Saturday, June 9, 2007

My first blog

This is my first blog. From a long time, I was thinking of starting a blog, but putting off. May be I am lazy or not interested sub-consciously, I am not sure.
My blog's title is Physics, Computers and Programming. I choose this title for couple of reasons. First, I am doing my PhD in Physics. To be specific, my work is on theoretical calculations of properties of nanomaterials. And to be productive in theoretical physics, these days one needs to be proficient in programming. Also I am good at things related to computers: assembling, OS installation, programming..... I spend lot of time programming (now mainly in Fortran 90). I also used to waste my time installing all the major linux distros. Now I cut down that and settled with Suse. I also install linux for my friends. In the last one week I installed linux for two of my friends and installed Solaris 10(this became my new favorite) on my desktop. Plus I had 1+years work experience as a C/assembly programmer (but the title was DSP Engineer). As a matter of fact, when I first met my PhD adviser, I knew very little of Physics.
For this blog I am thinking of writing about things which come up in scientific computation. I won't be writing on interesting stuff in Physics; my knowledge in Physics is still deficient. I may blog about numerical techniques, Fortran 90/95(I hardly use C now), MPI-2,experiences with Linux and Solaris installations, and anything which interests me.

5 comments:

Ravi Kiran said...

this looks more like a cover letter, dude. and what has os installation got to do with scientific computation?

Unknown said...

hey zig... welcome man..
me interested in knowing about your transition..

put up some of the interesting topics u encountered.. it will be good food for thought for me :)

Bharat said...

RKiran, A couple of blogs will make things clear for you. In emuzed, we got everything set for us by sys-admins. Here we do everything for ourselves. I maintain an opteron cluster for my Professor and there is a need for OS installation too. Also installation includes additional things like configuring your computer for your tasks...

Bharat said...

hi pilli,

I will do that. But I need time for those things, because I have to be extra careful to avoid mistakes in the posts

Ravi said...
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