Cafe Figaro, Bleecker and McDougal, Greenwich Village 1966

I find it REALLY interesting to read that the New York City Area High Performance Computing Group is meeting monthly at my old hangout, the Cafe Figaro in Greenwich Village (see here).

It's not surprising because the NYU computer center (where I used to work in the 60's) is just down the street.

Of course, the Figaro has gone thru a number of transformations since I was there (practically every night from 1963-68). But the discord just thinking about a group of HPC geeks meeting in the back room is amusing. Back then the most serious discussions I remember being involved in were about painting (are Ad Reinhardt's paintings art?), music (who's this Dylan guy?), and poetry (what's LeRoi Jones up to now?). Now, how to optimize MPI code over a Microwulf cluster seems to the be topic of the day. How times have changed, I guess.