CFD Whore

Something disturbing in my inbox yesterday. In addition to our contact info (name, phone #, company URL, etc) our e-mail signature file is now required to include an advertisement for our latest software product. To my eyes, it looks tacky and unprofessional. I really wish they wouldn't make us do shit like this. Makes me feel cheap.

Screwed Up Again

I lost track of a the schedule for a project for the Number One Client. I thought I had two weeks left to finish it, but he called me on Wednesday and reminded me that I had promised results by this Friday. Oops. I told him I would be able to send him first results on Monday, & he said that was cool. So now I'm busting my ass to get it done. Finished building the model in three days, which is pretty impressive if I do say so myself. Had to make a few compromises, but nothing too severe. The new Opteron really helped - trimmed the whole thing in an hour by using all four processors. Gotta go into the office today to finish setting it up and get it running. These types of models usually run pretty well on the first try - hopefully this will be typical.

Color Me Surprised

Well, it took a few days. Just When I thought she'd forgotten, she surprised me one morning before I went to the gym. Great way to start the day. :-)

Got Lucky

Got some from my old lady last night. Drove her so wild she said I was "a wonderful lover" and "I want to do it again tomorrow", which is pretty damn unusual. We'll see if she remembers that tonight...

It's Hammer Time

We got a new machine to build meshes on, and it is hot. It's got four 1.6 GHz Opterons, which are faster than just about anything in the building. It actually arrived about nine months ago, but came with only 1 GB of memory and an 18 GB disk, which made it pretty much worthless. I've been pointing out for months how useful this thing could be if we just upgraded it, but what finally tipped the scales was the Number One Client saying that he wants us to double the size of the models we're building for him. So management finally plunked down a credit card and bought a 74 GB disk and 16 GB(!) of RAM. We've been pushing it hard this week, and it hasn't blinked once. We finally have a machine which can do big models quickly.

Damn near had an orgasm when the thing trimmed a ten million cell mesh in only four hours. And that was only using one CPU. It's twice as fast as our big Sun or the Itanium.