Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Considerations


As you know last Friday I ended working for NERSC.
I can say that this was an absolutely worthy experience, I guess the most inspiring for my career...
Be in the HPC field for me it's already a great achievement for my professional growth and now being able to work in a different enviroment for a while has been really useful ... useful to understand where I'm and where I want to go.

Work with such a kind of skilled and experienced fellows helped me to understand that there always is a different way to solve a problem or to approach a project ... and yes, also that if even you think to be a geek there is someone more geek than you!

Let me say ... awesome!

Thursday, August 2, 2012

-2


Thursday, August the 2th ... tomorrow will be the last day at NERSC :-(

Yesterday and this morning I tidied up  a little bit my notes that I took during this month and I realized that I got a lot of input and that more input I get more new questions come out ... it's a never ending story ... more you know and more you want to know !!

But unluckly the time is not friend of mine ... and the period here is gone ...

I have a mix of feelings, on one side I'm pretty sad because the environment an the fellows here are really good and the end of these 4 working weeks lets the countdown  to the fly back to start ... on the other side I'm happy because my holydays begins and I still have 10 days to spend in this amazing land !!

The list on the refrigerator with all the stuff we want to do and we want see shrank down but still really long and I don't know if we will be able to tick all the lines.
Anyway, no one said that we can't come back to end up our exploration ... :-)

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Cinema!


Yesterday evening we did something "special" for the kids and we went to the cinema. The theater is close to our house, just 5 minutes by car, in Emeryville.
The kids decided to watch BRAVE, the last Disney/Pixar movie.

It was a beautiful show but at some times scary for the little because of an angry bear  ... and I had to carry Nathan off because it was to scared ... despide Maya was really quiet and amused!

What to say, as usual like many things here, the cinema is huge: 16 rooms .. and it's possible to eat all you want during the projection ... from the simple popcorn bag to the more sofisticated chicken nuggets and fried mozzarella sticks! :-)