This equipment is funded by research grants from the Carnegie Foundation and South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF) .......................................... For more on high performance computing in SA, visit www.chpc.ac.za or School of computational and applied math (CAM) @ wits: http://www.wits.ac.za/academic/science/cam/6327/staff.html . . A light introduction to parallelisation was presented in a couple of seminars. Here are some slides: http://www.dianewilcox.net/GPUFinance_Wilcox_April2011.pdf

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Bella born on 7 Jan 2010

The assembly of Bella was completed on 7 Jan with OS successfully installed. All the homework on specifications paid off - no mismatched components. Minor glitch encountered (it would have been odd to have no hiccups!):  the bios had to be updated with an older chip on board first (solution to the mysterious ERROR 69). The motherboard was manufactued before the chip (an intel Core i7-980X ... eat your heart out ;). We sourced an i7-950, thanks to Brian Maistry of Wits CNS. Thanks Brian! Some fun was had putting in and taking out CPU's. The GPU installed without a glitch. Now to make her sing.

Blog to be updated with further details and pics.

meanwhile her is a quick aside on her name: She's called Bella simply because my laptops are called Ella (which was going to be my daughter's name if i had one... i have boys so its up to my computers to defend out gender;)... pics to follow.