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SC08 is over for this year. The competition ended officially 4PM Friday. We ended up stopping the RAxML job we were running for 40 straight hours; it didn’t look like it was going to finish at all. In the end, we didn’t complete a single dataset.

After setup yesterday, we returned to the Hotel at 2AM. I slept for 3.5 hours, and then went back to the convention center for the start of the competition. We’re having some network trouble, but not anything that would be unworkable.

Our situation is much worse than last year.

I’m leaving my comfy abode for Austin, Texas this morning, to help the MIT team with their cluster in the SC08 Cluster Challenge. Stony Brook isn’t participating this year but a couple of months ago the MIT team contacted me about the possibility of helping this year. I’ll be taking photos and writing more as more interesting things happen: stay tuned!