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“Winning is great, but sometimes it takes a loss to get you motivated again. It humbles you down to reality,” said a high school athlete in my research. That youth speaks truth! Although he might not be old enough to drive a Toyota, he is headed in the right direction.

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RDMA vs TCP

zignasa — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:52:54 +0000

The demonstration showcases Data Fabric™, running side-by-side in RDMA and standard TCP modes. Using RDMA over the Voltaire Messaging Service (VMS) transport, the demonstration publishes one million, 100 Byte messages per second from a single 8-core Intel® Xeon® 5500 based server, to each of six subscribers on six more similar servers, for a total of six million messages streaming through the middleware per second. Each server contains a NetEffect NE020® 10 Gigabit Ethernet iWARP-capable server adapter from Intel. The test measures breakthrough, end-to-end, average one-second latency of 32 usec, with almost no jitter.

On a second set of unique servers, the demonstration publishes fifty thousand, 100 Byte messages per second to six other subscribers, using the standard Linux Operating System TCP/IP transport. This generates a total of three hundred thousand messages per second streaming from the publisher. Despite using the same 10Gigabit Ethernet network, the throughput is significantly lower while latency is an order of magnitude higher and more prone to latency jitter.

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Mythology and market

zignasa — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:26:43 +0000

Devdutt Pattanaik, Chief Belief Officer at Future Group, believes in looking at modern life and even business through the lens of mythology.

According to him, mythology is a collection of stories that construct the cultural understanding of people. People can be understood through their mythology, he says.

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In search of the ‘GURU’

zignasa — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:55:31 +0000

Contemplating the need and limitation of the ‘GURU’. found some interesting thoughts. With ever changing in the thoughts based on the background of the minds behind them, it’s even more confusing to see the role of a ‘GURU’ at different phases of ones life. Ahhaa, that’s the role of the GURU, to steer you away from all the confusions and get your focus on the right path..

Here’s article that illustrates the change of GURU’s role. And, here this article suggests Discard Guru to Become Enlighten

Going Beyond the Words

zignasa — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:41:11 +0000

The Tao that can be told is not the Absolute Tao…. whatsoever can be said cannot be true… do not become a victim of the words…. remember the wordless…the Tao can be communicated, but it can only be communicated from being to being…remember that truth cannot be said…. it can only be realized in silence…. when your inner talk has stopped, then it is realized…and that which is realized in silence, how can you say it in sound? It is experience…. not thought…. So as you read these words, what are you experiencing now?

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zignasa — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:45:00 +0000

What are the best examples of non-Apple-inspired design and who are the worst offenders?

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