I managed to crash the cluster today while moving raid units around on the raid card. Luckily there weren’t too many simulations running at the time. However, this seemingly innocuous activity will now be relegated to scheduled maintenance times. Apparently the Linux kernel doesn’t like disappearing SCSI drives.

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I’m switching servers again. Please pardon any hiccups you might notice.

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I have a Perl script that goes through time data from my simulations and develops what are commonly known as isochronal maps or activation maps. They show a color-coded snapshot of which parts of the model were activated by time, usually in “bins” of several milliseconds. Here’s a sample isochronal map from one of [...]

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I just started a simulation that will generate approximately 49 GB of data. I have at least 8 more like it to run. Yikes.

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My title paraphrases, their message, but I think it’s a reasonable summary. Interesting tidbits:

the resilience of anti-evolution movements is supported not only by religious dogmatism but also by the abysmal public ignorance of basic scientific principles. Consider these facts:

A recent poll by the Pew Research Center revealed that 64% of Americans are open to [...]

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