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I’ve just gotten news that the trebuchet went out in glory. It both made a new record (243 ft) and broke appart at the same time. Though I was not there to witness the event, I will receive pictures and perhaps video shortly, and post them. See the trebuchet article here.
Update: After posting the […]

I’m currently working on a projects to display 3-D graphs, like this applet. It turns out that this is a lot harder than it seems…

Another thing I got running was PovRay!

PovRay is a “ray tracing engine”. Basically, it takes 3-D objects, and displays them 2-D by shading certain regions, calculated by where the “light source” and the “camera” are. This is a very math intensive process, so spreading it out over many computers makes it run much faster.

Sure, I may not have the coolest network, but it runs! I made some pretty graphs of what it is now, and what I want it to be…
Current Setup
Later Setup

After returning from Europe, I decided that medieval siege weapons were much cooler than those of today. A friend and I had previously built a (sort of) working trebuchet, but we could only launch one brick about 5 feet before the thing colapsed upon itself. However, with a new found interest, and a book of […]

I had a whole lot of old computers in my basement. They were cool, but not real efficiet at doing anything. So my friend Mike Luther says, and I quote, “Beowulf!!!”. It’s all history from there.
Note: this article is outdated, though much of the information is still valid. I grew the cluster to 16 nodes […]

I just decided to screw testing, let’s go live! So here’s the new design, etc using wordpress and the kubrick template for it. If you find anything that doesn’t work, please let me know, either through the forums, email, or replying to this post.
Hope you like it!