Most academic conferences I have attended are not as strict with the format of their papers. For example, the IEEE provides both LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates for their conferences:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transaction s/stylesheets.htm
Though, since this is a Linux conference I would expect them to require LaTeX formatted papers.
There's actually 65,536 nodes in the LLNL BGL system, each node has 2 PowerPC 440 processors and 512 MB of RAM between the 2 processors. The current compute node kernel (CNK) is very small, comparing it to Windows is somewhat silly since the CNK has 1 purpose: get out of the way and let the parallel job run. Windows has quite the opposite purpose:-)
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Most academic conferences I have attended are not as strict with the format of their papers. For example, the IEEE provides both LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates for their conferences: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transaction s/stylesheets.htm
Though, since this is a Linux conference I would expect them to require LaTeX formatted papers.
I think the MPI stack was improved significantly between the 32 and 64 rack installations.
There's actually 65,536 nodes in the LLNL BGL system, each node has 2 PowerPC 440 processors and 512 MB of RAM between the 2 processors. The current compute node kernel (CNK) is very small, comparing it to Windows is somewhat silly since the CNK has 1 purpose: get out of the way and let the parallel job run. Windows has quite the opposite purpose :-)