Well, am I keeping right track on the weeks here? It feels like week thirteen…
Two records for today:
I took a look at the UC “super computer”. It is supposed to be the fastest computer in Australasia.
The UCSC system is comprised of two systems. The first is a tightly-coupled, high-performance computer system composed of ten of IBM’s p5-575 high-end compute nodes. The second is a two rack Blue Gene system with 4096 compute nodes.
Each p5-575 node contains 16 IBM Power 5 processors with 1,9 GHz and 32 GB of Ram, together 160 CPUs. The 4096 processors in the other system run at 700 MHz with 512 MB ram for each (two?) CPUs.
Here are some pictures:
More information on the UCSC (University of Canterbury Super Computer) website.
Then I was involved into a flat fight (well rather argument) on flat-sharing-casualties-issues. Rules on doing dishes, disappearing Korean noodles and washing powder…
My premise: Ignore rules that ain’t working out…
And here again, are some pictures:
Dubai – Christchurch – Greymouth
By the way, I have uploaded all pictures in full size to a secret place on the web, mail me for details ;-)