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NCSA BlueWaters announces it will use Linux
Most of my time last year went into help make this happen, so I’m quite excited to see the results finally announced publicly. In particular I was looking at jitter and working with engineers at SARA. While linux already has … Continue reading
Hugepages on Linux…Yes You Can Actually Use Them
Memory on a computer is broken up into pages. Pages used to be one size (eg: 4096 bytes). For various reasons nowadays there are lots of page sizes. Depending on the hardware, in addition to a “base” page size you … Continue reading
Jeremy Allison on Sun’s death
I’ve poked at Sun repeatedly in past blog posts. While Jeremy Allison isn’t with Sun, he was once and understands why Sun did the things they did. Linux systems from Red Hat and others ate Sun up from the inside … Continue reading
Multicore and no cache coherency
The talk today in Portland State’s CS colloquium series featured Intel’s Tim Mattson talking parallel programming and Intel’s research chips. I’d followed the Intel press releases on their Terascale chip with a lot of interest. Turns out that was definitely … Continue reading
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An example of how Verizon’s Portland FIOS sale could go bad
Three months ago I wrote about my worries regarding the sale of Verizon’s FIOS customers in the Portland area to Frontier Communications. Yesterday’s news brought a great example of what some smaller companies will do to get an opportunity to … Continue reading
My little AJAX summer project…a CWOP plugin for WordPress
It’s still fairly lame in that it has no gui yet, but I’ve deemed my summer project for learning some AJAX to be ready for its first release! My weather station sends its data to the internet. Currently the data … Continue reading
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My weather station finally is online
Last year for my birthday we got a Davis weather station. For Christmas I got the data logger accessory and bought an NSLU2 to run linux and manage the data. I then got busy with school and work and didn’t … Continue reading
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Longevity through BMI
Finally I can stop caring that my BMI is consistently slightly above ideal! A new study says it light mean a longer life…
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Sun kills Rock processor?
Word is that Sun is dropping the Rock processor. Given the Oracle acquisition of Sun, which alone seemed to constantly be promising interesting tech this last decade and never quite living up to the promise, I’ve been wondering if together … Continue reading
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Verizon bails on (Portland, Oregon) FIOS?!
Verizon’s FIOS broadband service offering has been absolutely stellar in the roughly three years I’ve had it. And I’ve been quite happy the last few months with FiosTV feeding CableCards in my Tivo instead of some random crappy DVR. There … Continue reading