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Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick.
I've read a few of James Gleick's histories of science and scientists, including Genius, Isaac Newton, and The Information, but I somehow missed Chaos up until now. As always, Gleick delivers a fascinating, well-researched history, and I greatly enjoyed it. Indeed, I …
Stories as personal metaphors
Sometimes a book resonates so deeply with me that it affects how I think about the rest of the world. I'm not talking about changing a political or other reasoned opinion, though that happens too; but about deeply changing the way I perceive the world outside my head.
This happens …
read moreNotes on building and packaging environment modules with EasyBuild and FPM
Like any good sysadmin, I strongly prefer to install software using my OS's built-in package management system. Unfortunately, a lot of the software used in scientific high-performance computing doesn't make this easy. Many popular software projects, including both user applications and common libraries, don't distribute packages but expect their users …
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Some thoughts on Uncommon in Common
I'm fascinated by the concept of the Slow Web Movement. I understand it as the idea that our online lives should follow the pace of our offline lives, rather than the reverse. That instead of receiving a constant stream of notifications and responding to them instantly, we should interact with …
read moreLinkdump 2014-12-28
Been a while since I did one of these, so here's a list of some of the interesting links I find in my Pinboard bookmarks from this December.
Computing
- Eureka! Why You Shouldn’t Use ZooKeeper for Service Discovery - knewton developer blog
- Introducing Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform - Netflix Tech …
2014-11-22: Good links from the past week
A few things I read and enjoyed over the past week. No guarantee that they were originally posted during that week... sometimes I'm a little slow. :)
Operations and system administration
(Much of this is from LISA14, which I did not attend, but followed on the Internet)
read moreGood links from the past week - 11/22
A few things I read and enjoyed over the past week. No guarantee that they were originally posted during that week... sometimes I'm a little slow. :)
Operations and system administration
(Much of this is from LISA14, which I did not attend, but followed on the Internet)
read moreGood links from the past week
Being a list of things I read and enjoyed over the past week.
HPC
- DOE HPC Operational Review: "Enabling Data-Driven Scientific Discovery at DOE HPC Facilities" -- A long read, but interesting if you like thinking about how large HPC centers work
Distributed Systems
read moreNotice of Life Change: Heading to New Mexico and LANL
For those who haven't heard yet: Leigh and I are moving to Santa Fe! I am joining the HPC-3 team at Los Alamos National Lab as a Cluster Administrator helping to manage the Lab's production HPC systems. Leigh will be skating with Duke City Roller Derby... and is also in …
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