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Subject: Re: WCCC 2003 Starting List

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:41:29 11/19/03

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On November 19, 2003 at 03:01:04, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On November 18, 2003 at 22:17:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 18, 2003 at 16:47:43, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On November 18, 2003 at 16:43:49, Matthew Hull wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 18, 2003 at 16:15:32, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>But, as long as Europeans insist on limiting the event to their small,
>>>>>>technologically limited (little windows machines) sphere of influence, then it
>>>>>>will forever continue to be a small European event of little interest to AI and
>>>>>>the scientific community at large.
>>>>>
>>>>>Shrug, facts quite simply disagree with you.
>>>>>
>>>>>PS. What US programs run on supercomputers exactly?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Crafty runs on just about anything.
>>>
>>>It didn't even run well on Opteron-NUMA until just a week ago!!
>>>
>>>I didn't even read the rest of your nonsense, either!!
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>So?  It ran well on a Cray years ago.
>>
>>It still does...
>>
>>Why does this have to turn into _this_ kind of a discussion????
>>
>>IE talking about things you really don't know a lot about...  such as
>>my program and what it works on...
>
>
>And talking about our backyards and what we do there?
>
>Jesus, how difficult it is to get a group of nerds together in one place once a
>year...

It depends.  If you talk about 2-3 days, it is not hard.  If you talk about
2 weeks, it is _tough_.  Jobs and all that.

>
>And Graz is the most beautiful place there can be for such an event. For sure,
>something compareable to Graz dosen't even exist in the US...

I'd debate that with you any time you want.  The US is not all concrete and
asphalt.  We could host it at Gatlinburg, Tennessee.  As pretty a mountain
setting as anywhere in the world.  To name just one place.

>
>:-)
>Andy



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