Last week we accomplished a milestone by submitting another paper. This time, to the Utility and Cloud Computing Conference. We were all at it until late at night. (See below for a picture of the Hawthorne parking lot at 1:30A.M.) We were pretty happy with the paper and it should be a good contribution for this conference, since there is a keynote on HPC in the cloud and the "diamond sponsor" is HPCWire. Now, I need to take advantage of physically being here by planning the next steps and discussing them with the group.

Hawthorne Parking lot afterhours 

Below are several photos from the IBM hikes that I went on while here, one of my favorite activities.