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text: Victoria, You're not alone on this one. We have a 416 processor P3 cluster, with Myrinet 2000 as well. Installed January of 2002, been running since then. If your situation was like ours, your cluster only started to show these signs after 6 months of operation, correct? To quote an email from Myricom that we received back in October: "From all of the Myrinet-fiber products shipped between 1 July 2001 (the beginning of the present series of fiber products) to 30 September 2002, and all of the RMAs from 1 July 2001 to 11 October 2002, we can tell you that the experienced annualized failure rate (AFR) of these products is: Product AFR ------- --- M3F-PCI64B & M3F-PCI64C 0.88% M3-SW16-8F & M3-SPINE-8F 3.8% (0.48% per port) "By industry standards, these AFR numbers are good, particularly for the first 15 months of shipments of a given product. (The field failure rates of installed products will generally be highest initially, and decrease over time.) These AFRs are not, however, up to Myricom's reliability standards. Most earlier Myrinet products had AFRs of ~0.2% per port, and we expect AFRs in this range for current production. "As you've observed, we have had a reliability problem with the fiber transceivers. The failed fiber transceivers have all been sent back to their manufacturer, E2O, for root-cause analysis. You are right that the great majority of these failures are failures of the laser diode (the light emitter). "What is particularly insidious about this particular failure mode is that it tends to occur only after ~200 days of operation. In our monthly monitoring of failure rates, we observed *zero* transceiver failures in the first 5 months and ~30M hours of field operation, causing us to believe initially that these transceivers were quite reliable. It was not until July 2002 that this failure mode of E2O transceivers -- in particular, of the laser diode used inside of the transceiver -- became evident from field failures of components shipped during 4Q01." Now, that being said, I am still seeing errors on my old equipment, at a much lower rate of failure than I did at the peak. At one point, I had to swap out 7 M3 chassis cards, and 3 PCI cards in one week. Now, I'm down to one or two a week. Problem tracking tools are quite important to keep everything straight... I recommend bugzilla. ALL of the equipment I'm getting from Myricom now is from a different fibre transceiver manufacturer, and I have had zero problems with the new equipment. To Myricom's credit, I have no issues getting equipment RMA'd... determining the immediate issues are pretty easy. Pull the plug out of a failed node, take a quick peek and see if you see the laser emitter. If no light, the PCI emitter is bad. If there is one, look in the cable. If you don't see the light coming from the switch, chances are the emitter died in the port. I have had a higher failure rate of switch ports versus PCI cards like you have seen... guessing that it's *somewhat* related to heat, but no way to confirm on my side. -Eric On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 04:40, Victoria Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > We have a 113 node IBM x330 cluster with Myrinet 2000. We're > experiencing very high failure rates on Myrinet switch ports > (average 3 per month) and on Myrinet NICs to a lesser extent > (about 1 per month). Ports and NICs are fine one minute, > then one or the other just dies (for good). Cables > (fibre, not copper) seem fine - one or two failures only in > nearly a year. > > There is no pattern in the failures, and they are entirely > unrelated to usage levels; seldom used nodes are just as > likely to have failures as heavily used nodes. > > We have another small IBM cluster with Myrinet 2000 > (16 port switch with copper cables), and this has run solidly > for nearly 2 years with not one Myrinet hardware fault. > > I'd be really interested to know of others' experiences with > Myrinet kit, especially in larger clusters. > > Thanks > Victoria > --- > Dr Victoria Pennington > Manchester Computing, Kilburn Building, > University of Manchester, > Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL > tel. 0161 275 6830, email: v.pennington at man.ac.uk > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Eric Wages Supercomputer Manager Tel: (207) 866-6510 University of Maine Fax: (207) 866-6510 20 Godfrey Drive wages at eece.maine.edu Orono, ME 04473


