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Running a Genetic Algorithm on an Amazon EC2 Cluster

Posted 05-26-2012 at 04:22 PM by robertvi
Updated 05-27-2012 at 03:20 AM by robertvi

Running a Genetic Algorithm on an Amazon EC2 Cluster

I've started working on a simple tool to run genetic algorithms on a Linux cluster. I'm using MIT's StarCluster utility to create an on-demand Linux cluster on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service. Using this as a starting point it should be pretty easy to deploy as much computing power as I want (budget permitting).

Step one was Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com/) sign up. I already had a normal Amazon account,...

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Ubuntu 10.10 on Lenovo B560 laptop

Posted 08-01-2011 at 10:34 AM by robertvi
Updated 11-22-2011 at 03:16 PM by robertvi

I recently bought a new laptop from dabs.com preinstalled with windows 7, and have now set it up as a dual boot ubuntu/windows 7 machine. So far I only use win7 for playing eve-online. Here are some notes about the laptop and install process in case they are of any use to anyone considering buying a new laptop for linux.

laptop spec:

http://www.dabs.com/products/lenovo-...ptop-7CGC.html

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Kate indentation

Posted 09-27-2010 at 06:36 AM by robertvi
Updated 08-01-2011 at 12:11 PM by robertvi

One of the most annoying things for a programmer is a text editor which is trying to automatically
indent the source code in a different way than the coder wants. I use an editor called kate from the KDE project, and I'm currently trying to figured out what the heck is going on with automatic indentation, and thought I would document the process in the hope of helping someone else avoid this problem. I'm using Kate version 3.4.2. [Jump to the summary at the end if you're in a hurry]
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virtual machine project

Posted 04-15-2009 at 09:29 PM by robertvi
Updated 04-15-2009 at 09:30 PM by robertvi

I'm writing a virtual machine in C. This is mainly to teach myself more about how computers work, but maybe of interest to other people. I was inspired by listening to Steve Gibson on the security now podcast talk about the PDP-8. He is planning to write his own complete operating system for this early computer as a fun project.

The PDP-8's instruction set sounds a bit too restrictive to me, so I have tried to come up with a minimum level of complexity that would allow me to write...

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update on external hardisk

Posted 03-13-2009 at 02:34 AM by robertvi
Updated 03-13-2009 at 07:24 AM by robertvi

today I took the disk (see previous post http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog.php?b=1711) back to the shop with my receipt, and a helpful attendant plugged it into a windows laptop there, and noticed that it said "this device can perform faster" meaning that it was only working as a usb1 device (uhci, not ehci) under windows as well. so i swapped the disk for a 320GB one, after she first checked the new disk by plugging it into the windows laptop.

at home, I can...

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