Yesterday, I had an off-site meeting at a country club formerly owned by IBM. It’s now called the Casperkill Country Club, and is located near IBM Poughkeepsie and the East Fishkill plant (birthplace of the G5 (shut up, Colin)). I suppose IBMers get some kind of discount, but no one seemed to know. The place was very nice, and we lucked out on the weather, but I spent most of the day inside listening to technical talks and eating free hoity-toity food. Some of the talks kinda made me want to sneak out the back and play golf (which I don’t especially like, so that says something), but others were genuinely interesting.
Since high-performance computing is what I am doing this summer, I found this article on approaches to supercomputing to be somewhat interesting. It also gives a nod to Project BlueGene, so I felt obliged to supply the link.
Quote du jour:
Comment: “I can see the tustle between Microsoft and the South African slave traders [heating] up already…”
Response: “Yes, civil wars are always the bloodiest.”
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