[Beowulf] If you can help ...

Adam DeConinck ajdecon at ajdecon.org
Fri Nov 9 19:21:42 PST 2018


I won’t be able to make it this year, but just kicked in $50. Good luck,
and I’m sad to miss it!

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 18:53 Ellis H. Wilson III <ellis at ellisv3.com> wrote:

> On 11/9/18 10:51 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
> > On 11/9/18 8:27 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
> >> This is a difficult email to write. For years we (Lara Kisielewska,
> >> Tim Wilcox, Don Becker, myself, and many others) have organized
> >> and staffed the Beowulf Bash each Monday night at SC.
> >>
> >> The event has always been funded by the various vendors who
> >> are part of the Beowulf ecosystem. This year, for what ever reason,
> >> we have come up short on sponsors. Contracts have been signed and
> >> we have cut back where possible. We still have a non-trivial shortage
> >> of around $10K (which the organizers have to come up with)
> >>
> >> So we are asking if anyone in the community (or your company
> >> or organization) can help, please visit our Go Fund Me page
> >> and kick in a few bucks. We even put together a few ClusterMonkey.net
> >> premiums. Thanks!
> >>
> >>    https://www.gofundme.com/beobash-2018
> >>
> >> TO BE CLEAR: The Beowulf Bash is still happening thanks to
> >> generous sponsors listed on our invite page, please come
> >> and enjoy yourself. Here is the invite page:
> >>
> >>    https://beowulfbash.com/
> >>
> >> See you there!
> >
> > I got my start in HPC reading the Beowulf archives, RBG's book, and
> > posting silly questions here as I stumbled my way through things, so it
> > seems a small token of my appreciation to chip in.
>
> Correction: RGB, not RBG.  Sorry!  Prep for SC has left me...dazed and
> confused.
>
> I should have just said, "reading Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute
> Cluster," since it's still printed out on my bookshelf beside me right now.
>
> Best,
>
> ellis
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