Category: Computer bits

This would be a pretty sweet machine to get my hands on. 1024 Itanium 2 processors all acting as a single computer running off a single Linux image, rather than 1024 separate nodes like in regular clusters. Throw in 3TB RAM and 370TB of storage and you’ve got some serious computing at your fingertips. When it’s operational, it alone will account for 1/6 of NCSA‘s computing power and doubles their existing storage space.

The SGI® Altix® system, to be named Cobalt, will consist of 1,024 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors running the Linux® operating system, 3 terabytes of globally accessible memory, and 370 terabytes of SGI® InfiniteStorage that will serve as the Center’s shared file system, accessible by other high-performance computing resources within NCSA.

Found at Slashdot.

I’m sure it’s just me, but my FC2 box seems to be having issues holding onto IP addresses. Our DHCP server here issues IP addresses with a lease period of 1 week. So why is it that every time I have to reboot the Fedora box or the network connection drops on me I end up getting a new IP address?
Hmmm.
Haven’t started digging into it yet. No time at the moment, so it’ll just have to wait and I’ll just have to deal with it for the time being.

Just checking to see if MathML is usable inside this weblog with my browsers at all.

${\left[a+b\right]}^{260}+{\left\{a+b\right\}}_i$

$$

a + b 2

x 2 + 4 ⁢ x + 4 = 0

x = – b ± b 2 – 4 ⁢ a ⁢ c 2 ⁢ a

$\begin{pmatrix}0 & 1 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 1\\ 1 & 0 & 0\end{pmatrix}$

$17+29i\in \mathbb{C}$

$\infty$

Rats, well that didn’t work too well, did it.

Not quite sure I understand what’s going on here. According to the sample pages it should mostly work with Firefox, Mozilla and IE6. Not sure why the examples above don’t work. I must be doing something wrong…

Either spammers are getting better at constructing their messages to evade filters, are just spamming more or Earthlink’s Spamblocker has been seriously sucking lately because the amount of spam making it through to my inbox has at least doubled over the past few days.
Normally I’d just see 7-10 messages a day in the junk mailbox when I check my mail in the morning and usually none throughout the day, but lately it’s been more like 20-30 messages in the morning and a relatively steady stream of 2-3/hour throughout the rest of the day.
That said, Spamblocker is still great. What gets through is probably about a tenth of what gets intercepted. And what does get through gets tagged by POPFile and sent to the trash by my Eudora filters so I never have to dirty my eyeballs looking at it.
So hah! Take that spammers!