Welcome to another edition of RCE. I'm your host Brock Palin. Again, I have with me Jeff Squires from Cisco Systems and one of the primaries on the OpenMPI project. Jeff, thanks for helping me out. Hey, not a problem, Brock. How's it going? All right. Jeff, I hear you have a very popular blog out there now. It's almost like you were prompted to say that, you know? Yes, I have a blog out there on Cisco.com. It's talking about MPI and general HPC things. And just like you have a Twitter account. Yes, I have a Twitter account. And actually, we're trying something new. Before recording a couple days ahead of time, I will tweet who our guest is going to be. And if you could send replies to my Twitter account at BrockPalin, B-R-O-C-K-P-A-L-E-N, we will integrate those questions into when we meet with our next guest. We'll put this information on the show notes or something on the page. So you don't have to memorize exactly what we're saying here. OK, so for today, our guests are we have the largest crew ever. There's a total of five of us talking, including you and I, Jeff. We're talking about the student cluster competition, which is a competition that goes down every year at SC. I've heard about it. I've been interested in maybe getting something going at my own institution. I haven't really looked into it before. So this will be informative for me. Yeah, this is really cool stuff. I see these guys every year. I see the students over at SC. And some of them are pulling their hair out, trying to get the stuff done. And it's always just a great competition. And I'd love to hear more about it. So this is going to be a fun one today. Yeah, it's always interesting seeing the students sleeping there basically on top of their cluster in case something happens. Underneath the cluster, that's right. OK, well, I'll go ahead and introduce our three guests. We have Heia Nam at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tiki Suarez-Brown at Florida A&M University. This year, they're SC 2010's co-chairs for this year. So with the cluster competition, the buck stops with those two. And then we also have Doug Smith from the University of Colorado, who has actually advised the team before. And he can tell us a little bit about their experience. So guys, why don't you go ahead and take an opportunity to say your name, introduce yourself, and say a little bit how you got involved with the cluster competition. Sounds good. OK, so my name is Heia Nam. And I work as a computational nuclear physicist at Oak Ridge National Lab in the Scientific Computing Group at the National Center for Computational Sciences at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. And if I don't get all of that in there, then someone will come after me. I've been working there for a little over a year. And coming from San Diego State University, I got connected into the cluster challenge by accident. I'm actually, I'm a physicist. So I'm the ultimate end user of HPC. I got pulled in by Brent Gorda, who was the founder of the cluster challenge in 07. And he brought me in when I was a student to help with telling kids how to use an application. So it just kind of snowballed from there. I've been associated with it every year, helping out a little bit here and there. And last year, so my boss is Ricky Kendall, who ran it last year. And he asked me to come in on it this year, because I know all the details that go into it. And he knows that he can torture me as much as he likes since he's my boss. Excellent. OK, good afternoon. I'm Tiki Suarez-Brown. I'm an associate professor in the Information Systems and Operations Management Department at Florida A&M University. And I'm kind of interested in management information systems, collaborative environments, as well as high performance computing. And I've gotten involved in the Supercomputing Conference back in 2001. And kind of been part of the SE Communities Program since 2007, had the opportunity to work with Brent when I was the student volunteer co-chair, and then also had the opportunity to work with, hey, a little bit, as well as Janine, who was last year's community's chair. Excuse me, a student cluster challenge chair when I was the broader engagement chair, and always enjoyed the camaraderie, as well as the competition and rivalry more so between the teams as they're out on the exhibits floor or as last year out in one of the main exhibit hallways. So really interested in trying to get the word out to let others know about the opportunities that the student cluster challenge can provide. And hopefully this podcast will let others know how they can get involved. And we look forward to receiving applications. Oh, yeah, my name is Doug Smith. I actually work for the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado. I am their HPC admin. And we learned about this right after SCO 6 in Tampa and have submitted a proposal as a team from CEU every year to compete and have loved doing so, watching my students pull her hair out at 2 o'clock in the morning. OK, so thanks for the intro. So said they were in the hallway and they're there at 3 AM. And basically any time I was walking around the SC floor, there were students around their clusters. They have actual machines there. What exactly is this competition? Is it software? Is it hardware? So this is Hayya. And I'll go ahead and just give you a briefing of what the challenge is about. Basically the students at the team of six undergraduate or high school students or a combination of the two, they work with the vendor partner to come up with an architecture suitable for the applications that we present to them for the competition. This year there'll be four applications. We haven't decided which high performance applications yet, but they'll be announced shortly. Based on that and wanting to do very well on their HPCC benchmark runs, they come up with an architecture. They hopefully will have time to work on it before the actual conference. They'll bring their clusters to the conference. And when they're there, they'll run the HPCC benchmarks. They'll run application competition data sets that they've never seen before. They'll be given sample data sets prior to the competition. And the team with the highest performance on the benchmarks, along with the highest throughput of application runs, along with impressing interview judges, the team with the highest points is the one that wins. And so basically they're scrambling for the entire duration of the conference between battling with their clusters and also showing people that they have learned what they've learned throughout the process. It's very intense. So I didn't know about the interview. That's interesting. So you're actually seeing how much these students actually have learned and figured out. And in the competition, it's not just the highest LIN-PAC number. It's also how many given sets to push through of a given application. Yes, exactly. So there is, I mean, we do recognize at the top 500 announcement, the general top 500 announcement, the team with the highest LIN-PAC, but that's not necessarily the team that wins the overall cluster competition. I would point out that there's sort of a developing curse in that the team that is posted the highest LIN-PAC has never won the competition. I wonder if that's some kind of a relativistic statement on the state of HPC in itself. LIN-PAC's great, but doesn't necessarily reflect real-world HPC. Exactly. And that's what we want. We want teams to come in knowing that they have to run a real HPC workload, not just get the highest marks on LIN-PAC. So do students have the opportunity to kind of choose, say I'm presented as a competition participant with a given application that can run parallel, but maybe doesn't scale to my entire machine. Can I choose to run one job at a time across the whole thing or maybe run two, but maybe give a little better parallel efficiency on two smaller jobs? Exactly. We want the teams to have played enough with the application so that when they come in, they know how many cores are going to be throwing at a particular application. They have to be able to figure out what's the best way to plan their workload so that they can get the most through. Basically. That's interesting. Everyone's always interested in going absolutely as fast as possible, but this is the time-to-solution problem. You have X amount of stuff that needs to be done, not get one of them done as quickly as possible. Exactly. And since we are sufficiently evil, we give them way more than they could possibly do. And we don't let them know. I mean, they should have known by playing with the data sets for the samples that some, they shouldn't even try. Hopefully, they have some idea of what a data set, how long it's going to take. That's most excellent. I have to say, I was muted when I was chuckling when you said you're sufficiently evil, but at the same time, that's also true, right?  