Monthly Archives: April 2003

Geekforce Outing

Well,
Ian and I went to Lacede Computer Trading on Saturday. That place is great. For a cluster nodes, or just cheap spare parts, it’s the place to go.
The were selling SGI Indigo workstations for $10.00 - they were barebones - no disks, no cd, etc. but there they were.
I found an old RAID for […]

Cluster Progress, Authentication madness

I’ve got node number two up and running in ’shared process space’ mode. I’m frustrated because I can’t get the bproc module to load at boot, and have to run modprobe manually form the client at boot. Bummer.
But, I’ve two more nodes to go here, and some lets just say ‘interesting’ power limitations!
On the photshelf […]

Beo-What?!

I’m insane, and I can’t type - or spell for that matter - but I’ve got a beowulf cluster in my basement.
And you don’t! Neener neener…

I’m losing it…

Taht last post made NO Sense!
Things have been touch and go in life lately.
I’ve got a really cool job wioth great people that I work with, but it just seems like everything does not add up for me.
Bummer.
More later.

Geeks and Graphs

What is it with us geeks anyway?
Dave and I have the same penchant for graphs and charts, as evidenced in the traffic logs, (which we have going back to the beginning of the site, more or less.) My plot of the SARS outbreak (updated daily) is another example. Less a graph than the others […]