I completely forgot to mention Stoopidcomputing things...
We're giving out cool freebies at SC'2000. The orders went in this morning:
- The pocketknives got nixed. With extreme prejudice.
- 500 LAM LED-light keychains. They'll be translucent blue and have a white LAM logo on them.
- 900 mouse pads (I don't know what the hell we're going to do with the extras -- having 900 mouse pads in one place just sounds like an inherently dangerous operation. Are there FCC rules against that?). They're all LAM/MPI mouse pads, with the LAM logo and URL in the top right, "Dept of CSE/ND" propaganda (phone, fax, URL) across the bottom (Kogge paid for it all, after all), and a bunch of MPI function bindings across the majority of the surface area.
The cool thing is that we've got three flavors mouse pads (300 each):
- C
- Fortran
- C++
That is, they vary in the language of the bindings that are on displayed on the mouse pad. We're actually predicting that the fortrans go much faster than the C or C++ ones.
Anyway, it's all cool stuff (mainly working on the assumption that if it's free, it's gotta be cool). Should be a fun time down at SC'2000. A picture of our booth is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~rindiana/. A map of where we'll be located on the show floor is at http://www.sc2000.org/exhibits/floor.htm (scroll down to the bottom -- we're a purple booth, number R701).