Microsoft had the biggest booth at Supercomputers09, 50x90 feet. The huge exhibit floor (about 260,000 square feet ) was crowded, but not around the M$ booth. One reason was that they had some of their boothbabes dressed like cops or Marine officers or some uniform like that. Maybe they were enforcers for the Business Software Alliance. I don't know, I saw the uniforms and gave the hellhole a wide berth.
Meanwhile, the crowds were 20 feet deep around the 30x40 Nvidia booth. As you may know, the ultra-powerful GPU on most Nvidia graphics cards can be reconfigured as a scientific array processor, and the CUDA programming language is free-though-not-open, with lots of freeware packages available, so there is a lot of interest in their hardware and software. Nvidia has a programming group in the area. Perhaps I can talk one of them into giving an Advanced Topics talk. I will leave someone else the pleasure of inviting M$ to give a Retarded Topics talk. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
