Posted in Travel on December 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Yeah, I tried to save money for the lab and booked the cheapest flight from Indianapolis to San Francisco to attend the nth MPI Forum. It was only $120, but really really stupid. The flight consisted of two legs, Indianapolis ti Philadelphia (YES PHL! East coast *hmpf*) and then Philadelphia to San Francisco (>6 hrs). [...]
Posted in Travel on December 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Oh man, I would have never believed it. People who know me that I’d never do that voluntarily – but I’ve been at the Apple headquarters to get a very special present for a very special person. I also visited my good friend Doug who now works at Apple . Here are some proof-pictures [...]
Posted in MPI on December 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Today was the first official reading of my Nonblocking Collective Operation proposal for MPI-3. It was a bit to short but it went really good. There were lots of discussions about clarifying the text, but the semantics are mainly fixed now. It looks like everything can be fixed before the next meeting. A picture made [...]