Stress Testing

Today, I was told to stress test a computer. And this was what I got to play around with:


The massive duct on the dual Xeon heatsinks was quite awesome. Topping that, there are two removable exhaust fans as well. Naturally, I removed them because they were FREAKING loud. Overall, the airflow design is pretty good. Even the power supply above and the FireGL card below get cooled.



Stress testing involved some OpenGL rendering and a few instances of Prime95. And some CS Source, which i don't have a picture of. It wasn't really anything spectacular, since the video card wasn't intended for games in the first place.




My co-worker, on the other hand, got to tinker around with a gaming-pc-turned-server machine. For some reason, there's an LCD display at the back. Maybe for troubleshooting?




I think i'll be getting back to playing CS. I am technically stress testing the computer, aren't I?

vectors

"Graham's number, named after Ronald Graham, is a large number often described as the largest finite number that has ever been seriously used in a mathematical proof. Guinness World Records even listed Graham's number as the World Champion largest number. It is too large to be written in scientific notation because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of atoms in the observable universe so it needs its own special notation to write down." [1]

No, it has nothing to do with vectors. I was playing around with the pen tool in Illustrator CS2 today out of boredom at work, and this is what I came up with. I really didn't know how to do the 64, nor where to position them. But whatever.

So, if you ever decide to colour an n-dimensional hypercube, just remember this.


[1] Wikipedia, "Graham's number," January 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number.