Archive for August, 2010

MCITP:EA – Passed the Microsoft 070-640 Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring exam today

I’m glad to have passed 070-640 the first time.  I spent two months on this one.  I read the book.  I actually did all the labs in the book using virtual machines.  I did additional practice on real machines at work.  I took 2 practice exams a day, pretty much every day, for over a month, like probably 80? total practice exam attempts.  (I have MeasureUp exams that came with the book, and I bought Kaplan SelfTest exams as well.  I’d say that if you are like me, that 2 months per exam is about what it takes, and that’s studying an hour or two a day, most days of the week.

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AMAX GPU Workstation, AKA “cluster in a box”

Recently a faculty member got a grant to buy a small GPU based computing cluster.  He wound up buying a ServMax PSC-2n from AMAX.  It came loaded with Debian.  It has four NVIDIA Tesla 2050 GPU cards in it.  That’s four times 448 cores per card = 1792 GPU cores in a workstation form factor.

Here’s a screenshot of it in action:

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