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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by DarrellH, Jul 18, 2013.
Would Kristi and Rudy have been a World/Olympic medal threat at some point?
It is hard to say. They were 5th at their first 2 Worlds which indicates forward progress, as the 1990 field was far stronger than the 1989 one. Still if I had to guess I see them most likely being a Meno & Sand type contender at best. A team that could win the bronze if some of the favorites fell apart. Watching them I dont see them being a championship pair even down the road, but it is impossible to know how they would have developed for sure. Maybe had they hung around for the weak 1995-1998 they could have been a gold contender then depending how they developed but only a bit player from 1991-1994.
Before the elimination of figures, both Kristi and Rudy had a better shot at an international medal in pairs than singles. However, after figures were eliminated they were far more likely to medal in singles.
If they had continued, I think we would have seen a lot of firsts in the record books despite few medals, including SBS 3Lp and 3Lz. They already are the first to perform SBS 3F.
I guess it would have depended on how much stronger they could make their pair elements (they had already improved in 1990). Perhaps even more than that how their style would have matured, and whether they would have developed a real look together to get higher artistic marks. I am using a team like Brasseur & Eisler as a barometer for their future chances, and I honestly dont see them beating B&E unless they bombed (eg- 92 Olympics) so that is why I see a 3rd or 4th place cap on most of their results in the immediate future (keeping in mind B&E usually finshed 2nd or 3rd).
Kristi looked majorly p-ed off when she saw Holly Cook bump her off the podium at the 1990 Worlds. I could tell right at that moment what she was going to do, and it was bad news for Rudy.
I thought it was common knowledge there were rumors about her splitting the pair before that? But yes, I agree her losing a medal (and to Cook of all people) was the catalyst.
Oh yeah I had heard that before Worlds too. However Worlds made it clear it was going to happen. Not moving up from their previous years finish in pairs, and not having such a hot skate there; and Kristi having a rough long program in singles, and missing out on a medal there. I felt awful for him though as I had heard he gave up his singles career for pairs by that point, and it sure took him a long time to get back in the loop in a serious way in singles again.
Have there been many successful mirror pairs, though? I found them distracting to watch. BTW Holly Cook's bronze at Worlds is one of the most WTF moments ever.
I just remember reading then that G&G were told that Kristi and Rudi were going to eventually be their stiffest competition.
They would have won gold at the 92 Olympics, and bronze at the 94 Olympics. Would have won the World titles in both 93 and 94. Then they might have continued or stopped and cashed in as pros.
No way would they have beaten M&D at the 92 Olympics. They were just not in their league as a Pairs team.
I do think they would have been a better pair, if Kristi only done pairs. Her single skating got better once she dropped pairs. She came across as very focused (to me).
I think as Kristi grew, Rudy's small size became an issue in regards to lifts. They might have gotten credit for side by side triples, but triples are considered a singles element, while lifts are a uniquely pairs element and I don't see how they could have kept up with the other pairs in that regard. Conversely, their small size made them ideal for singles skating. I think Kristi did the right thing, it is just a shame there wasn't someone looking out for Rudy's future at the time. He had dropped singles and bulked up for pairs.
It would have been interesting to see them do pairs as pros though.
The random (hearsay) thing I definitely remember was that it was Tamara Moskvina who loved Kristi and Rudy's skating, and she was telling her students at the time that if they wanted to be future World or Olympic champions, they had to fend off Kristi and Rudy.
Whoops! Double post.
G&G were junior world champs when Katia was 13, and they became a legend. Kristi & Rudy were also jr world champs but they were competing when the pairs field was dominated by legends - G&G and M&D. I believe Y&G could have developed enough to win at least a world medal. Their best chance for a WC Gold would have been in 94 since the legends did not compete then. Had they continued past 94, they had a great chance to win a couple of world championships because the pairs field became quite weak after the 94 Oly. They could have beaten K&N, Y&B and certainly W&S.
It is funny to think how different things are across different disciplines though. Many years later after Grinkov's tragic passing Gordeeva had to compete against Kristi in singles as a pro and she never came close to beating her, but was a distant 2nd in many events in 97-98 to her. I remember her telling the press after a couple of them she was thrilled to be 2nd to Kristi since Kristi was unbeatable, a giant you couldnt even think of beating. After one of them, I think it was the U.S Pro or something where she beat Witt and Hamill, but was 2nd behind Kristi, she said she felt like she won the other competition since Kristi was in her own event. After the 98 World Pros when she was 2nd to Kristi she told a reporter she thought Kristi could beat Michelle and Tara for the Olympic Gold if she wanted to come back. Yet when Kristi was chasing Ekaterina in pairs in 89-90 that is probably how she felt in the reverse.
I'm not sure that they were all that close, for awhile, after Kristi dropped pairs.
It is hard to say how they would develop. I dont think it is impossible they could have been competitive for gold by 92 though. Miskutienok & Dmitriev are a great team artistically but technically they are not that strong. Not a very good twist, simple lifts, and in Albertville she missed all the jumps in the long program too. Had Kristi & Rudy kept improving they could have been competitive with them.
I am assuming they would have improved alot since they were still very young. Also M&D made major mistakes at the 92 Olympics but still won since all their competitors did as well. I think Kristi & Rudy could have improved to the point to win the 92 Olympics on technical merit. M&D have weak technical pair elements like twist, lift, small throws, simple death spirals. Technically their strength is usually their side by side moves and spins, but they missed the jumps, and Kristi & Rudy have by far the hardest jumps too. M&D would win on the artistic mark, but I think Kristi & Rudy could win the 92 Olympics on the technical mark with how M&D skated that night.
