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  • Don MacAskill on SkyNet

    Don MacAskill over at SmugMug has a post talking about SmugMug’s SkyNet, their EC2 and Amazon S3 based system for image processing. Its a very interesting and informitive post, and its something that has had me thinking all day. I dont have a need...

  • upgrading the mac pro

    So, I have been thinking of upgrading my workstation at home for a while now, and I have found one possible solution. See, the MacPro came originally with 2 Dual core Xeons at 2.66Gz. if I wanted to move to 2 Quad Core Xeons (which I do), I would ...

  • Parallel Extentions to the .NET Framework June 08 CTP released

    The June 2008 CTP of the Parallel Extentions for the .NET Framework have been released. I am in the process of rebuilding my workstation with Windows Server 2008, so once its back online, i will be playing with these!

  • Mac Mini as a HPC compute cluster

    I have always known that the Mac Mini was a great little computer. i have been wanting one (or 2 or more) of these for a while now for different reasons. and now i have a new reason!VolkerW has a post on how to turn a Mac Mini into a virtual HPC 2...

  • Amazon, FlexiScale and GoGrid

    So, i have been meaning to do this write up for a while now, but with one thing or another, things got in the way. there are now 3 big contenders in the Servers as a Utility war that i can see, and i have looked into. If i am missing any, drop me ...

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