jrappleye

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by jrappleye 14y ago
Earth wins another round of expensive hardware lobbing! Here's a humorous reminder at how difficult it is to reach other planets, especially Mars - too bad it hasn't been updated in a while. http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/PSL/
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by jrappleye 15y ago
A little Googling turned up this (definitely not the original source, though): https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_external_strace/blob/... $ strace -tt -q -o graph.strace -s 100 -f bash -c 'ls |wc -l' $ ./strace-graph graph.str
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by jrappleye 15y ago
Unfortunately, not all organizations give their users root access :-(
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by jrappleye 15y ago
It's also worth looking at SystemTap or DTrace, depending on what OS you're running. While strace will allow you to look at an individual process and its children, SystemTap/DTrace will allow you to gather data on system call (and then some
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by jrappleye 15y ago
Sounds like they're interested in improving GPU development tools, and how to utilize them for tasks they're good for versus what a traditional CPU is good for. From http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/vt-supercompute... "The Vir
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by jrappleye 15y ago
If by 'SC500' you mean a supercomputer that has a high ranking on the Top500 list, it's already here: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/amazons-cloud-i...
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by jrappleye 15y ago
This struck a chord with me as well, and reminded me of pg's 'How to Disagree': http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by jrappleye 15y ago
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3370695
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by jrappleye 15y ago
Speeds and feeds on NASA's Pleiades supercomputer that was used for the bulk of the computation: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/pleiades.html
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by jrappleye 15y ago
My personal favorite: Q: If you could add one course to a student's curriculum, what would it be?" A: Course title every university should offer: "How to tell when someone else is full of shit"
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by jrappleye 15y ago
You can also query Wolfram by just saying "Wolfram," e.g. "Wolfram planes overhead". See http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/28/10-cool-things-you-can-do-wit... for more things you can do with Wolfram and Siri.