Dec202006
When I first saw one of those key-less entry pads, I wondered how secure they are :). Now I know – no security at all. It’s like the really stupid IR-controlled keylock I had at my Renault Clio that could be opened by every “universal remote control”. But I’ve only seen those key-less pads in the US yet.
Dec182006
Yes, it is as cryptic as it sounds :). I finally (after a couple of months) finished to merge Christian’s MPI_Bcast() patch with my LibNBC patch to enable the usage of non-blocking collectives in HPL. The performance has to be investigated in more detail, LibNBC will probably provide benefits if lookahead is used. But this needs clearly more investigation. I posted it on the webpage because some people asked me to publish it … so feel free to play around with the patches. I’d also be happy to receive any feedback (yes, even bugs :)).
http://www.unixer.de/research/nbcoll/hpl/
The MPI_Bcast patch seems to break several MPI libraries (e.g. Open MPI (not the trunk 🙂 and MPICH2) because it uses really huge datatypes. It works with MVAPICH and newer Open MPI trunk versions.
Dec172006
I decided spontaneously to cook something nice today to celebrate the third Advent. This time, I tried another one of a very good friend’s recipies. It was splendid – thanks! The results are banned to my blog:
The first stage – the chicken simmering in its own liquid 😉
Stage 2 – after adding all ingredients *hmmm*
The very last stage – serving. It was gone shortly after that!
Dec142006
Hi, this is my first post – I added a photo gallery with images from Helsinki (okok, I’ve been there a couple of years ago, but it worked as a test-gallery). We’ll see how this blogging stuff goes 😉