From my recent ramblings in this part of the e-world, I can convince myself (and hopefully you too) that I had a pretty productive/fruitful trip to Germany - mainly for work (workshop, Blue Gene/L) and needless to say, some extra-curricular activities (Cathedral & Brewing Houses in Cologne, Historic Jülich Citadel and Brown Coal Mining near [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

I know it has been a while since I wrote something about anything in this page - not that (at least most of) you were waiting to read it…. Well, here’s a brief summary of things that have happened in my life since my baby went back:

Research: Recent (and frequent) scheduled power outages in the [...]

Like I mentioned in the previous entry, /me has been in Spokane (Washington State) to attend a workshop. I will try to keep this entry pretty short but fill them up with photographs, so that you get a better picture of what happened:
Accommodation was perfect - ambience of Montvale Hotel, apart from pretty good [...]

As many of my friends have been asking me recently, How did I get involved this thing?. Cutting the long story short, couple of people who organized this workshop are very good friends of mine and we happened to have similar interests. Karen S and Eli had spent numerous hours/days in designing the syllabus, and [...]

As I didn’t have any talks early in the morning, (give them a break - it’s a geek conference. Nothing starts till about 10 - mostly because many people went to sleep around 8 am!) I had just enough time to transfer my pictures to my computer. I discussed certain issues with Aaron (ConChair for [...]

Having an early morning tutorial session (or anything for that matter, as long as it’s useful) is a good thing - atleast it made me wake up way before my normal rise time. Days Inn taught me, again, that judging a book by cover wasn’t right. From previous stays at similarly named hotels (i.e., Inn), [...]

This too had been on my menu for about nearly two months and finally got it done a couple days ago. Here’s what I wanted to do — my Yahoo! mail gets downloaded to /var/spool/mail/use-name and any system-mail (from root or other users) also gets appended to this. I can read this mail via Pine [...]

Due to the enormous workload involved in Physics classes combined with stress and lack of sleep, Physics students often forget (either by accident, defense mechanism, or intentionally) what their major really is. Thus, as a Physics major, someone took time to create a small list of indicators to help us all remember what we really [...]

Since Marg had informed me about it a couple days ago (I remember she had done earlier too, but I had not attended), I decided to visit the Rock Show this time. My main interest was to see what type/kind of rock was ‘Moon Rock’. I was pretty surprised when I realized it - it’s [...]

After lot of innovative attempts that failed, I compiled Gaussian03 successfully on Laxmi - using the trial version of PGI v5.2 compilers. I also managed to install GaussView on couple of machines. Attempts to compile the same on Shiva failed every time. May be the error is something to do with portability?? My guess could [...]