There's always going to be more stuff that you can pump through a cluster. And it's a very complex decision about exactly what can and should an administrator or set of users allow to run on their hardware. Yes. Yeah, and also, I mean, I'm a sysadmin and understanding the whole idea of, you can't just throw more cores at it. That doesn't necessarily solve your problem. It doesn't necessarily help you. And it may not be an efficient use when we're throwing however many hundreds of thousand dollars in your electric bills at this equipment that's appreciating that thousands of dollars per year too. So it's a good understanding to understand all of that, not just get the highest impact number. It's a great educational experience for the students because they really get psyched and excited about it. And these real-world applications, such that you're not just throwing those cores at them, they have to really think about how they're going to plan together as a team to try to get each of these applications accomplished. So what are the constraints for the students? I mean, can a school just show up with the largest set of equipment out there and set the most amount of kit on the floor is going to have an advantage? Or do they have only like a single 20 amp service or it must fit inside a 42U rack? Is there any type of constraint like that? There are definite constraints on the, we want to make sure it's an even playing field. One of the biggest constraints is that we only give them 26 amps and it's off of two 20 amp circuits. So they have 13 on each that they're allowed to use. So they have to figure out how to balance their cluster, basically. It's not necessarily that we're evil and we want to only give them 26 amps, but we work within the constraints of what a convention center provides. So it's impressive though that they can do it. And part of our flyer that's coming out will show that what is 26 amps? Well, it's about as much power to have three coffee makers going. So they're running an HPC workload off of what three coffee makers require. So that's pretty impressive. Yeah, and giving them as much work as they could possibly consume, they know they're going to be there all night and it's going to be right up till the very end of the time limit. I hope you let them run a supplemental coffee maker to supply the caffeine. We do. Well, actually there was one team last year, ASU who came with an extremely nice, I think espresso maker. They were better decked out than the committee members. So I think that one alone probably was taking the majority of their power. Other constraints, it's a single cluster. So I think the height limitation was 19, but I don't know if people have been very stringent about the height. I think the power is what's the primary limiting component to the challenge.  We give them a large LCD to show their output. All have to fit within a 10 by 10 booth. Okay, and what other, so that power envelope there, does that include the LCD? Does it include any monitors? It includes the network or is it just the servers or is that everything, everything, everything? No, so it's for the cluster itself. The LCD monitor, we give them one extra one for their laptops and their coffee maker and for the LCD monitor. Well, I wanna go back and touch on the evilness bit again, how do you design the problem sets?  So I'm an application scientist. I create nuclear physics codes and for all the applications that we choose, we find a domain specialist who has worked closely with the codes as well as the data sets. And we ask them to provide something easy, something hard, give them, let them know that the competition for running the applications is on the order of 48 hours. So what would take longer, give us enough data sets to pass 48 hours basically. Okay, what kind of things have you run in the past? What kind of applications and whatnot? The first year, we ran a quantum chemistry model called GAMES. We ran an embarrassingly parallel model called Povray or POVray, I don't know how it's pronounced. Yes, Povray. Last year we ran WARF, another model and the past two years we've run NWCAM. We've also run, I think some biosciences models, Rax ML, I believe is one, Open Foam, which was a finite element, yeah. Those are the ones I can pick up off the top of my head. So those are really spanning the gamut of quite a few disciplines there. So there's a lot of involvement here from the entire community is what I'm hearing. Yes, so what we highly recommend of the student teams is that they enlist domain specialists. And you'd be surprised if you send an email to someone and say, I wanna know more about your application, how willing they are to explain it. And so we've seen teams like Purdue consistently, they'll, you know, throughout their, you know, throughout Purdue, they'll go around finding people who understand these applications and bring them in and get them to help the students or the students themselves will be a domain specialist and then they have to learn the cluster portion of it. So it's a really nice, you know, education and HPC across the board. And I just have to say, I think it's, there was a student from Jugg School, so Dustin Lieberman, who said he didn't really know that much about HPC, he was a contestant during the first year. And now he's working for Oak Ridge National Lab. So do you constrain any software? So you have the target application, but do the students have to pick which compiler they're gonna use, which MPI library they're gonna use, any supporting libraries they're gonna use? Like, say the application you're using can be built with, say, two different IO libraries or two different FFT libraries. Do you dictate which one they're supposed to use or do they basically have to figure out the better one to use on their system? We let them figure it out. We don't constrain any of the software that they're supposed to come up with. Just a target application, you must solve an NWCAM model. Exactly. So if they, I mean, if they can get the application running, then they'll know what software they need to come up, come with, basically. And we give them sufficient time, well, we will be giving them sufficient time this year to really get to know the applications. We should be announcing them within the month, probably before the end of February, so that they have sufficient time to understand them and figure out what kind of hardware and software configuration they need to come with to be competitive. Okay, so where do they get this hardware support from vendors? Do you set them up, you being the facilitator, set them up with vendors, or do they, as a team, have to go out and kind of recruit vendors to provide them with equipment? In the past, it's kind of worked both ways, depending on if there's already a relationship that a university or a team from a university has with their vending company or vendor from their university, then they might pair up that way. We do try to assist with partnering or trying to get additional donations or donors to sponsor a particular team so that we can get as many teams involved if they have not already provided or found a relationship with a vendor, an existing vendor. We've used vendors that we've had already on campus in the past, but this year, I think we're gonna expand the field and try to examine as many vendors as possible and make a selection. Well, as I said, we have a lot of vendors who are very interested to be paired up with teams. They don't know, you know, they need help to get to a team and the teams sometimes need help to get to a vendor, so hopefully that won't be, you know, it won't dissuade a team or a vendor to become interested in the competition. Okay, so you mentioned that high school teams are allowed. What's, how many high school teams do you have in a given year? Well, we haven't had a full high school team, I believe one year, I think it was an O8, that there was a high school student associated with the team, but actually this year, we are trying to foster a team of purely high school students. Yeah, in O7, Alberta, University of Alberta, I think it was, had a high school student on their team, and I believe he returned last year with their team as well. I think he was 16 when he started. Wow. I think Alberta that year had the youngest team member and the oldest team member on their team, didn't they? Yes. Going for all kinds of records that year. Yeah. So all right, well, let's talk about the past. Who's won in the past and what have their achievements been in the past? So this competition's only been going on since O7 and Reno. That year, the University of Alberta won the overall competition. I don't recall who the Limpac winner was actually. I know that we were kind of, do you remember who it was Doug? Yeah, it was Taiwan. Taiwan. Yeah, I'm gonna probably pronounce it wrong, but it was like the National Tsinghua University. You got it perfectly, right. But they also won the Limpac in 08 as well. Yes. Right, so, and the numbers, they're roughly at about 700 gigaflops in 08. And if you think about it, so I think a lot of the teams that are trying to configure their hardware so that they can break a terraflop on 26 amps, which is pretty impressive, because if you think like the first terraflop machine in 97, the ASCII Red from Sandia needed 850 kilowatts. So to be able to do it on the order of three is pretty amazing. And it tells you how far cluster technology has come. That's very cool. That's HPC technology. You wouldn't happen to remember, what have the Limpac numbers been over the past couple of years? Even if we've only been doing this a couple of years, but it would just be interesting to see what the trend is. The same power envelope every year? I mean, is this something we could make an apples to apples kind of comparison and see an interesting trend on just what the students are able to do in the same amount of power with newer, better hardware, assumedly every year? Well, I could say, I think Taiwan's winning Limpac in 07 was like 420 gigaflops and ours, the University of Colorado's in 09 was 658. I don't know about 08, what Taiwan did there. I think 08 was 703. Yeah. So we kind of peaked out over the last two years. It was 703 and then 692. And the thing is that the teams come in with the back of the envelope calculation saying they're all gonna break a tariff flop with what they bring. Unfortunately, the reality is it doesn't, they're so afraid of hitting that power mark that some people don't run as hard as they could. And even, I was gonna say, a side competition, a lot of the students really get friendly with each other and build up these little side competitions. And one of them is before the competition starts or after the competition's over is to run our clusters full bore, right? Without any power restrictions.  