[Beowulf] If you can help ...

[Ellis H. Wilson III]

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.

Looking forward to it!

ellis