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Donald "I fixed Rob's X Key" Becker wrote in to report from that other conference that is happening right now: Super Computing 99. Reports and picture of the freebies, the parties, and a somewhat surprising extra little sponsor.

Cool stuff here folks... tons of cool people to chat with and cool toys to look at. Very much fun. The Corel folks are here showing off their NetWinder NC. It's so cute... seeing one only confirms my intsense desire to own one. Cobalt Micro is also here showing off their tiny little server. Yet another small monitorless computer that I really would like to own. By far the coolest machine is the various XTreme boxes. Paralogic has em From $6k to $60k, these bad boys run Linux, are the size of a refrigerator and, and clock in at up to 445 SPECint95's. Mommy? Can I have a super computer for christmas?