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by jabl 11y ago
We have 400V 3-phase going to the racks; from the PDU's in each rack the phases are split in the usual fashion and so the equipment eats 230V 1-phase as usual in this part of the world. This seems fairly common these days, all the vend
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by jabl 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert in this area, merely an interested bystander. So, AFAIU the C10K approach is still the correct approach. Although perhaps with current hw and Linux being able to decently handle quite a lot of threads sinc
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by jabl 11y ago
Sorry to hear about that. My mother was diagnosed with glioblastoma. She had the "standard" treatment, surgery to remove as much of the tumor as feasible, radiation and chemo. In the end, she passed away in about 4.5 months from h
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by jabl 11y ago
Hum, that's the first time I have heard that explanation. What I've heard was that negative G caused the carburetor to flood, yes, but the result was the engine stalling, not fuel spilling into the cockpit. Which IMHO sounds more
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by jabl 12y ago
Huh, where did GPU's enter the discussion? Anyway, for a typical HPC cluster, it's bog standard x86 hardware, the only remotely exotic thing is the Infiniband network. Common wisdom says that since Infiniband is a niche technology
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by jabl 12y ago
> There are obscure "unit descriptors" that manifest themselves as integer literals in most code posted online which makes it a chore to learn from. Well, you can think of a "unit descriptor" (or somewhat more Fortra
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by jabl 12y ago
In my experience, when you're doing technical computing you spend a lot of time exploring your data (or some representative test data set) and doing quick one-off analyses. So an interactive environment with good plotting capabilitie