• Nice morning walk by Columbia River, now time for #sc09 #
• Is anyone else with a phone running #Android having problems getting onto the #sc09 wifi ? Associates OK but DHCP fails. #
• Re: Android DHCP issues at #sc09: looks like IPv4 DHCP is taking a long time, same issue on laptop now. IPv6 comes up fine. #
• Thanks for the tip on the umbrella @flexrex and @marchamilton – but it seemed to take your booth folks by surprise 😉 #
• RT @GetUp: http://pic.gd/9e10a4 GetUp volunteers taking our message directly to the decision makers #GetUp please RT #
• right, almost time to head off to #sc09 exhibitors party at Union Station, sadly 2 of our party arrived too late to register! 🙁 #
• RT @HPC_Guru: Nov Top500: Jaguar at ORNL dethrones Roadrunner for #1 spot. China enters Top 5 with Tianhe-1 #SC09 #HPC http://bit.ly/27PfTl #
• RT @HPC_Guru: #Top500 highlights: 427 out of 500 are Quad-core processor systems #HPC #SC09 http://bit.ly/3EA51G #
• RT @sijoe #sc09 : my talk at Minnesota Supercomputer Insitute's booth on Tuesday 3-3:30pm http://scalability.org/?p=1946 #hpc #
• hatching a plot for a possible Torque (queuing system) devs meetup on Tuesday night at #sc09 #
• RT @HPC_Guru Cray Dethrones IBM In Supercomputing #SC09 http://bit.ly/2osKd #hpc #ibm #cray #
• Top500.org presentations will be 5:30pm-7:30pm Tuesday evening at #sc09 #
• RIP Edward Woodward – star of Breaker Morant, Callan and The Wicker Man. http://bit.ly/4ge9ty #
• The traditional #sc09 list of clear-text passwords captured by the #SCinet people is up! http://bit.ly/3tKATc #security #
• Hmm, the Top500 website is down saying "Unable to connect to database server", looks like MySQL has died! #sc09 #
• Top500 website back up again – didn't realise they used #drupal before. #sc09 #
• So #SCinet has 400 Gigabits of bandwidth for #sc09 this year, not bad! Wonder how much the entirety of Australia has ? #
• ultraviolet finally launched at #sc09 RT @insideHPC #SGI finally announces make-or-break HPC platform http://bit.ly/28zTkp #
• Nice to see the UK Campaign for Real Ale @HuntsCAMRA) take an interest in #sc09 – always knew beer was a vital part of #hpc! #
• Looks like the Arista booth opposite us is going to have a barrista for the #sc09 opening reception tonight! 🙂 #
• VPAC booth at #sc09 is 353 (next to HPC Advisory Council) we have Cadbury Caramel Koalas flown in from #Australia. 😉 #
• Seems to be at least one digital SLR mounted up on the walls at #sc09, presumably for a time-lapse. Anyone know details? #
• mumble mumble still no sign of our posters by our Australian students for the #sc09 gala opening, booth looking bare! 🙁 #
• RT @adriana872 Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware http://bit.ly/F35Is Makes you wanna throw in the towel… #
• RT @jsquyres: Be sure to say hello at the Cisco booth; get a Cisco t-shirt and watch some Open MPI talks http://bit.ly/3ghGdq #SC09 #
• RT @mustali: flashing the #N900 was fast and easy on #ubuntu.. http://bit.ly/F0OIF #
• RT @huwlynes: Oh joy. A creationist has decided to come and play in the comments to a post on my blog from 2004. http://bit.ly/SFR4N #
• Congrats to all, was grt! RT @insideHPC: Beowulf Bash 2009: Success! http://insidehpc.com/2009/11/17/beowulf-bash-2009-success/ #
• 😉 RT @brockpalen: Sc09 bag includes a microsoft plane, mine crashed a few times #sc09 OT #
• RT @HPC_Guru someone forget to tell #SC09 Keynote Justin Rattner not to repeat Micheal Dell's mistake at SC08? Keynotes are NOT commercials! #
• V.busy + wifi problems hence lack of tweets #
• RT @rimuhosting: Last call to pick up $100 worth of VPS hosting credits. Visit http://tinyurl.com/twittercredits for more info! #
