Posted in HPC, MPI, Science on July 29th, 2011 No Comments »
Rich Brueckner from insideHPC interviews the Co-Chairs of HotI’11 (Fabrizio Petrini, Patrick Geoffray, and I) in a podcast. Citing one of the chairs “Listen to it, it’s fun! Three horrible accents but a great program!” .
http://insidehpc.com/2011/07/28/podcast-hot-interconnects-conference-looks-to-the-future-of-networks/
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Ok, so I guess I just felt what 40 degrees celsius and 80% humidity feel like . It’s amazing here. There is a heat-wave in the US and Illinois is one of the hottest states. But I’m still man enough to survive without AC at home (ceiling fans work wonder, even at 35 degrees [...]
Posted in Travel on July 8th, 2011 No Comments »
My other planned summer vacation fell through (of course after I booked my ticket to Europe ). Yes, I was planning a vacation (believe it or not). Vacation means that I may only read email once a day . Anyway, so I invited a friend and we decided to do the tourist thing [...]
Posted in US on July 8th, 2011 No Comments »
Huh, I came back home from a longer trip and, instead of dying, my citrus plant (not even sure what it is, either orange or grapefruit) was blooming! One step further towards the master gardener .
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Jeff Squyres, “the MPI guy” at Cisco, invited me to a guest post about MPI 2.2 (a long while ago ). I finally got to do it and here is the result: http://blogs.cisco.com/performance/mpi-2-2%E2%80%99s-scalable-process-topologies-and-topology-mapping-in-practice/.
Thanks Jeff!