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On Wednesday 14 of July 2010 11:55:51 Tobias Heinlein wrote: |
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> Continuing my habit of sending new developer announcements way too late, |
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> I'll introduce you to Kacper "Xarthisius" Kowalik from Torún, Poland |
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> today. It's 11AM here and already 30°+ in my room, thus I can't seem to |
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> think of some interesting introductory text, so here's just how he |
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> describes himself: |
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> "Currently, I am PhD student at Toruń Centre for Astronomy, NCU, Poland. |
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> My research is related to planetary formations processes and mostly |
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> based on what people call with awe/despise "number crunching", or |
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> grid-based magnetohydrodynamical simulations to be exact. As a result I |
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> crave for shear computing power, which recently brought me to GPGPU and |
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> large clusters. Apart from PhD I work as small cluster (~40 cores + |
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> GPUs) administrator @ TCfA which is unfortunately located 12km outside |
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> of town, at TCfA Observatory (no one knows why, but we cannot move it... |
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> that's the beauty of university's bureaucracy). |
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> Remaining shreds of spare time I have are dedicated to my girlfriend and |
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> casual life activities, i.e. when I am not at looking at any gentoo bugs |
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> ;)". |
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> Please do not give him a warm welcome, it's hot enough already anyway. |
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I feel obligated by my name to give freezing welcome. Se be it. |
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(looks like some new Polish wave is taking over, good, good.... *evil laugh*) |
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regards |
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MM |