Your machine is not working and I am sure he can "proof" it. Just as surely as the machine in my office is really only a picture clipped from the Dell website. :) > >I had to check again just to make sure that chance hadn't taken advantage of me >and caused one to spontaneously form and seat itself properly. Plus, if it had, >I could probably make a lucrative business exploiting that. > >I still haven't ruled out the possibility that such a phenomenon happens and the >DIMM disappears when I take off the side panel to my case. I need to get ram >gremlins to sit in there with a camera just-in-case. Maybe I'll go check >pricewatch for some ram gremlins... > >-Matt
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