Time for a Cluster OS?

The other week I attended The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (commonly known as Super Computing or SC). It was a great conference, I had a great time and learned a ton, but I noticed an interesting theme that I didn't really see anybody else mention. I thought I'd at …

Setting Up Windows Fortran Development

If you're just getting started with Fortran and your primary computer is Windows, figuring out how to get everything you need installed and configured can be a bit tricky. In this post I'll provide links and some details for how I set up a Windows machine for doing Fortran development. Your mileage may of course …

Arch in Bhyve on FreeNAS to Run Plex

It took some doing to get it working, but I think this is about as efficient a setup as I could have had. I have a server running FreeNAS for backup/storage purposes. FreeNAS has a Plex plugin, but for Plex Pass users, which I am, the FreeBSD operating system on which FreeNAS is build doesn't …

The Arch of Progress

My home laptop is a 5(?) year old Lenovo Yoga 13. I've been running Ubuntu 17.04 on it for the last year. Lately I noticed it was running out of memory on a regular basis and then having major problems. Basically just locking up all the time. The machine only has 4Gb of RAM, and …