What is the sound of 40 brand-new AMD Opterons crunching numbers?

[btice@ares][Linux]-(/scratch-cluster/btice/Ri2D_300/TH_N_0.001/4min/300/CI225)-> ps ax | grep BidomainFEM | grep bpsh | wc -l
39

Music to my ears, that’s what. Actually I only used 39 CPUs. Oops. This is amazing. Not only can I run 40 jobs concurrently, they run really, wicked fast.
/me bounces.

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I’ve been cutting RSS feeds even more aggressively today. I think I let 6 or 8 go. I did sign up for an additional blog about cognitive science. Funny, it used to be I looked for high-volume news sites with some kind of inherent filtering. Now I’d rather read a bunch of low [...]

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After having cluster problems at lab (see http://virtuallyshocking.com, my work blog) I decided to catch up on my RSS backlog.
Of maybe… hmm… 700 items.
Suffice it to say some sites have been cut from my reading list, with more to come. Funny thing is, it’s the biggest sites getting cut. Metafilter. Digg. Not slashdot yet, but [...]

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If this were a word-association game, the first thing that would come to mind is “perception,” because Amanda possesses a great deal of it.
I originally met her because she had perception enough to call off a date with Jordan. As he has mentoined before, we have been through some good times and bad times. [...]

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Just a note, the writeups for people that commented earlier are going to take a few days. This is even more difficult than I anticipated. I hesitated to post the meme on my own journal because I suspected this would be the case.
Rest assured — they are coming! I need time. Time to think, to [...]

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