In case you haven’t noticed, I’m firing with both barrels lately with the nerdular nerdocity. Hope this doesn’t scare anybody off.
The state of the only computer cluster our undergraduate parallelism initiative group can still use can be summed up by this pie chart:
Translation: the cluster is hosed. To quote Strong Bad, the system is down. Well, 82.81% of it is, anyway.
That’s right: of the 64 computers in our once magnificent cluster, a mere 11 remain. Those that are up are being pushed to the limits of their endurance (it is hard to get one of these machines to 100% load, but as you can see a lot of the remaining ones are at exactly that). Well, you pays your money and you takes your compute cluster, I suppose. It certainly does make for some impressive load average charts.
The end of summer has also heralded the unexpected return our in-room Internet connection to its former glacial speed. Can’t say they didn’t warn us, but it’s still not the happiest of occurrences. Thankfully I only have to deal with it until next Friday.
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