Back from Georgia. All went very well. Athens is a cool place. Nice campus. Nice people.
With 64 dual 1.26 GHz nodes connected via 100 Mb/s ethernet, I got the following Linpack results:
Size Minutes GFlops Efficiency
25000 7.08 2.450e+01 15.19%
...
44000 24.37 3.883e+01 24.07%
...
55000 40.92 4.518e+01 28.01%
I took some photos of the installation.
Almost all of the snow in Ames is gone.
Going to New Jersey on Monday.
Dave Egan is still slaving away on the downstairs bathroom remodeling project.
Hope to have the floor refinishing underway in the downstairs bedroom and livingroom next week.... Have to move the stupid fish tank first. That's going to be a hellish job.
Mkcdrec: another example of Linux's unstoppable rise towards becoming the server platform of choice.