And we still, we come really close to a tariff flop, but it's really hard to get over that. Okay, that's all pretty cool. How, on a different vein here, how exactly did the schools attract interest in this? I mean, how do you create a team? How do you find undergraduate students who are HPC savvy enough or interested in HPC to be able to field a good team with a reasonable showing and whatnot? I think that's the answer to the question, yeah. Yeah, the way we've been able to do it is, of course, we put up flyers everywhere. We announced it in all of the undergraduate CS classes. We try to put some advertisement out in other departments like astronomy, physics, chemistry, since the models are used in those domains. A lot of word of mouth. We have the ACM student chapter. Those are the main places that we really advertise and draw from. And we get students all over the skill level. Some of our students have never touched any clustering. Others have played with it a little bit. So that's what we've tried to do. So I think Doug is leaving out one of the important components, and that is him. You have to find a strong enough supervisor or an advisor, someone who will spearhead the initiative and really bring these students along and find out what are their weaknesses and where do they need to be augmented and bring in that information and really keep the kids motivated. The supervisor is the key component to getting them ready, bringing them to the show floor. They're responsible for them on the show floor. For us, I think the biggest way to build a team, the way that I've been dealing with building teams is finding someone who will spearhead a team, basically. And then from our side of the view from the committee side, we're really trying to, applications actually are gonna be opened on February 1st. So we want everyone to go to the website, the sc10.supercomputing.org website and take a look either at the Participate link or the Technical Program link, and we'll find additional information concerning rules and guidelines and information about the applications that we're running and general information about how to submit for we're really trying to, we'll have a flyer that will be up that everyone will be able to download and just like Doug as well as Hayat stated, we wanna get the word out to all the different departments, as many departments as possible, mailing lists, Twitter, definitely using this podcast. We thank you very much, Jeff and Brock for having us on as well as to just try to disseminate it through a lot of the other communities from their mailing lists as well. So if anyone is interested in participating, definitely go to the sc10.supercomputing.org website. The Student Cluster Challenge is also part of what's called SC Communities, which brings together programs that are designed to support merging leaders and groups that traditionally have been underrepresented in community and computing, excuse me. And hey, I had the opportunity to talk to a lot of these individuals from last year's a broader engagement program as well as the student volunteers program and education program. And so a lot of those individuals are now going out to their various universities and departments trying to let them know and hopefully we'll have some new additional teams this year that are applying. So we definitely want you to go onto the website, take a look and please do submit the applications open this February 1st. And really from a faculty perspective, this is really an excellent additional thing to your SC courses, or I'm sorry, your scientific computing courses and high performance computing courses in the CS programs. This is all hands on, ours is all hands on. So it's a great addition to curriculum that an institution may already have. I know some other institutions have actually built curriculum around the competition. So it really isn't a great opportunity. So Tiki, you were talking about the application process there and what exactly do you have to submit? Is there a lot of paperwork? Is it easy to apply? What are the requirements for it? And how do you decide on which teams will be accepted? Is there a limit on the number of teams? I assume there's a physical amount of space that you are limited to at the convention center and things like that. Yes, well, as I stated before, the applications do open February 1st, 2010. So we want you to go onto the sc10.supercomputing.org website and you'll of course have to submit your information about your team members as well as advisor and that's up to six members and they either need to be high school or undergraduates have not received a four year degree as of yet, as of the competition. The application deadline is April 16th, 2010 and we're trying to get notifications to be sent out the week of the first week in May, around May 3rd or so. So the information will be submitted electronically. Basic information, contact information about each of the participants and also we're looking for each of the teams to provide final architectural proposals around September 16th and we'll be able to, as Hayah had stated, provide the actual application such that they can run their tests. Initially we would love for them to be able to get started as early as possible with contacting, communicating with possible gender partners. That should be done as she stated before by the end of February, if not earlier. So I can just round up that information a little bit. We're looking for six to eight teams to be competing and in each team there needs to be six team members, undergraduate or high school. They need to come equipped with a supervisor and advisor who is affiliated with their educational institution and for their initial application, they need to submit a proposal that we've actually modified this year. I'm hoping it will be successful but originally they needed to submit a complete proposal with their entire architecture as well as their hardware and their software configurations and we found that we needed to give the schools more time to figure out their vendor relationship and figure out their hardware but they also needed to know in advance whether they would be participating. So we've broken up the proposal into two components. One is a team proposal where they get together with their team, they explain why this team is going to be a winning team. What kind of diversity of skills do they provide? What kind of experience do they have? Hopefully they're not coming in completely clueless and they've done some sort of research on system configurations. So we'd like for them to give us a proposal that doesn't have to be very specific but a general proposal of what kind of system they might be coming with as well as what kind of demonstrations they might do to outreach to the judges, to impress the judges, to outreach to the participants. So that's the initial team proposal and then once they've been chosen we will ask for a final architecture proposal that they worked with their vendor and their advisor on so that we know if they're coming with something completely outrageous we might be able to give them some advice. And there isn't a small additional requirement that your hardware must be, and correct me if I'm wrong, hey, it has to be commercially available by the competition. Exactly. Yeah, so you can't come with unreleased product. Well, that takes all the fun out of it, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it can definitely, I mean, depending on who your vendor partner is, that can be a tricky, tricky thing. But we've modified it to be, it has to be commercially available on the day that the challenge starts. Some people want it to be that close. Well, everybody times things to be released at supercomputing, so that's probably very, very helpful, I would assume. So I wanna circle back to the team composition question here, a related question a little bit. Where do universities get the expertise to actually train the team members, particularly in some of the nuts and bolts issues, of setting up a cluster and setting up a competitive environment and things like, these are pretty specialized skill sets that good HBC administrators are difficult enough to come by, but then you wanna go and throw it in a competitive environment that's gonna span so many different disciplines and fields. You talked about getting subject matter experts in all the different fields, but what about the actual administration side of it itself? Now, Doug, you might be a bit of a ringer in this area because this is what you do all day and every day, but what do other universities and organizations do? Yeah, I mean, we've tried to mentor students both from the vendor side, as well as from, in my case, the faculty representative side. And this year, we leaned on the application specialist a lot more than we had in the past, so that students could get a much more in-depth familiarity with given applications. So really, it's a collaborative effort from the entire HBC community. We're training the next level of us, so the vendors have been great with participating, you have your faculty sponsors, a lot of the domain specialists are out there. You ask for help and a lot of people step up to actually help you. So what's the benefits of being on a team provided by ASC? Do the participants get free admission to the conference or free shipping for this 400-pound cluster, they're shipping halfway across the country? What's benefit now? It's an honor just to compete. It is, jeez. So all the team