Monday, June 16

Jessica Alba And Scarlet Johansson Wrestling Topless* In Lime Jello
Or the next best thing.
Item one: The Fusion io ioDrive.
80GB. $2400. 9 watts. 120,000 IOPS. 600MB/second random writes.
If this thing really delivers, it's a silver bullet for mid-scale databases. I want a silver bullet for mid-scale databases.
Item two: The AMD Radeon 4850.
Somewhere between 600 and 1000 GFLOPS. $200.
I say "somewhere between 600 and 1000 GFLOPS", because this card has either 480 or 800 stream processors... And a week from release, no-one is sure which. At least, no-one who's talking. Wikipedia says 800; I'm betting on the lower figure, based on die size and the too-good-to-be-true rule. Even with 480 processors, though, it's one serious kick-ass video card at an amazing price.
* Only topless, because this is a class blog here.
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Or the next best thing.
Item one: The Fusion io ioDrive.
80GB. $2400. 9 watts. 120,000 IOPS. 600MB/second random writes.
If this thing really delivers, it's a silver bullet for mid-scale databases. I want a silver bullet for mid-scale databases.
Item two: The AMD Radeon 4850.
Somewhere between 600 and 1000 GFLOPS. $200.
I say "somewhere between 600 and 1000 GFLOPS", because this card has either 480 or 800 stream processors... And a week from release, no-one is sure which. At least, no-one who's talking. Wikipedia says 800; I'm betting on the lower figure, based on die size and the too-good-to-be-true rule. Even with 480 processors, though, it's one serious kick-ass video card at an amazing price.
* Only topless, because this is a class blog here.
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Lime jello? Ew.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, June 17 2008 10:48 AM (xC579)
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Going for the mega page hit rate pixy ?
Posted by: Andrew at Tuesday, June 17 2008 11:20 AM (3g4NP)
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(In fact, when one of the mu.nu blogs accidentally became the #1 result on Google image search for Jessica Alba and - some other starlet, I forget who - for a few days, the server nearly melted.)
That headline stemmed from my trying to explain to someone elsewhere my reaction to the ioDrive. To a database guy, a card like that is like, well, the title scenario to a normal guy.
Going for the mega page hit rate pixy ?The thought never crossed my mind.

That headline stemmed from my trying to explain to someone elsewhere my reaction to the ioDrive. To a database guy, a card like that is like, well, the title scenario to a normal guy.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, June 17 2008 12:41 PM (PiXy!)
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Lime jello? Ew.Orange? Strawberry? I'm flexible on this point.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, June 17 2008 12:42 PM (PiXy!)
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Yogurt, man, yogurt!
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, June 18 2008 08:08 AM (+rSRq)
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Pervert!!!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, June 18 2008 09:07 AM (PiXy!)
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