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I’m back at work, stalking the halls of IBM Research with my coffee in-hand and iPod in-ears. For the next seven months, I’ll be researching various supercomputer-related topics, and hopefully working on some of the code that’ll actually make it into BlueGene/L. We’re hoping to churn out a few papers, but the only thing I really need to get done by the end of the year is my M.Eng. thesis. This general surplus of time is probably why I keep leaving near-psychotic comments on Colin’s blog. Aside from publications, I tend to gauge the success of my summers according to the quantity of free corporate-branded booty I manage to snag. Thus far, I’ve gotten a pen, a frisbee, and a folding chair with a little cooler pouch underneath; all in IBM blue with “IBM Research” emblazoned on them. I am a corporate whore. And how!

Last weekend was nice, because I went to Rob’s place in Greenwich, CT to visit him and Yong-Hwa. We went to a concert on the town green, next to the harbor. I listened to some symphony and some opera and played with some of the kids in our entourage. There was a moment, under the warm blue sky, when I realized that it was a gorgeous night, I was well-fed and unstressed, surrounded by friends and loving families, and listening to live music by the ocean. Alas, I couldn’t find the pause button in time…

I woke up at 3 AM on Sunday morning. I gave my alarm clock the finger, because it seemed like the thing to do at the time. But I dragged my ass out of bed anyway: I had to be at Columbia University in New York City by 8 AM. Why, in the name of all that is kind and decent, couldn’t they have built that damn school a little closer to Somers? Ivy league schools these days, I tell ya; no foresight. So, I hopped on a train and made my way south in time for JSSPP ‘04, a workshop on job scheduling that is run annually by, in part, my MIT thesis advisor, Larry Rudolph. My mentor, Ramendra Sahoo, and my manager, Jos

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