not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy
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 now.
Read moreblasting through heavy loads …
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
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.
… 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.
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 the mark. Pure speculation. Shai, feel free to tell me here that I am full of it.
Read morePure unabridged speculation … guessing really on my part
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.
Read moreThe economy and HPC: part 1
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! [whimper] [update] Mitch Albom goes a bit further. Says what needs to be said.
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 …
… 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.
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.