Olin Coles
11th November 2007, 09:02 PM
SC07 SuperComputing Coverage - Day 0 (http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2482&Itemid=46) Affiliate News (http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=1&id=22) Written by Olin Coles SC07, or SuperComputing 2007, is an international conference dedicated to advances in high-performance computing, networking storage and analysis, is being held in Reno, Nevada - the home of Benchmark Reviews. Sunday November 11th 2007 was the last set-up day prior to the start of the event.
Benchmark Reviews owner and senior editor Olin Coles made an early afternoon arrival to complete press registration, but this day-0 event also allowed a behind the scenes look at the tremendous effort put into the construction of such a large scale event. Since this years event is expected to draw 9000 visitors, the 5.8 million dollar budget could easily be seen spread throughout the very large Reno-Sparks Convention Center.
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Pictured above is the the pre-show technical construction crew of for SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC). While the level of dedication put into the design and construction for most exhibitor locations was on par with what you see here, there were a few that simply had few words outside of "WOW" to describe them. If there's an official count to the number of processors inside this convention center, I would estimate that number to reach a 1:1 ratio to the number of visitors.
Thanks largely in part to the hometown location of the event, Benchmark Reviews will offer insight to industry trends and research, from large corporate names such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, to some of the growing market names like Super Talent and Gigabyte.
Read more... (http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2482&Itemid=46)
Benchmark Reviews owner and senior editor Olin Coles made an early afternoon arrival to complete press registration, but this day-0 event also allowed a behind the scenes look at the tremendous effort put into the construction of such a large scale event. Since this years event is expected to draw 9000 visitors, the 5.8 million dollar budget could easily be seen spread throughout the very large Reno-Sparks Convention Center.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/images/stories/sc07/sc07_day-0_01.jpg
Pictured above is the the pre-show technical construction crew of for SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC). While the level of dedication put into the design and construction for most exhibitor locations was on par with what you see here, there were a few that simply had few words outside of "WOW" to describe them. If there's an official count to the number of processors inside this convention center, I would estimate that number to reach a 1:1 ratio to the number of visitors.
Thanks largely in part to the hometown location of the event, Benchmark Reviews will offer insight to industry trends and research, from large corporate names such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, to some of the growing market names like Super Talent and Gigabyte.
Read more... (http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2482&Itemid=46)