Today I officially accepted Los Alamos’s offer for a position as a technical staff member in CCS-1. In reality, there are only a few changes as a result of changing from a graduate student to technical staff:

• I get paid more (Woo!)
• I get vacation and sick days (Woo!)
• I can take my LANL-owned laptop home without writing a safety plan for my apartment.

And before anyone asks, YES, I STILL INTEND TO GRADUATE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! It looks like my duties over the next year will include:

• Writing a health monitoring subsystem for ORTE on non-BProc systems
• Modifying the BTL interface to better support RDMA communication (For a bunch of stuff, including my thesis)
• Working with various groups at LANL trying to generate performance data on Open MPI
• Planning LANL’s Open MPI presentations at SC’06
• Open MPI support (ugh!)

So same old thing, slightly different title.