I think they could have outjumped the field, but their pairs elements were not that strong and IMO there is no way the Russians were going to let them take the OGM. Internationally, they were perceived as singles skaters and the judges and federation officials from countries with top pairs would have lobbied hard on that point. Also, as mentioned above, Rudy was small for pairs and that was always going to limit what they could do on the lifting elements. There also was the problem of being mirror skaters. In theory, there is no penalty for that, but in practice it means their SBS elements never reached the aaaah level of unison needed to be seen as an OGM candidate.
I remember talk as early at 88-89 season that Kristi was not going to reach her potential in singles as long as she was trying to do both disciplines. To me, it was kind of a no-brainer to drop pairs.
I remember Rudy being quite bitter for a few years after the split. Thank goodness he got over it and was able to focus on his own singles' career. That day in San Jose was the most magical thing I've seen in person. I'm not ashamed to say I was sobbing. It certainly beat watching Kristi decimate the field at '92 Worlds (which, for me, were all about the emergence of Lu Chen).
The first time I'd heard of Yamaguchi and Galindo was at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Brisbane, Australia which I saw live. I was not only blown away by their tricks (which were light years ahead of the field in both junior and senior competition), but that they had a lot of energy and musicality.
I understand that going down the classical path in later seasons may have meant being taken more seriously as a senior pair, but they really knew how to sell programs with a show - tune sensibility.
The disadvantage Y & G may have faced was not their free skating, but the short program. It more or less put the top five or six teams on an even level with little room for variation.
Midori would have won the gold at the Olympics.
Assuming all else remained the same, Kristi would have only had to beat Nancy in both the SP and LP to win the gold over Midori at the 92 Olympics. I think even a Kristi dabbling with pairs and not becoming the skater she did become could have managed that.
Yamaguchi had no problems with beating Kerrigan, even in the SPs where Kerrigan was skating her best. That being said I don't see her staying in pairs past the 89-90 season beacuse figures were gone in singles skating, and the technical difficulty in womens skating went up very high with the likes of Ito, Harding, Bonaly, Chen, and Kerrigan herself.
I was surprised the judges did not hold Ito up in the SP at the 92 Olympics and place her 3rd over Bonaly. Bonaly's triple lutz looked two footed at first glance (although slow motion showed it wasnt), her double axel landing was shaky, and her overall skating was pretty weak around then. I think had the Olympics not been in France they would have done just that and then it would have just come down to the long between Kristi and Midori. Given how both skated it would have been a toss up then. Both had big mistakes, but both skated well and did some pretty hard things.
Scott Hamilton though was furious Ito was over Harding in the short since he said Harding trying to the triple axel combo meant she should have had more credit and come ahead with both falling. I think skate order made a huge difference to how they scored Harding and Sato vs Ito and Hubert in the short.
I say not very good because Rudy was a bit of a head case. At least at that time.
I agree Bonaly was lucky really that was her home Olympics. Her skating skills were very poor in comparison to Ito, Harding and Kerrigan besides her shakiness. I think the judges still would have put Ito 3rd, but I do see a case for Harding as well.


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More substrate indesicion
I've been reading and reading on the different substrates and I have a good idea of the basic pros and cons, but I cannot for the life of me decide which to go with. I'd love to hear anyone's input and experience.
Here is my plan and equipment:
40g breeder
Eheim 2217 with in-line Hydor heater
36" Finnex fugeray with fiberglass mesh screen to bring PAR down to 30-35
no C02
planning on dosing Excel and occasional ferts (the next thing I need to research)
I want a low/mid light, low tech tank without the need for C02. I don't have my heart set on any specific plants yet, as I figured I'd test out a variety and go with what works. I'd like my fish to include cardinal tetras, cories, a few ottos, some shrimp if I can pull it off, and whatever else may be recommended for a community tank.
I definitely want a black substrate, and that seems to limit my options quite a bit.
I thought maybe MGOPM with a sand cap was the way to go, but I've been reading that a dirt tank is not ideal for those who like to re-scape. Would you agree with this? As I'll be learning via trial-and-error of what I like, I'm sure I'll be re-scaping.
I'm not keen on spending $145+ on Aquasoil. I know flourite and eco-complete would require root tabs, which is fine. I also know cories do fine in both of those, but I'd love to give them sand to really play in. And I know any sand on top of eco-complete or flourite will eventually end up on the bottom.
So I was considering doing an all sand substrate with root tabs for any root feeders I put in there. Would this be a good idea for my situation? That way I have my black sand (either blasting grit or Tahitian Moon Sand) and I won't make a mess when re-scaping because it's all one substrate. Did anyone go this route and would you do it again?
Or would it be better to nix the sand and go with all eco-complete or flourite because they have higher CEC properties for the root tab nutrients?
Or go off label with something like SafeTSorb, OilDri and the like.
I know I am a messy person. I cannot dab 2 dots of paint on a wall without covering myself with paint. I would have trouble with soil covered with sand.
If you are a careful neat person then go for it.
And this isn't forever. If you try sand with tabs and want to change it you can. I can break down and reset my 180 gallon tank in less than a day if I do nothing else that day.
I ruled out saf-t-sorb and oil-dri only because they don't seem to be available in a dark or black color. I heard Turface used to have a dark grey... wish it was still around. I also wish I weren't so picky sometimes, but I'm an artist/designer, so color and aesthetics rank high on my priorities. :) (edit: not saying those substrates don't look natural and wonderful! it's all personal preference and just not what I have my heart set on for this display)
I'm a careful and neat person, but that just may very well mean it'd drive me crazy if/when I'd inevitably pull up soil through a cap...
