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May. 25th, 2005
Postcards from the edge
May. 25th, 2005 09:05 pmWent to a few of the presentations today, although this morning was total lossage. Also discussed various hacks with Col and Saki - they reckon we can bump up the baud on the console to speed up the process of doing a bta in KDB when the system wigs.
Michael's presentation was pretty good, although there were a couple of moments when people asked tricky questions and he looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Richard's talk was interesting, but perhaps could have done with a couple of jokes - he also dropped me in it by talking up my (still unwritten) presentation and saying that it would probably cover scheduling. Hmmm, I must remember to put in some scheduling slides.
DKRZ site thingy was interesting - they archive between 3 and 15 terabytes of data per day, where as we struggle with one. Puts it all in perspective. They also mentioned a scheme to get funding a European Earth Simulator. I can't see that working - the Earth Simulator was basically a Keynesian boondoggle to allow the Japanese govt to dump cash into their high performance computing industry, kinda like the ASCI projects in the US - but since Europe doesn't have a huge HPC industry, it doesn't sound politic to me.
Thomas and Maryanne's talk on DMI was pretty interesting - they mentioned all the problems they'd had with ClusterPro (including an upgrade that trashed their operational forecast filesystem) and talked about their scheduling configuration. I'm looking forward tomorrow, when the High Commander has arranged a meeting with them to discuss common issues. I've also got to remember to ask about the hacks required to get NRPE working under SUX. Maybe if I put something here, I'll spot it tomorrow when I'm vanity surfing and it'll jog my memory.
The high point of the cocktails (ha! as if) and canapes evening was the following URL, which Robert kindly supplied, which converts regular web sites in Valley Girl Speak. Maybe I'll run it against my blog. On the downside, I was late leaving and I had to get the super slow round the hospital bus into town, which totally sucked, rather than the direct one which stopped running at like 7pm.
I've decided I'm going to go to bed early. I'm totally washed out with yesterday's late night and all - just what I needed on top of my recent program of aggressively sleep deprivation.
Michael's presentation was pretty good, although there were a couple of moments when people asked tricky questions and he looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Richard's talk was interesting, but perhaps could have done with a couple of jokes - he also dropped me in it by talking up my (still unwritten) presentation and saying that it would probably cover scheduling. Hmmm, I must remember to put in some scheduling slides.
DKRZ site thingy was interesting - they archive between 3 and 15 terabytes of data per day, where as we struggle with one. Puts it all in perspective. They also mentioned a scheme to get funding a European Earth Simulator. I can't see that working - the Earth Simulator was basically a Keynesian boondoggle to allow the Japanese govt to dump cash into their high performance computing industry, kinda like the ASCI projects in the US - but since Europe doesn't have a huge HPC industry, it doesn't sound politic to me.
Thomas and Maryanne's talk on DMI was pretty interesting - they mentioned all the problems they'd had with ClusterPro (including an upgrade that trashed their operational forecast filesystem) and talked about their scheduling configuration. I'm looking forward tomorrow, when the High Commander has arranged a meeting with them to discuss common issues. I've also got to remember to ask about the hacks required to get NRPE working under SUX. Maybe if I put something here, I'll spot it tomorrow when I'm vanity surfing and it'll jog my memory.
The high point of the cocktails (ha! as if) and canapes evening was the following URL, which Robert kindly supplied, which converts regular web sites in Valley Girl Speak. Maybe I'll run it against my blog. On the downside, I was late leaving and I had to get the super slow round the hospital bus into town, which totally sucked, rather than the direct one which stopped running at like 7pm.
I've decided I'm going to go to bed early. I'm totally washed out with yesterday's late night and all - just what I needed on top of my recent program of aggressively sleep deprivation.