members, including their faculty advisor, do receive free registration into the conference. We hope that the vendor partner will be, I believe traditionally the vendor partner has shipped the cluster to the show floor because a lot of times they're already there and they send it with their booths or sometimes they just take up the cost on that. Other benefits are, it seems to be, one of the students said one of the biggest benefits was an unlimited supply of Mountain Dew. We feed them, but we work them really hard and the camaraderie of being there on the show floor with a bunch of other miserable students who are very sleep deprived. What other, students love that, they live for those moments. But I think one of the biggest benefits I've seen is the exposure. I mean, again, I go back to Dustin Lieberman or to some of the other students and a lot of the SC participants are coming and talking to the students and these are really bright kids and they know that it's an excellent employee base, people to exploit for their use and labor. We also hope that the vendor partners may be able to assist with travel support but we do try to work with each of the teams in terms of, of course, hotel arrangements even though they'll probably be up under or next to their clusters working on them. But in addition to registration, you want to be able to make sure that in case they do need a bed in a place to stay, we work on those logistics and help out with that as well. And in addition, as just as, as well as Doug was stating, the educational experience and being able to meet with individuals at the largest international supercomputing conference that is known. Just the opportunities besides the networking, the students can also, if they can even get away from their clusters for just a couple of minutes, can participate in a student job fair. They can also participate in a mentor and protege program if they have or so inclined to. So there are many, it's a tremendous number of opportunities that the students will receive as benefits for participating in the student cluster challenge this year. That's cool. So how does one become a sponsor?  They have no real university contacts or contacts with a team. How would you get matchmakered up with, with somebody who's looking for a sponsor? So Jeff, you can call me. I'm looking for a university of Colorado. There you go. Well, how about a general answer for any other founder or potential sponsor out there? Go ahead. You can contact us through the website, through student-cluster-challenge-info.supercomputing.org or go to, as I stated before, the sc10.supercomputing.org website. Let us know if you have any interest in being a donor, also known as a sponsor in some other communities and we'd love to get you involved. We'll also have some information literature flyers that we'll have coming out, definitely the beginning of February, which is just next week. So if you have any interest at all, please do contact us and we would love to have you participate and support some of these wonderful students from these teams that are gonna be really from throughout the world. So what's in it for the winner? Gotta ask about what's the winner gonna get? You gotta ask that. So in the previous years, there's been a plaque with your name on it, really nifty that says that you were the winner, but we are actually fostering some new ideas this year. Actually, I don't wanna downgrade that. Not only, I think one of the things the students have also done is, they've gone to conferences afterwards, explaining their experience. So that kind of exposure has been really great, but the overall winner receives a plaque as well as this year, we're talking with a couple of different vendor partners and sponsors to come up and up the ante a little bit. I know there's been some talk about perhaps donation of a small cluster or travel grants to conferences and things of that sort. So we're still working on that. I think we'll know more about prizes as the year progresses. Well, that's cool. I mean, I think that bragging rights actually in itself is still a huge thing because way back in the day when dinosaurs were walking around with abacus is I took my hand at the old ACM programming contest thing and that was just tremendously fun and it doesn't have nearly the same level of exposure that you do to vendors and other HPC luminaries and stuff that this competition does. So I would think that, I made a joke about it earlier in the podcast that it's an honor just to compete, but I have to believe that that's actually true. It's gotta be tremendously fun and tremendously cool just to do it. And I'm not saying that just for my own job security. I say that just because I can imagine that it would just be a tremendously fantastic learning experience and just life experience to do it. Sounds corny when I say it, but I still believe it. No, I absolutely agree.  I think their only complaint was, that they didn't have sleeping bags at the show for, but other than that, you know, they just love being there and they love the competition. Doug, Tiki and Heya, thank you very much for your time, for doing this and this will actually go up after February 1st, when this goes out, the actual applications that are listed will, I believe will be listed, right, February 1st. The applications? The applications open. The applications open February 1st. We'll have additional information on the website at that time. We will also definitely update the SC10 website under the technical program and communities program concerning once we finalize the applications. So I think just to clarify for the listeners, let's make sure, I think we're overloading the word applications here in two definitions. Tiki, could you explain? Yes, definitely. The application, the process to submit an application, a team of up to six members and an advisor will open on February 1st. So we want all interested individuals and teams to go on to the sc10.supercomputing.org website and we'll provide you with the link that will allow you to submit your information about your team, to answer some of the general questions and to provide an initial overview of your architecture proposal. Now, as time progresses, as we continue on, we have not finalized the actual applications that the students will probably be run on to give them some test data that we will update on the SC10 website so that you can be informed and see what types of applications that you can run your cluster on to prepare yourself for the upcoming challenge. This will be out soon and thank you for your time. Thank you. Thanks, everybody.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards, and I'm doing a two box baseball break for Sinvicta One of them being a 2022 Panini select baseball and the other being a 2022 tops tribute baseball So good luck Sinvicta. See what we got in here for you, man You guys know Sinvicta. I've pulled Panini points for him a few times. So Sinvicta's in chat right now and Hope and I don't pull him Panini points These packs are every which way there we go empty box there. Yep All right, Sin. Let's do it man. I'm in level silver. That is Boba Shat my trout got white of Kyle Tucker to 50 for the Stroze Send the hits keep the bulk. You got it No need for bulk select Auto Lopez got silver Matt Olson I'm gonna send you the silvers and stuff though, too, Sinvicta, but I'll keep everything else Friday I got Chris Rodriguez on the patch autograph tri-color to 49 for the angels. There you go Chris Rodriguez Brandon Marsh on the select stars Pocastro got Greg Deekman on the RPA for the Cubs There you go, Greg Deekman Moonshot show head.  That's the Kraken Gary Sanchez Part of the Yankees now a twin David see something big New bar Manoa got red Nathan Evaldi to 199 For the socks color match on that one Silver inserts. Yeah, I got you Yeah, that's fine and the abanhas Tri-color not numbered is Ozzy Alves and in flago Bryce Harper Now we're gonna keep all the parallels just send you the base on Varsha silver Nate Pearson on the premiere level on her seabolds Rookie of Brandon Marsh nice O'Neill Cruz on the rookie jumbo jersey. There you go Sinvicta nice rookie to get right there pretty solid and Brian Reynolds nice Tyler Stevenson got Thomas Sapuki on the Silver jumbo patch with a little bit of a pinch right there. That is to 250 There you go on the Sapuki on the silver got Savale Merrifield got Brian Reynolds on the not-number tri-colored and Jose Altuve on the round numbers your straws fan I'll throw that in too. I'm a nice guy. It's in Victor. I'm a nice guy All right, good luck on the tribute here some Victor. See what we got here for a man. Open something big Yeah, hopefully a one-on-one. Oh, that'd be so sick. All right first box. Here we go Got Randy Johnson at as an astro astro legend Randy Johnson and Rafi Devers First hit is gonna be Raymeltopia. That is 20 of 50 on the stamp of approval That's color match purple for the Rockies. That's pretty sick. Actually. I don't know offhand how much tribute is The honest Emperor probably like four or five hundred I'd have to imagine yeah 549 that sounds about right Yeah, maybe Machado base followed by Mariano base Now hi is Garrett Anderson on the stadium signatures That is 41 of 50. That's really cool That's really cool Garrett Anderson was a stud to Nice giant on-card auto for you there too some picked up part of the stadium relic nice hit man Feeling a little bit better here now That's hot I saw Topia play a few times actually played in the minor league Near my house when I was living in Connecticut Ozzie Smith base Peter Lonzo as well on the base Got jumbo Triple relic Jersey bat bat that is also to 50 38 of 50 Maddolson on the purple there you go some Victor nice low numbered stuff so far I think 50 has been the lowest number we pulled of anything There you go We've got purple to 50 this time Salvador Perez For the Royals got Jose Berrios behind that next auto is gonna be Riley Adams 104 of 199 for the Nationals There you go some Victor Riley Adams Grats on that one man. Oh On the Nice rookie to 99 Ryan blade for the Rockies That's green on the blade. These are funny looking one of ones and Victor says Nice to 199 Derek Jeter on the double bat on double bat relic nice one there some Victor Grats on that man and last pack of the break. Good luck here some Victor Matt Chapman on the base as well as MV free on the base and We've got to 150 Austin Meadows 69 nice out of 150 on The blue congrats on that one man That'll do it for your break there some Victor congrats on all the hits. I've got those right out to man. Thanks as always


