Tomas Quintero

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/06/22/ISCA2009KeynoteIHowToWasteAParallelComputerKathyYelick.aspx

My favorite point is #10.

• Learn (and use) Vim
• (Begin to) Learn Python
• Improve SQL knowledge
• Improve shell script knowledge
• Begin testing Xen

Looking for a LAN party in the St. Petersburg / Tampa Bay area? PNPLAN is for you! We meet once a month at The Minnreg, from 11am to midnight. Our next LAN is on June 6th, so you should check us out if you’re into computer gaming. Also, feel free to check out our website, http://www.pnplan.com.

When I get time, I want to read http://xenamo.sourceforge.net/. It deals with live migration of Xen virtual machines, on the cheap.

I built a new desktop last week around AMD’s Athlon64 X2 7750 Black Edition on an ASUS M3A78-EM (which in a year or so will be retired to be used as an HTPC). Currently OC’d to 2.9GHz (from 2.7, nothing extreme).

I will be switching from stock cooling to a Typhoon I picked up off of Marcus and OC’ing up to 3.1GHz. The M3A78-EM has voltage issues and supplies 1.32v to the CPU at 2.7GHz, which produces heating issues. I’ve managed to lower that voltage to 1.15 and maintain stability (I have not tried going lower yet, I will during the week). Currently I am at 42C, whereas I was at 57C at 2.7GHz. In order to lower the voltage on this board (not supported via BIOS) you must use AMD OverDrive and enable Advanced Mode in the preferences menu.

I’ll be using this space mostly to document technical how-to’s as I piece them together. The first article will hopefully be a complete configuration using Lighttpd and ExecWrap for a multi-user web server environment. Yeehaw!