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South African Journal of Science
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versión impresa ISSN 0038-2353
S. Afr. j. sci. vol.103 no.9-10 Pretoria sep./oct. 2007
Intensity, energy and erosivity attributes of rainstorms in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South Africa
W. Nel*; P.D. Sumner
IDepartment of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice 5700, South Africa
IIDepartment of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
Rainfall intensity, kinetic energy and erosivity were analysed for 106 erosive storm events at five locations in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, from late 2001 to early in 2006. The stations cover an altitudinal range of 1060 m to 3165 m a.s.l. and provide the first detailed rainstorm data for the Drakensberg area. Erosive storm events, defined as total rainfall exceeding 12.5 mm and a maximum 5-minute intensity greater than 25 mm h1, are found to vary in duration and depth (total rainfall) with the distribution biased towards shorter, shallower storms. Erosive rainstorms are almost exclusively a summer phenomenon and the attributes of these storms (rainfall intensity, kinetic energy and erosivity) are positively correlated with rainfall depth, but not with storm duration. Inter-station similarities exist with respect to rainfall depths and mean kinetic energy from individual storm events. Altitudinal trends are, however, evident for storm maximum intensity, depths of erosive storms and cumulative kinetic energy. Together with frequency of erosive events and extent of collective erosive effects, all these rainfall attributes decrease with station altitude. Dissimilarities in cumulative kinetic energy and cumulative erosivity can be explained by the lack of erosive events during early and late summer on the escarpment and by significant erosive rains during this period at lower altitudes in the foothills.
South Africa is predominantly a semi-arid country and it is only primarily in the east that areas record rainfall above 600 mm per annum.1 Along the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg escarpment, annual rainfall has been estimated to exceed 1500 mm, although recent records show that this could be an overestimate.2 The escarpment typically reaches above 28003000 m in altitude and defines the watershed between the interior catchments of Lesotho, and the shorter and steeper catchments of KwaZulu-Natal (Fig. 1). KwaZulu-Natal contributes nearly twice as much runoff per unit of rainfall as South Africa as a whole, and a quarter of South Africa's streamflow.3 Rainfall in the Drakensberg is highly seasonal, with the five summer months (November to March) accounting for 75% of the annual total, whereas winter months (May to August) contribute less than 10%.4 The main source of precipitation is large-scale line thunderstorms and orographically induced storms that develop mostly over the extended summer period.5 During winter, cold fronts affect KwaZulu-Natal, bringing occasional rain and snowfalls to the mountains.5 Snowfalls are thought to contribute around 100 mm water equivalent to precipitation totals,2 or less than 10% of the rainfall total, but the exact contribution remains unmeasured.
Rainfall erosivity is a major driving force of many hydrological and erosional processes6 and the amount of soil that is detached, as well as other key processes in water erosion, is related to rainfall intensity.7 A combination of rainfall intensity and raindrop fall velocity influences soil splash rate,8 while the extent of erosion caused by rainfall in a storm depends on the rainfall's physical characteristics, including intensity, amount, drop-size distribution, terminal fall velocity, wind speed and inclination.9 Rainfall kinetic energy in particular has been suggested to influence sediment transport10 as well as to act as an indicator of erosivity,11,12 and is used in soil erosion modelling.13 Rainfall intensity can be measured directly, but measurements of kinetic energy and raindrop sizes are, in most cases, unavailable; hence the empirical relationships between rain intensity and kinetic energy.14
Few studies have investigated contemporary rainfall erosivity in the KwaZulu-Natal mountains. Schulze1undertook a study of rainfall kinetic energy using two stations in the central Drakensberg; Cathedral Peak at 1854 m and Ntabamhlope Research Station at 1457 m a.s.l. More recently, in an investigation of rainfall erosivity in southern Africa, Seuffert et al.15 used one station in the central Drakensberg foothills as representative of the mountainous area. Given the paucity of existing data, the aim of the study reported here was to investigate storm erosivity in the summit area and in the foothills east of the escarpment. First, we analysed the characteristics of individual rainstorms. Second, rainfall intensity and kinetic energies of storm events were examined; and finally, rainfall frequency and the magnitude of storm erosivity were determined.
Study sites and data collection
Davis-MC Systems (D-MCS) automated tipping-bucket rain gauges were installed at five Drakensberg locations. These gauges have a 163 mm collection diameter and log totals every 5 min on a tipping resolution of 0.2 mm rainfall. Two sites are on the escarpment edge; one at the summit of Sani Pass (2850 m a.s.l.) in what is known as the southern Drakensberg, and another on the Sentinel Peak (3165 m) in the northern Drakensberg. Gauges were also installed below the escarpment at the Injisuthi Outpost (1920 m) and on the farm Glenisla (1060 m), both in the central Drakensberg, and in Royal Natal National Park (RNNP) (1392 m) in the north (Fig. 1). The two high-altitude stations are the first that attempt to record detailed and long-term rainfall data from the upper reaches of the catchments.
Rainfall at the top of Sani Pass was monitored from September 2001 until mid-April 2003. Some data were thereafter lost due to wind damage, but the logger ran again from early September 2003 to early January 2006, thus including a total of 1425 record-days. Monitoring on the summit of Sentinel Peak began in late November 2002 and data here are for 1201 days, from November 2002 to March 2006. At RNNP, rainfall records began in November 2001 and ended in January 2005 (1147 days). Data presented here for the Injisuthi Outpost are from October 2001 to January 2004 (828 days) and at Glenisla from October 2001 to April 2003 (528 days).
Data analysis and results
Stocking and Elwell16 classify a distinct erosive rainfall event as a storm when total rainfall exceeds 12.5 mm, maximum 5-minute intensity exceeds 25 mm h1 and the event is isolated by at least a rain-free two-hour period. Applying this definition, the data from the five gauge locations include 106 erosive storm events.
Storm characteristics
Of the 106 storm events, 49 storms were measured at the RNNP station. At Glenisla farm 23 storms were recorded, 14 at Injisuthi Outpost, and at Sani Pass and at Sentinel Peak 9 and 11 storms, respectively. The shortest erosive storm lasted 20 minutes and the longest 26 hours. These storms had a mean duration of 279 minutes (4 hours and 36 min) but the distribution is noticeably skewed (CV = 1.0), with 25% of the storms being shorter than 106 minutes (1 hour and 46 min) and 75% shorter than 335 minutes (5 hours and 36 min). Mean depth (total rainfall) of all individual storm events was 25.3 mm, with the lowest totalling 12.6 mm and the highest 72.0 mm. This distribution is also skewed (CV = 0.5), with 25% of all storms having a rainfall depth of between 12.6 and 15.7 mm, 75% less than 29.5 mm, and 90% of all storms a depth of less than 47.3 mm. There is a statistically significant (P < 0.001) positive correlation (R = 0.61) between storm depth and storm duration.