Good afternoon everyone, and thank you so much Dr. Cole for that very warm and heartfelt introduction It's my pleasure to begin this afternoon by Sharing with you some of my own photographs, but I'll also be showing work by other artists And I wanted to kind of shift the conversation Just a little bit or maybe a lot We've been talking about searching for our roots and how we go about searching for our roots Especially in the 21st century when we have at our hands some of the amazing research some of the amazing scientific work That we've we've heard today from our specialists but I think in addition to DNA testing and also in addition to Looking at how science has been able to help us search for and sometimes find our roots Many diasporic Africans have traditionally chosen to search for their roots by engaging in heritage tourism and I've done for about the past 15 years a number of different studies on African diasporic heritage tourism particularly to Ghana and I think often and I'm showing you here in the first slide an image from the distance of Elmina Castle a castle fort fortified complex that was built by the Portuguese in 1482 on the coast of Ghana and This slide here is of Fort Good Hope and as many of you may or may not know But the coast of Ghana is lined with forts and castles built by the European traders with assistance from Local Africans in the 1400s 1500 1600 1700s and so on and these forts are places that have Symbolic and historic meaning for many of us and so in searching for our roots Often diasporic Africans have sought to actually go to some of these sites To look at in these sites to search in records in places like Ghana for example or even Senegal For their roots, but they're often looking in these actual physical Places that we see and one of the things it's important to consider and as we look at the photographs realize that Life goes on that these forts and so-called castles are not just places that relate Only to the history of the slave trade, but in fact there are people living Fishing working there are actually many people who are artists on the coast Who are very much attuned to this tourist trade and attuned to making works that are available for sale that help to Feed into these narratives of how we construct our past if we for the four on the one hand don't have the The benefit of DNA research or even if we do have the benefit of DNA research We're trying to affirm that research or perhaps search for a different finding and in the image that I'm showing you here We have a young man who is an artist He lives in Elmina and he's done a series of works where he's painted the exterior of Elmina castle It's a pretty familiar exterior and in the series here He has two different versions that he has for sale This one is called the revenge of the blacks where he has a Group of African men who were taken as a coffill Trying to be taken by Europeans as a coffill into this this fortified castle Elmina here But instead they are able to escape and defend themselves and get away the flip side of this image that he also sells is one where they're taken in and They are taken in and and they don't actually get away So we have tourist art that we see available for sale And of course the conversations that go on between people who come again and again as tourists But also I like to call them pilgrims. These are people who are searching for the roots But who often make it a practice of going to Africa going to different places in Africa sometimes the same place Sometimes often Ghana again and again because it's a pilgrimage where they go to visit these sites and where they go to visit Families and places that have become Their reclaimed home. They are in a sense returning home And so we see here in Elmina Castle one of the interiors of One of the dungeons and a group of tourists from NYU This is a group that I was with in 2005 with NYU and a tour guide. This is of course one of the most Personal spaces I think that we all experience in the castles and on the tours But I'd like to also talk about this idea that I've written about called symbolic possession of the past and Symbolic possession of the past not only in the work of visual artists people like Romare Bearden I'm showing you work here by Romare Bearden called Roots Odyssey from 1972 that he makes on the occasion of the first televised many series roots We're in artists of African descent and their allies as well as heritage tourists engage in a type of Symbolic possession of the historical past they embrace the symbols It might be the architecture of Ghana the architecture of the forts and castles of Ghana It might be the symbolic image of the slave ship that I've been writing about And they embrace these symbols in such a way as to find a Way to understand their way of being and their place in the present how they've come to be part of and African diaspora they embrace these symbols in a ritual fashion and Artists like Bearden and others that we'll see have used this image of the slave ship and I'm showing you one of the very first Imprints of this image that was made by a Committee at Plymouth in the UK in 1789 to protest The abominable state of the slave trade and in fact to try to bring an end to the slave trade in England This image that you see here in detail Showed small figures representing the enslaved and it was the first time that in the UK And it was distributed around Europe and also in other places in the United States as well by 1790 the people could actually see in the inside of the slave ship And that's how this image became so very impactful to many of you today It might be something that might seem somewhat commonplace But for many of those in the late 18th century. It was actually quite a horrific image It was also important too because in this particular Version here a broadside or a poster called description of a slave ship that was published by the London Committee of the Abolition Society in 1789 it actually shows seven numbered sections and figures so that you have an architectural plan one that enables you to Imagine a schematic in a space in which people are crowded inside of a slave ship that is going across The Atlantic Ocean for a period of seven to nine weeks during the Middle Passage and in this description that you see here It's not just a graphic representation, but Additionally, you have a description with the amount of space. It's that's allowed for each individual who's on on the ship by male female boy and girl also the kinds of Health conditions that were available on the ship as well And this is an image that was distributed in the hundreds of thousands by the end of the of the of the 18th century To the point where it really was the leading graphic image to end the slave trade and by the 1850s When they had the British patrols along the coast of West Africa a painter and a Sailor named Maynell who was part of one of those patrols Captured a ship and on the ship was able to paint from life in watercolor the conditions below the hold of the slave ship So when I talk about symbolic possession of the past I talk about this idea of repetition artists repeating The same image over and over again But to really try to come to a different understanding of what that image might mean at a different point in time And here I show you in 1928 1928 the Mexican artist Miguel Calvarubias Who's designed the in papers of a book called the adventures of an African slave trader? That's republished in 1928 using again this iconic image And he's also using the language of art of art history in 1928 where you can see The sort of modernist shape that he gives to the figures that he has representing the enslaved in the slave ship icon by 1969 Malcolm Bailey who was the first African-American artist to premiere At a gallery named Cinque after the leader of the Amistad revolt in New York City in 1969 this gallery was opened by Ernest Critchlow and Romir Bearden and Norman Lewis prominent artist in New York City to showcase the work of young black artists Bailey decides to again return to this image to Think about this moment in 1969 if you can think about the black power movement and you see in his version, which is very much almost a blueprint image He includes blacks and whites in the boat at the same time making a comment about the relationship economically between blacks and whites in 1969 also in the same year we have a Mary Baraka known as Previously known as Leroy Jones who does a play called slave ship and it's a play that is based on the history of the transatlantic slave trade and about African-American culture and African-American history But he uses The diagram of the slave ship and I'm showing you here The stage design to create a theater in the round where everyone in the audience is implicated By this schematic space and anyone in that audience could be sold to Someone or anyone in that audience