Wednesday November 16, 2005

I end my coverage with a few photos from the conference, the week-end HPC Consortium meeting, and from the social events held before and during the conference.

One final comment about the stay in Seattle. I was hugely impressed by both our customers' dedication to spending their entire weekends with Sun at our HPC Consortium meeting and by the energy and commitment of all of the Sun attendees. By the time Monday came and the conference started, many of us were already exhausted by the pace.

Dieter an Mey from RWTH Aachen presenting code optimization results

Sun code optimization guru, Ruud van de Paas

An international Sun crew: Jonas Edberg (Sweden), Len Wisniewski (US), and Harvey Richardson (Scotland)

Sun employees Hanxi Chen and Rich Brueckner (Mr. Sun Booth Guy, among other roles!)

Gotta have some Geek. HPCS Photonics demo in the booth--cool stuff!

Terry Dontje, Senior Staff Engineer on Sun's ClusterTools project (MPI)

Downtown Seattle from the Space Needle, location of the joint Sun-CISCO-Engenio party

Sun got some excellent press coverage of our Supercomputing '05 presence in the Nov 16th, Seattle Times. A nice photo on the front page of the business section and some ink in the accompanying article about the conference. Our own Rich Bruekner is quoted.

The photo is below. The article is here.