Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Back to blogging
Haven't been around for a few days, two to be precise, and here I am, back to blogging. Spend the days watching movies, playing with friends, etc. I did watch a few TED videos. Here are two those.
The first one is this.
The first one is this.
Here is the second one.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
First Day of Vacation
Well, actually the vacation started yesterday evening. Had a great evening at my school. It was our annual day yesterday. Nothing much to note happened today. Went out for certain things I had planned for the vacation.
Spend the evening on the internet. I watched a few videos on TED. Here are two that I found interesting. One is about Yves Rossy, a man who has made equipments to fly like a bird, that is to control the flight using the movements of his body.
Here is the TED video link and below is the YouTube video
Here is the TED video link and below is the YouTube video
Another video was about Thomas Suarez, a 12-year old app developer. Here is the TED link.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Getting to know the HPC hardware
Today was a very special day at CHPC. We reached here at 7.30 in the morning and were told that we would be having class on C Programming. We learnt some C programming and then came the exciting part. Finally, we got to see what's within the CHPC room!
We were shown the high performance computer we have here at FISAT. It was really interesting to know that it was made up of many parts, which looked like a normal CPU, connected together. Then, we were shown the Server Room. Something that we noticed quickly was that the room was quite noisy. The operation of the equipments inside produced such a lot of noise. We were also shown the UPS room.
Then, we had class and in between we talked on various topics ranging from hacking to the Blue Waters project (the supercomputer being developed by the University of Illinois). We also discussed about the ethics of a professional. Then we had a small Christmas celebration. Mahesh Sir bought us a cake and we cut it in the lab. Unni Sir and Jestin Sir also joined us in the celebration.
During the afternoon session, we were asked to give feedback about the classes we had here at CHPC. The unanimous reply was that everyone enjoyed it. We were also given a chance to tell the topics we had trouble with.
We got tips for the Christmas vacation. Digital Electronics and Discrete Mathematics were to be familiarised. Watching TED videos, atleast one a day, was mandatory. Something important that we were reminded about was to keep updating our blogs.
That was the end of CHPC classes for this year and we dispersed after wishing each other Christmas.
We were shown the high performance computer we have here at FISAT. It was really interesting to know that it was made up of many parts, which looked like a normal CPU, connected together. Then, we were shown the Server Room. Something that we noticed quickly was that the room was quite noisy. The operation of the equipments inside produced such a lot of noise. We were also shown the UPS room.
Then, we had class and in between we talked on various topics ranging from hacking to the Blue Waters project (the supercomputer being developed by the University of Illinois). We also discussed about the ethics of a professional. Then we had a small Christmas celebration. Mahesh Sir bought us a cake and we cut it in the lab. Unni Sir and Jestin Sir also joined us in the celebration.
During the afternoon session, we were asked to give feedback about the classes we had here at CHPC. The unanimous reply was that everyone enjoyed it. We were also given a chance to tell the topics we had trouble with.
We got tips for the Christmas vacation. Digital Electronics and Discrete Mathematics were to be familiarised. Watching TED videos, atleast one a day, was mandatory. Something important that we were reminded about was to keep updating our blogs.
That was the end of CHPC classes for this year and we dispersed after wishing each other Christmas.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Assignment day again!
Today was yet another day of assignments. Of course we knew that yesterday itself. The assignment we got today was from Digital Electronics.
We were given six questions and were asked to do it in teams of four members each, which meant every team got three questions. My teammates were Anto, Athira and Vivek. The questions we selected were to design a full adder, a comparator and a DFA to accept even number of zeroes. The full adder and comparator circuits were really simple and it was finished quickly. DFA was the one that took time and we did manage to make it work partially.
Then, we waited for Mahesh Sir to come and he spend time talking to us. At the end of the day, we were asked to do the blogging part but not before assuring us a Christmas celebration.
We were given six questions and were asked to do it in teams of four members each, which meant every team got three questions. My teammates were Anto, Athira and Vivek. The questions we selected were to design a full adder, a comparator and a DFA to accept even number of zeroes. The full adder and comparator circuits were really simple and it was finished quickly. DFA was the one that took time and we did manage to make it work partially.
Then, we waited for Mahesh Sir to come and he spend time talking to us. At the end of the day, we were asked to do the blogging part but not before assuring us a Christmas celebration.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Great day at CHPC
Yesterday was a great day at CHPC. Yesterday's class was to be taken by
Bejoy Sir. But, when we reached here at nine in the morning, we were told
that he couldn't take class due to some reason and so we were to have
Mahesh Sir's class on C Programming.
We had studied C Programming in our third semester. So, first of all, we
were asked to empty our cups and start learning C Programming from the
beginning. We started from the basic programs and compiled it. Then, we
were told about the various types of errors. Errors were classified into
Syntax errors and Semantic errors. Syntax errors are caused due to
violation of the programming language syntax or the grammar of the
programming language. Semantic errors are those caused due to wrong logical statements.
Then, we were told that the speed of a high performance computer is measured in FLOPS. Now that was a new term for us. FLOPS stands for FLoating point Operations Per Second. We were also told about GCC (GNU Compiler Collections).
The afternoon session was taken by Unni Sir. He told us about mind maps and made one about career after B.Tech. That was really interesting, wondering why he kept on asking in between whether the class was boring. It was far from boring.
The last session of the day was taken by Parvathy Ma'am on Digital Electronics. Though we had learnt it before, it was only when she explained it to us that we understood how certain results were obtained. It was nice knowing how many of the things we learnt blindly were actually obtained.
Bejoy Sir. But, when we reached here at nine in the morning, we were told
that he couldn't take class due to some reason and so we were to have
Mahesh Sir's class on C Programming.
We had studied C Programming in our third semester. So, first of all, we
were asked to empty our cups and start learning C Programming from the
beginning. We started from the basic programs and compiled it. Then, we
were told about the various types of errors. Errors were classified into
Syntax errors and Semantic errors. Syntax errors are caused due to
violation of the programming language syntax or the grammar of the
programming language. Semantic errors are those caused due to wrong logical statements.
Then, we were told that the speed of a high performance computer is measured in FLOPS. Now that was a new term for us. FLOPS stands for FLoating point Operations Per Second. We were also told about GCC (GNU Compiler Collections).
The afternoon session was taken by Unni Sir. He told us about mind maps and made one about career after B.Tech. That was really interesting, wondering why he kept on asking in between whether the class was boring. It was far from boring.
The last session of the day was taken by Parvathy Ma'am on Digital Electronics. Though we had learnt it before, it was only when she explained it to us that we understood how certain results were obtained. It was nice knowing how many of the things we learnt blindly were actually obtained.
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