Previously I had told you about octobonnie. 8 simultaneous bonnies run locally to beat the heck out of our servers. If we are going to catch a machine based problem, it will likely show up under this wilting load. But while that is a heavy load, it is nothing like what we have going on […]
Ok, a little early for those in NA, but late for those in Oz and about past it for India, but as you can see from WorldTimeZone, its coming to europe/mid-africa as I write this…. happy new years to you all!икони Viewed 14728 times by 3186 viewers
The ruins of Detroit. Look for the Michigan Central Rail Road station, and see if you recognize this from the recent Transformers movie. The building is near Mexican Town, south-ish of the old Tiger Stadium. Viewed 14778 times by 3226 viewers
… a weak dollar is a good dollar. Makes our exports more desireable. From Yahoo, linked back to the page. Really, we need that dollar lower. Makes exporters happy. Viewed 15702 times by 3473 viewers
Ok. I read something while I was semi-concious during my recent defeat at the hands of a 72 hour bug (that positively whupped me upside the head, stomach and other parts). I read Cisco is coming out with blade servers. Ok. Here is the 2 + 2 = 3 moment. Yeah, assume I am off […]
John West at InsideHPC.com covers a very important issue … that being the meltdown of the economy, and its impact upon HPC, specifically HPC expenditure. Being on the vendor side of this I can offer my observations and make some suggestions. Viewed 17348 times by 3390 viewers
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! [whimper] [update] Mitch Albom goes a bit further. Says what needs to be said. Viewed 14866 times by 3272 viewers
yup … a nice little down time courtesy of business class internet with SLAs … even though this is the home office, still … annoying. Considering rehosting at work … Viewed 14684 times by 3205 viewers
… which is why I haven’t commented on a number of interesting things. Hope to return to full capability over the next few days. Some bug decided to kick me hard a few hours after I wrote the previous post. Rehydrating and recovering. Viewed 15336 times by 3427 viewers
Twas the night before xmas, and all through the HPC solutions house, the disks were moving, just not the mouse … The workers had gone home to their families, and shipped the last JackRabbit of the year, while the benchmarker cackled and tuned, making the ΔV faster. Viewed 10691 times by 2291 viewers