Torsten Hoefler’s blog

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. [...]

Yeah, I just defended my Ph.D. – you can call me doc now . It was relatively uncomplicated and nothing really changed by now. I’ll do the same work as a postdoc in Prof. Lumsdaine’s lab. But it’s good to be done and to open my horizon to new interesting research!

Wow, LBL and Bereley is really cool. It’s basically at a large mountain. You can see San Francisco really well and the nature is great. I guess it’s really expensive . My talk went very good and the listeners were very interested (we had many discussions).
Here the view from the Lab to San Francisco:

I’m [...]

Interesting graph, nothing else …. no terror on there btw.

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been at the HPCC07 conference on Houston. I gave a talk and chaired a session there … and was hanging out a lot (of course ). I’ll just post some commented pictures as I know that you’re all tired of reading:

I lived in the Texas Medical [...]

Yes, I finally made it. The drive from Bruyeres (Paris) to Liege was hell because I decided to avoid the freeway and take the national roads. But I did not know that the French and Belgium signs only indicate the next very small village, and my map had a very very low resolution. So I [...]

Yes, it is as cryptic as it sounds . I finally (after a couple of months) finished to merge Christian’s MPI_Bcast() patch with my LibNBC patch to enable the usage of non-blocking collectives in HPL. The performance has to be investigated in more detail, LibNBC will probably provide benefits if lookahead is used. But [...]