Torsten Hoefler’s blog

Just arrived at IU, after being abstinent for 5 months. There came some random facts to my mid that I want to share. I like:

there is lot’s of stuff to do here (e.g., public recitals at Jacobs School of Music, Theatre, Festivals like the Chinese New Year on Sat., Events at the International Center, Movie [...]

Yes, even the extreme temperatures or the really strange weather can not distract me from running . It was pretty much impossible to run on the streets or the sidewalks as they were really slippery. But running the good old clear creek trail was great!

The weather got better (snow melted and turned Bton into [...]

Hmm, I made it. It was not easy though. I was stuck for 6 hours at the Chicago Airport because all flights to Indy have been cancelled. Anyway, I made it! It took me only 24 hours to travel here, and I went out for a nice 45 minute run at 11pm in -18° C [...]

I’m leaving tomorrow for the states again. The CHiC cluster project at TU Chemnitz that I have been involved in has been finished so far. We spent 2.64 Mio EUR (+ 1.5 Mio for the room construction) and got a 538 Node Dual Opteron (Dual Core, 2152 cores) system with a full bisectional bandwidth InfiniBand [...]

Yes, I went back to do some relaxation cooking . I cooked “Blueberry orange chicken” with a friend, and I think we had lots of fun.
1. Grated orange peel and pressed oranges:

2. Cooking it with honey and Blueberries:

The end result:

So, the CHiC Symposium and the KiCC workshop are over. I’ve been involved in the core organization of both and they stressed me a lot. But I would say they’ve both been a success (especially the KiCC workshop seems to gain more and more attention from all over Germany).
The funniest part was a simulation video [...]

Hui, I got my US visa today. That was really fast – I applied on Friday in Berlin and found my passport this morning in the mail. And the visa is even longer valid than my new passport is . My only criticism is that they destroyed my passport by stapling the I-20 *through* [...]

Yes – back in Germany. It was funny to cross the border after one month. The first thing I did was to accelerate to 200 km/h (125 mph) on the autobahn . I like the German autobahn, it makes me feel home and driving produces enough adrenaline to save the rollercoaster. Anyway, some random [...]