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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