Brown rice gruel with a hard-boiled egg, pickled mustard green, and fried shiitake.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Today Special Meal
To someone, it might not be special at all. To me, it was special. I did not remember the last time I had had it. I knew only that it had been so long.
Brown rice gruel with a hard-boiled egg, pickled mustard green, and fried shiitake.
Brown rice gruel with a hard-boiled egg, pickled mustard green, and fried shiitake.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
My New Buddy: Vacuum Cleaner
It was delivered two days ago but I just had time to try it this morning.
Compared to my old one, which is very heavy and used to be powerful, but for some reason, it now does not pick anything.
It is small and light, which is good for my small room.
Compared to my old one, which is very heavy and used to be powerful, but for some reason, it now does not pick anything.
It is small and light, which is good for my small room.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Once upon a time with a lost pup
She got lost from somewhere. Aig and Mon found her in front of our apartment. She was wet all over but still hyperactive. Aig and Mon were leaving for Austin, so they could not keep her. I took care of her for a while before deciding that I should went out to ask if someone lost a pup. Fortunately, our neighbor came home. They had had a dog so I asked them whether they could keep her. Fortunately again, while we was chatting the owner of the dog came by and picked her up.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Seattle Day 6-7: A Pleasant Journey
It was the first morning at La Quinta which is a little bit far from the conventional center but they had breakfast. Though it was not too far to walk.
At the conference, I attended Checkpoint Optimization session and learned that whatever you would show on the screen, you had to be able to justify it clearly. The assumptions should be rationally clarified.
After that I went to a job fair. There were many national labs, universities, and industrial companies that came to recruit. Most of them had internships. Some of them also had post-doctoral positions. I had a great opportunity talking to Argonne NL, they were going to buy a huge cluster called BlueGene/P. Then they would need us soon.
Los Alamos NL was pretty interesting. I knew it when Clayton went there for an internship couple of years ago. Lawrence Livermore had a biggest booth there. They had many positions opened.
Some other NLs were also interesting, like NOAA, Lawrence Berkeley, etc. There were even a lab from Singapore and King Abdullah University from Saudi Arabia. They tried to present themselves a lot.
I spent a lot of time at the job fair. Unfortunately I did not bring my resume and business cards with me. I had not had intention to find a job at first but it turned out that I was pretty excited talking to those people (esp with a guy from Argonne).
Late afternoon, I went to Cray booth at the exhibition just to ask about OpenACC. A guy there pointed me to PGI which was the one that work a lot with the compiler. It was great talking to the people there.
In the evening, I was so exhausted but still stuck with Dr. Box to a party, just to have a free dinner. The food was just to fill my stomach, the music there was too loud. If I remember correctly they came from our neighbor, Texas.
Dr. Box and I did not wait for the raffle. We know that we had never been lucky this way. We went back to the hotel around 8 something.
The next morning, after breakfast at the hotel, I packed and tried very hard to stuff everything I had got from the conference into the bag. It turned out that I had to enlarge it a little bit.
Dr. Box gave me a ride to the airport and now I am waiting for the flight home.
At the conference, I attended Checkpoint Optimization session and learned that whatever you would show on the screen, you had to be able to justify it clearly. The assumptions should be rationally clarified.
After that I went to a job fair. There were many national labs, universities, and industrial companies that came to recruit. Most of them had internships. Some of them also had post-doctoral positions. I had a great opportunity talking to Argonne NL, they were going to buy a huge cluster called BlueGene/P. Then they would need us soon.
Los Alamos NL was pretty interesting. I knew it when Clayton went there for an internship couple of years ago. Lawrence Livermore had a biggest booth there. They had many positions opened.
Some other NLs were also interesting, like NOAA, Lawrence Berkeley, etc. There were even a lab from Singapore and King Abdullah University from Saudi Arabia. They tried to present themselves a lot.
I spent a lot of time at the job fair. Unfortunately I did not bring my resume and business cards with me. I had not had intention to find a job at first but it turned out that I was pretty excited talking to those people (esp with a guy from Argonne).
