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One of the more esoteric announcements to come out of SuperComputing 17, an annual conference on high-performance computing, is that one of the largest US scientific institutions is investing in Raspberry Pi-based clusters to aid in development work. The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s High Performance Computing Division now has access to 750-node Raspberry Pi clusters as part of the first step towards a development program to assist in programming much larger machines.
I wonder how well it compares to a giant IPaq cluster. Probably nicer packaging if nothing else.
I can't help but thing though that if the intent is to be a super computer development prototype platform they wouldn't've done better to made a 250Pi model, at ~1330W it could be run off a standard 15A US residential circuit. 750 cores seems like it should still be enough to catch any obvious scalability problems.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: 250Pi model, at ~1330W it could be run off a standard 15A US residential circuit.
I would think that the last thing Los Alamos is worried about is their power supply...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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They run science apps written by researchers all over the US. A test box that can be plugged into a normal outlet in the leads office or project lab is much easier to get set up than something which needs a special outlet or rackspace space in a datacenter.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Structured bindings, new library types, and containers add efficiency and readability to your code. Especially your VB code
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Assuming you don't need to support gcc 4.1.1 and the likes 
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4.1?! Isn't it like ... oh, sorry. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
TTFN - Kent
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I dislike structured bindings because I dislike tuples.
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The pill called Abilify MyCite, is fitted with a tiny ingestible sensor that communicates with a patch worn by the patient — the patch then transmits medication data to a smartphone app which the patient can voluntarily upload to a database for their doctor and other authorized persons to see. Can I write apps for it?
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It is a pill and it will go the natural way out. So no Need to write more of such apps 
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I'm going to second a paraphrase of Arstechnica's coverage.
A pill that phones home for schizophrenia patients. Are You ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing Insane!!! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!!!!!!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The version of the browser coming out today has a sleek new interface and, under the hood, major performance enhancements, with Mozilla claiming that it's as much as twice as fast as it was a year ago. When in doubt, rewrite it (part 3)
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My firefox upgraded. It dropped the nice, simple, bookmarks button. I downgraded. (Thanks Edge, for the "library" crap, which Firefox copied, even down to the icon.)
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You know you can customize which icons are on the menu bar, right?
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Perhaps I missed it; how do you add the traditional Star/List bookmarks button to the toolbar?
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From the hamburger menu, click on Customize, and from there you can move various items onto and off of the toolbar.
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I know that; the question specifically is how to put the traditional bookmark button on the toolbar?
(It's very possible that my installation of Firefox is messed up since there was no bookmarks or download button available in the customize pane. Perhaps when I have time, I'll do a fresh install instead of an upgrade.)
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Ah. Can't help you there. Mine had those buttons in the customize pane.
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For anyone trying to reproduce a lot of UI customization that was done via TabMixPlus or Classic Theme Restorer, CTR's developer has compiled a lot of what can still be done (either directly in browser or by manually editing a css file it uses to style itself) here.
At some point I might poke around with everything that CTR has figured out, but prior to it going live a week or two ago, I hunted down what I needed to force FF to let me have tabs smaller than their UI designers thought I should be allowed to have.
\Profile\chrome\userchrome.css
@namespace url("http:
.tabbrowser-tab:not([pinned])
{
max-width: 200px !important;
min-width: 1px !important;
}
.tabbrowser-tab:not([fadein])
{
max-width: 1px !important;
min-width: 1px !important;
max-width: 1px;
min-width: 1px;
}
.tab-close-button{display:none !important;}
.tabbrowser-tab[pending] {
opacity: 0.6 !important;
}
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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it's easily twice as fast. the previous version was incredibly laggy and unresponsive. this new version is quite snappy. i like it muchly.
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Before there was a World Wide Web, a sizable chunk of all meaningful conversation between computer users happened in the forums at CompuServe, which was the dominant online service until AOL came along. Pretty soon there won't be anywhere online to have a discussion. Oh, wait.
Hi Chris!
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NO! 
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I really did think that was announced about five years ago.
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My initial thoughts of this article was the training costs and non-production costs associated with non-technical people learning software applications to perform their job. I think it's a good move by the German organization to move back to MSFT. We'll be moving to Windows 10 about the same time. Hopefully by then the problems will be resolved.
modified 14-Nov-17 1:58am.
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