Given the expected seasonality of rainfall in the Drakensberg,4 monthly rainfall at each station was compared with monthly erosive rainfall (Fig. 2). At the RNNP and Glenisla stations, approximately 40% of the total rainfall measured originates from erosive rainfall events. The high-altitude stations of Sani Pass and Sentinel Peak measured the least rainfall from erosive events, at 8% and 12% of total rainfall, respectively. No erosive storms were recorded during the months of May, June, July and September (Fig. 2), even though collectively 907.4 mm of rainfall was measured at the sites during these months. Glenisla and Sentinel Peak each recorded one erosive event during August, and all other erosive events occurred from October to April, with the highest number logged during January.
Differences in the distribution and magnitude of monthly erosivity are evident from measurements during 2003 at the RNNP, Sentinel Peak and Injisuthi Outpost stations (Table 1). Although erosive rain was only recorded in summer, there were inter-station differences in the intra-annual distribution of erosive rainstorms. During the early and late summer months of 2003 (February, March and October) no erosive rainfall was recorded at the Sentinel, while at Injisuthi Outpost 30% and at RNNP 45% of total rainfall was erosive. From the 17 months of 5-minute rainfall data from December 2001 to April 2003 at Sani Pass, Glenisla, Injisuthi Outpost and RNNP (Table 1), an altitudinal difference is apparent in the amount of rainfall from erosive storms as a percentage of total rainfall. The lowest station, Glenisla, recorded 39% of its total rainfall from erosive events. At RNNP, 34% was erosive; while at Injisuthi Outpost 18% and at Sani Pass, the highest station, only 14% of total rainfall was generated by erosive events. The foremost difference between stations is that those at higher altitude (Injisuthi Outpost and Sani Pass) recorded no erosive rainfall during the early and late summer months (March, April and October) of 2002, while the lower altitude stations recorded substantial erosive rainstorms during the same period (Fig. 2).
Rainfall intensity
Five-minute rainfall intensity (I5) of erosive events measured at the different stations ranged from 26.4 to 144 mm h1 and 30-minute rainfall intensity (I30) ranged from 8.0 to 70.4 mm h1. The maximum rainfall intensity of 144 mm h1 was measured at the lowest station Glenisla (Table 2). At RNNP, 120 mm h1 was recorded, and at Injisuthi Outpost, Sani Pass and Sentinel Peak (the highest station) the maximum I5 values measured were 93.6, 79.2 and 69.6 mm h1, respectively (Table 2). Altitude appears to influence maximum 5-min intensities, but mean 5-min and 30-min rainfall intensities at the different locations for individual events show no appreciable differences (Table 2). There is a statistically significant, positive correlation between storm depth and maximum 5-min intensity (R = 0.25, P = 0.01) and storm depth and maximum 30-min intensity (R = 0.54, P < 0.001) but no statistically significant correlation between mean storm intensity and storm depth.
We also considered the occurrence of high-intensity storms; those exceeding an I5 of 50 mm h1.17 RNNP had 27 such events during the recording period, Injisuthi Outpost experienced only 7, and Glenisla 14. The high-altitude stations (Sani Pass and Sentinel Peak) had the fewest events, with 5 and 6 recorded, respectively.
Storm kinetic energies
Wischmeier and Smith18 used measurements of drop size and terminal velocity to derive a relationship between rainfall intensity and kinetic energy. The proposed relationship is a logarithmic function of the form
where the intensity R is in mm h1. Van Dijk et al.7 critically appraised the literature on the rainfall intensitykinetic energy (REK) relationship and, based on the average parameter values that were derived from the best available data, the general equation to predict storm kinetic energy content from rainfall intensity data is
where R is again rainfall intensity. Earlier work by Elwell and Stocking19 in Zimbabwe, however, shows that in subtropical climates the kinetic energy of rainfall (in J m2 mm1) is predicted by the equation
where the intensity I is in mm h1. This equation has also been adopted for use in the Soil Loss Estimation Model for Southern Africa (SLEMSA) and was applied by Schulze20 in a first assessment of the kinetic energy of rainfall in South Africa. For the purpose of a spatial study, and in order to allow for consistency with previous studies in southern Africa, the equation by Elwell and Stocking19 [Equation (3)] is used here to assess the 5-min incremental kinetic energy content. A uniform drop-size distribution is assumed in analysis of kinetic energy. Total storm kinetic energy (E) generated during each individual erosive storm event is calculated through the 5-min kinetic energy content, multiplied by the quantity of rain (mm) falling in that period, to derive the 5-min kinetic energy. Each of these values generated during the storm is then summed to give the total storm kinetic energy.
Maximum energy produced during any individual storm was 1640 J m2, recorded at RNNP; the storm with the lowest kinetic energy was also measured at this station (140 J m2). Mean kinetic energy of all erosive events was 490 J m2 with no large difference between stations (Table 2). An altitudinal difference is apparent with respect to cumulative energies on the overlapping period December 2001 to April 2003 (Table 1). Kinetic energies measured at the Glenisla and RNNP stations are 10 200 J m2 and 11 500 J m2, respectively. Lower kinetic energy totals were measured at the higher altitude stations of Injisuthi Outpost (4410 J m2) and lower again at the escarpment station Sani Pass (3560 J m2). Similarly, during 2003 at RNNP the annual kinetic energy generated by erosive events was 5020 J m2, with the corresponding values for Injisuthi Outpost and Sentinel Peak being 1660 J m2 and 710 J m2, respectively (Table 1). A strong, statistically significant correlation was found between storm kinetic energy and storm depth (R = 0.83; P < 0.001); however, there was no correlation between storm kinetic energy and storm duration.
Storm erosivity
Seuffert et al.15 developed an integrated rainfall erosivity index (REI) for assessing rainfall structure, runoff and erosion from several factors including rainfall quantity, energy, (dis)continuity, intensity and spatial pattern. Soil erosion can also be measured through process-based models such as the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP),21 where inter-rill erosion or detachment (Di) is modelled as a function of the effective rainfall intensity (Ie). The European Soil Erosion Model (EUROSEM)13 predicts soil detachment by raindrop impact (DR) as a function of total kinetic energy (KE). Erosivity can also be determined by the product (EI30) of the total kinetic energy (E) of the storm and its maximum 30-min intensity (I30), developed by Wischmeier and Smith.22 This equation has been used globally as part of the (Revised) Universal Soil Loss Equation, has been applied in southern Africa to asses the spatial distribution of erosivity,16,23,24 and reflects the combined potential of raindrop impact and turbulence created in overland flow. To be consistent with erosivity studies in southern Africa, the spatial distribution of erosivity in our work was determined by the value of EI30 for each individual storm.
