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Subject: Re: WCCC 2003 Starting List

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:05:10 11/19/03

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On November 19, 2003 at 17:58:43, enrico carrisco wrote:

>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.


Not to forget "bigfoot".

:)



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