I dig digg
Wednesday, November 30th, 02005If you're the type that compulsively reads slashdot, you'll really dig digg.
Archive for November, 02005
Unix tip of the week
Monday, November 28th, 02005Add the following to your .bashrc:
alias grep="grep --color=auto"
Before and after example:
Pretty awesome!
November Snow in the ABQ Foothills
Sunday, November 27th, 02005It snowed last night in the Albuquerque foothills, so I took a walk this morning to check things out. As always, a brisk walk in the chill and the Sunday morning stillness focuses the mind powerfully...
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More Washington Photos
Friday, November 25th, 02005
A few SC Photos
Thursday, November 17th, 02005
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Notes from Wednesday @ SC|05
Thursday, November 17th, 02005Egan Ford has posted some awesome stuff on cluster production readiness. Tools to drive the process he's developed are provided. If you're not doing the stuff presented in his slides, you could very well be in the dark as to why your machine has the performance it does. Very highly recommended.
Also, Chris Beggio posted SC stuff.
Notes from Tuesday @ SC|05
Tuesday, November 15th, 02005- Notes from chairman - SC now rivaling Siggraph in the giant tech conference arena
- Keynote from Bill Gates - "Computation has become a tool for all the sciences", Windows 2003 computer server, Tight integration with dev studio and graphical workflow development, launch one of these graphical workflows on local machine, "personal windows 2003 server cluster" - (single box with 4-8 Intel machines), a larger Windows cluster, or a big Linux cluster
- Cluster Environment Tech papers - 1,2, 3.
Monday Tutorial: Issues for the Future of Supercomputing
Monday, November 14th, 02005Today's session is "Issues for the Future of Supercomputing" / "Impact of Moore's Law and Architecture on Application Performance", presented by:
- Erik DeBenedictis - Sandia
- David Keyes - Columbia University
- Peter Kogge - University of Notre Dame
I'm kind of expecting a toned down Ray Kurzweil talk restricted to the more near term and computing, but we'll see...
Notes:
Beef in Action
Sunday, November 13th, 02005Beef fills up the Benz with biodiesel:
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Gotta love the Hello Kitty logbook:
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And the NRA sticker:
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And the pugs:
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Today’s SC|05 Tutorial Session: Parallel I/O in Practice
Sunday, November 13th, 02005Parallel I/O in Practice - Interesting so far. Benchmarks in the morning session and programming examples during the afternoon: POSIX, MPI-IO, HDF5, PnetCDF.
OpenBSD Security
Sunday, November 13th, 02005There's some really great security stuff being done in OpenBSD today. The question is, why isn't every other OS vendor/project following their lead?
Intel Umbrellas in Seattle: Genius Advertising
Saturday, November 12th, 02005Made it to Seattle and got my material for the conference.
What do I find in the bag of goodies, amidst the usual swag? An umbrella from Intel, with a nice note saying that we'll probably need it here.
Wow! How many people attending SC do you think failed to bring an umbrella to Seattle during the rainy season? If it does end up raining frequently (highly likely), there's going to be an awful lot of people thanking Intel. I will be among them.
SC|05
Thursday, November 10th, 02005Supercomputing conference in Seattle next week...
Bill Gates is giving the keynote address, which is kind of odd, because, well, you just don't see a whole lot of Microsoft in HPC data centers. Should be a valuable confernece, despite the odd keynote.
Lots of old friends live in Seattle these days, so catching up with them will be fun too.