could have been taken advantage of physically as many people were On the slave ship during the middle passage if we progress into the late 1970s Bob Marley uses the image again on the album cover survival and then we see also by the 1990s and the 2000s Hank Willis Thomas on the right-hand side sort of co-ops and adapts an absolute vodka ad And transforms it into thinking about absolute power We can also think about how In present day when many of us are thinking about the struggles Particularly in the American prison system and the protests against the prison industrial complex how in this work here? on the left too soon for sorry The plan of the slave ship is also crisscross with the plan for an actual prison a present-day prison Hank Willis Thomas is also taking this image and done a series of credit cards and thinking about the relationship again an Economic relationship to the history of the slave trade and the black male body in particular You can see the imprint and some of the other icons of this history That we see and the implications again on the scarred body and another work here his afro-american express Uses in graphic form these very small figures aligning The perimeter of the card itself Many artists have thought about again the transatlantic Voyage of the middle passage Deborah Willis Hank Willis Thomas his mother we've spoken about her earlier in in this conference Has worked in fabric in for many many years, and this is one of her quilts Where and she found actually a piece of fabric that had these line drawings in the background of a French slave ship and then used historical images of Sail signs and also coffolds to make a print or rather a quilt About the transatlantic slave trade and then a work that I think is really really interesting It's worn here in this photograph by David Driscoll The venerable african-american artist and art historian at the University of Maryland He had a jeweler in Hyde'sville make this this bracelet here that you can see that has this main Iconic image here on his wrist Many artists including Willie Cole have thought about the relationship between the shape of this icon and we can talk about icons and shape And the type of labor that women have done particularly through Women's and domestic work and the ironing board. This is a work by Willie Cole entitled stowage Where he actually uses the printing process to create a very large-scale Work using an ironing board and then works here by Mary net a Mary net a porter who was a fellow here at the Smithsonian some time ago Has also used vintage ironing boards again to kind of think through This image again with her Relationship to women in her family and many artists are using this this this image to talk about Again the relationship to the diaspora becoming part of a diaspora would also to tell familial stories as well And then Betty saw a noted artist once said when I interviewed her about her use of the slave ship icon Because she has again in many different instances in ritual form Used this work and that's another part of this idea of symbolic possession thinking about the ritual possession that We can think of in certain kinds of ritual performances. She said that you know for me It's a part of my DNA. That's what she said in the interview I didn't pull it out of her for the conference, but she said I feel that it is a part of my DNA Another image that I wanted to share with you which might be another familiar image is an image from Gory Island in Senegal another very I think in terms of thinking about the familiar images of the West Coast of Africa of Places that we might associate with the transatlantic slave trade with one way in which we might think about a Formation of the African diaspora is this this very symbolic and historic image of the door of no return Photographed by many including Carrie Mae Weems a contemporary artist who has a retrospective Traveling around the country now and this is one of her works from that series that she did in Ghana in 1993 Another artist to Maria Magdalena compels ponds Has photographed rather has done photography, but also installation art where she's utilized the slave ship icon to think about the way in which African religious traditions were Transformed but also retained in the New World and in this work in English and in Spanish She says let us never forget. This is called the seven powers referring to the seven powers Yoruba powers that were translated into Santaria The seven powers come by the sea and you see the figures. They are representing the seven powers Worked by Keith Piper a black British artist It's an image this image here of the slave ship one that really travels like the slave ship did Around the the black Atlantic and this in this work is ship called Jesus He uses the imprint in a multimedia form Similarly in a church in Chicago the new pound new Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church A rose window was remade using a very famous work by Tom feelings from his book Middle Passage in the central Part of the figure that's a risen Christ figure with the words remembrance Around the rose window and we return here to Cape Coast Castle to think about the meaning of the the the the Middle Passage and also the meaning as well of the door of no return the way in which this site has been marked in more Contemporary times particularly since about the mid 1990s Wherein it has been transformed into an international site Where many many diasporic Africans travel and others too from around the world where it has been marked as memorial And where as we see in this last set of slides the door of no return has been renamed The door of return. Thank you very much


Hello everyone. I'm Mrs. Meenakshi Sriyandi, assistant professor from Walshchand Institute of Technology, Shalapur. Welcome to the video lecture on binary search. Learning outcome at the end of this session, students will be able to implement binary search using C programming. Let us see what is searching is. Searching is the process of finding a given data in a list of data. It decides whether a search key is present in the data or not. It is the algorithmic process of finding a particular item in a collection of items. Let us see what are the searching methods are. Sequential search or linear search. Sequential search is a method for finding an element within a list. It sequentially checks each element of the list until a match is found or the whole list has been searched. Binary search. Binary search is also known as half interval search. Logatimic search or binary job is a search algorithm that finds the position of a target value within a sorted array by repeatedly dividing the search interval in half. Hashing. Hashing is the process of converting a given key into address. A hash function is used to generate the address according to a mathematical algorithm. The result of a hash function is known as a hash value or simply a hash. In this video we are going to discuss on binary search. So let us see what is binary searches. Binary search is also known as half interval or logarithmic search is a search algorithm that finds the position of a target value within a sorted array. It only works on a sorted array. It starts the search by comparing the target element with the middle element of the array. If the target element is less than the middle element then the search is carried out in the first half of the array and if the target element is greater than the middle element then the search is carried out in the second half of the array. Let us see the illustration of binary search. Consider an array a which consists of 15 elements and and where all the elements are sorted and our task is to find the target element 16 from this array and we know that the array always begins with an index zero and it ends at the index with size minus one. Now to find the target element we need two pointers. One of the pointer that is low is initialized to zero 0th index and another pointer high is initialized to size minus one index that is high is initialized to 14th index and every time we need to take care that the value of low is always less than high. Based on the pointers of low and high we need to compute the third pointer called as mid and it is given in this form that is low plus high divided by two. Low is zero and high is 14 that divided by two gives 17. So the position of mid pointer is placed at 17. Now we need to compare a of seventh value with the target element. Here we can see that the target value is lesser than a of mid. For that we need to continue our search by adjusting high to mid minus one. So in the next iteration we need to adjust high to mid minus one. Now with the new position of low and high we need to compute the mid again. Low at present is zero and high is at six. Again we can see that low is lesser than high. Now after that we have computed mid which which gives the value three. So here mid is three. Now again a of mid is now compared with the target element. Here we can see that the comparison is not equal. Here the target value is greater than a of mid. For that we need to now adjust the low. For this we need to iterate again by adjusting the low to mid plus one. So in the next iteration low is adjusted to mid plus one. So with the new values of low and high we need to compute the mid value. Now again we can see that low value is at four and high is at six. So low is lesser than high. So based on this we have computed the mid value that is five. So the a of mid is now compared with the target element. Here we can see that the target element is lesser than a of mid. Now when it is lesser than a of mid we need to adjust high. That is high should be adjusted to mid minus one. So in the next iteration we need to adjust