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my huge Mac Pro just arrived!
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You mean like this? My 12 cores in chaos:
multi thats a crazy setup. is that your home setup
i would hate to see your work setup!!! got any specs on ALL your gear hhahaha. might take a few years to write it all up.id kill for an 8-core MP. those things are beasts, especially with 3 monitors. gosh im drooling.
students
Just wondering:
Do you also supervise PhD-students and what computers do they have on their desks?
Just wondering:
Do you also supervise PhD-students and what computers do they have on their desks?
I have helped supervise several Ph.D. students, and I've given six students their Ph.D. exams at my previous university (U. of Pennsylvania). Since I'm only an Assistant Professor, then I have not been the primary advisor for any Ph.D. students yet. Ph.D. students should choose a tenured advisor for their primary research advisor--that's always good advice.
I looked across the hall in one of the graduate student's offices, and he told me that the graduate students' offices each have a Pentium 4 machine, 3 GHz, with 1 GB of RAM. The department, of course, has a variety of labs available too. Lots of people in the department use UNIX for their computing, but they sometimes log-in remotely from a Windows box to do that.
Purdue benefits from its size when it comes to computing. Our computing resources are huge. We have approximately 3000 faculty on campus (rough number), but our computing facility employees approximately 500 more people. That is a very good ratio of faculty to computing support, in my opinion. The amount of computing resources and clusters we have on campus is really mind-boggling. There are lots and lots and lots of folks here doing high-powered computing.
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Ups?
Nice setup! Have you got a heavy UPS for it? Time to time, we get power outages when the weather gets rough. After losing two days worth of simulations, I've invested in a UPS and it's saved my bacon twice over this summer. Keeps it up just long enough to hibernate. For really long jobs, I'm better off using one of the schools servers as they have generator backup, even if it does takes longer as I am sharing CPUs with others.
Nice setup! Have you got a heavy UPS for it? Time to time, we get power outages when the weather gets rough. After losing two days worth of simulations, I've invested in a UPS and it's saved my bacon twice over this summer. Keeps it up just long enough to hibernate. For really long jobs, I'm better off using one of the schools servers as they have generator backup, even if it does takes longer as I am sharing CPUs with others.
I think usually it is the research grants, private endowments and not tuition money that buys stuff like this.
You mean like this? My 12 cores in chaos:
That's a lot for one room.
For some reason, a widescreen display in portrait mode still doesn't sit well with me. I like portrait mode for 4:3 displays though.
he could get another core by using that cube down the back of the desk (behind the cables) lol
I believe he does statistics. And yes, Purdue has very good computing resources. Purdue was the first university to offer a computer science degree, so they've been at it for a long time and have some of the best relationships with companies like Intel, IBM, HP, etc which all donate a ton of hardware to the school. I've toured the server farms there a few times. It's fairly impressive.
I checked out Mandolux but just didn't see anything that appealed to me. You're right--it would be awesome to have a wallpaper that spans all three screens, but each screen is 2560x1600, and so that's a total of 7680x1600, which is enormous.
There are several three-screen wallpapers on Mandolux, but I haven't fallen in love with any of them yet. I'm going to keep looking.
Purdue's computing power is not only impressive.... it's downright amazing (IMHO).
I love being back at Purdue, where I also earned my Ph.D. back in 2005. After spending two years away from Purdue as a Lecturer, it is wonderful to be a Hoosier again.
By the way, since "mrogers" brought it up, I am in the Department of Statistics, but I'm not really a statistician. That's another wonderful thing about Purdue: it's a campus that truly supports interdisciplinary research. I specialize in Analysis of Algorithms, which some consider as applied mathematics, and others call it theoretical computer science, and there is a huge overlap with information theory, etc., etc. The list goes on and on, and the lines between disciplines and specializations get very blurred.