Brian Bulkowski

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Up-to-date Happenings

New email and hosting

For the last three weeks, I've had aweful experiences with dropped and bounced email to bulkowski.org . After some research, I've moved my hosting over to HostGator, a reseller of ThePlanet servers. So far, I'm happy with the service.

Work - Citrusleaf!

Citrusleaf is a house afire! We're an extraordinary clustered, high availability datastore. We've released our 1.0 private beta, with full documentation, interfaces, and support. Citrusleaf is tuned to storing and fetching vast quantities of data, very quickly, with low hardware cost and low maintance cost. No cache layer management, no SQL.

Music
Rosin Coven will be playing Friday, 7/10 at Cafe du Nord in San Francsico with Eggplant Casino. It's a late night show, with us hitting the stage around 11 (sorry, all you bart riders).
I am not looking for consulting work at the moment, but I do know a few good people looking for work (including one excellent test engineer).

This layer of plush We have finalized the cover and blurbs for Ann Simon's book of poetry, This Layer of Plush. We're waiting for a final quote from the publisher, and two details regarding the inside text, then we go to press!

Donate cycles to Folding!

Please do this. Go to their site and download their screensaver.

The Folding project is important, explaining a vital process that can only be explained through a massive distributed computer. The Stanford Folding Project attempts to solve the problem of protien folding, which determines how a DNA sequence can code for a certain protein. Once we understand how this works, we can modify sequences to create new protiens, instead of dropping sequences from one species to another.

An interesting note is Folding's use of the graphics processors, and how they toast general purpose processors. More an issue of how the folding problem is similar to graphics than a statement about graphics processors.

If you're running Seti@Home - switch to folding. Solve our real problems here, first.