That's very true that it's not forever! I have no idea how long tank break-downs and resets take because I've never done this, so I'm thankful to hear how long yours takes. Still, it'd be nice to not spend $78 on substrate just to realize down the road it's not working out for me.
my cories are happiest in the sand, i've tried in my eco-complete tanks and they just seem to prefer the sand. the only "draw back" to sand is that it will not stay level and even. as your cories dig around they put sand up into the current and it will settle in different places based on current and give you some natural sloping, which i enjoy.
it seems like you know that you want sand, so go ahead and get it! its fun.
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I was where you are about a month-and-a-half ago and after all my research and asking people's opinions I decided to go with straight eco-complete (black). It looks fantastic in my 30 gal and is a great contrast to my green, green plants :) Be aware that if you are looking at darker cories they will tend to blend in with the substrate. I added root tabs about 2 weeks ago and my plants have seemed to really of taken off. CO2 is next in my plans! I vote eco just because it looks awesome and doesn't cloud your tank. I've been thinking about adding some black sand in the back of the tank just for my cories...I'm sure they'd love it.
Thanks for sharing your experiences!
I think I'm going to go with Black Diamond blasting grit and some Pfertz root tabs. That combo will cost half as much as Tahitian Moon Sand + root tabs or eco-complete + root tabs. And since I can always keep using root tabs, it won't set me back that far if I want to upgrade the substrate down the road.
What size grit of blasting sand should I get? 20/40 or 30/60?
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I am now officially the parent of United States Marine
Well guys I know I havent been on line much lately, but these last few weeks we have had a lot going on here at home. Last weekend my oldest son, who is 19, graduated. And today, only seven days after his graduation, my son left for boot camp with the United States Marines. He enlisted for eight years, and said he plans on making his career with the service.
Having served nearly ten years in the service myself, I have to say that I sooo proud of him for joining up, but on the other hand, I have to admit I have a lot of apprehensions to him joining up for a career in the service when our country is losing so many men and women every day in a war that I personally dont think we should be fighting.
So I guess today is a day of mixed emotions, I am happy and sad all at the same time.
Anyway, I know this has nothing to do with bow shooting, but I just felt like talking
So anyway take care,
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I did eight Active Duty in the Corps. Last Five as a Scout Sniper. Mostly was a great time. Hawaii was the best duty station ever. Have him jump on that if possible and go to K-Bay. Absolutely fantastic duty station.
He'll be fine. They know what they are doing at the MCRD's. Just would have suggested he go to Recruit Training in Sept., not June. Parris Island and San Diego, and Pendelton are HOT in July and August.
Camp Lejeune has 3D shoots on base!
As for the Career thing, We all think that for a while, but get the opportunity to change our minds every few years, at reenlistment time. Lucky us!
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hopefully this "war" in Iraq will be over before he is out of camp.No I'm not dead
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I have one son looking at the Marines and maybe another. I know that I would be proud to be a parent of a Marine.
I don't like the war either, but the only thing free in "freedom" is the first four letters.
I do agree that we should bring our boys and girls home. Let the arabs kill each other if they so wish. When their camels and goats and little white pickup trucks start heading across the pond to our home land, then we shoot.
My oldest son is 16 and has been in the MCJROTC for 2 years. He loves it and is talking about going on and joining. I support him 100%
Best of luck to your son and your family.Introduce a kid to the outdoors, the American way depends on it
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I got his first phone call this morning. He is in San Diego with Lima Company and says he doesnt think he will be able to call for a while after today. But he is thrilled with decesion to be a Marine and I will support him a 100%, but I guess this morning I woke up and just had to say 'WOW", I cant believe that my son is a Marine ( where did the time go, and how did I get so old )
Thanks for the words of wisedom guys, I really appreaciate it.
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The decisions these young men make are very adult decisions. You may not have realized it, but they are grown. I know the thought process that led to it, from personal experience. They are taking personal responsibility for your safety and quality of life, in a time of Global War. I joined for the Iran Embassy takeovers (X 2) in 79, and fought this same enemy in 83 in Lebanon.
It is a war we may never "WIN" in the traditional sense, but one that MUST be fought. It is a reflection of the upbringing you provided that they had the moral courage and self esteem to even consider being "A Marine" and all that that involves. We are a tribe like no other. Few are selected. They will serve with other like-minded young men that share a bond NO ONE else will ever understand. They will be in the best company they will ever know. "Once a Marine, Always a Marine" is not just a slogan. I am grateful that this country still produces enough young men like them to keep us safe. Thank You for the Responsible young men you raised.
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P.S. They are "Recruits" until completing Recruit Training. They they earn the title "Marine".
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When I talked to my sons recruiter yesterday, he said to me, "I know you have sent us a very good boy, and we will return him to you a very good man, a Marine." I am not a mushy kinda gal, but I nearly cried. I am just so proud of him.
Like sniper said this war will never be "won" but it has to be fought. I thank all of our troops for protecting our country
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I have never been in the service. But I would like to thank all of you that have been and those of you that will or have children that are joining. It is people like yourselves that have made it possible for us to continue to have the type of lifestyle we enjoy now. Again a great big THANK YOU !!That course was so easy I even missed a target !!
rdnkgrl, I too am a former Marine. It is a great learning experience with training second to none. He will be fine.
