Sunday, November 28th, 2004

MATLAB Distributed Computing Toolbox 1.0

On a related note to my previous post, The MathWorks, makers of MATLAB, have just released thier first toolbox focusing on supporting distributed computing.

The Distributed Computing Toolbox allows one to develop a MATLAB program or Simulink simulation that can be run on a cluster of computers. It’s very platform-savvy: it runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, or Windows.

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Sunday, November 28th, 2004

Using MATLAB with Xgrid

As reported on Mac OS X Hints, it is possible to use MATLAB to Xgrid. It only should work well for those “embarassingly parallel” tasks that you can manually split into chunks of data to process, but it could be interesting!

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Thursday, November 25th, 2004

New Wedding Photos of Shayna and Mark Fullarton

Congratulations to Shayna and Mark! They had a really fun wedding at the Palmer House in downtown Chicago on November 7th. Now that they are back from honeymooning in Aruba, thier wedding website has some great pictures. Check it out!

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Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

Why we have big booties

Have you ever wondered why humans have such big butts? We may have been born to run (nytimes.com, registration required). Here’s a bit of the explanation:

Earlier human ancestors, like chimpanzees today, had pelvises that could support only a modest gluteus maximus, nothing like the strong buttocks of Homo.

“Have you ever looked at an ape?” Dr. Bramble said. “They have no buns.”

Dr. Lieberman, a paleontologist, explained: “Your gluteus maximus stabilizes your trunk as you lean forward in a run. A run is like a controlled fall, and the buttocks help to control it.”

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Monday, November 15th, 2004

Yummy Eats in Evanston

Northwestern’s Associated Student Government has a great restaurant guide for the Evanston area. I added a few ratings for my favority places. Can you tell I’m looking forward to moving back there?

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