Late afternoon, I went to Cray booth at the exhibition just to ask about OpenACC. A guy there pointed me to PGI which was the one that work a lot with the compiler. It was great talking to the people there.
In the evening, I was so exhausted but still stuck with Dr. Box to a party, just to have a free dinner. The food was just to fill my stomach, the music there was too loud. If I remember correctly they came from our neighbor, Texas.
Dr. Box and I did not wait for the raffle. We know that we had never been lucky this way. We went back to the hotel around 8 something.
The next morning, after breakfast at the hotel, I packed and tried very hard to stuff everything I had got from the conference into the bag. It turned out that I had to enlarge it a little bit.
Dr. Box gave me a ride to the airport and now I am waiting for the flight home.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Seattle Day 5: Interesting Talk
I went to the keynote in the morning. The speaker was the CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA. The room was so packed that they had to split the other group to another room with video linked to that room. I was in that group. =(
After that I went to a paper session that was about GPU optimization. That was interesting. There was something that quite similar to my research.
I spent almost the whole afternoon talking to the people in the exhibition. Talking at NVIDIA booth was pretty interesting. They introduced me to the new standard called OpenACC which would change your serial code to parallel with just adding couple of lines.
I also got 6 more t-shirts. Just wonder how I can pack them into my bag.
After that I went to a paper session that was about GPU optimization. That was interesting. There was something that quite similar to my research.
I spent almost the whole afternoon talking to the people in the exhibition. Talking at NVIDIA booth was pretty interesting. They introduced me to the new standard called OpenACC which would change your serial code to parallel with just adding couple of lines.
I also got 6 more t-shirts. Just wonder how I can pack them into my bag.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Seattle Day 4: LittleFe Buildout
Nothing much in the morning. I just attended some sessions which are not so interesting.
In the afternoon, I had to team up with Dr. Bishop to assemble a LittleFe (a small cluster with 6 mother boards: 1 head node and 5 computing nodes, also had a GPU integrated on each board). Dr. Bishop was going to carry it back to Ruston. And hopefully, we can use it in our classes.
In the evening, the exhibition opened. I enjoyed hunting free stuff, got 3 t-shirts, pens, screw drivers, and some toys. I also won a car race at QLogic booth and got a box of car toys. I gave it to Dr. Bishop because he had a little boy.
In the afternoon, I had to team up with Dr. Bishop to assemble a LittleFe (a small cluster with 6 mother boards: 1 head node and 5 computing nodes, also had a GPU integrated on each board). Dr. Bishop was going to carry it back to Ruston. And hopefully, we can use it in our classes.
In the evening, the exhibition opened. I enjoyed hunting free stuff, got 3 t-shirts, pens, screw drivers, and some toys. I also won a car race at QLogic booth and got a box of car toys. I gave it to Dr. Bishop because he had a little boy.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Seattle Day 3: Gather up
Dr. Box, Aig, and Mon arrived at Seattle yesterday but we could just get together today.
I went to have lunch with Dr. Box. He introduced me to Dr. Hong Ong and his team from Malaysia. They also work on CUDA too, focusing on data transfer between GPU and CPU memory because the GPU memory is so small. I recalled that I had also come across this problem when I had been working on Haplotype Inference problem with BIOTEC.
In the evening I met Aig and Mon at the conference and went out to have dinner with Dr. Box at a Chinese restaurant in China town. I made me miss Chinese food back in Bangkok. ^^
I went to have lunch with Dr. Box. He introduced me to Dr. Hong Ong and his team from Malaysia. They also work on CUDA too, focusing on data transfer between GPU and CPU memory because the GPU memory is so small. I recalled that I had also come across this problem when I had been working on Haplotype Inference problem with BIOTEC.
In the evening I met Aig and Mon at the conference and went out to have dinner with Dr. Box at a Chinese restaurant in China town. I made me miss Chinese food back in Bangkok. ^^
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Seattle Day 2: In the Conference
It was the first day of the supercomputing conference. After registration, I got a badge and a bag. I liked the bag. It was well designed for keeping a laptop, an iPad, etc. There was just one thing that I didn't like about it. It was a shoulder bag. Well, I preferred a backpack.
