Stephen Dolan, a student at Trinity College Dublin, has written an article about internal link connectedness in Wikipedia. It’s worth a read anyway, but I was particularly tickled by a throwaway link he includes at the end.
Stephen’s software needs to run a quadratic-time algorithm on the two million or so Wikipedia entries, so he uses lots of servers in parallel to crank through all the work. And he includes a graph of CPU temperature on one of the servers he’s using. It’s pretty clear which 4-day period his job was running on…
If you have any other interesting examples of system-monitoring output, let us know in the comments, or drop us an email on sysmonblog@googlemail.com.
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