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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is ready to share the "good vibes" that Santi Cazorla brings to the Arsenal midfield.
The England international is back in the squad to face Stoke City on Sunday and could line up alongside the Spanish playmaker for the first time in a competitive match.
Oxlade-Chamberlain and Cazorla linked up impressively in Arsenal's final pre-season friendly in Cologne and the 19-year-old is already a big fan of his new team-mate.
"He's brilliant," said Oxlade-Chamberlain. "He's a typical Spanish player, really technical. He's got a good right foot, a good left foot and he can dribble.
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"We saw against Sunderland what he's capable of. I thought he had a good game, he did a lot of clever things. I played with him in Cologne in midfield and got on really well with him there.
"You know when you get a buzz off a player, and you could bounce off him and get good vibes. Santi has that with everyone because he's that sort of player."
Cazorla and his fellow new signings are also having a positive impact off the pitch, according to Oxlade-Chamberlain.
"The squad is a tight group and a big part of that has been with the three lads who have come in," he said. "It lifts everyone up having new faces around and when they're really good players that helps even more.
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"When you've got friendly characters who come into the squad and are upbeat from day one it lifts everyone. The boys who have been here last season and for many years, they're all really close so it's looking really good.
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Roz Savage holds four world records for ocean rowing, including first woman to row solo across three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. She has rowed over 15,000 miles, taken around 5 million oarstrokes, and spent cumulatively over 500 days of her life at sea in a 23-foot rowboat. In 2010 she was named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic.
In 2005, Roz Savage became the first woman to complete the Atlantic Rowing Race – solo. She set out from the Canary Islands with 3,000 miles of empty ocean ahead of her, carrying nothing more could be squeezed in her boat. Alone and with no support, Roz fought storms that broke every one of her oars before she had reached halfway, and also claimed her camping stove, stereo, and cockpit navigation instruments.
As the Atlantic Ocean gradually reduced her boat to the bare essentials, Roz's voyage captured the attention of people all over the world. Despite her testing circumstances, Roz managed to keep a blog that she updated by satellite phone. Her determination to never surrender in the face of almost overwhelming conditions struck a chord with thousands around the globe. People stayed tuned as she repaired her oars, was blown backwards by adverse winds, and hit the wall – both physically and mentally.
When, 24 days before the end of her row, Roz's satellite phone, too, succumbed to the harsh conditions onboard, Roz was presented with the toughest challenge yet – total isolation. But she perservered, an after 103 days alone at sea, she rowed into English Harbour, Antigua, and into the history books.
After an aborted attempt on the Pacific in 2007, when her boat capsized 3 times in 24 hours, Roz set out from under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on May 25, 2008. For the first few weeks, strong winds repeatedly blew her back towards the Californian coast, but eventually she broke free and struck out towards Hawaii.
Unfortunately the rough conditions had taken their toll, and her watermaker succumbed to rust damage a few weeks later. A lucky encounter with some fellow environmental campaigners, also on a mission to bring attention to the plastic pollution in the North Pacific Garbage Patch, enabled Roz to replenish her water supplies. The encounter with the JUNK Raft also offered the opportunity for one of the most surreal dinner parties ever to take place – on board a vessel made of 15,000 empty water bottles, in mid-ocean several hundred miles east of Hawaii, with a menu of freshly-harpooned mahi-mahi.
Roz rowed in past Diamond Head on the Hawaiian island of Oahu after 99 days at sea, the first woman ever to row from California to Hawaii.
At sunset on May 24, 2009, Roz set out from Waikiki Yacht Club in Hawaii to row to Tuvalu in the South Pacific. This stage of her row was enlivened by a great number of encounters with marine wildlife, including a whale shark, dolphins, whales and turtles, and several booby birds who decided that her boat would be a convenient resting place and settled in for several weeks. There was also a very messy incident with three low-flying squid, who in their bid to escape from a predator by propelling themselves at high speed out of the water, were no doubt very surprised to find a small ocean rowboat in their way.
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At sunrise on April 19, 2010, the President of Kiribati was amongst the small crowd that waved Roz off from the Marine Training Centre in Tarawa for the third and final stage of her solo row across the Pacific. This voyage was notable for its brevity, a mere 48 days at sea, largely due to the strong currents in the western Pacific. Roz's average daily mileage was 49 miles, compared with her previous best-ever day of 42 nautical miles.
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By some counts there are nearly 2,500 artificial satellites orbiting the earth. (This tally excludes the countless pieces of man-made debris circling our planet—charred rocket bits, camera-lens caps, that kind of stuff.) Without exception the artificial satellites are relatively large and complex machines. Even the smallest of them, the so-called "microsatellites," weigh tens of kilograms, carry on-board computers and cost millions of dollars to launch. Because they are such complex structures, these costly devices can be disabled by something as paltry as a high-speed grain of dust or some energetic particles from the sun. Such hazards have always made the satellite business a risky endeavor. But all of this may change if a group of scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory can get others to consider their revolutionary proposal.
The scientists, Kurt Moore, Janette Frigo and Mark Tilden, presented their creation—the satellite robot, or "satbot"—last December at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. At first glance a satbot doesn't look terribly impressive: Only a few centimeters across and weighing less than a hundred grams, it looks like something that might be soldered together by a weekend hobbyist. And indeed it can be made almost entirely from off-the-shelf components. What makes the satbot interesting is that it's designed to thrive in an environment that would disable a larger satellite. Not because it's a brutish contraption, but because its inner workings are so simple.