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text: Intel does very well with its compiler and performance tuning tools. And for AMD system, you can try Pathscale's product for compilers. It is really a powerful tool, especially for AMD clusters with InfiniPath. AMD is working hard in software area. Hopefully, we can power AMD clusters in better way. Regards, Li, Bo ----- Original Message ----- From: <mcosta at fc.up.pt> To: "Vincent Diepeveen" <diep at xs4all.nl> Cc: "beowulf" <beowulf at beowulf.org> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Intel Quad-Core or AMD Opteron > Citando Vincent Diepeveen <diep at xs4all.nl>: > >> Even worse, >> >> Does SSE2 code of intel not by default in th eintel primitives have an 'if >> then else' that at opteron it runs without using SIMD? > > We used ACML on Opterons and MKL on Xeons. > >> But apart from that, SIMD at oldie K8 is very slow compared to core2, >> though not a factor 2. Barcelona for well optimized code should have an >> IPC in SIMD of up to 40+% faster i guess than core2. >> >> So only 2 questions are when they release and especially at *what* price >> for the 4 socket mainboards. >> >> A 16 core barcelona machine with 4 DDR2 memory controllers might be a very >> mighty system for all kind of applications that need shared memory to >> scale well. >> >> When releasing Barcelona core within a few months from now, AMD has a huge >> lead over intel with respect to 4 core cpu's, as it seems to me. >> >> I feel personally intels choice of CPU design using small tiny L1 caches >> from performance viewpoint is a catastrophic one. If there is just ONE >> competitor for an intel chip that manages to clock a cpu nearly at the >> same clock like intel and with the same number of cores, then intel >> usually gets totally outperformed. Now that intel & AMD produce >> cpu's at the same type of machines their cpu's, it seems to me >> that AMD will in general outperform intel. >> >> Comparing the 2006 core2 with a 2003 release is not a very fair >> compare IMHO. > > We just compared what was available at the time, there's nothing more > we could do. I do think that AMD's architecture scales better, and > that eventually, as the number of cores and sockets increases, Intel > will switch to integrated memory controllers and some form of cpu to > cpu bus. > >> We can definitely conclude that intel managed to produce their new >> generation cpu ( core2) more than 1 year sooner than AMD did do, using a >> simple trick, namely glueing 2 dual core chips together. > > That's right, and in that interval they managed to get ahead, for some > applications at least. > > There is already a "true" quad-core in their roadmap, isn't there? > >> >> In the meantime i keep wondering more and more about intel not having an >> equivalent on the market for AMD's hypertransport. > > Yep. I do agree with everything you say, I just think that the > comparison between Xeon's and Opteron's for high performance computing > is getting harder, since before the em64t I would (and did) choose > Opterons. > > Miguel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > A FCUP utiliza o sistema open source de webmail Horde/IMP (www.horde.org) > Visite: http://www.fc.up.pt/ http://info.fc.up.pt/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Every year, thus far, I've dressed up as Hermione for these kinds of events. I have brown hair, and I went to Catholic school so I've already got a uniform (even if it is a bit small these days), that gets properly bushy fairly easily. But Hermione, lovely as she is, is not my favorite. I am a die-hard, deeply-in-love-with, literary-crushing on, Remus Lupin fan.
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From September 30 to October 2, 2008, the Associates for Biblical Research conducted a Bible Archaeology Conference during the annual Faith Forum Series at Ozark Christian College in Joplin, MO. Ozark Christian College has had connections with ABR for many years, mainly through their now retired Professor of OT and Archaeology, Wilbur Fields. Wilbur was an integral part of ABR's excavation team at Khirbet Nisya with Dr. David Livingston and at Khirbet el-Maqatir in the 1990's.
Ozark contacted ABR over two years ago to discuss the possiblities of having a conference at their college. From the perspective of ABR, the experience of interacting with OCC has been wonderful and uplifting. First, the faculty members, Kevin Morrow (who did much of the initial planning) and Andrew Kirschner (who helped tremendously in our final phases of planning), and Academic Dean Mark Scott did a fantastic job in planning, organizing, and administrating all the details involved with this type of event. As a small ministry, ABR had never undertaken this large of a conference, so it was a daunting task. The folks at Ozark Christian College made that daunting task much easier.
