It’s that time of the year again… to flashback on what has happened, what went right, what did not, and such… Personally, this has been a wonderful year in many different aspects and not so good in few others. If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, the following (though not as [...]

I am not so sure if you read my previous entry. If you did, you know where I have been. If you did not, please be notified that I have been lost in compilation… Colloquially speaking, I did not see any light anywhere in the tunnel and instead of resorting to some bar (and alcohol), [...]

For the past several days, I have been attempting to compile two programs - on our group’s beowulf cluster - but with not much success. There are a variety of issues associated with these programs and some are as follows:

SMEAGOL 1.0 (the second program) has SIESTA 1.3 as its core.
Neither of these programs can be [...]

It was couple nights ago that Monday Night Football turned out quite uninteresting and my attempts to get a certain program compiled were moving in an undesirable direction - it was just around the same time that Tim and Kyle suggested that we go out to shoot some star trails. Though Kyle stayed back in [...]

While I was attending a conference in the South-East region, one of my friends - Nagesh - forwarded couple of links from an online store called ExpressCameras. Deals looked very very tempting — a Nikon D200 for $600 (usually it goes for $1700) and a Nikon 70-200mm VR for $1300 (which sells at $1800)… Nagesh [...]

Blue Gene, a massively parallel supercomputer of IBM, occupies as much space as this room [room that we were in, capable of comfortably seating over 500 people], eats about 2MW of power and does only 1015 operations per second. However, each of the human brain in this room occupies about 0.06 cubic feet of space, [...]