You are the coolest!

We are almost to 18" here in western Bloomington from this storm...and it's still snowing.

SNOW REPORTS LISTED BY AMOUNT 2011-02-21

INCHES LOCATION ST COUNTY TIME
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19.00 MADISON MN LAC QUI PARLE 0936 AM
17.00 NW EDEN PRAIRIE MN HENNEPIN 1030 PM
16.70 BLOOMINGTON MN HENNEPIN 0203 PM
16.30 SSW MONTEVIDEO MN CHIPPEWA 0700 AM
16.00 BLOOMINGTON MN HENNEPIN 0713 AM
15.00 3 SSW BURNSVILLE MN DAKOTA 0845 AM
15.00 SPRINGFIELD MN BROWN 0840 AM
14.00 MENOMONIE WI DUNN 1210 PM
14.00 MENOMONIE WI DUNN 1101 AM
14.00 WOODBURY MN WASHINGTON 0800 AM
13.50 MAPLEWOOD MN RAMSEY 1210 PM
13.30 MENOMONIE WI DUNN 0729 AM
13.30 ST PAUL MN RAMSEY 0610 AM
HIGHLAND PARK AREA OF ST PAUL
13.00 GRANITE FALLS MN CHIPPEWA 1013 AM
13.00 RICHFIELD MN HENNEPIN 1000 AM
12.90 3 WNW RICE MN STEARNS 0700 AM
12.70 EDINA MN HENNEPIN 0203 PM
12.50 MINNEAPOLIS MN HENNEPIN 1210 PM
MEASURED AT MINNEAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT.
12.50 ENE ST PAUL MN RAMSEY 0530 AM
12.40 ROBERTS WI ST. CROIX 0800 AM
12.30 5 SW ST PAUL MN RAMSEY 0845 AM
12.30 MINNEAPOLIS MN HENNEPIN 0600 AM
STORM TOTAL MEASURED AT THE MINNEAPOLIS/ST
PAUL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
12.00 INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MN DAKOTA 0803 AM
12.00 LAKE ELMO MN WASHINGTON 0800 AM
12.00 3 N BLOOMER WI CHIPPEWA 0730 AM
12.00 BALDWIN WI ST. CROIX 0700 AM
12.00 CREDIT RIVER MN SCOTT 0553 AM
11.70 CHANHASSEN MN CARVER 1210 PM
MEASURED AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
11.60 JORDAN MN SCOTT 0710 AM
11.50 2 W PRIOR LAKE MN SCOTT 0800 AM
11.50 MILROY MN REDWOOD 0700 AM
11.20 CHANHASSEN MN CARVER 0600 AM
STORM TOTAL MEASURED AT THE NWS OFFICE.
11.00 MORGAN MN REDWOOD 0702 AM
11.00 RED WING MN GOODHUE 0701 AM
10.60 MINNETONKA MN HENNEPIN 0803 AM
10.50 WOODBURY MN WASHINGTON 0805 AM
10.50 ELK MOUND WI DUNN 0600 AM
10.30 COON RAPIDS MN ANOKA 0529 AM
10.20 MINNETONKA MN HENNEPIN 0539 AM
10.00 MADELIA MN WATONWAN 1245 PM
10.00 BROWNTON MN MCLEOD 1210 PM
10.00 COMFREY MN BROWN 1210 PM
10.00 MANKATO MN BLUE EARTH 1013 AM
10.00 NW GILMAN MN BENTON 0828 AM
10.00 REDWOOD FALLS MN REDWOOD 0805 AM
10.00 ISANTI MN ISANTI 0626 AM
10.00 HASTINGS MN DAKOTA 0600 AM
10.00 OSCEOLA WI POLK 0600 AM
9.70 WACONIA MN CARVER 0803 AM
9.70 NORTH MANKATO MN NICOLLET 0700 AM
9.60 BLAINE MN ANOKA 1100 AM
9.00 HUTCHINSON MN MCLEOD 1145 AM
9.00 GLENWOOD MN POPE 0815 AM
9.00 BARRON WI BARRON 0728 AM
9.00 3 ENE MONTGOMERY MN RICE 0700 AM
9.00 LONSDALE MN RICE 0600 AM
8.60 NEW HOPE MN HENNEPIN 0658 AM
8.60 7 S HILLMAN MN MORRISON 0653 AM
8.60 9 NNE BIRD ISLAND MN RENVILLE 0630 AM
8.50 RUSH CITY MN CHISAGO 0815 AM
8.10 BOWLUS MN MORRISON 0829 AM
8.00 CLAYTON WI POLK 1101 AM
8.00 3 SE NEW ULM MN BROWN 0800 AM
8.00 OWATONNA MN STEELE 0800 AM
8.00 2 S ST FRANCIS MN ANOKA 0731 AM
8.00 DURAND WI PEPIN 0730 AM
8.00 MILACA MN MILLE LACS 0730 AM
8.00 RICE LAKE WI BARRON 0725 AM
8.00 FARIBAULT MN RICE 0700 AM
8.00 ALBANY MN STEARNS 0700 AM
8.00 SAUK RAPIDS MN BENTON 0613 AM
8.00 ANDOVER MN ANOKA 0600 AM
8.00 LITCHFIELD MN MEEKER 0600 AM
8.00 CARLOS MN DOUGLAS 0552 AM
7.60 RICE MN BENTON 0700 AM
7.50 MONTICELLO MN WRIGHT 1100 AM
7.50 1 NNW COLD SPRING MN STEARNS 0600 AM
7.50 FOREST LAKE MN WASHINGTON 0554 AM
7.20 JIM FALLS WI CHIPPEWA 0610 AM
7.10 ST CLOUD MN STEARNS 1210 PM
MEASURED AT THE PRISON.

Drat ! That power outage fried one of my 3.4ghz P4's. I thought it was just the video, but I have tried 2 separate video cards and it does not even boot to the bios. With any luck the HD is still good, so I may be able to resurrect it in another machine.

Cheers

I will work on this one for a bit and see. Maybe this is an omen I should upgrade to something made in the last two years. I will let you know.

Thanks

Cheers

Congrats on the new card. I'll be interested to hear how it does.

I'll probably be asking your advice on crunching with ATI next month. My husband's netbook bit the dust, and we ordered an HP Pavilion dm1z to replace it. The dm1z has the new AMD Fusion Zacate chip -- a dual-core CPU and an 80-core GPU on one die -- all for 18 W TDP. It won't be fast, but it's supposed to be a surprisingly capable little machine. My husband and I will share it, as I need an AMD Fusion testbed for work. The Zacate chip can take the latest Catalyst driver, so I think it should be able to do GPU crunching -- we'll see!

I keep reading that ATI cards actually are better at crunching than Nvidia cards. Maybe fewer BOINC projects have ATI applications because OpenCL code is harder to write than CUDA.

The new machine isn't scheduled to arrive until about Mar. 25 -- long wait but maybe good timing as the 25th is my husband's birthday!