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		<title>Synthetic Life and Evolution of Earth&#8217;s Second Atmosphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have the pleasure of teaching the science of weather and climate to non-scientists again this Fall/Winter session at Toronto&#8217;s York University. In the Fall 2011 Term, time was spent discussing the origin and evolution of Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. What follows is a post I just shared with the class via Moodle (our LMS): Photosynthesizing anaerobic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=687&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=681&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foraging for Resources in the Multicore Present and Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lumb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HPC consultant Wolfgang Gentzsch has thoughtfully updated the case of multicore architectures in the HPC context. Over on LinkedIn, via one of the HPC discussion groups, I responded with: I also enjoyed your article, Wolfgang &#8211; thank you. Notwithstanding the drive towards cluster-on-a-chip architectures, HPC customers will require workload managers (WLMs) that interface effectively and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=675&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advances in Storm Chasing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ScienceLive will be hosting an online chat today at 3 pm on advances in storm chasing. Participants will have the chance to send questions to experts on the topic: Bradley Smull of the NSF and Sonia Lasher-Trapp of Purdue. For more, please see http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/live-chat-the-science-of-storm-c.html?ref=hp.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=665&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early Win Required for Partner-Friendly, Post-Acquisition Platform Computing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to the LinkedIn discussion on the relatively recent acquisition of Platfom by IBM, I just posted: Platform CEO and Founder Songnian Zhou has this to say regarding the kernel of this discussion: &#8220;IBM expects Platform to operate as a coherent business unit within its Systems and Technology Group. We got some promises from folks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=652&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RTM for Android: Significant Update Indeed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just upgraded to the latest, native-client release of RTM (Remember the Milk) for my Motorola Xoom tablet. As expressed by the RTM team, this is a  very significant update. Although the details of the update are well covered over on the RTM blog, in 5 minutes of usage I&#8217;m left with the impression of: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=647&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Unity to GNOME to LXDE: A Journey of (Personal) Discovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much is being written these days about Unity &#8211; but more specifically, Canonical&#8217;s decision to shift from GNOME to Unity as the default desktop environment. When I make use of a recent-generation laptop/desktop, I use Unity. Soon after reviewing Jorge Castro&#8217;s video on multitasking in Unity, I became (and remain) a fan of Unity. About [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=634&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IBM-Acquired Platform: Plan for Sustained, Partner-Friendly HPC Innovation Required</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on LinkedIn, there&#8217;s an interesting discussion taking place in the &#8220;High Performance &#38; Super Computing&#8221; group on the recently announced acquisition of Markham-based Platform Computing by IBM. My comment (below) was stimulated by concerns regarding the implications of this acquisition for IBM&#8217;s traditional competitors (i.e., other system vendors such as Cray, Dell, HP, etc.): [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=624&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Triple and Quadruple Rainbows: Theory Meets Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Fall 2010/Winter 2011, I taught the science of weather and climate to non-scientists at Toronto&#8217;s York University. During the Fall semester, a unit of NATS 1780 focused on atmospheric optics. Not surprisingly, rainbows were one of the topics that received attention. By the end of this unit, students understood that rainbows are the consequence of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=600&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Steve Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was doing some errands earlier this evening (Toronto time) &#8230; While I was in the car, the all-news station (680news) I had on played some of Steve Jobs&#8217; 2005 commencement address to Stanford grads. As I listened, and later re-read my own blog post on discovering the same address, I&#8217;m struck on the event of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianlumb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=140687&amp;post=561&amp;subd=ianlumb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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