Storm EI30 values vary considerably in the Drakensberg, with the maximum erosive power generated by a storm being 110 000 Jmmm2 h1 and a minimum erosivity of 1140 J mm m2 h1, both recorded at RNNP. Mean erosivity of storm events for all stations is 16 300 J mm m2 h1 and differences exist between stations regarding the mean storm erosivity generated during individual events (Table 2). As with kinetic energy, cumulative erosivity also differs between stations. Erosiviies measured at Glenisla and RNNP from December 2001 to April 2003 (Table 1) were 360 000 and 351 000 J mm m2 h1, respectively, but at the higher altitude stations of Injisuthi Outpost (125 000 J mm m2 h1) and Sani Pass (155 000 J mm m2 h1) values were lower than at the low-altitude stations. At RNNP the annual erosivity generated by erosive events was 152 000 J mm m2 h1 in 2003, but at Injisuthi Outpost (34 600 J mm m2 h1) and on the escarpment at Sentinel Peak (12 000 J mm m2 h1) the corresponding values were an order of magnitude lower. Storm erosivity was also investigated in relation to storm depth and duration. Similar to storm kinetic energy, there was a significant correlation (R = 0.72; P < 0.001) between storm erosivity and depth, but no correlation between erosivity and duration.
Erosive storm events across the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg vary considerably in duration as well as in depth, and the distribution of events is skewed with a bias towards shorter, shallower storms. Rainfall is expected to be highly seasonal4 and this pattern is also observed in the occurrence of erosive storms with none recorded during the winter months of May, June and July, and only two such events during August. There appears to be a clear contrast between the kinetic energy of orographic storms and those associated with drizzle.7 In South Africa, there is a strong correlation between high-intensity rainfall and thunderstorm activity; low-intensity rainfall is normally associated with frontal systems.20 In the Drakensberg, rainfall in winter displays much lower kinetic energy than in mid-summer;17 an apparent seasonality of erosive events should thus be related to the source of precipitation. The findings indicate that frontal rainfall during winter gives rise to non-erosive, low-intensity drizzle, whereas erosive events that are primarily a summer phenomenon are linked to thunderstorms.
Tyson et al.5 indicate that mean annual rainfall increases with altitude, and that the corresponding value for the top of the escarpment should be over 2000 mm. Schulze1 also defined a clear relationship between altitude and rainfall, and predicted mean annual rainfall exceeding 1800 mm and a January rainfall of 250 mm along the escarpment, but these estimates have been challenged.2,25 There is a significant linear relationship between mean annual rainfall and altitude below 2100 m a.s.l.,4 but whether the increase in rainfall with altitude extends up to the escarpment (above 2100 m a.s.l.) is uncertain. Rainfall totals measured at the different stations for the same period, as well as mean kinetic energies from individual storm events show no spatial difference. Depth of erosive storms as well as cumulative kinetic energy and erosivity do, however, depend on altitude. A high proportion of rain falls as erosive events at the lower altitude stations and only a correspondingly small percentage at the escarpment edge. The lower altitude stations record higher maximum intensities, cumulative kinetic energies and erosivities than those at higher altitude. The main difference can be attributed to lower altitude stations recording considerable erosive rains during the early and late summer, whereas at higher altitude no erosive events were recorded during that period.
Raindrop size distribution at a given intensity should decrease with altitude,7 although greater fall velocities associated with higher elevations could offset the effect on kinetic energy.26 In the central Drakensberg, Schulze1 reported a greater frequency of high intensity storms at Ntabamhlope (1457 m a.s.l) than at the more elevated Cathedral Peak (1854 m a.s.l). Ntabamhlope also showed higher annual kinetic energy at Cathedral Peak per unit of rainfall.1 Seuffert et al. (Fig. 8, ref. 15) suggest that in the Drakensberg the rainfall erosivity index decreases from east to west from the foothills to the escarpment. Similarly, our study found that a lower percentage of rain falls at higher altitude stations as erosive storms, and that the erosivity of rainfall decreases up the escarpment.
Erosive storm events across the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg vary in duration and depth, but tend to be short and shallow. Erosive rainfall is associated with thunderstorms and is highly seasonal, with few erosive storms occurring at the study sites during winter. Storms with higher rainfall totals tend to have higher maximum rainfall intensities, kinetic energies and erosivity. The proposed increase in rainfall with altitude in the Drakensberg1,5 is not apparent in our data that compare rainfall totals measured at different stations for the same period.
This study found that an increase in altitude in the Drakensberg is associated with reduced maximum rainfall intensity of erosive events. High-altitude stations recorded lower maximum 5-min rainfall intensities and fewer high intensity events than those at lower altitude, but mean kinetic energy produced during individual storms was similar throughout the area. Individual storm events at all altitudes in the Drakensberg therefore have the potential to detach soil, but at high altitude a lower percentage of rain falls as erosive storms, and the cumulative kinetic energy produced as well as total erosivity of rainfall is less on the escarpment than at lower altitudes. This conclusion compares well with earlier findings from two stations in the foothills1 and with the REI estimates by Seuffert et al.15 Altitudinal differences in cumulative kinetic energy and cumulative erosivity can be explained by the lack of erosive rainstorms during early and late summer at the escarpment, and significant erosive rains during this period at lower altitudes in the foothills.
The Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria supplied equipment and principal funding. The Govan Mbeki Research and Development Centre at the University of Fort Hare provided additional funding.
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Olympic Decathlete Ashton Eaton
From Bob Mathias to Bruce Jenner and Dan O'Brien to Bryan Clay, American decathletes have established a tradition of athletic excellence in the Olympic event that many experts feel produces the greatest all-around athlete in the world. In 2012, US Olympian Ashton Eaton will look to continue the trend of gold medal American decathletes as he competes with the world's best at the Summer Olympics in London. Eaton, 24, already owns the world record in both the decathlon and heptathlon events and is the favorite to win Olympic gold.
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Fast Facts About Ashton Eaton
Ashton Eaton was born in Portland, Oregon on January 21, 1988 to Roslyn Eaton and Terrance Wilson. Eaton's maternal grandfather, Jim Eaton, was a football player at Michigan State University.
A peerless athlete, Eaton is six feet and one inch tall and weighs 185 pounds. The London Games are his first Olympics, but he did claim the silver medal at the World Championships in Dageu, South Korea in 2001 and brought home the gold in the heptathlon at the Istanbul indoor meet earlier this year.
More than 9,000 people like Eaton on Facebook, and he has more than 11,000 followers to his Twitter account.
He May Already Be The World's Greatest Athlete
Not to slight US athlete Bryan Clay, the reigning Olympic decathlon champ who failed to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but Eaton may have claimed the title of world's greatest athlete by scoring a world record of 9,039 points at the 2012 US Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon in June.
