Rich Brueckner from insideHPC interviews the Co-Chairs of HotI’11 (Fabrizio Petrini, Patrick Geoffray, and I) in a podcast. Citing one of the chairs “Listen to it, it’s fun! Three horrible accents but a great program!” :-).
Jul292011
Jul212011
Heatwave … wow!
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 celsius inside!).
Jul82011
Visiting Germany (yes, visiting)
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 in Germany, actually, more around the area where my parents live (Saxony). Obviously, I lived in this area for quite a while but it was very nice to actually explore it! So the tour was: Bautzen, Goerlitz, Munich (I had to apply for a new US visa there … and my iPad was stolen …), Koenigsstein, and Dresden! It was all very beautiful! Not much to say besides the commented pictures below :-).
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- Bautzen — imagine of somebody asks you to translate *that* 🙂
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- The famous Reichenturm
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- The city hall
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- The watertower
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- Bautzen is surrounded by a beautiful old city wall!
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- Watertower again, medieval ambient 🙂
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- Goerlitz
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- … there are a lot of those towers.
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- and churches 🙂
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- We also walked to Poland (standing in it here) — this is how Germany looks from Poland, isn’t it shiny?
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- Nice medieval streets everywhere 🙂
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- Munich — the English Garden is right next to the US consulate!
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- The Chinese Tower
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- Rathaus
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- Das Isartoor 🙂
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- Dresden! We walked in 🙂
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- Zwinger
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- Koenigsstein, we decided to walk up (like in the good old days!). It’s a beautiful walk and much shorter than the tourist office claims (25 instead of 40 minutes).
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- Would you attack that thing? Nobody ever tried :-).
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- This is the first entrance (defense circle)
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- … the second …
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- … the third …
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- … and the fourth, finally in there!
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- Nice view, definitely.
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- Cute towers 🙂
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- And strange ones too!
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- Der “Lustraum” – if you know what I mean ;-).
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- Some leftover cannons 🙂
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- I couldn’t take it home though.
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- The city of Koenigsstein is somewhat small. Do you see our car here?
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- A true fortress!
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- The 2nd deepest well in Europe!
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- Da
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- The famous “Elbradweg”, must be very nice …
Jul82011
My self-grown citrus thingy blooms!
Huh, I came back home from a longer trip and, instead of dying, my citrus plant (not even sure what it is, either orange or grapefruit) was blooming! One step further towards the master gardener :-).
Jul22011
MPI-2.2 topologies @Cisco’s HPCN blog!
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!