Re: [foxboro] One More Thing....
- From: "Brown, Stanley" <stan.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:11:37 +0000
Actually, I have seen the multicore code run.
It exists.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Brown [mailto:stanb@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Toecker
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 03:51 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] One More Thing....
Don't forget, all that single core goodness can be wrapped up in several single
core virtual machines to transparently obfuscate the fact the code has never
been updated for parallel use. That's progress, folks.
Mike
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Vandewater, Tom (HI Contractor) <
TVandewater.contractor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ha ha Brian. So true. But not just any home PC. It HAS to be very
> specific models from only ONE vendor. All the control system vendors
> have moved to using PC's for their platforms. Most vendors have
> designed a system that allows the customer the freedom to choose any
> vendors PC that meets a minimum hardware spec., (usually RAM, CPU, and
> hard drive capacity). Those vendors also utilize multiple cores built
> into the machines. Foxboro has always tied their design to specific
> hardware and is the only control system vendor I know that continues to go
> down a hardware
> specific path, especially to support their MESH network. Sometime early
> in the MESH development design they advertised that customers would be
> able to use commercial off the shelf, (COTS), networking equipment for
> the proposed MESH. A bit later it appears that they found they
> couldn't deliver sub-second failover for their Redundant Ethernet Data
> Link, (REDL), and decided to go with hardware and firmware spe cific
> NIC's, (Allied Telesys), and hardware and firmware specific switches,
> (Enterasys).
>
> When I was working on a very large ABB 800xA installation a
> few years back I realized that it was possible for control system
> vendors to design their redundant Ethernet networks using COTS
> equipment for workstations, servers, and switches.
> Tom VandeWater
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Brian Long
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:42 AM
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> Subject: Re: [foxboro] One More Thing....
>
> Aren't we all so glad we are forced to run our industrial facilities
> on home pc's and we support them with Ebay!
>
> Brian
>
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> On Behalf Of Gaylon F. Hicks
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:01 AM
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> Hi Michael,
>
> We don't have any lying about, but if you will get the Dell service
> code from a typical machine, you can look up the specs/part number on
> the dell support site. There will likely be a plethora of identical
> or similar boxes available on Ebay. And yes, I realize that
> purchasing folks frown on Ebay, but when it's that or a big heaping
> helping of nothing, Ebay's not so bad.
> If you go that route, plan on about a 50% success rate on boxes
> purchased that way. That sounds bad until you look at prices, and the
> average price on Ebay for these boxes is less than $100. Save up, buy a
> dozen.
>
> Gaylon
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Michael Toecker
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 10:46 AM
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> Subject: [foxboro] One More Thing....
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> If anyone has P0923LT's sitting around and are willing to part with
> them, let me know.
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> Michael Toecker
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