Torsten Hoefler’s blog

I did the Cluster Challenge again this year. Last year was fun, but this year was better – we won! Here’s the story:
We started Saturday morning in Bloomington. The travel went pretty
smooth and Guido picked us up at the airport in Austin. We went directly
to the Conference location. The time before that was very stressful
because [...]

I actually came up with this a while back. I think now, after going through this process, I can say this:
“You don’t do research to get a Ph.D., you get a Ph.D. to do research.”
Also a variant with “shouldn’t” would be appropriate .
Or in German:
“Man forscht nicht um zu promovieren, sondern man promoviert um [...]

no worries, nobody has to . But since March 6th 2008, when the “Kultusministerkonferenz” (the federal secretary of education meeting) decided that American Ph.D.s from universities listed as Ph.D. granting research institutions in the Carnegie List (Indiana University is of course on that list!) can use the academic title “Dr.” in Germany without limitations. [...]

Timo (my visiting student from Germany) and me are pretty much living in the UITS data-center (Wrubel building) these days. It’s a rather nice serverroom and we’re having our cluster directly next to the Data Capacitor and Big Red.
It was nice the last days, we stayed overnight during the weekend (more than 16 hours a [...]