high to mid minus one. Now based on low and high value the new mid is computed. But before that we need to check that low is less than or equal to high. Yes low is less than or equal to high. So based on this mid is equal to four. So the new mid is placed at four. Now we need to compare a of mid with the target element. And we can see that the target element is equal to a of mid. So here we can see that the target is found at the index four of the array. Now let us see the illustration when the best case of binary search is achieved. For that consider an array where it consists of six elements and here we want to find the target element as 22. So here again low and high are placed. Low is initialized to 0th index and high is indexed at the sixth index. So based on this the mid value is computed that gives the value three. So mid is placed at the third index. Now here the target element is compared with the a of mid element. And here we can see that the target is equal to a of mid. And we have seen that the target is found at a of three. Now the best case of the binary search is achieved when in only one comparison the target element is found. Let us see the illustration when the worst case of the binary search is achieved. So again consider the same array and we hear and here we want to find the target element as 35. So here again low is adjusted to 0 and high is adjusted to the size minus 1th index. And based on this the mid value is computed that is 3. Now mid is at the index 3. So here the a of mid value and the target elements are compared. Here we can see that the target is greater than a of mid. So for that we need to address the low. So low is adjusted to mid plus 1. So in the next iteration low is adjusted to mid plus 1 and based on the new values of low and high the new mid is computed. So it gives the value 5. So here in this situation we can see that low is lesser than high. Then we have computed mid that gives 5. So mid is placed at the index 5. Now here we are comparing the target element with the a of mid element. And here we can see that target is lesser than a of mid. For that we need to go for the next iteration where high is adjusted to mid minus 1. So in the next iteration high is adjusted to mid minus 1 and based on the new values of high and low we need to compute the mid. But before computing mid we need to check whether low is lesser than or equal to high. So here we can see that low and high are placed at the same index. So based on this we have computing the mid value. It gives 4. So a of mid value is now compared with the target element. And in the comparison we can see that the target element is greater than a of mid. When it is greater then we need to address the high in high to mid minus 1. So in the next iteration when we are addressing high to mid minus 1 here we can see that. So here we can see that low is greater than high. And when this happens we can say that the target element is not there in the given array. So the worst case of the binary search is achieved when the target element is not placed in the array and all the comparisons aren't done. Let us see the advantages and disadvantages of binary search. Advantages, binary search is an optimal searching algorithm using which we can search desired element very efficiently. For large list of data it works significantly better than linear search. Disadvantages, this algorithm requires the list to be sorted. Binary search is somewhat complicated than linear search. Try to think and answer what is the algorithm for binary search. Pause the video for some time and note down the answer in your book. Let us see the algorithm for binary search. At the very first step input an array of an element and the target to be searched. And then initialize low to zero and high equal to n minus 1. And repeat steps 4 and 5 while low is lesser than or equal to high. And in the next step compute mid that is equal to low plus high divided by 10. Based on the mid compare the target with a of mid. If the comparison is equal then print the target has found and break the loop. If the target is lesser than a of mid then adjust high equal to mid minus 1. This indicates that the target is greater than a of mid. In that case we need to adjust low and low is said to mid plus 1. Coming out of the loop if low becomes greater than high then that indicates that the target is not found. Let us see the implementation of binary search. So at the very first step we are declaring the array of size 50 and all other variables like target, low, high and mid. This all variables are declared under integer. Then in the next step we are asking the user to enter how many elements he wants to enter in the array. And that value we are collecting by using a scan of statement into n. By using a loop we are collecting the elements into the array. And in the next step we are asking the user to enter the element to be searched. And that we are collecting into the variable called as target. In the next step we are initializing low to zero and high is initialized to n minus 1. Then we are using a while and it is iterated every time till low is lesser than or equal to high. And in each iteration we are computing the mid value by using this formula that is low plus high divided by 10. And the target element is compared with the array's mid element. And if the comparison is equal then we are displaying the message as target is found at the mid plus 1 position. And if it is found then we need to use a break statement to come out of the while loop. Else if we are comparing the target element whether it is lesser than or greater than the mid element. If the target is lesser than the mid element then we need to adjust the high to mid minus 1. Else indicates that the target is greater than the mid element. In that case we need to adjust low equal to mid plus 1. Out of the while loop we need to check whether low becomes greater than high. If low becomes greater than high it indicates that the target element is not present in the array. And here are the program terminates. So this is the implementation of binary search using C programming. These are my references. Thank you.


Yo, what's popping folks welcome to another video as you guys can tell I got my boy in the background right here It is so bright outside gosh. Yeah, so Norm We've been getting rained on quite a bit today So we thought we would take a little break and go inside of Dick's sporting goods right now and norm does not know what we're Doing today, but I have something that might be a little cool And it's something I've been wanting to do for a long long time But if you guys are new to the channel be sure to smash that subscribe button Be sure to like the video if you guys have it already and also comment below if you guys have been enjoying the content and go Subscribe to my boy fishing with norm after the video is over because this is going to be a banger Going up to the fishing section right now. This is actually a fairly big Dick's sporting goods right here We're here in Jacksonville, Florida. We've been here a few times before and Norm always tries to pull something on me every single time But yeah, we're in a pretty big Dick's sporting goods We're gonna be going to the fishing section and this is what we're gonna be doing norm What are we gonna be doing you guys like what are you throw a few like little guesses out there shopping? I mean fishing.  That's not a fun story Especially the point norms wear and he's not wearing Crocs, but it's something similar where you are going to the fishing section It looks like and we're probably gonna get some type of fishing gear for some type of something But you're such a smart guy I have no clue man. You always have your little ideas. Well, that's what I want to say. That's what we're doing We're gonna be buying every single weird lure in Dick's sporting goods today. Oh Define weird though because we can just buy it everything. Yeah, I don't know about that one Don't be destroying my pink account now buying one at everything in the tackle store. Is that what we're doing? No Yes, we are gonna be picking out one of every single weird lure and we're gonna be buying them today I'm gonna get every literally every single one. So we're gonna take a look.  Not yet nothing that really catches your eye. No, it all looks pretty all the same to me Is pink flukes weird that is not a weird lure. I'm sorry.  I used to go night fishing with pink sink goes Kill it money they wouldn't buy any other color besides like the pink It was fun. It was a meme for a while back before I had my youtube channel, but fun fact instead of getting all the weird Lures today.  