The massive point total allowed Eaton to become just the second man to surpass the 9,000-point mark, joining Czechoslvakia's Roman Sebrle. Eaton also owns the world record in the heptathlon, a mark which he has set three times.
He Wanted to be A Ninja Turtle
Just two years after Ashton was born, Roslyn Eaton and Terrance Wilson separated. Through the years, Roslyn nurtured her son's love of sports and competition. Roslyn says Ashton had a non-sports hero when he was five years old.
"He wanted to be Donatello — he wanted to be a Ninja Turtle, the purple one," she said.
Nearly two decades later, Eaton and his mom are still incredibly close. He calls her immediately after every meet on the rare occasion that she can't attend the meet to watch Ashton perform.
He Was Raised Near Tracktown, USA
Eaton's interest in the Ninja Turtles led him to pursue taekwondo; he eventually attained a black belt. Eaton also participated in football, basketball, running, soccer and wrestling. Regardless of the sport, Eaton was competitive and excelled athletically.
Eventually, Roslyn moved Ashton to Bend, Oregon, which is not far from the hub of US Track & Field activity in Eugene, also known as Tracktown, USA. He eventually enrolled at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where his natural abilities were cultivated by the nation's best track coaches.
He Had Not Heard of the Decathlon Before 2006
Though Eaton won Oregon state championships in the 400 meters and the long jump in high school, he was not a prized recruit. As Eaton was choosing a college in the spring of 2006, high school coach Tate Metcalf suggested he choose a school which had a strong tradition in the decathlon, an event Eaton had not heard of prior to his senior year.
At Oregon, former US decathlete Dan Steele and Henry Marra helped shape Eaton into the gold medal-contending decathlete that he is today. Eaton developed a mastery of the 10 events that make up the decathlon: 100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 meters, 110 meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1500 meters.
He Quacks Like A Duck
While competing for the University of Oregon Ducks, Eaton became a five-time NCAA champion, winning the Bowerman Award in 2010 as the best student-athlete in American collegiate track.
In winning the NCAA heptathlon in 2010, Eaton broke the world record of former Olympic decathlon champion Dan O'Brien. Eaton also graduated from Oregon in 2010.
Bill Cosby Throws the Javelin Better Than He Does
Once an athlete rises to an elite level, they are often afforded the opportunity to meet celebrities, if they haven't already become one. A few weeks before the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Eaton was interviewed by comedian and television icon Bill Cosby, who was also an athlete in college.
During the humorous conversation with Cosby, Eaton revealed that the javelin was not his strongest event, describing his ability as 'terrible.' Cosby claimed to have thrown further than Eaton does while he was attending Temple University.
He Is A Nike Athlete
Nike has an established relationship with the Oregon Track Club, which has General, Elite and Masters level athletes, who are some of the country's best performers. As an Elite level performer for the Oregon Track Club, Eaton is a Nike athlete. If he can win the gold medal in London, Eaton will reap the benefits of countless other sponsorships and endorsement opportunities.
He Likes Junk Food and Video Games
For a world class athlete, Eaton readily makes known his love of certain foods and hobbies that are more often equated to a more sedentary lifestyle. He espouses his love for macaroni and cheese, Fettucini Alfredo, as well as expressing a definite affinity for video games and tech gadgets. Eaton mentions 'Call of Duty' and 'Halo' as his favorite video games.
He Is Engaged to Another Olympian
Eaton is engaged to Canadian Olympian Brianne Theisen, who won consecutive NCAA heptathlon titles for Oregon in 2009 and 2010. Eaton met Theisen while the athletes were enrolled at Oregon. Theisen also competes in the pentathlon and the 4×400 meter relay.


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Stephenson's work was selected by Antonioni to be included in his seminal film Blow-Up , of 1966, after he had recognised during a studio visit the effects of changing focus and scale. Most recently Stephenson's work has been exhibited at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea and the Baltic, Gateshead in 2006.
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Winter is finally over. The birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and the temperature is rising. It's once again time to start thinking about going to the greatest place on earth. No, not Disney World. The place I'm talking about is open twenty-four hours a day and doesn't cost a month's salary to visit. Yes, I'm talking about the beach.
There is nothing quite like visiting the beach. First, the smell. It's not a unique smell. Consider this — if you were riding down the highway with your family or friends and the car was suddenly filled with that very same odor, you would quickly open your window, gulp fresh air, and glare accusingly at every other person in the vehicle. Yet somehow, this same smell near the ocean is more pleasant than a bouquet of fresh flowers. We inhale deeply, smiling as we fill our lungs. We can't get enough. It's almost magical how, though the invigorating smell of the beach is so similar to the lewd stench of the car after a family trip to Florida, we fail to associate one with the other. This is part of the wonder of the beach.
Then there is the sand. Most of Maine's beaches have silky white sand. Absolutely beautiful. But has there ever been as adhesive a substance as beach sand? The stuff sticks to everything — skin, clothing, furniture. It especially likes creases and crevices. As I get older, beach sand keeps discovering new and exciting places to hide on me. I imagine by the time I'm eighty, I'll still be shaking out sand a week after visiting the beach.
When I think of my childhood, some of my best memories are from the beach. My grandparents had a cottage at Wells Beach. That is where I learned to tie my shoes. It's where I learned to play cribbage. It's where my brother and I had mud fights by the water's edge, which were only dangerous if the adults caught us. I spent many hours walking the beach, exploring the rocks and puddles and tiny sea creatures within. And the beach is where I discovered that a bologna and cheese sandwich made by my grandmother was the best sandwich I'd ever have in my life.
My family and I usually prefer going to the beach around late afternoon and early evening. It's less crowded, so the kids can run and play without kicking sand on someone who may wish to take out his anger on the innocent dad. We usually start going to the beach around April. It's like a shot of adrenaline after the long gray winter. One year it was very cold out, but that did not stop my oldest son — he went in the water wearing his snowsuit. I'm not sure if allowing that makes us bad parents, but if it does, it was my wife's fault. My son is a teenager now, in high school, and too cool to go to the beach with his family anymore. Sometimes we make him go, though, if for no other reason than to annoy him. It's what families do.
Some people don't care for the beach. That is understandable. The polar ice caps are warmer than Maine's ocean water in July. After a day at the beach, you'll track sand to your vehicle and all through your house, and just when you think you have it all cleaned up, you'll find a little more. You'll finally be rid of it all after approximately four months.
And then there are our Canadian neighbors who visit Maine's beaches every summer. What can be said about them except Speedos are not designed for seventy-year-old men.
