Didn't get a lot done research-wise today, but it still seemed like a good day.
I made some progress in LAM; cleaned up a little code, made a fix that a helpful LAM user suggested, etc. We currently don't have a hope of compiling LAM with a C++ compiler -- it was originally written with pre-ANSI function declarations. As such, there are still billions of them throughout the code, and it would take a long time to convert them all the real ANSI declarations (which C++ compilers require). Don't quite know what to do here -- it doesn't seem like it would be easy to write a scripty-foo to automagically convert everything... Harumph.
Talked with Jeremy about boost things; reorganizing the directory tree, a potential build process, etc. I sent our ideas to a guy on the boost list who I was discussing this stuff with. He replied, but I haven't had time to look over what he said yet.
Talked with Arun about LAM progress. Seems like it is going well, but annoying mid-terms will halt its progress for about a week. Similarly with Brian and XMPI.
Went to Larry Augustin's talk today. No real shockers in his talk
-- we've heard most of it before (open source will save the world, etc., etc.), but it wasn't a bad speech, I suppose. Others didn't like it at all. Oh well.
Had to make a command decision on the SC2000 paraphernalia today --
the company couldn't do beach balls in the time that we needed them. :-( So we opted for footballs; we'll see if they can do those in time.
Arun and I listened to "Slut" for several hours this evening. Wonderful. The song is not what you would expect at all -- it's quite hauntingly beautiful. I suppose that my image of the song would be shattered if I actually listened to the lyrics and found out that it's some kind of pig-worship satan song or something. It's amazing how I could listen to that song on repeat for hours on end and not be able to tell you a single word of what they were singing. It's that good.
I opened up the LAM/MPI CVS tree for anonymous read-only access tonight. We'll see if people actually check it out...