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CFD Page

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December 10th, 2004 in General.

I’ve got enough images from these cluster runs now that I made a page for them. (There are new ones!) On the right side, click “CFD” under “Projects”

I found a static buffer overflow today in Windows 2000. It (as far as I can tell) does NOT lead to code execution, due to null charactors inserted between that chars of the exploit string. I posted this information to bugtraq. You can read my post HERE.

Last Tuesday I was at a robotics meeting/competition. We did the average “table-top” game: keep your bot on the table the longest. If you hit an object, you loose points, and you gain points my going over a black line.

ClusterPov

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September 23rd, 2004 in Projects, General.

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.

Da Network

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September 23rd, 2004 in News, General.

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

The Trebuchet

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September 23rd, 2004 in Projects, General.

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 […]

The Cluster

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September 23rd, 2004 in General.

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Note: this article is outdated, though much of the information is still valid.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 […]

Hehe!

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September 23rd, 2004 in News, General.

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!


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