Torsten Hoefler’s blog

Another WOW from TSA. So I was on my usual travel from San Jose back home. As usual, I refused to go through the millimeter wave detection scanner (also known as “cancer machine”). While being searched and patted down, I saw a full flight crew walking through the metal detector instead of the empty (!!!) [...]

ETH also announced it in English and German.
Even the hpc-ch blog and Inside-IT.ch reported on it.

The ETH Board has appointed the following individuals as professors: Torsten Hoefler [...], currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA, as Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Computational Science. Torsten Hoefler is internationally regarded as one [...]

It’s just nice when you login to your machine and see something like:

11:50:20 up 919 days, 19:21, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.10, 0.08
[Mon Aug 29 11:50:20] htor@benten:~

One can make some conclusions:

919 days no power outage (the server is hanging off a normal outlet)
there were numerous network outages [...]

HotI was again a huge success this year! Intel’s facilities were very professional and video recording was just amazing (they had a full camera crew of 5 people including one producer on site). I enjoyed it a lot! And I’ll do one more year of TPC Co-Chair in 2012.
In the meantime, there was also another [...]

So consider using it! It’s great! Even insideHPC says so: MPI 2.2’s Scalable Process Topologies.

More press coverage: http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-08-03/silicon_valley_symposium_heats_up_discussion_of_high_performance_interconnects.html

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 [...]

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!

I’m wondering if I should put it as a printed poster in my living room .

Yeah, I cooked more seaweed soup … it’s awesome. Try: broccoli, tuna, carrots, lettuce, seaweed, pepper and soy sauce and you’ll get: