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Dropbox vs. Google Drive vs. Amazon vs. Skydrive: Which One Is Fastest?
May 20th
As cloud computing services become ever more popular, you might begin to wonder how much you can really trust them to perform when you need them? I decided to find out – by testing the top file-transfer/file-storage/file-backup services.
In many ways, getting a file from one computer to multiple computers is the most challenging task for the cloud. And because I like to use multiple computers running multiple operating systems, including Linux, Windows and the Mac, that function is particularly important to me.
Cloud Services Can Lag
I am pretty agnostic when it comes to cloud providers – as long as they are free or close to it. However, as I was moving files around while preparing my most recent book A Week at the Beach The 2013 Emerald Isle Travel Guide I was a little surprised at the lags I sometimes experienced using the big-name cloud-based file-transfer services.
More than once when I wanted to use a file from one computer to another, I was disappointed by my cloud services. There were a few times that I got so tired of waiting for a file to show up on my other computer’s cloud drive that I resorted to sneakernet using a USB thumb drive.
After my book was published, I decided to go back and run some simple tests to see just how long the four best-known file-transfer/backup services actually take to put the files where you want them.
To compare Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon Cloud, and Microsoft’s SkyDrive I started by exporting a 500K JPEG test image from Lightroom on my Windows 8 computer directly to each of the four services.
Fighting The Randomization Factor
After running the tests a few times, I noticed what can only be described as random operating system differences. Sometimes the file would pop up first on my Mac and other times it showed up first on my Windows 7 laptop.
In order to eliminate the operating system differences, I restarted the tests and this time stopped the timer when the file showed up on either my Mac running Mountain Lion or my Windows 7 laptop. I also reran my tests with a variety of sizes and types of files. In all I ran twenty-five sets of tests.
The differences were significant, if not overwhelmingly huge. The fastest synchs took less than 3 seconds, while a few others took several minutes. The biggest chunk of tests clocked in between 10 seconds and one minute. A few synchs never completed. But which service recorded the best times with the fewest problems?
Dropbox FTW!
Dropbox ended up being fastest 56% of the time. Even more importantly, it was slowest only 4% of the time.
Skydrive brought up the rear. It was fastest on 12% of the tests, but but slowest on a whopping 80% of the tests. It also had two files that never showed up on the Mac and one that never showed on the Windows 7 laptop.
The Amazon Cloud slightly outpaced Google Drive – which had one file that never showed up on the Mac and another that took a very long time to complete.
If my tests convinced me of anything, it is that Skydrive is a work in progress and has a long way to go. I even had trouble setting up the tests on Skydrive.
My tests also revealed a number of odd results. When testing files saved from Word, strange extra files sometimes showed up on all the cloud drives except Dropbox. The file names always began with the characters “~$”. Sometimes the mystery files disappeared and sometimes they hung around.
Cloud Drive Recommendations
So here are some quick recommendations:
- First, do not treat your cloud drive as one huge dumping ground. Create folders and try to force a little organization on yourself.
- If you save a file to the cloud in order to work on it from another computer, quit the application or close the file on the first computer after you have saved the file to the cloud drive.
- Make sure you have a local copy of important files in your documents folder – not just the replicated cloud folder on your computer. Interesting things sometimes happen when cloud files get updated or deleted from another computer. When you come back to the computer where you first created a file, you could be in for a nasty surprise.
- If you cannot get a cloud folder on your computer to update, trying quitting the cloud application or rebooting your system.
Dropbox and Amazon appear to be the most reliable solutions with only occasional delays. Google isn’t far behind, and I can’t imagine that Microsoft won’t work hard to improve Skydrive – the company’s subscription model depends on it.
Even so, I have no plans to throw away my USB thumb drives.
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Mar 4th
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World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Brought to You By Game Tech
Nov 2nd
Titan, the supercomputer introduced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), is on track to be the world’s fastest. At least until the next one comes along. It can handle over 20,000 trillion calculations a second. That’s the equivalent of seven billion people carrying out three million calculations per second. You know what it has to thank for all that power? Computer gaming.
The graphics processing units (GPUs), usually reserved for consumer and entertainment purposes are the same ones that fuel a machine that could potentially save the world. No exaggeration: Titan is capable of everything from predicting climate change and weather events (including monstrous hurricanes) to finding cures for Parkinson’s and cancer. All because of the same little processor that makes Call of Duty look so realistic.
Faster, Better, Stronger
Compared to its predecessor, Jaguar, Titan is faster and 10-times more powerful, while taking up no more physical space. (It does consume about two megawatts more energy). Inside the Titan reside thousands of NVIDIA’s latest GPU accelerator, the Tesla K20. Each of the computer’s 18,688 nodes holds one of these GPUs as well as a 16-core AMD Opteron computer processing unit (CPU).
Researchers at NVIDIA found that the processors they created were starting to resemble the ones used for simulating physics. The rapid-fire calculation solving done by GPUs resembled the way supercomputers simulated problems using CPUs. By combining the two, the CPU is able to handle creating the problem, or simulation, while the GPU is what does the heavy calculations. This makes complex calculations happen faster and allows them to cover more scientific ground. Added bonus? Combining the industry standard CPU with a high performance graphics processor not only makes the supercomputer faster, it also makes it more energy-efficient.