Unlike a typical satellite, the actions of a satbot are not dictated by a software-driven computer. Instead of dutifully following a fixed algorithm, the satbot adapts to its environment by means of a simple nervous network devised by Tilden, a robotics engineer who's created hundreds of different robots (mostly earthbound walking types that live in his office). Tilden's nervous network mimics a biological central pattern generator, much like those that control locomotion in an insect. It's a design that's proven surprisingly robust to noise. "You can almost beat these things into robot roadkill, and the beast will keep dragging itself along," notes Tilden.
One prototype satbot (pictured) has merely two "neurons" in its nervous network. And a neuron itself consists of no more than a resistor, a capacitor and an inverter. "There are no microprocessors in a satbot that can be put out of commission by a magnetic disturbance on the sun," says Tilden.
In fact, the satbot's nervous network is designed so that the little robot's actions are based on electromagnetic changes in its environment. A six-neuron satbot can reliably orient itself to the sun by reacting against the ambient magnetic field, merely using some simple photosensors and wire coils (right). Add an antenna, linking it to a communications satellite, and the satbot could provide information about what's going on in its little corner of space.
Moore, a space scientist who specializes in magnetospheric physics, has been busy devising ways to exploit the satbot's adaptability so that the little robots can be put to work. "Imagine a swarm of hundreds or thousands of satbots launched toward the magnetopause [the boundary between the magnetic fields of the earth and the sun]," he muses. "By monitoring their orientations we could watch the position of the magnetopause as the solar wind pushes it around."
Moore has also been thinking about potential visual applications. "Consider how the compound eye of a fly can provide a high-resolution image even though each photoreceptor provides low-resolution information about light," notes Moore. "With a photosensor each satbot could provide a single 'pixel' of information for a larger image." Arrayed over large areas of the planet, the "pixelsats" could deliver high-resolution images of features on and around the earth.
Aside from adding spice to the Weather Channel, satbots could push the limits of "smaller, faster, cheaper" space technology. Tilden has a vision of producing satbots commercially, a "satellite for the masses." "Imagine a $1,000 satellite with a credit card–sized payload, perhaps one that can carry an imaging device for an amateur astronomer," he says. "Consider the benefits to science if it could be that easy to get into space."
The Los Alamos scientists are approaching NASA and DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to fund further experiments with the satbots. "Some of this is still in the 'blue-sky' stage of development," cautions Moore, "but nobody has come out to say it's impossible."—Michael Szpir
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 256, Oct 18, 2002
- Case Study: Porting a Fortran code to the SX-6
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Case Study: Porting a Fortran code to the SX-6
I hope you can learn from the following porting experience, even if you're not an SX-6 user. And if you have a porting adventure of your own, perhaps you could share it through this newsletter?
The code in question now runs at 1940 MFLOPS on a single SX-6 processor. A small test case completes in about 1/3rd the wall-clock time required for 4 multi-tasked SV1ex processors.
While auto-tasking on the SV1ex is of definite benefit, auto parallelizing on the SX-6 (for this problem size) is actually detrimental.
This is a vectorizable Fortran 90, ab initio quantum physics code with about 100 source files.
Steps in porting to the SX-6:
Compile everything with "-ew"
This makes all numeric storage units use 64-bits.
The SX-6 offers both 32- and 64-bit mode, and the default is 32. On the Cray, everything is 64-bits and starting with the same data size made sense. The SX-6 is IEEE, but in this case, this didn't cause cause different results.
Compile free-form files with -f4
From the online Fortan90/SX Programmers Guide:
-f4 Specifies that the input source program is described in standard free format.
Compile with "-I" to locate MODULE information files.
On the SX-6, "-I" performs like the Cray "-p <module_site>" option. From the manual:
-I Specifies that INCLUDE files and compiled MODULE information file are retrieved from the specified directory prior to the current directory.
My makefile includes the following f90 option, where "STARTDIR" is set to the root directory of the build and the subdirectory "MOD" is where the module files lie:
Link with "-llapack_64" and "-lblas_64"
Codes compiled with "-ew" must be linked with 64-bit libraries. In this case, this indicated the math libraries, but it also applies, for instance, to the MPI libraries (eg., "-lmpiw" where the "w" corresponds to the "w" in "-ew").
Fix "-ew" problems in generic subroutines
On my first attempt to compile, f90/SX issued 6 helpful error messages, like this:
f90: error(746): generics.f90, line 381: Specific procedure "d_gemv" and "s_gemv" in same generic interface can not be distinguished.
The "-ew" option had eliminated the differences in storage unit type between the two specific subroutines, d_gemv and s_gemv. These subroutines were accessed through the generic name, gemv. With the differences removed, the compiler was unable to disambiguate the two specific routines, which is a Fortran error.
To solve it, I introduced a new macro, "SX6", and used preprocessor directives to "comment out" the newly-duplicate subroutines, as shown here:
interface gemv #ifndef SX6 module procedure z_gemv,c_gemv,d_gemv,s_gemv #else module procedure c_gemv,s_gemv #endif end interface #ifndef SX6 subroutine d_gemv(tr,m,n,alph,a,lda,x,incx,beta,y,incy) use kinds character*1 tr integer(kind=ikind) m,n,lda,ldb,incx,incy double precision :: a(:,:),x(:),alph,beta double precision :: y(:) integer(kind=ikind) lda_lo lda_lo=size(a,1) call dgemv(tr,m,n,alph,a,lda_lo,x,incx,beta,y,incy) end subroutine d_gemv #endif subroutine s_gemv(tr,m,n,alph,a,lda,x,incx,beta,y,incy) use kinds character*1 tr integer(kind=ikind) m,n,lda,ldb,incx,incy real :: a(:,:),x(:),alph,beta real :: y(:) integer(kind=ikind) lda_lo lda_lo=size(a,1) call sgemv(tr,m,n,alph,a,lda_lo,x,incx,beta,y,incx) end subroutine s_gemv
First run of the program! Followed by Wild Goose Chase.
