Atlas Folding

I had a wonderful time in San Jose and got to see a lot of really amazing technology both in hardware in software.  The high performance computer market is poised to genuinely explode in the not too distant future.  In case you haven’t heard, that what Jen-Hsun Huang is actually brandishing in my previous post is a mock-up of a GT300 and not the real thing.  It’s been something of a dust-up on the GPU sites.  Personally, while I suppose I do feel a bit duped since I had spent considerable money to be sitting in that chair when I took the photograph, I really don’t care.  The tech is real and is coming and will benefit the science.  Besides, I’ve been to enough trade shows in support of my own company to know that sometimes things just aren’t quite ready in time for the show.

Perhaps the highlight of my trip was the early evening visit that I was able to pay to the Pande Labs.  My friend John Van Arnam who is a post-doc student at Stanford was kind enough to show me around a little bit, introduce me to some of his friends and take me by the Labs.  Afterwards we had sushi followed by gelati with his lovely and charming wife.  What more can you ask for really?

Boo!