Thursday, July 26th, 2007
NASA’s new SGI Altix system is expected to be installed in August at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The new system will be the first supercomputer to operate 2,048 processor cores and 4TB of memory under a single copy of Linux(R) — creating the largest Linux single system image (SSI) in the world. A larger SSI can accelerate scientific research by making all of the system’s processors and memory available to solve a single problem, or several problems at once.
Driven by 1,024 Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, the new system will generate 13.1 TFLOPs of compute power. The system’s dual-core processors allow more computing power per square foot, enabling NASA to pack more computing power into its supercomputing center. NASA also acquired an ultra-dense 240TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 10000 system to efficiently handle the massive data storage requirements.
courtesy http://money.cnn.com/
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
i’ve been so busy with work and just trying to keep up recently that i’ve neglected this site and my other sites like flickr and facebook. work has been going well for the most part. we have a lot of really cool projects coming up that are really going to beef up the resume part, but are also really going to be a learning experience. it’s the kind of work that consumes the work day but really keep you interested in coming back to see what else is new.
mandy and i have been doing great. she got an apartment in the same complex as mine. she’s literally a walk across the parking lot now. she’s been really busy at work recently too, but we both went and joined 24 hr fitness last week, hoping it would motivate us to get out of the apartment and help us focus on our health more. we both get 5 50 minute training sessions with a personal trainer to start. i have a feeling she will sign up for more when those are done, just to help keep her motivated and help her keep goals set to be reached. not because she does not want to go, but because she is easily goal oriented.
anyways, it’s time for bed. we’re moving part of our office to a building across the way from our current one now. so we’re setting up a wireless link like the one below between the two buildings. in the end, it will look a lot like this, but more the size and shape of a pizza box when it’s up.
one of those guys is my boss, the other is our unix systems admin.
Monday, July 16th, 2007
mandy and i went out to catch woodbelly on stage friday night at the taste of dallas and we ended up getting front row and meeting the guys after the show. awesome guys, great music.
www.woodbelly.com
