Stony Brook at the SC07 Cluster Challenge This year marks the first year that the annual supercomputing conference, now SC07, includes a cluster challenge. Myself and 4 other undergrads from Stony Brook University, plus a faculty supervisor, are competing against 5 other international teams to build the faster, more powerful, and most impressive supercomputing cluster to operate under 26 Amps of power. I'm covering (in reverse chronological order, start at the bottom) the progress of the Stony Brook team on the SC07 section of my blog. More details are also available from the SC07 website.
posted to Projects by bkudria at 8:06 AM on November 12, 2007

Snippits for Linux, in Ruby - a script to type stuff for you This simple Ruby script types what I call 'snippits' - short files containing text. All you do is type the name of the snippit, for example, 'address', hit a shortcut key, and the script erases 'address', and types in your actual address.

The real power comes from what you can define in the content of these snippits. It supports:

• Special keys, like Control and Shift, as well as directional characters
• Embedded Ruby code - the possibilities are limitless!
• Cursor Placement
• Inserting clipboard content
• some other stuff I forgot about!

This script depends on several Linux-specific tools (xte, from xautomation), so it's a Linux only thing. If you use Linux, however, check it out. I welcome all questions, comments, rants, raves, and patches!
posted to Projects by bkudria at 8:58 PM on February 21, 2007