I also had a chance to meet many people from many fields because this event was not just for computer geeks. There were also physicists, biologists, mathematicians, etc, whoever that used huge computational systems to solve their problems. It was a good opportunity to make connections. ^^
I also had a chance to meet many people from many fields because this event was not just for computer geeks. There were also physicists, biologists, mathematicians, etc, whoever that used huge computational systems to solve their problems. It was a good opportunity to make connections. ^^
Friday, November 11, 2011
Seattle Day 1: Just Landed
I left Ruston around 10:15 AM with Dr. Bishop. He drove.
After a long flight (around 6 hours with one stop at Houston airport), we landed around 6 PM. Then we tried to catch a free shuttle but no luck. So we took the light rail instead. Around an hour later, we arrived at Red Lion Hotel. I got into the room 710, dropped the bags and went back to meet Dr. Bishop at the lobby again. We walked to the opposite building just to have dinner. Once we got back to the hotel, we saw 4 police cars at the front door. No accident, nothing to give a clue what was going on. No one knew why they were there. So I just headed back to the room because I was so worn out.
After a long flight (around 6 hours with one stop at Houston airport), we landed around 6 PM. Then we tried to catch a free shuttle but no luck. So we took the light rail instead. Around an hour later, we arrived at Red Lion Hotel. I got into the room 710, dropped the bags and went back to meet Dr. Bishop at the lobby again. We walked to the opposite building just to have dinner. Once we got back to the hotel, we saw 4 police cars at the front door. No accident, nothing to give a clue what was going on. No one knew why they were there. So I just headed back to the room because I was so worn out.
Thursday, November 03, 2011
A Little Bad Luck
On the evening I had a boring seminar class at GTM (Math building). This building is a little bit old. Though it had been renovated, the stairs were still slippery. I think it was also my fault that I did not step on the black strips which were to prevent slipping. I hurt my butt and my right elbow but still okay. And also thanks to my friends that were with me.
At least I could save my little laptop that I was holding in my hand. ^^
At least I could save my little laptop that I was holding in my hand. ^^
Friday, October 28, 2011
Our Activities Relevant to Thai Flood
I just got back from Dr. Box's house. He had asked us (5 Thai students) to go meeting with him in order to talk over about what we could do to help out in this crisis. We had a conference call with Raju, Dr. Box's ex-student. He has an experience with disaster management in Mississippi and elsewhere.
Raju provided us with some useful information regarding pre- and post-disaster, about supply chain management -- like evaluating how much gas would be provided for evacuation, etc, how we could analyze the data gathered from GIS based application to predict the situation long enough for planning ahead, how to stimulate the economics after the flood, etc.
We will brainstorm and would contact an organization in Thailand if we can come up with anything.
Raju provided us with some useful information regarding pre- and post-disaster, about supply chain management -- like evaluating how much gas would be provided for evacuation, etc, how we could analyze the data gathered from GIS based application to predict the situation long enough for planning ahead, how to stimulate the economics after the flood, etc.
We will brainstorm and would contact an organization in Thailand if we can come up with anything.
Friday, September 23, 2011
On Sep 23, 2011
After spending about a week fighting with the workstation that I just took possession of, it finally works. The issues have been solved and I can go back to focus on my research. (This machine is actually a part of my research though.)
Also, the trip to SC11 has been confirmed. So I will go to Seattle this November for 5 days. Travel again... ^^
Also, the trip to SC11 has been confirmed. So I will go to Seattle this November for 5 days. Travel again... ^^
Monday, August 22, 2011
About Birds @ Dr. Box's House
I went to fill the bird feeders at Dr. Box's house today. There were many regular bird feeders but I filled only two of them. The others were hung too high. Once I finished filling some seeds and got them to hung at the same branches, couple of tiny birds were waiting. I did not know what kind of birds they were, looked like sparrows, but I did not think they were sparrow. I could spot a cardinal too, and some others.
