My favorite kind of conversation

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HR lady: How much are we paying him?
New boss like guy: I don't know. to me How much do we have to pay you?

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[obfuscatingpoet]

New job?

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I'm working at Dal on a contract for a company in Calgary called Acceleware.

[obfuscatingpoet]

Installing a (mini-)cluster?

[ringzero]

Nope. Working on implementing some sparse-matrix stuff on a GPU. :)

It's pretty cool, I've got a card in this machine that calls itself a G80-875. The massive cooler on it has an NVIDIA sticker, but it's got no GeForce name yet since it's won't be commercially available until Christmas. And it has a 1.5gb of video ram, and a debugging port I can't use because I don't have the hardware to plug into it. :D

It's nucking futs.

[obfuscatingpoet]

hahaha, 1.5GB of VRAM? insanity :D

Maybe I could solder one into my MacBook... friggin' Intel 950 chipset (I got a very good price on a non-stolen barely used one, or I wouldn't have bought one).

[ringzero]

Dude. The card is more than 12 inches long, takes 2 PCI slots, and uses 180W of power. I don't think your MacBook could handle its awesomeness. :P

[obfuscatingpoet]

Hmm, I suppose that is a possibility.