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Subject: Re: WCCC 2003 Starting List

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 14:58:43 11/19/03

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On November 19, 2003 at 10:41:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

Let's not forget the Pacific Northwest either.  :)  I think both Seattle and
Portland have many beautiful places -- I'm sure Bruce can back me up. :)

-elc.



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