@herrold You should tell you quant friend that we (scalable) are well on our way to 16 GPUs per machine. Currently max 8. Pegasus-gpu

@insideHPC Volume rules. This is why HPC is, and must, go down market, to desktops. And why accelerators are so important.

@herrold 2nd derivative is curvature, how quickly the slope changes. Sadly it looks like it is changing in the wrong direction.

We built most of “Velocibunny” today. The x5492’s didn’t work, so we used 5310’s. This was the fastest RAID build I have ever seen …

I read today about the Ann Arbor news going out of the atom pushing business, and getting into the bit pushing business. Given that most news papers are advertisement supported, and Google has eaten most everyone’s lunch on advertising … this isn’t a guaranteed strategy by any measure. I wish them luck. But that isn’t what caught my eye. Its the unemployment rate, and its' first derivative (e.g. slope), in Michigan.

John L over at InsideHPC writes about an article that appears in the print version of the New York Times. In this article, John notes that IBM is scouring Sun Microsystems contracts … well, their lawyers are doing due diligence, in large part, to help figure out if there is something of value there. John opines that there are many things of great value. As I see it, the market has indicated otherwise, by valuing Sun Micro stock where it is now.

Failblog … couldn’t stop laughing at this … http://tinyurl.com/c2qm4o

Nasty. See the link

They pissed me off … driving my load up from 0.00 to 0.01 like that … Using up the … I don’t know … 10kB/minute … bandwidth … Look at the blue arrow. This is where I told our … sentry … to get a little more proactive about … defense. [ ](/images/DDoS_revenge_of_the_attacked.png) Its a start. Their network is a scale free net. We could collapse it fairly easily. In fact, I am thinking about readying that change, so if I need it (that is, if they get serious about mailbombing us, and not this pretty whimpy thing here), I can turn it on at a moments notice.

Its like clockwork I tell ya … Like clockwork … [ ](/images/DDoS-March-2009.png) I could set my watch by this …