Second, in March 2008, the OCC faculty worked with ABR to have two students from Ozark, Ben Cross and Brian Hensley, travel with ABR on our Biblical Egypt Study Tour. They were able to earn academic credit from the study tour. At first, I have to admit I was concerned about having two college students travel with us to Egypt. Remembering how I behaved in college, of course, biased my thinking. I soon discovered that they were mature young men who want to serve the Lord with the calling and gifts that He has for them. In our recent visit to Ozark, I met many other young college students with the same sort of attitude: yearning to fulfill their calling under the authority of Jesus and in submission to the Scriptures. The students were very polite, helpful and respectful in their interactions with our staff.
It was refreshing... and a relief! Many of us are gravely concerned about the overly experientially oriented and anti-intellectual tendencies of the modern church, which often avoids dealing with difficult issues, in-depth theology, and apologetics. (see: Prayer Letter from ABR Director of Research ). Seeing students being trained with a respect for the Word of God encouraged myself and the rest of the ABR staff. I had the pleasure of speaking to 40 students in a classroom setting about "Great Discoveries in OT Archaeology". Their professor, Andrew Kirschner, was clearly connected to them, yet serious about remaining true to the Scriptures. Discussing in depth and challenging issues was clearly part of the agenda. As I have argued elsewhere, young people need to be CHALLENGED intellectually, not coddled in mediocrity. (For further thoughts, please see: Biblical Illiteracy ). I was overcome with joy when Andrew referred to "Koine Greek Papyri", and the students clearly knew what he was talking about! I doubt that I would experience this sort of thing in many other Christian Colleges. I interrupted him, saying: "Did you just say: Koine Greek Papyri?". We all laughed, but I was also encouraged by such a development in the Christian College classroom.
Third, Dr. Bryant Wood had the wonderful opportunity to speak to the OCC faculty during a special luncheon. Dr. Wood got a chance to briefly review some of the important finds in archaeology, emphasizing the need for Christian Colleges to have archaeological training and teaching in their curricula. The faculty showed a genuine interest in the ministry of ABR, and its usefulness in assisting Christian Colleges in their calling. The spiritual responsibility in these settings is extremely serious, and professors, teachers and deans must be on the constant watch for the insidious attempts by the enemy to undermine Biblical Authority. During my chapel sermon (listen here), I used Princeton as the quintessential example of how a Godly institution can be destroyed by compromising on the historical fidelity of the Scriptures, beginning in Genesis 1:1. For those reading this article, please continually pray for the faculty and leadership of Ozark so that they will continue to remain true to the Scriptures. We pledge to keep OCC on our prayer list and to remember them as God prompts us.
ABR would also like to thank Pastor Roger Lieb and the staff and congregation at College Heights Christian Church in Joplin, for allowing ABR to speak during their evening teaching session about the Origins of Israel. It was the Lord's providence clearly working when we discovered that College Heights had been teaching on the Exodus! Gary Byers was able to provide a substantial amount of additional information about this important subject. ABR brought lots of resources for the congregation to purchase for further study on this all important subject in Biblical studies.
My experience at Ozark Christian College refeshed me and reminded me about the vitally important work that ABR is doing. There are days when we grow weary and discouraged, wondering if the church will ever wake up and realize that its anti-intellectual, overly experiential approach will not produce grounded disciples of Christ. We are grateful to our friends at OCC, and publicly thank them for their invitation, resources, fellowship and fidelity to the authority, inspiration and infalliblity of God's Holy Word.
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I am proud to say I attended this college! I still use all my old notes from class to study from occasionally. The education I received here prepared me to share Christ with the world. I absolutely love they are getting some recognition for the top notch professors and education they are providing!
Joel Gabriele - 5/17/2010 2:32:27 AM
Wow, I just now discovered this article, 6 years after the event! Let me say, having ABR at Ozark was definitely one of the highlights of my experience at OCC. ABR is doing a great work. I encourage more Bible Colleges to invite them to conduct seminars on their campuses. You will be blessed! Far too many of our colleges have marginalized archaeology and other hard sciences, or neglected them all together, for "practical" studies. ABR is an academic anchor, keeping us moored to the rich evidential dimensions that undergird our faith in the historically verifiable Word of God.
