Hello from Portland...

I'm here in lovely Portland, Oregon for the Supercomputing Conference (SC|09).

Tutorials on topics like CUDA, Cloud Computing, parallel programming, and high performance filesystems were conducted yesterday and continue into today. Tonight the exhibit floor opens with exciting new things like Fermi from NVIDIA, SGI's new systems, a variety of "green" solutions, NetApp's 10GbE offering, and more.

Former Vice-President (and "Inventor of the Internet" ;-) ) Al Gore is speaking on Thursday morning about “Computing for a Changing World,” and will present initiatives related to Sustainability, Bio-Computing and the 3D Internet.

It should be a great conference. I look forward to sharing interesting tidbits I learn right here!

P.S. Thanks to my friend and former colleague, Claude Baudoin, for including a mention of this little blog in his company's newsletter: The KIT -- Knowledge and Information Technology. Go ahead, subscribe to it!