I Lost My Notebook...

Super Computing '07

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:33:25 GMT

Scheduled to endure six days of higher-level computing science.

Attending:
- Workshop on Grid Computing Portals (GCE 2007)
- Detecting Anomalies and Emergent Behavior from Distributed Data in Near Real Time
- Data Exploration of Turbulence Simulations using a Database Cluster
- Innovation for the Data Center of Tomorrow
- Performance Analysis and Optimization of Large-scale Scientific Applications on Clusters with CMPs.
- Planning for the Next Generation TeraGrid
- Rocks Clusters BOF
- Intel HPC Innovations for the Mainstream and High End
- Unleashing the Power of the Cell Broadband Engine Processsor for HPC
- HPC in Academia and Industry
- Maximum Performance Cluster Design
- Supercomputing at the Hayden Planetarium
- Efficient Gather and Scatter Operations on Graphics Processors
- Strategic Decisions in Industrial HPC

So far, I know a whole TWO other attendees.

Watch out!

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:20:33 GMT

Gomez - How We Operate - See The World

Beware! Dogzilla is on the rampage!! He is a fierce and ruthless mutant!!

Okay, maybe not fierce, but definitely ruthless.

Case in Point

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:16:34 GMT

The Vanity Project - Wilted Rose

Here I am freezing in the lab. Courtesy of our lab camera. Very high security. Top Secret! Or maybe it's Pop Secret.

... MMMmm popcorn.

The Physics of Singing

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:57:17 GMT

Barenaked Ladies - Gordon - Break Your Heart

When I get stuck in the freezing cold lab for hours at a time, I take my iPod with me. Without fail, if I am alone, within minutes I am singing along. It's always loud because of the eleventy-billion servers in such a small acoustic place, but I wonder if the folks in the hallway working away on their science can hear me over the din of the machines.

Hmmmm. Curious. I could always ask. :)

A Jeep Thrill

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:44:24 GMT

This guy has modified his recent vintage Wrangler with a Biodiesel engine. That is awesome.

I'm pretty good at mechanical stuff, but I think I'd just end up destroying my car.

Public Service Announcement

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:31:31 GMT

Barenaked Ladies - Gordon - Wrap Your Arms around Me

I am full of wit and wisdom today. And after my long lunch with one of my French colleagues yesterday, I am bilingual as well.

How you should interpret: Today I can be full of myself in two languages instead of one.

Detour

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:17:36 GMT

The French Ecole - French For Beginners - French For Beginners - Lesson 1

Heading to Vermont either next week or the week after. It's been forever since I visited Canada, and I'm feeling long overdue. So, I will be taking a day or two trip up to Montreal; it's only an hour and a half drive. This will be interesting since I am very bad at speaking French. So, in honor of my adventurous jaunt to French-Canadia (sic), I'm listening to The French Ecole French Lessons.

I am very, very excited.

Quel temps fait-il?

Il fait beau!

...Fin.

Shoulder to Shoulder

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:30:10 GMT

The Vanity Project - The Vanity Project - Wilted Rose

I separated both of my shoulders playing football. Thank you, Mammoth-of-a-Man who decided it'd be okay to tank-roll a girl. By the way, it's two-hand touch.

Anyway, you should see me eat soup. I want a video of it. It's like I've impaled my brain right through the motor skills center.

They shouldn't allow me a soapbox

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:47:10 GMT

But here it is. The Internet does it again. Providing resources to someone who clearly shouldn't have them. Granted, my writing on a cyberwall in the ether will not have the affect, as say, a driver without experience given a Ferrari would. But eventually someone will waste their time reading this.

And in the words of the Principal of Billy Madison's high school during the Academic Decathalon, "What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it...may God have mercy on your soul."

Yep... That's me.
:)

Custom List: Work Projects

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:23:58 GMT

Work Projects

PAN-STARRS
Server Support @ JHU.
GalaxyZoo
Server Support for the Galaxyzoo website @ JHU.
DLMS, Turbulence Cluster
HPC Cluster Support
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Part of the JHU Technical Support team for the project.

Book List: Book List

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:40:08 GMT

Scalability Experts Inc.: Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm (SQL Server 2005 Public Beta Edition) (SQL Server Series)
Why? Because I'm a nerd.
Tracy Kidder: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
A story about how one man changed the face of medicine in a disease-laden nation.
George, Jr. Parulski: Path to Oriental Wisdom: Introductory Studies in Eastern Philosophy (History & Philosophy Series)
Good insight. This book made me think.
Ian Baker: The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise
Just when you think your life is impossible and everything surrounding you is so big, this book brings you back down to the fact that you are small in the universe.

Book List: Currently On my Shelf

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:33:28 GMT

Currently On my Shelf

Custom List: Catastrophic Thoughts

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:48:37 GMT

Catastrophic Thoughts

School Fundraisers
Maybe I'm just curmudgeonly, but I'd rather just give a cause money instead of buying hunky-junk I don't want. But they won't take donations, so I'm forced to buy "Reversible Kitty cat wrapping paper." ...
Football
Baltimoreans don't like to hear that I like Canadian football better than American football. I love my Ravens, but I really miss the Stallions.
Childbirth
Someone told me there is a chemical released during childbirth that makes a woman forget how painful child birth is. I wonder if it is released every time I do something really stupid (like use a rolling chair for a ladder). Since I'll do it again.

Blog list: Blog list

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:34:02 GMT

O'Reilly DevCenter Blog
Nerdy Blog stuff.
BNL Blog
Blog du Barenaked Ladies
Culinary Fool
Food. Mmmmmmmmm.
Microsoft HPC Institute - U Tenn
Another HPC Institute Participant
Niels SQL Server Blog
Decent SQL Server Blog
Microsoft HPC Institute - U. Stuttgart
They're using infiniband for their Windows Cluster
Microsoft HPC Institute Blog Roll
HPC Institute Participants