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I just happened to be feeling nostalgic and took a look at our stats. Over the past 12 months we’ve served about 1.2M pages to nearly half a million visitors at a rate last month of right at 2,000 visitors per day. Those are big numbers!

Thanks for stopping by so often. And if you have a poor, unfortunate friend who …

You read that right. Now you can show up at your next tour or high school science fair judging with a confident swagger, knowing you have a secret weapon: the best darn presentation ever about what HPC is all about, and why everyone should care.

Read more about it, and download a copy for yourself, at insidehpc.com/hpccan.

We’ll consider this a …

Ok, so here is an alpha of the presentation I talked about a couple weeks ago.

To refresh your memory, the goal of this presentation is to give HPC’ers a go to presentation they can deliver anytime we’re called on to give a “what is HPC?” speech to a nontechnical but slightly motivated audience.

Ultimately I would envision there being specialized …

insideHPC.com’s own John Leidel has a new addition. Baby Boy Leidel joined us last night at 8:23. 10 fingers, 10 toes, and 7 pounds 12 ounces of late night diaper changes and round the clock feedings. Both mama and baby are doing fine. John’s condition is reported as deliriously happy, but stable.

Congratulations to the Leidels!

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Jobs come and go, and I’ve had several in HPC. But my enthusiasm for the profession remains.

One thing I’ve noticed that we (as a community) are not very good at is telling people what we do for a living in a way that doesn’t cause them to run away screaming or ask if we can help with their mail merge …

Today is the day…the first post at insideHPC.com officially turns one today. My apologies to those of you who checked the site earlier this morning and found it was down. Seems I, uh, didn’t renew the hosting plan. Nothing says “party” like forgetting to pay the power bill.

We’ve come a long way from 1 reader. You guys have come to …

HPCwire readers may know that every week I write a summary of the items from the news stream that strike me as interesting in some way. This week’s issue is a little different. Since it is the last HPCwire of 2007, Michael invited me to spend some time reflecting on the year past. Rather than give you yet another pundit …

Just put up a new call for several postdocs at the University of Texas, Austin in the Center for Computational Geosciences at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (www.ices.utexas.edu). The lucky winners get to work with Ranger.

As always, check the scholarships page for more info, and be sure to let me know of new opportunities.

The Syracuse University Gravitational Wave Group <http://www.gravity.phy.syr.edu/> is seeking to hire, as soon as possible, a postgraduate scientist to work on development and support of software infrastructure enabling LIGO data analysis efforts.

Applicants should have a Ph.D. or Masters degree in physics, information science, or a related field, excellent computer skills, extensive experience with Linux, C programming skills, a working knowledge …

SC07: If you got one of the limited edition “My other computer is super” shirts at SC07 this year, take a snap of yourself wearing it and send it in. Pose in front of your organization’s supercomputer, with a hot co-worker, cool pet, or just hanging with the gang.

Bonus points if you’re one of the guys from a distant …

If you’re not attending SC07 this week, kindly move along. Nothing to see here.

For the rest of you, don’t forget to clear out a block of time on Tuesday at 2 for the insideHPC reader meetup. Stop by, say hi, and pick up a free tshirt while they last.

You can find the details on the meetup here.

SC07: Here at insideHPC world headquarters (yes, my bedroom) we’re incredibly grateful for all the support and time you’ve given our site over the past 11 months. Since our launch on December 28, 2006 you’ve consumed over 1,100 nuggets of news. Frankly, I can’t believe your boss hasn’t said something yet…don’t you do anything other than surf the net?

After launching …

If you’re still finalizing your SC07 agenda, don’t forget to clear out a block of time on Tuesday for the insideHPC reader meetup. Stop by, say hi, and pick up a free tshirt (possibly even in your size) while they last.

The shirts start heading out the door at 2pm, so don’t be late! You can find the details on the …

Come to the reader meetup at SC07 and pick up a free t-shirt (while supplies last). Click here for details.

That’s right, kids. You voted, and now its time to wear the fruit of your labor. As you can see, the shirt is guaranteed to make old ladies swoon and young children cower in fear, so wear it with care.

What’s on the back? Take a look…we’re working with Ken Farmer …