Cayley Data Centers

Cayley Routing

A huge mess (via)

The Chronicle has a new article about the "Cayley Data Centers" that Hakim Weatherspoon's student Ji-Yong Shin has been working on with Gün Sirer and Darko Kirovski (MSR).  These wireless data centers use cylindrical racks connected by 60GHz transceivers to directly route network traffic between nodes.  In their paper, which won best paper at the upcoming ANCS, they discuss how wireless data centers can achieve "higher fault tolerance, improved latency, lower power consumption, and easier maintenance" than data centers with wires running everywhere.

Those nice clean cylinders seem far more comforting than the mess of wires you sometimes get in big data centers!

Bespoke knits for 3D characters

The Cornell Daily Sun has an article today on stitch meshes, a technique created by Prof. Cem Yuksel (former Cornell postdoc now at Utah), Jonathan M. Kaldor (former Cornell PhD student now at Facebook), and Cornell professors Doug James and Steve Marschner.  The examples on the stitch meshes project page are pretty slick—who knows why the article doesn't include any of them.

If you have any naked 3D characters in need of some stylish threads, now you know who to talk to.  For now, the examples appear to be limited to single-color knits, but we all know the gold standard for complex knitted textiles: Cliff Huxtable's sweaters.

Cornell Scientists ‘Knit’ Clothes for Animated 3-D Characters

$\LaTeX$ support

SIG|RED now supports $\LaTeX$ using the pretty cool JavaScript package MathJax and the method for Blogger described here. What's great about this method over others is that it uses CSS and web fonts, instead of Flash or embedded images rendered on demand.  This means that cutting and pasting rendered text is more likely to work.

You can enter math mode like you would in a normal document:

Maths between dollars is inline: $\sum_{k=1}^n k = \frac{n(n+1)}{2}$.

Maths between slash-square-brackets is display: \[\sum_{k=1}^n k = \frac{n(n+1)}{2}\]

First Post

Welcome to the new Computer Science blog at Cornell!  This blog is maintained by PhD students in the Computer Science department, and will serve articles about research at Cornell and in CS in general as well as graduate life in the department.  Bear with us as we get things going, but we hope you will enjoy it!