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Birmingham, Ala.-based distributor Adams Produce Co. LLC has filed for bankruptcy and owes fruit and vegetable suppliers $10.2 million.
Half of that is owed to foodservice distributor Pro*Act, Monterey, Calif.
Adams, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 27 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Birmingham, has closed and a company official does not know when or if it will reopen.
All of the company"s 400 employees have been laid off because the company had not, as of May 3, received authorization from the court to pay employees wages and benefits, said Thomas O"Donoghue, the company"s chief restructuring officer.
But four of Adams" nine distribution centers had reopened under new names and ownership as of May 3, and about half of the company"s employees have been rehired, O"Donoghue said.
That was made possible after the judge in the case allowed former Adams managers and owners of the distribution centers the company leased to buy Adams" produce inventory and sell it out of the facilities, O"Donoghue said.
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You just love your darling pet and are sure everyone else does, too. How could they not? So if you were to pass away or no longer be able to care for your pet, a family member or friend would certainly give him or her a good home, right?
Wrong, unfortunately.
"We have seen way too many cases where grandma thinks that a family member will step up and take the dog," says Mary Palmer, president and rescue director of Northcentral Maltese Rescue, Racine, Wis. And it's not just dogs.
In the U.S., there are 20.6 million birds, 95.6 million cats, 83.3 million dogs, 8.3 million horses, 11.5 million reptiles, 18.1 million small animals, 145 million freshwater fish, and 13.6 million saltwater fish as pets, according to the American Pet Products Association—a lot of beloved companions that could be left to uncertain futures.
That's why it is important to plan for what will happen to a pet if you are no longer in the picture, says Palmer. "Don't assume."
Yet, according to a 2012 ASPCA study from a randomized telephone survey of 1,000 dog or cat guardians, only 17 percent have taken legal action to plan for the care of their pets. Most (53 percent) only speak to a friend or family member about taking care of the pet while 39 percent create a pet portfolio with pet care information.
Insufficient planning—not obtaining good advice and taking the time to plan properly—is the most common mistake people make, says Gerry W. Beyer, JD, LLM, JSD, Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock. He is the co-author with Barry Seltzer of Fat Cats and Lucky Dogs: How to Leave (Some of) Your Estate to Your Pets.
Even a less formal—nonlegal and thus not enforceable—agreement is better than nothing at all. But that gift of a pet and money for his or her care to someone willing to accept the responsibility is unpredictable. It leaves no assurance that your pet will get the care you wanted.
Creating a legal plan for your pet is not difficult and is available to people at most income levels. Over the last few decades, most states have adopted some pet trust provisions.
One lower-cost option is the Pet Protection Agreement®, created by animal law attorney Rachel Hirschfeld. A collaboration of the ASPCA and LegalZoom, it is available online; starts at less than $50; and, according to the ASPCA, is legal in all states.
For those who prefer a one-on-one consultation with an attorney who has pet trust expertise, an "inter vivos" or "living" trust that takes effect while the owner is still alive or a testamentary trust that is part of a will are possibilities in many states. In states without pet trust provisions, there are other options. Neut Strandemo, founding partner of Strandemo, Sheridan & Dulas, P.A., in Eagan, Minn., has set up legal mechanisms for several pets over the years.
Experts also offered these suggestions:
- If no one will take your pet, consider arranging for it to go to a respected rescue group. Palmer says the Northcentral group receives many requests from the relatives of elderly or deceased owners to take their maltese or maltese crosses. Many of these dogs might be older or with health problems that would make them likely to be euthanized if brought to most shelters.
- Consider including specifics such as food and diet, daily routines, grooming, and compensation for the caretaker in your legal arrangement.
- Provide information on how the pet can be identified as well as how to dispose of his or her remains.
- Consider alternate caregivers in case the caretaker you intended becomes unavailable.
Written for AAHA by Maureen Blaney Flietner
Maureen Blaney Flietner loves animals. A former newspaper journalist, she is a writer, artist/designer, and photographer and lives in rural eastern Wisconsin.
