I find myself this evening at the end of a very long day — one that started yesterday. I had a red-eye flight from Seattle to Baltimore via Detroit, that left at 22:00 PST and arrived at 08:15 EST. Perhaps I should back up a bit.
My day started around 08:00 PST yesterday, as I woke [...]

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Cluster Usage November 2007

Originally uploaded by brocktice

At the moment, we’re not keeping the new cluster very loaded. I’ll be interested to see a comparison once we get (a) the replacement for the dropped rack and (b) Infiniband up and running.

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About this time five years ago, I was a nervous junior undergraduate studying Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. I had just been accepted as an undergraduate member of Dr. Natalia Trayanova’s computational cardiac electrophysiology lab. The goal at that time was to complete a research project for my undergraduate thesis.

So very many things have [...]

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So, the cluster is here.
The good news: I think we’ll be able to use it (albeit without Infiniband for now) by the end of the day.
The bad news: FedEx clearly dropped one entire rack. Yes. Unbelievable. About $110,000 worth of equipment. When it got here, there were plastic parts coming out from under the [...]

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If you’re subscribed to my RSS feed (hi, mom!) you might already have seen these pictures. Nonetheless, I’ll add them here with a little explanation. First, the front of the cluster:

I suggest that you click on it and go to the Flickr page, as I’ve added some notes to the various parts of the picture, [...]

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