Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[Gregory Shearman]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote:
>
> I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, but it's 
> too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it NFS-exports its 
> packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit chroot set up as 
> an image of the Atom. Emerging is done here, making the packages available 
> for installation on the Atom. This is a cumbersome operation though.

That's interesting. I run a SheevaPlug with Gentoo onboard. It runs at
1.2G and has half a G of memory. I have no trouble compiling gentoo on
this little server. It works as a file server, backup server, web
server and portage server (distfiles and portage sync for the gentoos on
my network).

Is ARM more efficient than the intel atom?

-- 
Regards,
Gregory.

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[James]

Gregory Shearman <zekeyg <at> gmail.com> writes:


> Is ARM more efficient than the intel atom?

Overwhelmingly YES! check out this bad boy that runs 
gentoo: [1] [2]

ARM has chipsets coming in months that are being dubbed
"the intel killers" based on the A15. [3]

There are notebooks with arm processors:[4] like the
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer (dual ARM Cortex-A9, touchscreen.

The future is ARM, bro.... Super low power, clusters
being developed that control resources awake/sleep/awake
in micro seconds and full sata interfaces. Intel cannot
compete with ARM on similar power/heat comparisons.
Several large clusters are being design around new ARM
chips and memory resources on the same die.

Better start dumping that Intel/Nvidia stock!
Arm already rules the new carrier design wins competitions
according to chips vendors (FAE's) that I talk too.


Unless a miracle happens, Intel is doomed to follow
IBM and MS tainted hardware efforts. MS has many secret
porting efforts to ARM arch style SOCs, trying to avoid
another implosion on is doz lack_ware.....


hth,
James



[1] http://pandaboard.org/
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=4&chap=9

[3]
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4153/ti-reveals-omap-5-the-first-arm-cortex-a15-soc
[4] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4445/samsung-galaxy-tab-101-review

[gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[Adam Carter]

"Linux also offered financial firms the ability to modify the source
code to further speed performance, Lameter said. "It depends on how
daring the exchange is," Lameter said, noting that NASDAQ uses a
modified version of the Gentoo Linux distribution. "

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street

This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does
everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For
server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup
or use case?

I had Gentoo on both my desktop and HTPC, but I had to cannibalize the
HTPC for parts, so now it's just on my primary desktop box.

-- 
:wq

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote:

> How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For
> server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup
> or use case?

Since you ask: my workstation runs Gentoo. My old workstation sometimes 
does; at other times it's experimenting with other distributions.

I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, but it's 
too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it NFS-exports its 
packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit chroot set up as 
an image of the Atom. Emerging is done here, making the packages available 
for installation on the Atom. This is a cumbersome operation though.

The Atom serves web, time, squid proxy, dns, cups and mysql to the LAN. It 
runs http-replicator and rsyncd to keep a local portage tree for the other 
boxes. I'd like it to serve mail too, but I've never managed to set that up.

My laptop runs Gentoo, Fedora or WinXP.

-- 
Rgds
Peter		Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[walt]

On 08/17/2011 01:59 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> My laptop runs Gentoo, Fedora or WinXP.

Just being nosy -- why Fedora?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 17 August 2011 23:14:34 walt wrote:
> On 08/17/2011 01:59 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > My laptop runs Gentoo, Fedora or WinXP.
> 
> Just being nosy -- why Fedora?

Why not? I've been trying many distributions in the hope of finding one that 
suits me; this is just the latest in the search. It won't last.

-- 
Rgds
Peter		Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23