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Chevy's mystery 2013 SS (Photo: Chevrolet Racing)
By Mike Mulhern
Uh-oh. Scrap those Christmas vacation plans.
December may be jammed with a lot of extra 2013 testing for NASCAR crews.
It's looking like a long, busy winter ahead for stock car teams....with a lot more headaches than anticipated...
...because drivers and crews say that NASCAR's new 2013 Sprint Cup car program is falling further behind schedule -- with the sanctioning body still changing key rules for the new race car and with teams not expecting to get real sheet-metal bodies until mid-October.
An ambitious fall testing schedule for the 2013s is already on the calendar:
-- Talladega Wednesday October 3rd.
-- Texas Tuesday and Wednesday October 9th and 10th, with Goodyear's full complement of engineers and tires on hand.
-- Phoenix Wednesday and Thursday October 24th and 25th, again with the full Goodyear tire testing package.
-- And Charlotte Tuesday and Wednesday November 6th and 7th, also with Goodyear's full armada.
On top of that Cup teams will have two extra days of testing their current 2012s at newly repaved Kansas Speedway Wednesday and Thursday October 17th and 18th, just ahead of the October 21st Kansas 400.
Remember this fall's championship chase is well underway, with 12 of the sport's top teams involved. And the Talladega test comes between the Dover and Talladega Cup races...the Texas test comes between the Talladega and Charlotte races...the Phoenix test comes between the Kansas and Martinsville races...and the Charlotte test comes between the Texas and Phoenix races.
Any good truckers with CDLs should probably be applying for jobs with these race teams, as much hauling as they'll have to be doing.
Those 2013 Fords we saw back in January...a little "poetic license" apparently. (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
But as grueling as that schedule might appear, that's not even the punch line here:
NASCAR still doesn't even have the 2013 rules package finalized.
Crew chiefs concede they're tearing their hair out trying to keep up with the rules changes, which NASCAR has been faxing them the past few weeks.
"We're struggling ourselves trying to figure out if we can get a car done in time for the Talladega test," Shane Wilson, Paul Menard's crew chief, says.
"We just don't know if we can get one (2013 Daytona 500 model) done in time with real sheet-metal. And you don't need to go there with Fiberglas parts...because you're not going to get the full effects.
"And it costs so much these days to go test. So you have to decide if it's worth it."
The Texas test is seen as crucial, because that 1-1/2-mile track is a good template for other 1-1/2-miles like Las Vegas, 2013's first mid-sized track, March 10th, just a month ahead of the Texas 500.
"It's going to be close," Wilson says, about getting cars built with real sheet-metal for that Texas test. "There might be some teams there (with real cars), but I think it will be hit-or-miss right up till the test, whether or not teams can get their cars done.
"And they (NASCAR) are talking about some new rules...and if they're really wishy-washy on that, it makes it hard for a team to commit to go to that test, because you might not get anything out of it at all."
The original game plan for the 2013s was for teams to be able to use their current chassis, just with the new sheet-metal, the body designs that are to incorporate more 'Detroit street car design cues.'
However the rules changes coming may throw a big kink in that plan.
-- NASCAR wants to cut 160 pounds off these cars for next season, which naturally alters the balance.
-- NASCAR just came with yet another new rear-end 'skew' rule, which crews worry will force them to change a lot of major parts on the rear end of the chassis.
Is this 2014 Australian Holden the new NASCAR Chevy 2013 SS? (Photo: GM)
Goodyear needs some good, solid tests here, especially with the increased speeds at these newly repaved tracks, like Kansas, Michigan, Pocono.
However there is no new 2013 sheet-metal yet, and one top driver points to the Talladega test in particular as probably little more than "a dog-and-pony show," more for PR than anything else.
The key debut for the 2013s of course is at Daytona in the season's leadoff Daytona 500.
While all these 2013 tests may well be open to any teams that want to show up, it looks like only five, six or seven drivers will be at the Talladega test, and it's quite unclear if there will be any more at the other October tests. At least one driver for each of the top teams is expected to be at Talladega; however without a 20-car draft at that huge track, it's not clear how accurate the results might be.
