Thanks everybody for welcoming Martin! Yes, he is a very bright chap and we are happy to have him on the team. He already has some background in dye-sensitized solar cells from previous work and brings a fresh perspective on things by virtue of coming from the applied physics community rather than chemistry.

Ya gotta mention lines of code involved and phrase your observation in such a way as to leave the reader understanding that the safekeeping and optimization of 15 million+ geometries were the stakes or people will conclude that it was a trivial exercise and you indeed should have rewritten said lines of code "much earlier".

At least, that is how it works in a corporate environment when you speak of something/anything that isn't intimately understood by the denizens of the executive suite. Fortunately, you're in a scientific/educational environment - and so what is indeed an accomplishment isn't mysteriously/magically transformed into a "black mark" by simple ignorance.

lollll...so you can file my left-handed - but otherwise useless - compliment for future reference.

We had our monthly phone conference with the IBM-WCG team today and everything seems to be going well. But man, there is so much work to be done on so many different fronts with so few people... Sometimes this project can be a bit overwhelming.

Hi Yarensc,
that's a very nice offer, and we greatly appreciate it. Unfortunately, there is not much "unspecialized" work - quite to the contrary, it eats up a lot of time to get the younger students up to scratch before they become productive and there is also a good bit of overhead to organize everything and synchronize the different efforts. But hey, if it was no challenge it wouldn't be fun.
Best wishes
Your Harvard CEP team

Thanks so much Col323 - we greatly appreciate your support and warm words! That makes it all worthwhile.