• RT @774melbourne: Total Fire Ban tomorrow: NW, NE and Central regions, includes Ballarat, Lilydale, Lorne and Dandenong. #
• At Open-MPI community meeting – Jeff wants feedback so if you've got comments please come! #sc09 #
• Coverity do nightly reports on Open-MPI for free! #sc09 #ompi #
• #OMPI 1.3.4 will be last release on 1.3 branch #sc09 #
• #OMPI 1.3.4 will be first version with native #microsoft windows support (not that I'm interested) #sc09 #
• orte_report_launch_progress – progress meter for launching large jobs in #OMPI 1.3.x #sc09 #
• #OMPI 1.3.2 and greater has ABI compatibility #sc09 #
• #OMPI ABI compatibility in 1.3.x from 1.3.2 onwards (just to be clearer) #sc09 #
• Lots of BTL improvements in #OMPI 1.3, including TCP wire up and private network rules #sc09 #
• #OMPI checksum PML to detect memory corruption! #sc09 #
• Better adaptive algorithms for multi-rail interconnect support #sc09 #OMPI #
• fault tolerance – coordinated/uncoordinated checkpoint/restart, supports BLCR and self, handles network migration #OMPI #sc09 #
• #ompi versioning system, even minor numbers = "super stable" (1.2, 1.4), odd numbers = feature releases (1.3, 1.5) #sc09 #
• possible #ompi 1.5 features – better management of parameters, sysadmin locking of settings, validity checking (very hard!) #sc09 #
• possible #ompi 1.5 features – better system + network topology awareness, more shmem improvements, knem kerenel module support #sc09 #
• possible #ompi 1.5 features – output multiplexing, "screen-like" features, #mellanox collective op offloading to NIC #sc09 #
• possible #ompi 1.5 features – "who is talking to whom over what" – affirmative confirmation of using best interconnect #sc09 #
• #MPI 2.2 books are available at cost from HLRS booth #2245 for $25 – 647 pages (4c per page)! #sc09 #hpc #
• #ompi ABI stability is from 1.3.2 through to 1.4.x and will try for 1.5 (no guarantee there) and will depend on MPI-3 #sc09 #
• RT @Yeraze: hah.. Dilbert has an #sc09 Comic.. http://bit.ly/w5j0p #
• Discussion of ABI compat for apps between different MPI stacks (e.g. MPICH2/#OMPI) – suggested as topic for #MPI forum this arvo #
• RT @lwnnet Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages http://bit.ly/2cfkF #linux #
• At HPC Advisory Council initiative session. #sc09 #
• Fermi = Tesla 20 series, also announced direct GPU<->IB CPU-less copies with Mellanox #sc09 #
• LS-Dyna 3 vehicle collision gets up to 10% performance improvement with CPU affinity #sc09 #
• RT @AARNet: AARNet will be launching a book on the 20 Years of the Internet in Australia on 26 November. Media briefing at 10am. #
• So #Nokia has a press release out yesterday saying the #n900 is available, but Amazon + the flagship stores don't agree 🙁 #
• [related to ARCS data services ?] RT @AARNet News: AARNet takes large files to the cloud http://is.gd/4YGM4 #
• In the main hall for the #sc09 keynote by Al Gore, up at 5:45am for this, must be mad! 😉 #
• RT @bdogg64: welcome to another episode of "Dude, where's my phone?" starring the Nokia N900 #
• Free goodies at the #VPAC booth at #sc09 – no sales pitch (we're not selling anything!) – #353 🙂 #
• So that's it, SC over for another year, next year is New Orleans! See you there.. 😉 #sc09 #sc10 #
• At LAX in the Qantas lounge on way back from #sc09, just bumped into Joe Cox from Apple in Melbourne. 😉 #
• Two police wandered past led by a Qantas club person, wonder if that's related to the smoking warning earlier.. #lax #
• Looks like I'm heading back to a cool Melbourne after time in cool Portland for #sc09, phew! #

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