After steps 1-5, above, the compiler produced an executable... which sputtered like an '83 Ford Escort I once owned, ran, and promptly crashed.
I spent time on a wild goose chase. The code uses linked lists for bookkeeping, implemented using Fortran pointers. From the location of the crash, I focussed on possible pointer problems.
Experiments with the f90/SX option:
-O overlap (default when compilation mode -C vsafe or -C ssafe is effective) Assumes that pointer references are overlapped in optimization.
didn't help. I tried some other things. Eventually I compiled the problematic subroutine for debugging:
-C debug -g
This eliminated the problem in that subroutine. But it simply moved the crash to a different subroutine. After repeating this step a couple of times, I smartened up.
Compile entire program with "-C debug".
Now it ran to completion, and produced correct results. Nothing to debug! Right?
On the SX-6, basic performance data is produced by simply setting the run-time environment variable "F_PROGINF" to "DETAIL". The code ran at 445 MFLOPS.
Here's the complete F_PROGINF output for the "-D debug" version:
****** Program Information ****** Real Time (sec) : 1505.139990 User Time (sec) : 1500.737250 Sys Time (sec) : 2.480038 Vector Time (sec) : 94.229735 Inst. Count : 528581378908. V. Inst. Count : 4805111361. V. Element Count : 918360808316. FLOP Count : 667538032141. MOPS : 960.952409 MFLOPS : 444.806732 VLEN : 191.121649 V. Op. Ratio (%) : 63.680549 Memory Size (MB) : 64.031250 MIPS : 352.214473 I-Cache (sec) : 1.709976 O-Cache (sec) : 75.106489 Bank (sec) : 14.313291 Start Time (date) : 2002/10/17 13:45:58 End Time (date) : 2002/10/17 14:11:03
Compile entire program with "-C ssafe".
Here are all possible "compile mode" or "-C" settings, in order of increasing optimization (or decreasing conservatism):
-C{debug ssafe vsafe sopt vopt hopt}
(Note: "vopt" is the default. "s" means scalar, "v" means vector.)
With everything already compiled at "-C debug", I experimented by recompiling a few of the problematic subroutines (from step 6) with "ssafe". This was successful, so I recompiled everything at "ssafe".
Again, correct results. It now ran at 1231 MFLOPS. Here's the F_PROGINF output for the "-C ssafe" version:
****** Program Information ****** Real Time (sec) : 542.073901 User Time (sec) : 540.851285 Sys Time (sec) : 1.021653 Vector Time (sec) : 92.713041 Inst. Count : 161857294035. V. Inst. Count : 4788058445. V. Element Count : 918260158881. FLOP Count : 666211339613. MOPS : 1988.216400 MFLOPS : 1231.782855 VLEN : 191.781318 V. Op. Ratio (%) : 85.393384 Memory Size (MB) : 64.031250 MIPS : 299.263954 I-Cache (sec) : 0.754988 O-Cache (sec) : 61.974722 Bank (sec) : 7.211348 Start Time (date) : 2002/10/17 11:55:29 End Time (date) : 2002/10/17 12:04:31
Isolate the component(s) of "ssafe" required for correct execution.
From the SX-6 Fortan90 Programmers Guide, I discovered that each "-C" option is simply a short-cut to a set of so-called "detailed" options. (Similar to the "-O" levels on the Cray.) From a careful search of the guide, I generated this list of "detailed options," which appears to be equivalent to the setting, "-C ssafe":
-Wf"-O nochg nodarg nodiv noiodo nomove overlap nounroll" \ -Wf"-pvctl nocollapse nomatmul noouterunroll" \ -Wf"-Nv"
Again using a few of the problematic subroutines, I emulated a binary search through the above list of options, and ultimately discovered that only one of them, "nodarg," was required for correct execution. From the manual:
-O nodarg (default when compilation mode -C ssafe is effective) Dummy arguments are not subject to optimization.
Recompile everything with '-Wf"-O nodarg"':
Again, correct results. This version ran at 1940 MFLOPS. Here's the F_PROGINF output for the "-O nodarg" version:
****** Program Information ****** Real Time (sec) : 328.804629 User Time (sec) : 327.538463 Sys Time (sec) : 1.217602 Vector Time (sec) : 154.557969 Inst. Count : 64776518747. V. Inst. Count : 7854910424. V. Element Count : 999827065397. FLOP Count : 635471363086. MOPS : 3226.334598 MFLOPS : 1940.142718 VLEN : 127.286883 V. Op. Ratio (%) : 94.613515 Memory Size (MB) : 64.031250 MIPS : 197.767671 I-Cache (sec) : 2.066626 O-Cache (sec) : 25.200404 Bank (sec) : 2.160127 Start Time (date) : 2002/10/17 14:37:42 End Time (date) : 2002/10/17 14:43:11
Here's the complete set of options I'm now using (the FFLAGS_1 macro is used for the free-form files):
CF= f90 DEBUG= OPT= -Wf"-O nodarg" LIBS= -llapack_64 -lblas_64 FFLAGS= ${OPT} ${DEBUG} -ew -I${STARTDIR}/PARAMETER\ -I${STARTDIR}/MODS FFLAGS_1= -DSX6 ${OPT} ${DEBUG} -ew -f4 -c -I${STARTDIR}/PARAMETER\ -I${STARTDIR}/MODS
Attempt higher levels of optimization and parallelization:
Recompiling with '-C hopt -Wf"-O nodarg"' crashed the code, so for now, I'm satisfied with the default "-C" level of "vopt".
