Comments on: HPC adoption conference announced http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/11/hpc-adoption-conference-announced/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Richard Hickey http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/11/hpc-adoption-conference-announced/#comment-154355 Richard Hickey Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:37:06 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3950#comment-154355 I thought I would drive up and attend the conference to get an idea of what industry thought of HPC. Check things out and see what the other side thought of what we do. That was until I about choked on the $1200 entrance fee. Or $1600 to mingle the night before also. Wow. A tad to steep a price to pay for this working fool. A couple of hundred maybe, but $1200? Someone's smoking some good stuff and not sharing. Rich I thought I would drive up and attend the conference to get an idea of what industry thought of HPC. Check things out and see what the other side thought of what we do. That was until I about choked on the $1200 entrance fee. Or $1600 to mingle the night before also. Wow.

A tad to steep a price to pay for this working fool. A couple of hundred maybe, but $1200? Someone’s smoking some good stuff and not sharing.

Rich

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