Sunday June 24, 2007

Dresden from my hotel room

The trip to Dresden took longer than expected due to a missed connection in Frankfurt. In the end, I took a six-hour train ride from Frankfurt through Leipzig and then on to Dresden. While in the end it was a longer trip, I judge it a better one as I quite enjoyed the scenery and the more leisurely pace.

Train scenery. Excellent clouds!

Today (Sunday) we held a full day of training for a group of Sun's field technical people here at the Westin Bellevue hotel. We covered a variety of topics and ended with a lively discussion about Solaris and HPC.

Tonight also marks the start of Sun's HPC Consortium meeting, a two-day event that we hold just prior to each of the two annual supercomputing conferences. These events bring together Sun customers, partners, and Sun employees from around the company for discussions and presentations about all aspects of HPC.

I hope to blog at least the customer presentations during the conference tomorrow and Tuesday.