Musings on Information Technology - A view from the trenches

A few weeks ago I attended a symposium on HPC and Open Source and ever since I've been wanting to set up my own HPC cluster. So I d...

I've been trying to run HPL on a homemade HPC (in the loosest sense of the word) cluster and I was struggling with some of the depende...

I was compiling HPL today and I was getting this error, among others:  error: expected declaration specifiers or â...â before âMPI_Commâ...

I've been helping out jimmy with performance testing of the pmsapp and I was trying to rebuild the array for testing of RAID 5 perform...

I passed the MB2-867 exam today. I got a score of 933, which means that I got 69 out of 74 questions right. To be honest, there were only t...

I found this today ( here ) and it made me chuckle, so true: That can’t happen. That doesn’t happen on my machine. That shouldn’t happe...

In part 1 , I showed how to configure the MS Dynamics CRM 2011 E-mail Router and in this brief post I will show how to configure users to u...

I’ve been getting ready to take the MB2-867 exam: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Installation and Deployment for the past month or so, and t...

I stumbled upon this little beauty today: net rpc shutdown -r -W dev -U localadmin -S hostname -W workgroup or domain -U user that is ab...

I was trying to create a couple of mailboxes from the Exchange Management Console this morning in our exchange server (in dev) but I kept ge...