Torsten Hoefler’s blog

A couple of days ago was one of those nights where I went back from the parties to my (slightly remote) hotel. I was passing OccupySeattle every day … but this time it was full of police. The funniest part was that the cops told me to leave while I was just walking by … [...]

I really need to put a sign on my desk that says: “Don’t ever fly Lufthansa again, they will rip you off for sure.”

Well, I did it again, I booked a Lufthansa flight to save a university that invited me about 1.000 dollars. Well well, now I regret it painfully (again). It’s incredible how bad [...]

Well, it was funny, I had a lot of air travel during the last weeks and nothing went wrong. Somewhat suspicious! And yes, on the *last* flight, the horrible happened.

I was supposed to fly from Austin to Indianapolis on Thu 5pm and arrive at 10:30pm. Looked like a great flight when I was booking it. [...]

Here is a nice video-interview of Fabrizio during HotI this year: http://insidehpc.com/2011/08/26/22573/. Enjoy!

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 [...]

I have been at the INRIA-Illinois Joint Lab workshop in Grenoble this week. It was a great workshop and I had amazing interactions with some French. I think we will form some interesting collaborations!
On the fun side, I ran up La Bastille in Grenoble! It was really nice, perfect weather (very light rain and warm)! [...]

I was at the Taste of Chicago festival (yeah, I skipped the Taste of Champaign and went to the real one ). Thanks Dries! It was pretty nice and I had some good food! There were also some strange people attracted by the crowd (as usual). The banner of the weirdo-family says:
“Men should: Lead [...]

Right after the conference in Tucson, I had to go the the SC11/SC12 committee meeting in Seattle. It didn’t seem useful to fly back to Champaign over the weekend (I could have spent 20 hours in planes and 6 hours at home, probably sleeping anyway. So I just stayed in Seattle over the weekend. I [...]

This year’s ICS has been in Tucson, AZ. I have served on the program committee and also contributed two papers (one with Marc Snir and the other one with the folks from IU) to the conference. I also co-chaired a workshop with Kamil Iskra. So I had tons of reasons to go there — I [...]

I visited ETH Zurich at the end of last month. Zurich is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and definitely one of (if not the) most expensive city . Public transit is just a dream, I believe one really doesn’t need a car around the city (I know multiple people who [...]