{"id":44,"date":"2010-08-01T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-01T23:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T04:48:14","slug":"summer-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Summer Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been posting much lately, most of my time has been sucked up by a variety of summer projects, both personal and school related, and most of them haven&#8217;t been terribly externally interesting or photogenic.  <\/p>\n<p>Several of the projects derive from the research group inheriting a <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.pa.uky.edu\/~rplebeau\/cfd\/Equipment.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pa.uky.edu\/~rplebeau\/cfd\/Equipment.html\">heap of hardware<\/a> from the departure of the last member of UK&#8217;s  Cluster Fluid Dynamics group, which we are currently in the process of sorting out.    One part of the heap is 30 little Dell SX260s (cute li&#8217;l SFF Pentium 4 boxes from 2003 or so), and some associated server and network hardware.  I&#8217;ve spent a couple afternoons building and configuring a portable (ish) cluster from the pile, and the result is PIK (Pentium\/Intel Cluster in Kentucky, following our current naming scheme):<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/fp-content\/images\/pikfront_sm.jpg\" alt=\"pikfront_sm.jpg\"  title=\"pikfront_sm.jpg\"  class=\"center\"  width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><br \/>\nAnd check out my OCD wiring job:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/fp-content\/images\/pikback_sm.jpg\" alt=\"pikback_sm.jpg\"  title=\"pikback_sm.jpg\"  class=\"center\"  width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><br \/>\nUnfortunately, six of the small nodes and one of the servers seem to be dead, all apparently due to bad capacitors&#8230; which is sadly <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capacitor_plague\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capacitor_plague\">entirely unsurprising<\/a> on for hardware from around 2003.  There is still a discussion if it would be worthwhile to replace the caps, it is apparently not too difficult on these motherboards.<\/p>\n<p>On another front, I still haven&#8217;t managed to get my 500-some photos from Vienna sorted out; I think only a few of those will end up getting posted as they relate to other things &#8212; the urge to just shoot with a little digital and a large memory card creates a really unmanageable number of photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been posting much lately, most of my time has been sucked up by a variety of summer projects, both personal and school related, and most of them haven&#8217;t been terribly externally interesting or photogenic. Several of the projects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,1,10,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-diy","category-general","category-objects","category-oldblog","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}