Further Down the Rabbit Hole

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- ...

Geek Vacation Day #1 & #2: GTC Tutorials and Keynote

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

So after I packed The Susan off home to Seattle it’s time to start my geek vacation in earnest… NVidia’s GPU Technology Conference. Monday was a set of fairly low key tutorials but Tuesday’s keynote by Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA, was very impressive. I’m somewhat jaded when it comes to ...

Parallel Computing: The New Old Thing

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

  This is one of several forthcoming posts on concurrency and parallel computing. Much of the content may end up in a white paper I’m writing to help developers get to grips with concurrent or parallel computing. I’d love to hear your feedback on this. If you think this is helpful ...

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 ...