The beach is still my favorite place, even with the sticky sand, the bone-numbing water, and the ill-fitting bathing suits. And really, after the winter we just had, I'd take seeing an elderly Canadian in a Speedo over shoveling a foot of snow anytime.
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Kratos is Getting His Own PS3 Controller
Sony Japan revealed a new DualShock 3 controller would release next year to tie into God of War: Ascension.
Kotaku discovered the news, and stated the golden-hued controller would arrive on March 14th in Japan. There is no mention of a possible release date in North America as of yet, but considering just how popular the God of War franchise is here in the U.S., it wouldn't be surprising to learn Sony has plans for all of us as well.
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'American Idiot's' Rebecca Naomi Jones on Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong and Singing in Her Underwear
Rebecca Naomi Jones is clocking many hours on Broadway in her underwear. In "American Idiot," the new rock musical inspired by the multi-platinum Green Day album of the same name, a skimpy costume is one of Jones's onstage challenges—reinterpreting songs from the all-male punk-pop band is another.
The 29-year-old native of New York City, last on Broadway with the 2008 musical "Passing Strange," is back with the intense hour-and-a-half rock opera now in previews at the St. James Theatre. As "Whatsername," a role she originated when "American Idiot" played at California's Berkeley Repertory Theatre last year, she sings hard-charging songs that include "21 Guns," originally sung by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong on the band's 2009 album "21st Century Breakdown."
The child of a white Jewish mother and a black father, she worked through Passover and her birthday this week while getting ready for the show's April 20 opening. She spoke with the Wall Street Journal on Friday afternoon while grabbing a wheatgrass shot to soothe her aching throat.


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"I wanted to create an experience-only based program where kids could get to feel what it's like to play in a rock band for a period of time in the summer," explained Peter Delaplane, 42, creator of The Rock Garden, a six-week summer music program for aspiring young rockers.
The Rock Garden, located at The Crefeld School in Chestnut Hill, invites young musicians with a minimum of one year's worth of experience. While not competitive in terms of pitting musicians against each other, the environment is certainly challenging. The staff is usually hands-on with the participants of the program, helping them improve their skills. "…It's the equivalent of living together; we have lunch together; we hang out…" said Peter.
Participants in The Rock Garden can expect to work towards being able to perform live shows, one of them on a stage like World Cafe Live. If that's not enough to whet appetites, each group of participants also records an EP (Extended Play, usually three to five songs on a CD) in a studio at the end of the session. Each student gets a copy.
Students also take field trips to places like the Martin Guitar Factory and WXPN Free At Noon (free afternoon concerts at World Cafe Live). "We like to see what's going on out there to inspire the kids," said Peter.
This summer Peter has 17 students enrolled in The Rock Garden, which is split into three sessions. Seven students were in Session 1, and Session 2 is currently in progress. New additions include a Guitar Boot Camp for beginners of all ages and Film and Video Production. "There's a lot of one-on-one instruction, definitely hands on," said Peter.
Many of the students who participate and leave The Rock Garden have gone on to play in bands and/or had their interest in making music renewed. For example, Patty Davis, whose daughter Alanna was a Rock Garden student, commented, "One of the most interesting outcomes of the camp is that Alanna is now asking to take piano lessons again."
The Rock Garden involves all the instrumentation needed for a rock band, although as one might expect, the guitar is usually the most popular choice of instrument. Some of the music Rock Garden students can expect to tackle includes the work of legends such as The Beatles, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones and The Who. Contemporary artists include the likes of John Mayer and Radiohead.
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A native of Germantown, Delaplane is also the founder of the classical guitar program at Germantown Friends School, which is also where he attended high school, and he is a guitar instructor at Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square. He attended Kenyon College in Ohio but earned his undergraduate degree in music from Temple University. Delaplane has a son, Seamus, who will be turning three in September and is already playing the drums.
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advice for getting a picky kid to eat
I know, i know. Let him starve. But what if he really will just starve and not eat? Or if i force him, he gags and throws up?
I'm asking for any helpful advice. Ds is 2.5 and basically only wants to eat chicken nuggets (won't even touch chicken if it's not a nugget. Won't even do homemade ones) and oatmeal with bananas or apples in it. That's about it. No rice, no soup. Nothing. Refuses everything. Once in awhile he will do plain bread. He does like dry cereal.
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Honestly, as long as he's eating something healthy, I wouldn't force the issue. Make one thing he enjoys at each meal, and the rest whatever you want to cook for your family. Toddlers go through picky phases - even normally adventurous eaters. Try to assess his diet on a weekly, rather than daily basis. Make sure he drinks plenty of water and buy the healthiest versions of things you know he'll eat.
If you feel like he's not able to function or missing vital nutrition, smoothies are a good way to sneak in lots of good food. Make him a strawberry, banana, or blueberry "milkshake" in the morning with chia, flaxseed meal, yogurt, coconut oil, spinach, etc. - use enough fruit and raw honey to make it a treat without making it too sweet.
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Barring any medical issues that would require feeding therapy...
It is your job to offer healthy food at regular meal and snack times. You decide the what and the when. It is your child's job to decide whether and how much to eat. As the PP said, make sure there is one thing he'll eat offered, and otherwise, let it go.
DD1 does have to have one no-thank-you bite of each food at dinner but we didn't start that till she could really understand.
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Re: advice for getting a picky kid to eat
How long has he been eating this way? Will he really starve himself if you will not feed him these foods? Does he gag/vomit or run and hide/scream if you offer or try to get him to even taste other foods? Does he have other feeding/oral problems like eating/licking none food items, gagging when drinking/eating preferred foods or even excessive snoring? Do you have other behavioral concerns?
If he has been eating like this for a long time and the answer to these other questions is yes I would get in to talk to his pediatrician. It is possible he either has some sort of swallow issue (possibly tonsils or something else) or it could be an oral/feeding issue. If it is a new behavior I would keep a food journal and just keep offering other foods in the hopes that he gets past it. If you go with offering new foods he doesn't need to eat them, at first just kissing will do. Next time taking a small lick, then a bite. Hopefully he will decide the food is not offensive. Also make sure he isn't getting full on milk or juices. He should only be drinking water and maybe a single glass of milk a day (not at meal time).
Yes many toddlers go through a picky phase and most will eat when they are hungry, but some have more going on. Only eating chicken nuggets and oatmeal with apples is not healthy, nor is starving unless he is given a preferred food.
