Re: summary of recent important developments (ultra-compressed, random)

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:27 PM, J. Andrew Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> - Intel embedding NICs in CPUs starting this year will move most
> networking into userspace. Kernel networking is one of the biggest
> efficiency drains in server software today and userspace NIC drivers are
> not unknown in ordinary high-efficiency server software. With a "standard"
> NIC-in-the-CPU, this approach suddenly becomes much simpler.
>

I want my CPUs to have 12 CPUs, 16 GPUs, and  4 NPUs (and know how to use
them).  A 256Meg cache woudln't hurt either.


Everything is moving toward distributed, non-hierarchical, ad hoc
> organizations and identities (see also: bitcoin) that exist for as long as
> it makes sense to the involved parties because it is economically
> efficient. It has been interesting to see social and cultural institutions
> slowly evolve in that direction because they were never designed to work in
> that world.
>

>From life of Brian: Yes, we're all (sovereign) individuals.  I'm not!

Greg


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