Linux.com by Robin 'Roblimo' Miller: SC06, "the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage," was held last week in Tampa, Florida. I took my video camera with me so that I could give you a little feeling of what the show was like, and even grabbed a couple of shots of the "by invitation only" Beowulf Users Group party that was held at a bar a few blocks away from the Tampa Convention Center.

Although the commonly-stated attendance figure of "over 9,000" was not quite true -- an actual count by the organizers came up with more like 8,500, including exhibitors and press hangers-on like me -- this is still a huge Beowulf cluster of people interested in supercomputing, and if all the clustered and "big iron" computers in the 250 vendor displays had been wired together, you could have had a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters that would not only have boggled any sane person's mind, but would have caused near-instant deafness from all the cooling fan noise.

HPCWire did a fine show wrapup story. I see no reason to repeat what they said. The latest "Top 500 Supercomputer Sites" list was unveiled, and Joab Jackson of Government Computer News had something interesting to say about it.

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