This feels better than spending a lot of money on weird lures to be honest with you fishing of norms fun fact of the day 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. Don't believe me Look at all. All right, Norman up with the fun facts Now that we got the fun fact of the day now we got to find some some weird looking lures and we're looking for them all Oh boy, I actually see a few I think we're gonna get started here. Let's go ahead put the camera on norm See what he sees right? Oh, I see multiple multiple weird lures Okay, this is why I've seen the comments a lot of people wanting me to fish with this yet I haven't fished with it yet, but it's on clearance to mine's a It's a dragonfly lure everybody wants to see us fish at these things and look they got different colors blue green green and blue I think blue is crazier right then green because a dragon flies like green Yeah, for sure. You'd have to go to blue blue for sure. That's pretty heckin crazy though. That's crazy That's a weird lure for sure. I mean you just don't see like a random dragon I mean when have you ever seen anybody just like oh, yeah today. We're just gonna catch some big bass But I have seen some bass slam some real dragon flies. Have you seen it? Like I don't know. I actually have like last week dragon flies a landing. Bam. All right another weird lure the yappa Man, I'm excited about this one Looks like it's from area 51 dude. Oh, that's killer. You know why I'm like so excited about it It's the kick in their best color, bro. I mean look at that That's the kick in their best yappa bug I think actually probably walks like really cool. It has his little lips. Yeah, that's a problem It probably doesn't what yeah, it's probably like a little uh, like a wakebait almost one eight like a figure eight wobble, you know what I mean? That's cringe do it another one the yappa rat so the same thing but in rat form So instead of this I think this is a kato bug if I'm not mistaken. Maybe Norm remember the remember the Japanese beat a lure last year Oh my god something slayed that's what I feel like this is gonna do it's like it's gonna be better than a top water frog I'm telling you but we also got the rat rats have been pretty normalized though. I feel like norm Eliza get it guys. Haha. It's such a jokester But I feel like everybody's fishing with rats nowadays. It used to be crazy, but Everybody's been fishing with them on youtube and now it's like a normal lure you see in the store as a rat so Kind of crazy not really but we're gonna Be careful now. Don't fall That was a bad idea. That was not good. They don't build things like they used to man. No, I'm saying Yo, look at this this thing is freaking crazy.  That is Are you fishing with this stuff?  All right, what did I pick out? Oh, yeah the crab dude. That's like look at that the blue crab That's super realistic, but that that's just pray. Oh that if there is a weird lure in here It's definitely that I mean that's a saltwater lure, but like yeah for bass fishing like oh, yeah That's definitely why that's why all right. What else is there any other ones over here? Let's see what they got they got a bunch of live target swim baits I wouldn't really call that weird.  There's a shrimp. Is that weird? I don't know man I mean Nah I feel like we want to keep like the saltwater stuff to a minimum. You know what I mean? So like the crab would be cool. Wait should we do the baby crab or the big crab? I just realized I have baby crabs baby crab for sure baby crab Put the big crab baby crab. Yeah, baby crab. Let me see the baby crab hold them up Oh, wow What is that? Do you see this? Um norm out. I don't really know what that is, but I can tell you to be honest. I'm not gonna ask too many questions That does look fire right there. Yeah It's like we're discovering the saltwater section for the first time or bass anglers and everybody's gonna be like These are just normal lovers. Totally. That's we don't know what's going on every year. I'm not gonna lie That is the weirdest looking thing. It's like almost like a soft plastic spook But it's like Two inches. That's So weird and I'm never in my life. Yeah, everyone's probably go. No, these are just normal saltwater lures. Listen We do not do this. Look at this guy.  That's a big boy. I'm big boy shrimp. All right norm. What else? Where are we taking you? Where are we going next? Should we go this way or that way? Um left left No, oh my left. You're right. All right weird lures weird lures Yeah norm that would totally work right there for a big bass, right? I catch them on it Yeah, you're just a big bass player, aren't you? That's me. Oh turtle. Okay That's definitely a weird lure. That's that's one thing that I did buy one I have no idea where it went though. So I guess we got to buy it again. All right So are we getting an uh turtle? Oh, we definitely got to get turtle the bright green turtle Or do you want the the less than bright green turtle? Oh, or the That boy is on 200 that's it. That's it bro. That's that's the kick in the vast turtle right there. All right 100% I have turtles He goes do you want the regular one or the dark one and then there's like a super light one in the back Oh, man. No, I hold it up. That's fire Nice norm. So that's the turtle fire. That's the turtle. Good luck on catching anything on any of these to be honest Honestly, there's the rat and the the bog and the dragonfly will probably work. I don't know about this turtle, man What are you doing dude? You had way too many bang energy drinks in I haven't had a single under here today. Actually, I only had one. I only had one. That doesn't even count as one All right, which this way I guess this way.  I was about to say that has to be one. I've been thinking about it. Oh my gosh. I don't like snakes I hate snakes Dude, I'm talking about my least favorite animal snake all day. I'm the same way Dude, but it has to happen for a basketball like a snake lure just has to happen That's definitely that's probably like one of the ones that was on my mind This one's creepy bro the black one. Should we do the black? We got to do the black dude I already know this is going to be like laying in the grass and you're leaving somewhere I'm going to think it's a real snake. I'm going to lose my mind in the next prank on norm God dude, why do they 3d snake.  Yeah, he hates snakes too.  I was honestly thinking that so not many of you guys saw the prank on lojo I'll put it in a video. It's like my worst performing video in like months. It only got like 50 Might have gotten 60,000 views. It's probably around 50 60,000 views But it was a hilarious prank on lojo. I acted like I stole his rods and dude. I was thinking man Me and my buddy did this to my dad, dude. He was taking a schmedly on the toilet Okay in the hotel room and we like pitched a jig past the toilet and he had the door open for some reason dude, and this is like during high school fishing days Dude, I like speed that thing up and he like stops. He's like, dude, there's a rat in here, man There's a rat. It's the funniest thing ever, but that would be so fun. We definitely gotta do that to lojo Yes, and then for for lojo's wife, we could reel a rat past it and she'd probably freak out.  Norm, what did you just say to me? You said some I don't really like But at the same time as the losers, man, there's no way that's just all of them, dude We gotta have more than that. How many do you have? One two Three four five six only six norm. You can do better than that All right. Come here. I saw something. It's not like crazy crazy, but It might fall under the category of crazy rattle trap fish of those before I caught one on it That's the weirdest color That's definitely the weirdest color got some one ounce hair jigs When you got a pink hair jig dude, that just does not count as a weird lure norm Dude, I saw something and I don't know where it is now. It's making me angry. All right. Well, let's take a look Let's just see what we got. So we have some swim bait This is like a hard body craw.  It's like a crankbait, but it's like has weird claws on it I'd say that's a weird lure. We'll count that. That's definitely a weird lure most definitely There has to be more. I know we're missing so many that's Wait, we gotta go like a salt water all the salt water killer have to be in the clearance section That's definitely they usually do have some crazy.  Hmm options options options Wait, we never actually bought these and these were crazy Why are we buying crazy lure Dang it. No, uh, you're norm having the frame real quick. I got an idea That you do not know what's good. So since we picked out pretty much all the weird lures at least norms confirm that Yeah, now let's pick out the ugliest lure The ugliest one the ugliest lure like just the ugly boy Ugly we are about to just just the ruins somebody's probably worked so hard on creating this bait And we're just gonna call it ugly and hurt their feelings I'm sorry for whoever the ugliest one norm that we can possibly think of Let's see. This is probably going to take a minute because we have to top it.  Look at this guy, bro. Look at all the colors on him. I don't know just super ugly norm So i'm not even kidding right now We've been walking around for about what do you say norm about 10 minutes? We've been looking for the ugliest lure. We just cannot find the ugliest lure.  Are they smelly? That's the first question. Are they garlic smelly? Yeah You can honestly probably catch fish on these though. That's what i'm saying like that is just a weird looking dude right there It is a weird looking dude. It's just not it dude. That's not the ugliest lure.   It's like not stuff I'd use on the everyday basis But it really doesn't matter anyways because let me tell you I am going to be running a giveaway for all the lures in that bag that we've picked out in there I would go through again, but we only did that like 12 times But i'm going to be giving away each and every single one of those lures if you guys want to enter the giveaway All you have to do is be subscribed to the channel Hit the notification bell Be subscribed to my boy fishing with norm which i'll link him down below And also drop a like on this video And if you want you can leave a comment on what type of videos you guys would like to see next Just like I ask in every single video, but thank you guys so much for watching Be sure to enter the giveaway because this is definitely a killer one and an expensive one that's more It was a fat check you guys want to win this it was a You subscribe to us when was it like like the video as well. Just subscribe turn post notifications You don't have to comment that easy you can win all these lures man. Heck. Yeah boys But thank you guys so much for the support. I love you guys so much and I'll catch you guys in the next video You