Posted in US on April 30th, 2010 No Comments »
The second strange thing since I moved here two months ago. Well, I was working as usual … and suddenly heard a really loud bang. My reaction was to check the weather (online) if there was a thunderstorm. Nope … ok, more working. Then I heard several Police sirens, and they stopped nearby. Of course, [...]
Posted in HPC, MPI, Science on April 24th, 2010 No Comments »
We got our POWER7 780 (MR) System on Friday and I just logged in . I’m alone on something like this:
htor@bd01:~> w
20:49:12 up 1 day, 1:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE [...]
Posted in US on April 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Wow, the weirdest April 1st ever. I was just biking to UIUC and saw somebody jumping from one of the tallest buildings in Urbana-Champaign. Around 9:10am, he decided to jump from Burnham 310 (an 18-story apartment building) right when I was biking by (like every morning). I didn’t really see which floor he came from [...]