The program compiles and runs correctly with auto parallelization "-P auto" and the parallel blas library "-lparblas_64" and burns time on multiple processors. But this produces no speedup. The user of this code will attempt larger data sets, which may prove that it simply needs more work (note that the SX-6 vector length is 4x that of the SV1).
Another step would be a "search" through all the source files, finding those that can be safely compiled at "-C hopt".
Portable Nucleotide String Compression: Part II, Shifty Characters
[ Thanks to Jim Long of ARSC for contributing this 2-part series. ]
This series of articles presents some issues that arise when writing portable code in the context of compressing nucleotide text strings and producing the reverse complement of such strings.Part II, Shifty Characters
In Part I, we looked at Endian "Enigmas" in the context of bit shifting on different architectures. We did this because we want to be able to compress nucleotide text strings, made up entirely of just the four letters A, C, G, & T, into words containing 2-bit representations of each nucleotide. Thus a 32-bit word will contain 16 nucleotides, and a 64-bit word will contain 32, in both cases a compression factor of 4.
The compression is done simply by taking the 2-bit representation for each 8-bit ascii character and shifting it into its proper position within a word. If the bit patterns are A=00, C=01, G=11, & T=10, then on a big-endian machine the string "acgta" looks like:
uncompressed representation
<--------------word0--------------> <--------------word1--------------> byte0--- byte1--- byte2--- byte3--- byte4--- byte5--- byte6--- byte7--- 01100001 01100011 01100111 01110100 01100001 00000000 <------8-bit ascii a c g t a nullcompressed representation, 4 letters/byte
<--------------word0--------------> <--------------word1--------------> byte0--- byte1--- byte2--- byte3--- byte4--- byte5--- byte6--- byte7--- 00011110 00000000 00000000 00000000 <------ compressed 2-bit string a c g t a null padded zeros
Each 2-bit representation was shifted to the left on a big-endian machine. On a little-endian machine, we have to shift the other way:
uncompressed representation
<--------------word1--------------> <--------------word0--------------> byte7--- byte6--- byte5--- byte4--- byte3--- byte2--- byte1--- byte0--- 8-bit ascii -----> 00000000 01100001 01110100 01100111 01100011 01100001 null a t g c a
compressed representation, 4 letters/byte
<--------------word1--------------> <--------------word0--------------> byte7--- byte6--- byte5--- byte4--- byte3--- byte2--- byte1--- byte0--- compressed 2-bit string ----------> 00000000 00000000 00000000 10110100 padded zeros null a t g c a
Note that in both cases, an "a" is 00, composed of the same zero bits used to pad the word. Thus when decompressing, one must know the number of letters that were compressed.
The 2-bit representations could have been found with a lookup table that translates each ascii character into its equivalent 2-bit representation, something like:
array[256]; array['A'] = array['a'] = 0x0; /* bit pattern 00 */ array['C'] = array['c'] = 0x1; /* bit pattern 01 */ array['G'] = array['g'] = 0x3; /* bit pattern 11 */ array['T'] = array['t'] = 0x2; /* bit pattern 10 */
Doing it this way is slow, however, having to do a lookup for each 8-bit character. An examination of the 8-bit ascii representations for the characters reveals that the desired 2-bit patterns for each letter are already unique within each ascii representation, and are case insensitive:
A 0100 0001 a 0110 0001 C 0100 0011 c 0110 0011 G 0100 0111 g 0110 0111 T 0101 0100 t 0111 0100 ^^ these two columns contain the desired 2-bit code
It is much faster to simply mask out the undesired bits and shift the desired bits to their proper location. If "unc" is an array of nucleotides in 8-bit ascii, then the following code fragment shows how to create one word of compressed data from 4 words of uncompressed on a big-endian machine, doing everything in the registers without additional load/stores:
mask shift logical "or" ========== ===== ============ compressed[0] = ( (0x06000000 & unc[0]) << 5) ( (0x00060000 & unc[0]) << 11) ( (0x00000600 & unc[0]) << 17) ( (0x00000006 & unc[0]) << 23) ((unsigned long)(0x06000000 & unc[1]) >> 3) ( (0x00060000 & unc[1]) << 3) ( (0x00000600 & unc[1]) << 9) ( (0x00000006 & unc[1]) << 15) ((unsigned long)(0x06000000 & unc[2]) >> 11) ((unsigned long)(0x00060000 & unc[2]) >> 5) ( (0x00000600 & unc[2]) << 1) ( (0x00000006 & unc[2]) << 7) ((unsigned long)(0x06000000 & unc[3]) >> 19) ((unsigned long)(0x00060000 & unc[3]) >> 13) ((unsigned long)(0x00000600 & unc[3]) >> 7) ((unsigned long)(0x00000006 & unc[3]) >> 1);
masking turns bits off, while a logical "or" turns bits on.