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Re: advice for getting a picky kid to eat
In the meantime, I would try to make sure he is getting some Vit C and Vit A somehow. Also calcium if he isn't drinking milk. If you can get some free range eggs in him (the yolks have Vit A) with a little cheese (calcium), and some orange juice (Vit C), that would balance things out a bit. The chicken is giving him lots of protein, and the oatmeal provides iron and fiber and b vitamins, and the apples and bananas have some vitamins and fiber (just both are low in Vit A and C). You could try making orange juice pops if he won't drink OJ. They are super yummy. Also look for a type of chicken nugget that has some flax oil added - its a good source of Omega 3s. They are dinosaur shaped but I forget the name! Green smoothies are great for picky kids. Since he like bananas, try blending OJ with banana and a little spinach wiht some ice cubes. You can't taste the spinach, but you will see it, so maybe serve in a colored straw cup, like those take and toss ones to "hide" the green if that is an issue. Can you tell I have experience in sneaky nutrition?
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Re: advice for getting a picky kid to eat
It's been going on a couple weeks now. The dr said maybe post nasal drip and a lingering cold from a few weeks ago. He is sneezing an little. IDK. but that's another issue right?
I probably should mention, he's allergic to dairy, egg whites and peanuts. He hasn't been tested since he was one, and he hasn't had any eggs or nut products so IDK how bad a reaction it will be. He will be tested again when he turns 3, until then the pedi said to avoid those things.
as for the dino nuggets, is it this one? http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/st...0052&langId=-1
that's the one he's been eating
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I've spent 4 years in feeding therapy. Here is my 2 cents..
First--Google Cough Variant Asthma. DS used to cough til he puked, mostly at night. He never wheezed or showed classic asthma symptoms. Pulmicort and Flonase helped a ton for him. He had lots of mucous due to the undiagnosed asthma.
Talk to your ped about reflux too. Esp with so many allergies, he may be refluxing. It is a vicious cycle--puke, acid in throat (and sometimes up in sinuses), more mucous, more coughing, more puking, more acid, etc.
Feeding issues get really bad when there is puking. It causes oral aversion. You have to get to the bottom of the puking before you will make progress on the eating.
Food averse kids WILL starve themselves. As a cycle of not eating continues, they get to the point that they are used to eating almost nothing, so they don't feel as hungry. Some kids will eventually eat. DS is happiest when his stomach is empty.
At the table...get yourself a divided plate. Put 3 foods on it...
1) A favorite food
2) A neutral food
3) A new food you are working on.
One food should be a protein, one should be a fruit/veggie, and one a starch.
We are supposed to set a timer for 20 minutes. We keep track and are allowed to prompt DS to eat 10 times, and after 10 times, we are to leave him alone. After 20 minutes, he can get up, even if he hasn't eaten anything. The key is to stay positive. Don't engage in a power struggle because you can't win. Forcing kids to eat may make progress in the short term, but long term, it is detrimental.
We've also done sticker charts for bites. It didn't work for us, but that doesn't mean it won't work for you. Make a chart with 15 boxes, and kiddo gets a sticker for each bite. When all the boxes are full, he gets to get down.
One book that I really like is the Food Chaining book. It explains how to get kids from a small number of foods to accept a wider variety of foods. DS will now put most anything in his mouth and try it. It really helped us.
A friend recommended Feed Me Love Me, which really helped her daughter. I haven't read it yet, but she loves it.
With all those allergies, have they scoped him for EOE or celiac?
I would definitely talk to your ped. There are feeding therapists out there that help with picky eaters if it is just a case of picky eating. But until you get the vomitting stopped, you probably won't make much progress.
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I'm not sure about asthma. DD has asthma, likely cough variant. Hers is a persistant cough, which results in vomitting. DS is like a gagging cough like he choked on his spit and he vomits. but once he starts, he keeps on gagging.
I have considered reflux. I'm going to call his pedi again tomorrow. I took him on Friday and gave him Benadryll (to clear up post nasal drip if that's the porblem) since then. He was fine fri, sat, sun nights. THen yest he threw up in the morning and day and again today.
I will check out those books. DS doesn't really understand reward charts yet, but that may an idea to tuck away for later if this continues.
eta: no, he hasn't been tested for celiac or EOE. I'm going to talk to his Dr about the reflux thing. I did suspect a wheat intolerance when he was EBF, but now he eats cereal and once in a blue moon some bread with no issues
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Corrine76 what is your email? I want to email you some pics of what I have been doing with my picky 14 month old to get her to eat
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No one ever seems to blog much during Christmas week, and I'm no exception. Just wanted to drop a quick post linking out to a couple of other things I've been working on.
The biggest news is that I'm contributing to Serious Eats. I'm writing a weekly column for the next several weeks on basic cocktail techniques. Right now, I'm in the middle of a three-part series on party planning. Parts 1 and 2 are up, along with a recipe for a batched Negroni. Part 3 should be up next week. I still can't believe people pay me to write about what I love.
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text: Cape Town - Jacques Kallis, who on Wednesday became only the fourth cricketer in the world to score over 13 000 Test runs, will be remembered as one of the greatest cricketers in history, said his captain Graeme Smith. "Jacques put South African cricket on the map in a big way and he'll go down as an all-time great," said Smith. Going into the first of two Tests against New Zealand, in Cape Town, Kallis was 20 runs short and faced 36 balls to reach the milestone, smashing Doug Bracewell past gully for four.Video: SA v New Zealand: 1st Test, day 1, highlightsFull scorecardGallery: Proteas v Black Caps Only India's Sachin Tendulkar (15 645), Ricky Ponting of Australia (13 378) and Rahul Dravid, also of India (13 288), have reached the 13 000-run mark, although Kallis reached it quickest of the four. "We're all really happy he is finally getting the credit he deserves. I'm running out of things to say about him as he's such an incredible player," said Smith. "I don't think many people understand just how immense an achievement it is to score 13 000 Test runs." At the age of 37, Kallis has always dismissed comments about any impending retirement and could go on to finish second behind Tendulkar, requiring another 339 runs to surpass Ponting. "I've certainly come a long way since those first Test matches I played and I was fortunate to reach my 13 000 runs it in front of my home crowd," Kallis said. "In my opinion, Newlands is the best ground in the world and the public have been fantastic to me over the years. That ovation meant a lot to me and it will live with me forever." Kallis said it suited his personality to remain under the radar internationally and had never played the game for recognition. "I was able to carry on doing what I enjoy doing best and I don't take anything for granted," he said. "I make sure I put in the hard work behind the scenes and I am still motivated to win games. I haven't thought about retirement but I do think about the management of my game, like possibly missing some one-day games to prolong my Test career. "I'm batting as well as ever in my career so hopefully I can carry on with that form for a little while longer and win matches for whatever team I play in." Kallis said if he felt he was not playing well or keeping out some talented youngster, he would definitely pack it in. Playing in his 159th Test, the Capetonian has scored 44 Test centuries and 57 half-centuries with a batting average of 56.94. His highest score was 224 runs against Sri Lanka, at Newlands, a year ago. Having bagged 282 Test wickets, Kallis is ranked the top Test all-rounder in the world and is sixth in the Test batting rankings. HAVE YOUR SAY: Is Jacques Kallis the greatest ever cricketer to have played the game? If not, what does he still need to achieve to warrant that mantle? Send your thoughts to Sport24.


