Marks

The final marks have been released for each subject; I have good, better, and best news:

The Good News - Maths
A first class pass, barely, with 76%.
Considering my year-mark was 72%, this is an excellent result. I think that the [optional] 80/20 exam/yearmark split worked in my favour :)

The Better News - Computer Science
Another first class pass, but much more convincingly this time: 91%.
That was good enough for me to be in joint 1st place with two others in my class (congratulations Mallin and Johan!)

The Best News - Electrical Engineering
Yet another first class pass, but I think those bonus marks available in the exam paper must all have stacked up, because I ended up with 100%!
Amusingly, many others in the class must have done nearly as well or better, since there were about 10 people with a 100% mark. Must...do...better...next...year...

Hopefully next year will be more of the same :)

More details on SGI's new graphics push

[ thank you insideHPC.com - keep it coming! ]

More from insideHPC on the SGI refocus on graphics:

Well, I know a little birdy who’s at IEEE Vis this week. He ran into the SGI engineer in charge of developing their next generation graphics platform. This is what the birdy told me in an email today

I asked him about their CEO’s comments about getting back into the visual supercomputing business. He said that they were developing a new visual supercomputer based on the x86 architecture (no surprise there) using Intel’s Larabee project. The likely target date for us to see this computer is 2009, which corresponds to when Larabee is due. Until then they plan to use ATI/NVidia graphics cards. He says that the CEO believes they can retake the high-end graphics market.

Interesting that SGI is using x86 for this and not Itanium, even with Intel's massively upgraded Itanicapabilities...

AMS-IX tops 350 Gbps

AMS-IX just keeps carrying more and more traffic. Their latest figures top 350 Gbps:

Take note Teraco / JINX!

Municipality infrastructure

[ [ [ James Carlini ] via MidwestBusiness ] via Casey Lide ] via David Isen

If your municipality isn’t looking at creative ways to develop new strategies that include having a state-of-the-art network infrastructure to support economic growth and development, they will be stagnating your property value and quality of life in your area . . . Simply put, the three most important words in real estate ('location, location, location') have turned into 'location, location, connectivity.

Some basic stats on Net Theory's popularity

Using Google's Webmaster Tools, I've discovered some interesting information on how the Net Theory blog is ranking on various [semi-]strange search queries:

rank	search term
#3	nets wikipedia
#4	emotional cruelty
#6	cell c number / cell c number portability

Roll on the crushing of the competition!

It's interesting to compare these results with the Daily Fail vs dailyfail issues experienced recently.