Torsten Hoefler’s blog

Yeah, many of you know that I am convinced that US food is just bad (gene manipulation, hormones, yadayadayada), and eating out is even worse. I found my own way to get around it … I cook my lunches myself and freeze them. I tried a new recipe – Japanese style – and thought I [...]

… US DOE answers to the Japanese Earth Simulator (from 2002): “If we allow the Japanese to deploy our strategy uncontested, we will surely lose the lead in other computational science disciplines.”
It’s really worth a read .

Yeah, isn’t that cool … now everybody can browse Bloomington’s streets online. Some links below:
1) Maxwell Terrace, my current home, the red car in the picture is mine
2) I was living here, here, here and here last year .
3) view on my lab (okok, many trees )
4) brian park

Yeah, I’m still running even though the temperature dropped to -19 degree Celsius tonight. But it’s ok, I can dress up. I ran yesterday and today noon-ish. It was about -11 degree Celsius and so pretty ok. It sucks at the beginning but gets even warm after a while. I ran for slightly more than [...]

I just came back form the MPI Forum meeting. It’s kind of cool … I would have never thought that I would ever drive with my own car to an MPI Forum meeting in Chicago – I just did! The meeting was pretty interesting even though most of the discussions were focuses on bugfixing the [...]

Hah, I thought I had a plan … this time I tried to avoid the two chaos airports Chicago and Newark. So I took a United flight through Washington. But I did not know that I should not take the *last* flight. So it happend what had to happen (yes, I can’t travel without problems, [...]