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A new report by an MU policy analyst warns about the consequences of a ballot measure passed by Missouri voters last November.
It all has to do with the Affordable Care Act. You might recall that under that law, every state is required to have an up-and-running health-insurance exchange by October this year. The exchange is basically an online marketplace where eligible individuals and small business owners can compare and purchase federally subsidized health insurance with competitive rates.
But, Missouri voters may recall reading the following proposition in their ballots back in November:
"Shall Missouri Law be amended to prohibit the Governor or any state agency, from establishing or operating state-based health insurance exchanges unless authorized by a vote of the people or by the legislature?"
That was Proposition E. A little more than sixty percent of Missouri voters said "yes" to the proposition. The new law prohibited the Missouri government from submitting a plan for the state-based exchange by the Nov. 16 deadline. Despite that, Missouri is still required to have a health exchange up and running by October, with everyone getting full coverage by 2014.
This leaves the state with two options: create a state-federal partnership exchange, or let the federal government step in and create the exchange. Missouri is unlikely to meet the Feb. 15 deadline to file a blueprint of a state-federal partnership exchange, and policy analysts say it looks likely that the federal government will have to create an exchange for Missouri for the next year.
But there's a less discussed part of Proposition E, or Senate Bill 464 -- the ballot measure as it is known in the Missouri General Assembly.
"[The bill] restricted state employees and agencies from participating and cooperating with the federal exchange," said Bridget Kevin-Myers, a research assistant professor at MU's Institute of Public Policy. What's more, if a state employee dares to cooperate with the feds on the health exchange, Senate Bill 464 makes it legal for a taxpayer or a lawmaker to file suit.
"I think there are there some state workers that are going to be nervous," said Ryan Barker, director of health policy at Missouri Foundation for Health. But Barker also pointed out another caveat in Senate Bill 464, which stated that if federal law states that a health exchange requires assistance from state employees, the employees can eschew a possible lawsuit.
Still, Kevin-Myers says that caveat isn't enough to protect Missouri's state workers. "A court may ultimately decide that the state employee was required under federal law to cooperate, but it would take litigation to reach that ruling," she said. "I am not sure it is enough to make state employees or officials comfortable cooperating."
And if an agency or department gets sued, they must pay the legal fees out of their own budget. Kevin-Myers has published a report highlighting how Proposition E could create what she called a "chilling effect" for employees at Missouri's Department of Insurance and MO HealthNet, the state's Medicaid program.
"The state has many statutes and regulations that control what's in your plan," she said. "Whether it's coverage, whether it's how long a claim can be out before it's paid, adjudication issues, and the fact that every plan that's offered in Missouri has to be approved by the director of insurance."
With the prohibition to cooperate in place, Missouri's director of insurance can't technically approve any insurance plans that the federal exchange might introduce in the state.
Stan Hudson is associate director at the Center for Health Policy at MU. He remembers taking three days helping his grandmother enroll in a new Medicare drug expansion program. He said enrolling a state health exchange program and trying to buy your own insurance for the first time could be just as complicated.
"And when you create a policy that doesn't allow any state officials to talk about [the exchange] or do anything about it, then you're creating this big hole in the information system," Hudson said. "There might be a lot of Missourians who don't quite get what they need."
Kevin-Myers says she hopes her report can help increase dialogue on where to go next with the state's health exchange.
"I hope that the legislatures and the public will look at this issue and make an informed choice of what to do next regarding an insurance exchange," she said. "Whether to pass a legislation to allow cooperation whether to start our own exchange..."
Kevin-Myers submitted the report to the Missouri legislature last week. Republican State Sen. Rob Schaaf sponsored Proposition E last year. He told the Columbia Missourian that he has no plans to file any legislations to allow cooperation between state employees and the federal government.


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text: Vincent, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Thanks for your kind answer Patrick, > > Obviously i mentionned that number because i read it elsewhere. I know, I have seen worse. > Note that so far i didn't find any desperate vendor. For sure quadrics > doesn't look desperate to me, they aren't even selling old cards anymore > though they must have still thousands of them lying at home from returned > upgraded networks. Finding second hand highend cards seems to be very seldom. Tip: desperate companies are usually young and spend a lot of VC money on marketing. Quadrics does not fit, I am afraid, they have been around too long :-) Furthermore, selling old hardware is not very cost effective for a vendor: compatibility troubles with newer machines, require to support old hardware in new drivers and new middlewares, tap in inventory reserved for replacement parts, etc. > First of all i'm interested in how quick i can get 4-64 bytes from remote > memory. So not from some kind of network card cache, as myrinet doesn't > have some megabytes on chip, but just a few tens of kilobytes. The memory > has to come therefore from the remote nodes main memory, at a random adress > in the main memory. No streaming at all happens. that 400 ns extra that the > TLB gives is definitely not the problem i guess. Myrinet has 2 MB of SRAM in standard, used by firmware code, data and buffers. What you want to do basically is a Get. In practice, the origin of the Get will send a small packet with a virtual address or a RDMA handle and an offset, the NIC on the target side converts it in a physical address, fetches the data by DMA and sends it back to the origin side. > All latencies i see quoted at all hardware sites, it is very hard to figure > for me out whether that's a latency that is supported by paper, or whether > it's a practical latency i can take into account as a programmer with all > software layers overhead when each cpu is 100% running a program. No, it's not likely to fit your usage. Vendors quote MPI latency on pingpong. That's pretty much the cost of sending/receiving an MPI message from user space to user space. Often, this is also with only 2 nodes, optimal conditions and everybody holding their breath. You want RMA Get. The latency for a Get is larger than for a MPI send. For 64 bytes, it is basically the MPI latency for 0 bytes (for the Get request) + the latency for 64 bytes (for the reply). Assuming that you don't Get all over the host memory, the virtual/physical translation will be hot in the target NIC so the translation cost will be very small. You want less than 3us per Get of 64 Bytes ? I don't know if even Quadrics can do it. The good news is that you can pipeline it very well. So it may cost more than 3 us for one Get, but you may complete a Get every 0.5 us if you post a bunch of them. > Secondly, but as i'm not a cluster expert i don't know how to avoid that, > it's of course a big LOSS in sequential speed if my program each few > instructions must check whether there is some MPI message to get handled. If you want perfect overlap and if you are ready to go as low level as possible, one-sided communication are for you (no host CPU involved on the target side). All low level communication interfaces support one-sided communications (not yet released for MX on Myrinet, but GM has it). > However if i show up with 2 pc's and 2 network cards, then it sure matters > when i lose a lot of speed. > > Obviously for embarassingly parallel software this is no issue, but usually > for embarrassingly parallel software all you need is gigabit ethernet. If you can and know how to overlap, latency is irrelevant. It's hard to do on complex irregular codes, but you can usually do it if you can use one-sided communications. Don't put your communications in the critical path. Post them early and post many of them concurrently, pipelining will hide the latency of the critical path. That's why desperate vendors use pipelined pingpong to get better curves. > There is so many MPI applications which are not exactly embarassingly > parallel from which you see that a decent programmer single cpu would be > doing that 20 times faster. Or to quote someone who has been doing such Most of the times, you go parallel to go bigger, not faster. If the problem size fits in one node, don't use a cluster, use a multi-processor nodes. You will have more bangs for your bucks. > So it is very interesting for us all and me especially to understand how > *fast* you can get that memory under full load of all the logical cpu's. Using one-sided communications, there is little difference if the CPUs are loaded or not on the target side. > Third each pc has 2 cheapo k7 processors which are a lot slower than opterons. IO bus is more important for the communications part. I don't know of cheapo k7 machines with a decent PCI bus. However, for 64 bytes, even a cheesy PCI will not slow things down that much. > Dolphin can deliver 'bytes' they say at their homepage in 3.3 us at MPX > mainboards and claim somewhere a paper latency of 1.x us. How long can you hold your breath ? > What is the achieved read speed to remote memory myrinet gets at 64 bits / > 66Mhz in software, so ready to use 4-64 bytes for applications? I have no idea, I am not even sure that I have a 64 bits/66 Mhz machine around to measure it. With GM, I would say at least 10 us. Certainely more. Patrick -- Patrick Geoffray Myricom, Inc. http://www.myri.com


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This week's restaurants: El Perico Ranchero, 1401 E. Foothill Blvd. (at Grove), Upland, and El Cerrito, 7201 Archibald Ave. (at Base Line), Rancho Cucamonga.
