Super Computing 2009

SC09' Nov 16-19 portland is the 21st version of super computing conference.

The city of portland was hosting the conference for the second time. Portland apart from the rain, was really good. The hilly landscape, river side and excellent restaurants were some of the attractions.

The general theme of the conference i observed is that every body owns GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) but they have no clue what so ever on how to get optimal performance out of it. The conference provided a few gpgpu (general purpose gpu) solutions but this field has a lot to offer in future conferences.

There was no news of Intels magical chip "larrabee". I have recently heard that Intel is limiting the larrabee to research labs for now. AMD and Nvidia can enjoy graphic market share for 2 more years. 
We had good crowd at our booth "aggregate.org/ University of Kentucky" as we were also providing a GPU solution. The response we got was satisfying as was the quality of people we interacted. Dr Burton Smith stopped by too.
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Governor rulez in AP

Telangana has been the center of Indian political chatter for a whole month now and still we have no clear indications of what is going to happen of it.One quick solution is to introduce "President rule" ....... but wait the governor was in news too..... WHAT THE  ****   !! SEX SCANDAL !!    !!really!!

Now media is really blowing this out of proportion people, we must give the governor a pass on this. Poor guy was all stressed out with telangana and samaikyandhra protests. All he wanted was a break.

On a serious note the president must be a little more efficient in appointing governors who give emphasis to protecting the constitution and less appeasing political leaders who refuse to retire even at 85.

Lover boy Tiwari has shown that age is not a barrier and he's still got the thing going for him....

Running Ubuntu on Vista is easy

I tried running Ubuntu 8.04 on my vista system and it worked fine. Vista has a feature where you can shrink the size of your hard drive and then install Ubuntu.

This is how you partition your hard disk.

• Click "start" followed by a right click on "computer" and click "manage" on your vista system. 
• Now click  disk management. you will see your primary disk(Disk0) size.
• Right click on it and select shrink volume option. 
• System will calculate the amount of shrink space available. select the value you will be needing for ubuntu.
• When you load your unbuntu CD during the installation when asked use the guided use of largest free space.

Other alternative is the Sun Virtual box which needs no disk shrinkage. There is an easy installation procedure available online. Just google Sun virtual box and get started.

good luck ...........