The equivalent code on a little-endian machine looks like:
mask shift logical "or" ========== ===== ============ compressed[0] = ((unsigned long)(0x00000006 & unc[0]) >> 1) ((unsigned long)(0x00000600 & unc[0]) >> 7) ((unsigned long)(0x00060000 & unc[0]) >> 13) ((unsigned long)(0x06000000 & unc[0]) >> 19) ( (0x00000006 & unc[1]) << 7) ( (0x00000600 & unc[1]) << 1) ((unsigned long)(0x00060000 & unc[1]) >> 5) ((unsigned long)(0x06000000 & unc[1]) >> 11) ( (0x00000006 & unc[2]) << 15) ( (0x00000600 & unc[2]) << 9) ( (0x00060000 & unc[2]) << 3) ((unsigned long)(0x06000000 & unc[2]) >> 3) ( (0x00000006 & unc[3]) << 23) ( (0x00000600 & unc[3]) << 17) ( (0x00060000 & unc[3]) << 11) ( (0x06000000 & unc[3]) << 5);
Note the mirror symmetry between the two code fragments.
Decompression is a little trickier because the prefix for a "T" (0101) is different than for the other letters (0100). We can determine T-ness in a register by doing an "xor" (^: exclusive or) of the 2-bit extraction with the 2-bit representation for "T":
Only T xor T yields a false bool value. Using this fact, the code on a big-endian machine to decode the first 1/4 of a compressed string could look like:
unc[0] = (((0xC0000000 & compressed[0]) ^ 0x80000000)? /* is it a T? */ (((unsigned long)(0xC0000000 & compressed[0]) >> 5) 0x41000000): (0x54000000)) /* the letter T */ (((0x30000000 & compressed[0]) ^ 0x20000000)? /* is it a T? */ (((unsigned long)(0x30000000 & compressed[0]) >> 11) 0x00410000): (0x00540000)) /* the letter T */ (((0x0C000000 & compressed[0]) ^ 0x08000000)? /* is it a T? */ (((unsigned long)(0x0C000000 & compressed[0]) >> 17) 0x00004100): (0x00005400)) /* the letter T */ (((0x03000000 & compressed[0]) ^ 0x02000000)? /* is it a T? */ (((unsigned long)(0x03000000 & compressed[0]) >> 23) 0x00000041): (0x00000054)); /* the letter T */
Each successive 2-bit pair is masked out of the compressed input and xor-ed with 10. If that boolean is true, it is not a "T", and we just shift the 2-bits into their proper place and add the remaining common bits. If it is a "T", then we just return a "T" in the proper location. unc[1], unc[2], and unc[3] are similarly computed with the other 3/4 of the compressed word. For a little-endian machine, the same idea prevails with only different masking and shifting.
The same ideas presented above can also be used to do 4-bit and 5-bit compression, where 5-bit covers the entire alphabet.
Finally, note that it is easy to produce the reverse complement of a compressed nucleotide string. Along a double helix of dna, each nucleotide is paired with its complement, "A" with T", and "C" with "G". A reverse complement string is the original string read backwards, replacing each letter with its complement. Reading backwards is accomplished by reversing the ordering of the 2-bit units within a word, and reversing the ordering of the words. Producing the complement is accomplished by xor-ing each 2-bit pattern with 10, incidentally the same thing we did above to determine T-ness:
Code to produce the reverse complement for a string that exactly fills its final word looks like:
for(i=0; i<length; i++) { /* reverse and complement */ rc[i] = (((unsigned long)(0xCCCCCCCC & compressed[length-1-i])) >> 2) ( (0x33333333 & compressed[length-1-i]) << 2); rc[i] = ( (unsigned long)(0xF0F0F0F0 & rc[i])>>4) ((0x0F0F0F0F & rc[i])<<4); rc[i] = ( (unsigned long)(0xFF00FF00 & rc[i])>>8) ((0x00FF00FF & rc[i])<<8); rc[i] = (((unsigned long)(dbrc[i]) >> 16) (rc[i] << 16)) ^ 0xAAAAAAAA; }
^ 0xAAAAAAAA complements the entire word at once after it has been reversed. Note that this code works for both big- and little-endian machines. Additional architecture dependent shifting must be done for strings that do not exactly fill their final word.
Hope you have fun "coding to the metal"!
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Adam Boyles, conductor
Thomas Carroll, clarinet
Time: 7 pm
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This May, Grand Harmonie presents an exciting symphonic program spotlighting our wind section, under the baton of Adam Boyles. Following a sold-out New York performance of Mozart, Weber, and Schubert, Grand Harmonie returns to the City for its second orchestral program. Rossini's overture to La Cenerentola gives a sneak peak at our production with Boston Opera Collaborative this summer, Weber's Clarinet Concerto #1 features master musician and instrument builder Thomas Carroll, and Mendelssohn's Symphony #3 "Scottish" brings the full orchestra together - including a newly restored original trumpet!
Grand Harmonie is very excited to be working with Adam Boyles for this concert. This dynamic young conductor is a Boston favorite, appearing as music director of the Brookline Symphony Orchestra, MetroWest Opera, and the MIT Symphony Orchestra, as well as staff conductor with Boston Opera Collaborative. He is also the driving force behind the recent advent of period instrument performance at MIT. Many of us have already had the chance to work with this brilliant mind who knows every detail of the music unfolding around him, and we assure you - you don't want to miss this!
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I haven't on in a while but I wanted to give you a peek at what I have coming down the pike. I was going towait untill I had a proto type built, but I have bee swamped with other issues, so I figured that I better post these sooner rather than later.
These are only a draft, but they are pretty close. The barrel drawing is based off of Bradlyfett's which he has given me permission to use. I have designed the barrel to made from Al tubing so that there is no machining needed just a hacksaw and a file.
Take a look and let me know what you think.