<div><div dir="auto">I won’t be able to make it this year, but just kicked in $50. Good luck, and I’m sad to miss it!</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 18:53 Ellis H. Wilson III <<a href="mailto:ellis@ellisv3.com">ellis@ellisv3.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/9/18 10:51 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:<br>
> On 11/9/18 8:27 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote:<br>
>> This is a difficult email to write. For years we (Lara Kisielewska,<br>
>> Tim Wilcox, Don Becker, myself, and many others) have organized<br>
>> and staffed the Beowulf Bash each Monday night at SC.<br>
>><br>
>> The event has always been funded by the various vendors who<br>
>> are part of the Beowulf ecosystem. This year, for what ever reason,<br>
>> we have come up short on sponsors. Contracts have been signed and<br>
>> we have cut back where possible. We still have a non-trivial shortage<br>
>> of around $10K (which the organizers have to come up with)<br>
>><br>
>> So we are asking if anyone in the community (or your company<br>
>> or organization) can help, please visit our Go Fund Me page<br>
>> and kick in a few bucks. We even put together a few ClusterMonkey.net<br>
>> premiums. Thanks!<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/beobash-2018" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.gofundme.com/beobash-2018</a><br>
>><br>
>> TO BE CLEAR: The Beowulf Bash is still happening thanks to<br>
>> generous sponsors listed on our invite page, please come<br>
>> and enjoy yourself. Here is the invite page:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://beowulfbash.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://beowulfbash.com/</a><br>
>><br>
>> See you there!<br>
> <br>
> I got my start in HPC reading the Beowulf archives, RBG's book, and <br>
> posting silly questions here as I stumbled my way through things, so it <br>
> seems a small token of my appreciation to chip in.<br>
<br>
Correction: RGB, not RBG. Sorry! Prep for SC has left me...dazed and <br>
confused.<br>
<br>
I should have just said, "reading Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute <br>
Cluster," since it's still printed out on my bookshelf beside me right now.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
ellis<br>
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