Maintaining a high rate of mobility like a cranially deficient flightless foul.

Still trying to learn my new job. And do my old job. And deal with the city about the greenness of my lawn. And....

Lets just say I feel like I could use a clone.

Now accepting donations

So I want to build a personal Beowulf cluster. What is a Beowulf cluster you ask? It's a high performance cluster of inexpensive personal computers. In in very simplistic way it's going from one horse pulling your cart to a team of horses doing it. The work load is spread to all the computers in the cluster, creating one single super computer.

Why you ask? Why not I answer. No I do not have a practical application of this in mind. I want to try to build it because I think I can. My inspiration is Professer Joel Adams at Calvin College. His Microwulf cost 2500 dollars in January of 2007 and was capable of 26 Gflops. One Giga flops is 10 to the ninth floating point operations per second. The first Cray-1 Supercomputer was sold to the Los Alamos National Laboratory for $8.86 million (US) and was only capable of about 160 Mega flops.

The system I want to build will run about 1300 dollars, and I expect 40 to 50 Gflops. However my performance estimates could be way off. I've never built a cluster before. But then that's why I want to do this. Some people want to run a marathon, I want to build a supercomputer.

Now the question is how to come up with 1300 dollars...

iPhone, lawl.

How to ruin the hype you built up with the iPod.

Step 1: Believe your own hype.
Step 2: Release the phone on a single network.
Step 3: Install a kill switch to feed your ego and piss customers off.
Step 4: Re-release the phone because you left out features that should have been there in the first place.
Step 5: Block app's that compete with your own and steal there feature sets.
Step 6: Ignore your app dev's and watch them run to another competing open source project.
Step 7:...
Step 8: Profit(?)

Promotion

So I recently accepted a new position with the U (University of Utah). Starting October 1st I'm the Pharmacy Systems Analyst. I'll basically support the live pharmacy software. Big changes and lots to learn for me. But I'll still be working for the same people so atleast there isn't the added social aspect to adjust too.

I know I've told most people about this already, but I figure this is the kind of thing a blog is for. So there you go, I hope you're happy.

QFT

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
- Augusten Burroughs

LHC

So the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) went live this week. If you're out of the loop it's a proton accelerator. It will fire protons at each other so that they explode and the results can be measured. The data will be used to further understand matter, dark matter, etc.

Some groups feared that this process would form tiny black holes that would then detroy the earth. Clearly this hasn't happened. Anyway I've added a link to the web cam, check it out.

LHC Live Web Cam

So there I was...

So I've got this web space and sometimes I have things to say. I've been saying them in the past on MySpace. But MySpace.com does not reflect the space I am in almost ever. So welcome to a space that is mine, without being MySpace. I may import a couple of my MySpace blog entries here, because I think I'm pretty clever.

Not sure how I'm going to squeeze in another MySpace at this point, kind of running out of idea's on how to beat MySpace into the ground. I know I'll include a link to my MySpace page.

http://www.myspace.com/neonghost

MySpace, MySpace, MySpace, MySpace, MySpace, MySpace, MySpace, MySpace, MySpace.

*This post is probably a bad idea, I'll end up on google for the top 3 links to MySpace (hah did it again, and you thought it was over).