Wait, what? It uses more power, how is that more energy efficient?
Power consumption is a big deal for supercomputers these days, and according to Jeff Nichols, associate laboratory director for computing and computational sciences at ORNL, GPU’s could hold the key to improving that. “Combining GPUs and CPUs in a single system requires less power than CPUs alone and is a responsible move toward lowering our carbon footprint.” While the Titan consumes enough energy to power a small town, one GPU uses eight times less energy per calculation than a CPU. Titan’s size and power makes the uptick in energy usage well worth it, it does more with less energy than a supercomputer of the same size running on the standard method of CPU-only use would.
Skeptics Be Damned
Steve Scott, CTO of NVIDIA’s Telsa business unit told the Washington Post that this isn’t the first time CPUs and GPUs have been combined, and that a lot of people didn’t think it would make much of a difference. The size and scale of the Titan project made the stakes that much higher: the new supercomputer had to be able to handle six applications in tough areas of research including astrophysics, biofuels and nuclear energy. Scott wanted to prove using GPUs in supercomputers wasn’t a stunt. If people see it that way now, at least it’s one that worked.
The goal wasn’t just to create the biggest and baddest supercomputer, it was also to create a new standard. Building a supercomputer using components that many people use to play games shows just how far consumer technology has come – remaking not just business tech but also the even-more-complex world of research technology.
Image Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory .
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‘My Daughter Seo Young’ The Fastest Cinderella Story Ever – KpopStarz
Oct 9th
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iPhone 5: Apple’s Biggest, Smartest, Fastest Yet
Sep 12th
The wait is over. Apple announced its newest iPhone today at an event in San Francisco and, as rumored, it is indeed larger than its predecessors, runs 4G LTE, and has a bigger, better display. After months of speculation and a litany of leaks, the new device is indeed called the iPhone 5 and nearly everything about it is an improvement over the iPhone 4S.
The iPhone had a growth spurt. Gone is the 3.5-inch display that has defined previous iPhones, replaced by a 4-inch display. Apple increased the screen resolution as well, improving from 960×640 pixels in the iPhone 4S to 1136×640 for the iPhone 5. The screen now supports a movie standard 16:9 aspect ratio.
Despite being longer, the iPhone 5 is thinner and lighter than the 4S. At 7.6 millimeters, the iPhone 5 is 18% thinner as well as 20% lighter (112 grams) than the 4S. During the keynote, Apple called it the “world’s thinnest smartphone.” Actually, while the iPhone 5 is impressively thin, it is not the world’s thinnest smartphone. That honor goes to the Droid Razr, which sports a 7.1mm-thin body.
Apple also unveiled its newest processor running the iPhone, the A6, which promises to double performance from the A5 chip inside the iPhone 4S. The A6 is also 22% smaller than the A5 and will launch apps 2.1 times faster, according to Apple.
The least surprising but perhaps the most significant aspect of the iPhone 5 is that it now supports 4G LTE. In the U.S., that means the iPhone will run on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. In Canada the iPhone will run on Rogers, Bell, Telus, Virgin Mobile, Fido and Koodo.
The battery life on the iPhone 5 is improved, though Apple is never very specific on battery specifications during its keynote presentations. Apple claims that the iPhone 5 will deliver 10 hours of video playback, 8 hours of browsing using 4G LTE and 8 hours of 3G talk time with 225 hours of standby. Those numbers are actually almost exactly the same as the iPhone 4S, but considering the larger screen and more powerful processor, the battery of the iPhone 5 is definitely improved.
The camera is still 8 megapixels, as was its predecessor, but Apple has improved the color saturation, optics and software that runs the camera to perform faster and more precisely. The camera now supports shared photo streams and panorama modes for landscape pictures. It also has a sapphire lens that will enhance focus and create crisper images.
One of the biggest controversies surrounding the iPhone 5 is that Apple has changed the dock connector. Called “Lightning” (to match its Thunderbolt connector for its PCs), the new dock connector is 80% smaller. The Lightning connector has an all digital, 8-signal design (for improved data transfer) and is more durable than the 30-pin connector Apple has employed since 2003.
The iPhone 5 will be available for pre-order on September 14th, starting at $199 for the 16 GB model. The 32 GB will retail for $299 and 64 GB at $399 with a carrier contract.
Overall, the iPhone 5 is a big step up from anything that Apple has produced so far. Is it enough to excite consumers?
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The Fastest SEO Website in the World is Revealed – Equities.com
Sep 10th
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The Fastest SEO Website in the World is Revealed
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Aug 27th
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Inc. 500 Recognizes SEO.com as One of the Fastest Growing Companies in …
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Still a Young Company, SEO.com Named the Third Fastest Growing Business in … – RedOrbit
Jul 14th
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Still a Young Company, SEO.com Named the Third Fastest Growing Business in …
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Still a Young Company, SEO.com Named the Third Fastest Growing Business in … – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Jul 13th
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Still a Young Company, SEO.com Named the Third Fastest Growing Business in … – Equities.com
Jul 13th
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Still a Young Company, SEO.com Named the Third Fastest Growing Business in …
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