[Aspuru-Guzik group list] The Lamenting Scientist

Dear Fellow Scientists, Coworkers and Valued Friends, There was once a very smart man. He did science from sun up to sun down. Calculations, theories, DFT, QMC, protein folding and magic. All these things he saved on his computer locked away deep in the basement at the heart of the scientific computing labs. He worked so meticulous and diligently one would have sworn he was in a monastery of science. However this fellow, smart as he was, was not a genius. Though almost, his intelligence was tragically flawed. Coherence time of 1.5 picoseconds, correlation length: 3.2 arbitrary units, 3.4 kcals per mole. He solved this equation and made headway on that one. But sadly he worked alone. Alone, deep in the basement at the heart of the labs. Soon his thesis would be complete and the solution to world hunger, global violence, genocide and AIDS would be at hand. Soon be alas, it is never soon enough. The day of reckoning came for him to unveil his creation. He felt the incubation had finally complete and he stood up and looked at all the data pouring across his triple monitor setup. He let out a twisted laugh for he knew he had completed it. "Finally," he said to himself. He walked to the phone and called his peers and colleagues to see what he had done. They entered and as he ushered them in he reached for the light switch. The lights had been off for nearly four years now. His peers were already glancing at the figures he had running across the screen. He flipped the switch but no lights came on. Instead the animations died and the monitors turned off. The glow of the power button faded and the hum of the computer fans twirlled to a stop. There was just the faint smell of burning transitors and his painful cries. So backup your data. -- You can backup your data by going to our server, Granada, at IP 128.103.54.125. It is an FTP server so you can use your favorite FTP software to connect. In the HD_a1 I made folders for everyone who already has a login. If you need to be added go to the server via the internet and login using: (admin, qc4ever) and add yourself or just send me an email and I'll do it. There are more detailed instruction to come. Stay tuned. Great Science, James Whitfield -- James D Whitfield Aspuru-Guzik Group Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University tel: 301-520-7847