October 18, 2013

Bosco @ CHEP

This week, I attended the Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP) 2013 conference in Amsterdam to present a poster on Bosco.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Presenting the Bosco Poster</td></tr></tbody></table>Throughout the conference there where many references to Bosco in talks.  First and foremost was the CMS talk on using Bosco to access Gordon: Opportunistic Computing only knocks once: Processing at SDSC.  Several other talks referenced Bosco when discussing access to opportunistic resources.In addition to the conference, I was also able to explore Amsterdam.  On Wednesday, I visited the Van Gogh museum.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me with a Van Gogh self portrait</td></tr></tbody></table>It has been a great trip, but now I must return to reality, continuing writing my dissertation.