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I am back home from SC ’07, my fifth Supercomputing conference. I saw some really impressive new technology from market leaders old and new. I heard remarkable claims and forecasts from analysts, pundits, and marketing flacks alike. I learned a lot, and contributed what I could.
Yet at this conference, full of the [...]

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I am at the Supercomputing conference in Reno Nevada today and tomorrow.
If you’re here and want to meet up, please call my cell — 510-326-1761.
Much of the time I’ll be in the booth of our partner AMD (thanks guys!) showing off the latest version of the Digipede Network running on Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) [...]

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I found this old draft from the end of the Supercomputing conference (almost two weeks ago).  Sorry to be slow, but here you go.
I’m NOT an old-time supercomputer guy, and I therefore have NOT been to every SCxy show (as the Supercomputing show refers to its various annual incarnations).  Indeed, my first show was SC03, in Phoenix, [...]

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The annual Supercomputing conference (SC06) is in Tampa, Florida next week.  Actually, it starts this weekend and runs for a ridiculous seven days, but Dan and I will be there Monday night through Thursday afternoon — which will be plenty.  SC is a “must attend” show in the high performance computing / grid computing / [...]

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