Building a Green Windows Home Server: The 37 Watt Server

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Which uses more power, the AeroCool Green Home Server or a 40 Watt light bulb? You guessed it, the light bulb looses. A few hours playing with a Smart-Watt meter hooked up to my home server I came up with some power usage numbers. While idle the Home Server consumes less ...

Building a Home Supercomputer

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

So having successfully put together a home server my mind started to wonder to desktop super computing and gravitational modeling. Which is when I came across this...  Building home linux render cluster "24 cores that run each at 2.4 Ghz, a total of 48GB ram, and just need 400W ...

Building a Green Windows Home Server: Installing the Software

Friday, September 5th, 2008

So now the hardware all seems to be working it's time to install Windows Home Server and any associated add-ins. More importantly there are some drivers, BIOS and operating system settings to update in order to get the best performance from your system and reduce it's power consumption. The ...

C# String Assignment Optimization

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

I happened to come across the following code the other day. string cost = "FR" + "E" + "E"; // bad perf = true J Which, after my performance investigation the other day, got me wondering again. Is there performance really going to be ...

C# Inline Methods and Optimization

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Last night I was playing around with a vector class that's part of a scientific computation code I've been working on. It's a long story more on that later but it means I've found some of my own time to write code in. Anyway... The Vector class uses the automatically ...