Starting to work in a new team of high-performance computing developers and researchers is like going skydiving. To go skydiving, you first would like to go to skydiving school so that you can at least survive your first skydive. This is where those university years and CUDA courses taught by experienced people become very handy; by no means I am saying that you cannot learn CUDA, skydiving, or anything else on your own but I am saying that with proper training, new abilities can be learned safely and quickly. Once you have all of your training, you go out to jump off as many flying apparatus as you can find; keeping in mind that all you have is training and very little experience. With time, practice, and lots of patience you master your skills; regardless in the air or in front of your computer. The experience that you gather does not make you invulnerable to all the problems that can occur during a skydive or while developing software, but your experience teaches you how you can deal effectively with the many problems that can occur; in skydiving - line over malfunctions, line twists, horseshoe malfunctions, pilot chutes in tow, and in developing high performance software memory leaks, logic errors, race conditions, and problems parallelizing serial algorithms.

Working with the KTM and RTM team at Acceleware has been a great journey over the past few months, just like being at 13000 feet above the ground in a Twin Otter watching as the door slides open and all the noise and wind from the propellers invade the cabin of the plane. You walk to the door and look down to identify the dropzone among all the tiny things on the ground. A sign next to the door catches your eye reading "No Easy Way Down"; and you jump.

Remember to take advantage of all the years of experience that Acceleware has acquired by registering for our training courses, making use of our professional services, and integrating with our products for FDTD, RTM, Medical Imaging, and Matrix.

Thank you, blue skies, and safe programming.

Roberto S. Palacio Jaramillo (53 jumps and counting).