One take away from being in the room on Wednesday is that there is a strong importance to having an advocate present for voting.

This naturally prejudices in favor of institutions with substantial travel funds. I still do not understand why voting remotely via video conference is not an option. It's 2012. We might not have flying cars yet, but we've got more than enough future tech to preclude the need for people to fly around the world to participate in the MPI Forum. Jeff -- Jeff Hammond Argonne Leadership Computing Facility University of Chicago Computation Institute [email protected] / (630) 252-5381 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhammond https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/parts/index.php/User:Jhammond