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by PAPPPmAc
951 days ago
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This will be my 12th SC, every year except the virtual one (or was it two? I've genuinely lost track) since 2009. It's a singular experience. Enormous. Part trade show, part conference, weird mix of deeply technical people, and IT manager types and the salescritters who prey on them, so there is a lot of intensely smart people and a lot of money floating around, not necessarily in the same places. It historically was largely built around the national labs and their purchasing and use of very large systems, and that's still a major feature. It feels like the population ratio has shifted from "people who work on computers" to "people who run work on computers" - a lower proportion of computer engineers, programmers, and top tier IT people, and a lot more folks running other people's code on other people's large systems, often with other people's data, which is a little strange. There are still always a lot of interesting conversations with the people who are actually doing things to be had. |
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