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Archive for February, 2006
Here are some really neat stories from the Apple website about universities building Mac-based supercomputers that compete with the biggest in the world, at a fraction of the price. Bowie State’s approach to using their machine, nicknamed the Xseed, as the centerpiece for a five point development plan is really great — it shows how computers can enhance the educational experience of all students, not only those in the sciences or related disciplines. Check it out…
- “Bowie State”:http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/bowiestate/
- “Virginia Tech”:http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/vatech2/
Also, this is all somewhat old news, but here is a macworld writeup about Apple’s overall standing in the Top500 list:
“Apple lands four spots in TOP500 list”:http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/22/top500/index.php (June 2005)
Myrinet Overview
“Myrinet is a cost-effective, high-performance, packet-communication and switching technology that is widely used to interconnect clusters of workstations, PCs, servers, blade servers, or single-board computers.”
Woah…. Deep stuff…
p.s. the blockquote is pissing me off lately… so yeah….
also, the “press it” bookmarklet should automatically quote or blockquote (if it wasn’t so ugly) text that is uses as a summary from linked pages….
Here are some interesting links/news-bits I noticed while checking the recent (month’s) headlines from the NYT and the Washington Post…
Oh, and I will eventually be upgrading to WordPress 2 (2.1), but I think I’ll probably do a reformat and reinstall OSX Tiger and Ubuntu linux (dual-boot!!!) first. Right now my 60 gig internal harddrive has a 20 gig OSX partition, two useless 900 meg partitions that are mac formatted but just sit around useless on my desktop (originally was going to be mapped as my /home directory under linux, or even osx… or something) and then a 10 or so gig Ext2 (linux) partition that has been lost into the abyss of partition-land and some random remaining unformatted free space (that disk utility won’t let me format… ugh… not willing to pay for expensive dynamic repartitioning software, and my conscience has been acting up again so no pirating!).
AAAND… this blog managed to eat up almost ALL of my monthly bandwidth during January (this site is amazingly hosted for free at http://www.buildtolearn.net the best free web host, NO ADS no BULLSHIT! you just have to participate in the community-forums!) So since time doesn’t allow me to participate sufficiently in the forums to earn a bandwidth upgrade, I need to start looking for a paid webhost! I’ve searched in the past but I always end up completely overwhelmed by the myriad options… but i’d love any suggestions…!
Anyways, onto the links…
p.s. still slightly unsure about using this textpad markup… worried about switching away from it and losing all my old links… but will stick with it for now out of convenience… shouldn’t make any difference to you anyways!!
- “U.S. to Shift Envoys to China, India”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020901963.html?nav=rss_print/asection
- “Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020902418.html?nav=rss_print/asection
Intelligence ‘Misused’ to Justify War, He Says - “Finding Photos in Mac OSX Tiger”:http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/findphoto.html I’ve never really noticed apple news before… but its pretty neat!
- “Different By Design”:http://www.apple.com/pro/design/chroniclebooks/ An article about publisher Chronicle Books and their unusual design approach (graphic design, behind the scenes!)
- “A Publishing Workflow Pushes the Envelope”:http://www.apple.com/pro/design/atlantajournal/ An article about how the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (newspaper) works!!! I’ve wondered about this for so long!! And they use MACS! (read this!)
- “Color”:http://www.apple.com/pro/color/ All about Color from Apple… in fact just goto apple.com/pro for some great news and links
hope these were useful…!
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