Drew Blickensderfer, Jeff Burton's crew chief, says he feels the Richard Childress Chevy operation is further along in developing the 2013s than anyone else, but he concedes he and his crew are a bit worried about the time frame of the fall tests.
To begin with, the 12 teams in the chase are naturally pretty much the top teams in the sport, and at the moment they're all focusing on trying to win this championship. How much time, if any, that they'll be able or willing to set aside to fiddle with these 2013s is unclear.
On top of that, given the rules changes still coming from Daytona, crews are wondering what significant change might be next. That uncertainty is a clear worry among teams.
Crew chief Drew Blickensderfer (R) and Jeff Burton (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
"I don't think we'll have sheet-metal on our 2013 car for the Talladega test...because that car is already built (with molded Fiberglas body)," Blickensderfer says. "So we'll test the car and then bring it back and put new (sheet-metal) sides on it."
With the 2013 cars thus wearing only 'plastic' bodies, the center of gravity will be off, leaving the technical value of the tests in some jeopardy it would appear.
"The center of gravity will be off," Blickensderfer concedes.
"The other thing here is the center of gravity for all these cars will be off (too) because they (NASCAR) are taking weight out of the cars: 100 pounds off the right-sides, 60 more pounds off the left-sides."
And NASCAR plans to change, again, the 'skew' of the rear-ends of these cars for 2013. And it would like for teams to have some cars incorporating those new rear-end rules for the upcoming 2013 tests.
How many teams, if any, will have time to redo the rear-ends to meet those new rules in time for the October tests is quite uncertain.
"What NASCAR wants for 2013 is basically a 'straight-up' rear-end housing," Blickensderfer says. "Most rear-ends here (for Sunday's 300) have a half-inch of toe-in on the left and a half-inch of toe-out on the right.
"In 2013 it will be 'zero toe.' That means the 'crabbing' around the race track will go away."
'Crabbing' is the long-familiar chassis trick in which cars appear rather sideways down the straights, in order to have better cornering. That's part of the trick that Rick Hendrick's teams, particularly the Jimmie Johnson-Chad Knaus team, have used so successfully this season.
In addition, NASCAR will be allowing teams more 'camber' in the rear-end, four degrees instead of just two degrees. "Hopefully to get grip back in the car," Blickensderfer says.
"Take aero-grip away from the car and put mechanical-grip back in the car. The rear of your car will be more 'stuck' with four degrees."
That's good, though Goodyear may have to make some tweaks.
And Blickensderfer worries the new rules package may force teams to design new drive-plates and rear axles. "Because when you start 'bending' rear tires further, things that want to run straight don't run very well."
For the October 3rd Talladega test, Blickensderfer says he has six or seven things he wants to test. "And I think the rest of the day NASCAR will be playing with gears and restrictor plates, to try to tune the cars for the speed they want to see."
However without a big pack, of maybe 20 cars, how accurate will that testing really be?
But Blickensderfer says he's confident NASCAR will be able "to get a good idea of what restrictor plate they need to come with, and aero stuff.
"And then when we all go to Daytona in January (for more 500 testing) we'll have 15 to 17 cars out there in a pack, that can really fine-tune how fast they're going."
The upshot of all this is that Cup teams now anticipate being much busier than expected over the winter, with more testing that even what has been planned.
"Very busy," Blickensderfer says. "With getting sheet-metal later and later and later, and having to turn all these cars over...and then taking them to Nashville to test and to these other tests...it's going to be tough."
Throw in some rollbar safety changes for 2013 just announced too, and with each team carrying about 18 or more race-ready stockers, well, maybe certified welders can find some full-time work in Cup garages over the winter.
"Yes, I think there will have to be some more testing this winter, when everyone is more prepared," Wilson says.
"Sometimes we can make stuff happen pretty quickly....but it's a lot of work.
"And the bigger teams are all in the chase, and wanting to focus all their time on that."
And guess these 2013 NASCAR Dodges are museum fodder now (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
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