The return of the B
2003-03-28 17:17![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fanfDrake's may be relatively inconvenient but it is nice of them to fix my bike for free.
In other news we have 8 new machines for the replacement email data store, with more to come later -- they look particularly smart all racked up together. At this afternoon's little meeting we were talking about problems of power, heat, and weight, and exactly what the U measurement of rack space is. Our supercomputer people worry about gigaflops per kilowatt and gigaflops per tonne, but we're more modest: we're concerned with users per inch. (Slice them thinly.)
In other news we have 8 new machines for the replacement email data store, with more to come later -- they look particularly smart all racked up together. At this afternoon's little meeting we were talking about problems of power, heat, and weight, and exactly what the U measurement of rack space is. Our supercomputer people worry about gigaflops per kilowatt and gigaflops per tonne, but we're more modest: we're concerned with users per inch. (Slice them thinly.)