Yes, we're riding the El this week and we're nowhere near Chicago. El Perico Ranchero was pointed out to me by one of you readers recently when I wrote about Mexican restaurants in Upland. I'd overlooked it. So I rectified that omission by dining there for lunch on Tuesday.
It's mid-range Mexican with table service and some seafood on the menu. I had the chile verde ($9.95). The plate itself was hot, which always makes me suspicious that the plate is prepared in advance and stuck in the oven. The chile verde, though, was very good. And there was a lot of it. I don't know who can eat all that; I could barely finish half. I took the rest home and got a snack out of half of it Wednesday night. I had the other quarter Friday night. That's a lunch that keeps on giving.
On Thursday I hit El Cerrito after a visit to 4-Color Fantasies, the comic shop across the street. Entering El Cerrito was disconcerting because it looks like half a restaurant. All there was to see was a long, narrow space with booths along each wall. No employees or even kitchen in sight. I sat myself and saw the kitchen is tucked away through a doorway on the left. The lone employee I saw during the meal was pretty busy.
I had three soft tacos with chicken, beef and steak ($2.25 each). They were big too and loaded with cheese. I should have asked if they were Mexican style (small) or American style (big). Oh well. They were fine for what they were. The menu was fairly extensive, just like El Perico's, but I wasn't in an ambitious mood, so this is a feebler than usual account, sorry.
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text: Bill, As in my first query, I did not try to say that the CPU clock is something I want to compare. I just picked up current state-of-the-art Intel and Athlon processors and tried to asnwer the question which one is faster for my particular application. I got the code compiled with the same options on all the machines I have an access and run the code. I used the exection time of the code run on 4 year old Origin 2k 195 Mhz (this is the CPU unit of old SGI Origin supercomputer in Oxford that has been just dismantled) as 1 unit. Then I got the following: 1. Origin 2000, 195 MHz ::: 1 2. HPUX 9000/785 ::: 2 (1 year old) 3. P-III 1.3 GHz, 512k SC ::: 3 4. Athlons (MP 1200, 1900, 2100) ::: 3 4. Xeon 2.2 GHz, 512k SC ::: 4.5 My experience with this code tells that it samples a good portion of real numerical stuff such as FFT, blas, lapack including the most intensive eigenvalue-eigenvector type of problems. I always talk to my colleagues that use these machines and my estimates are pretty much the same as their, Of course, we all do not do any graphics processing or data mining. I tried to find rationale in SPEC results, but sometimes it is very difficult since most of benchmarks were done under Windows not Linux. Thus, I am not trying to argue with the statement that CPU clock is not the only factor responsible effective number crunching. And I absolutely agree with you that everyone has to find a rationale based on his/her own needs. Ivan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Bill Broadley wrote: > > What I found is that Xeon 2.2 GHz is 1.5 times faster! than any athlons I > > tested. But the most strange thing is all these athlons: MP 1200, MP 1900, > > MP 2100 give approximately the same timing within 5%. This is completely > > above my comprehension. > > A few benchmarking rules/tips: > > #1 You can't use Mhz to compare across architectures. > #2 Within architectures often performance does not scale linearly with clock > speed. > #3 Any comparable cpu's can be shown to be faster OR slower then another > if you pick the right benchmark. > #4 Because a given benchmark shows X is faster than Y, that does NOT > mean X will be faster then Y for your application. > #5 Bottlenecks outside the cpu often do not scale AT ALL with clock speed. > So if it's memory bandwidth a 2.0 Ghz can be 0% faster then a 1.5 Ghz > cpu. > > The golden rule of benchmarking: > #1 Use the application that justifies the purchase of the machine to > compare price/performance. Only then can you be assured of getting > the most performance for your money. > > > Did someone encounter such a strange pattern and what can be a source of > > this behavior? > > For things with certain memory access patterns P4's enjoy a significant > advantage in memory bandwidth. On the other hand the athlon enjoys > a performance lead on many other types of scientific codes. > > Take specfp2000, a collection of 14 scientific applications (NOT > microbenchmarks). The 2.0 Ghz P4 gets 669, the MP2000 gets 642. So > they are very similar right? Nope, the reality is that at some parts > of the specfp2000 suite the p4 is 1.64 times faster then the Athlon. > At other benchmarks the Athlon is 1.56 times faster then the P4. > > Which of the 14 parts of the speccpu 2000 suite is your application? > Hard to see, see the golden rule #1. > > -- > Bill Broadley > Mathematics/Institute of Theoretical Dynamics > UC Davis > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ivan I. Oleynik E-mail : oleynik at chuma.cas.usf.edu Department of Physics University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue Tel : (813) 974-8186 Tampa, Florida 33620-5700 Fax : (813) 974-5813 ------------------------------------------------------------------------


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