pckswarms.ch - interesting uncommon events


15 June 2009

USB

Minty Boost USB charger

Lisp

OpenAxiom: The Open Scientific Computation Platform.

Ants - Coljure vs Common Lisp

The code is here.

12 June 2009

Scheme

Michele Simionato has some nice entries titled Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland that you can find here.

File Systems

I've installed Fedora 11 in a few places and that uses ext4 as the default. Finally the slow deletes of ext3 are fixed. Other than that, so far so good.

CRFS and POHMELFS two different, much higher prefermance, nfs replacements.

CRFS uses btrfs. Both seem to be from Oracle.

10 June 2009

Clusters

A ServerFault discussion about good speeds over NFS and iSCSI.

A Sun Grid engine workshop in September

Sun's SAM-QFS file system and archive mgmt system.

Needle in a haystack - Facebooks network storage.

Lisp

Trip report to the EuroLisp Symposium in Milan.

Bruce O'Neel

Last modified: Thu Apr 5 13:42:07 MET 2007