Dr. Box also has two hummingbird feeders. I had to get them to wash, removed some dead ants and filled in some syrup. I did not think it was nectar that Dr. Box had prepared for those hums. I thought it would be just water and sugar. While I was washing the feeders in the kitchen (which its windows faced the trees that the feeders had been hung), a little hum came to that spot, flew around as if he was wondering where the feeders were. He was so sweet.
While I was busy with those feeders, there were thunders and lightnings and the sky turned gray. Once I finished and got into the car, it rained very very heavily as if it had been waiting for me to finish my job. Though I got soak a little when I got home.
Dr. Box also has two hummingbird feeders. I had to get them to wash, removed some dead ants and filled in some syrup. I did not think it was nectar that Dr. Box had prepared for those hums. I thought it would be just water and sugar. While I was washing the feeders in the kitchen (which its windows faced the trees that the feeders had been hung), a little hum came to that spot, flew around as if he was wondering where the feeders were. He was so sweet.
While I was busy with those feeders, there were thunders and lightnings and the sky turned gray. Once I finished and got into the car, it rained very very heavily as if it had been waiting for me to finish my job. Though I got soak a little when I got home.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
About Dogs
My neighbor which is our landlady's son's family, had a gentle Labrador. His name was Sunny. Yesterday James came back to return the key since he had moved. We talked to our neighbor a bit but did not see Sunny which usually was the first one to welcome us. Then we just knew that Sunny had been dead and was buried somewhere in the backyard. Just about a week ago that I heard that he got sick. He was old though.
Last night, we went to a small party and Lisa's house. It was to celebrate Lisa's and James' graduation. Lisa has a tiny Yorkshire Terrier. She called him Ross. Ross was so cute and friendly and calm. I had never heard him bark even when he was so excited because there were many strangers stepped in his territory. Lisa's husband, Clayton got me some treat to befriend with him. After a while he slept in my arms.
Last night, we went to a small party and Lisa's house. It was to celebrate Lisa's and James' graduation. Lisa has a tiny Yorkshire Terrier. She called him Ross. Ross was so cute and friendly and calm. I had never heard him bark even when he was so excited because there were many strangers stepped in his territory. Lisa's husband, Clayton got me some treat to befriend with him. After a while he slept in my arms.
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
AT&T DSL
Before this I was sharing internet with my neighbor, James. Since he is moving to Raleigh, I have to have my own internet.
I decided to have AT&T DSL since there was a promotion with $20 a month for 12 months. I requested for activation on Friday and the modem was delivered to me last night at 7 PM. Very quick! I just configured it this morning after I had got back from dropping Dr. Box at Monroe airport (We reached there by 5 AM). With 3 Mbps, I am satisfied and so far it has been working well.
I decided to have AT&T DSL since there was a promotion with $20 a month for 12 months. I requested for activation on Friday and the modem was delivered to me last night at 7 PM. Very quick! I just configured it this morning after I had got back from dropping Dr. Box at Monroe airport (We reached there by 5 AM). With 3 Mbps, I am satisfied and so far it has been working well.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Move forward
Monday, July 04, 2011
The end of a long journey
I just arrived at Ruston last night. It was the end of my long journey (UK and Thailand for 3 months). Now I have to go on and work on my research. No time to goof off.
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Holland Trip
Netherlands Day 1-2: On the way / Zaanse Schans / Amsterdam
Netherlands Day 3: Keukenhof / Queens Day in Amsterdam
Netherlands Day 4: Dom Tower/Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Netherlands Day 5: Haarlem
Netherlands Day 3: Keukenhof / Queens Day in Amsterdam
Netherlands Day 4: Dom Tower/Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Netherlands Day 5: Haarlem
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
UK Day 24: Windsor Castle and Punt's Family
On April 23 - 24, 2011, P Punt took me to Windsor Castle. Unfortunately, taking pictures was not allowed inside the buildings. I stayed with her family that night. We had a good time chatting about the time from our college. And the next day there was Easter activity for her son, Ethan.
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