San Diego
San Diego Supercomputer Center is located right on the UCSD campus, and for this year's Summer Institute, instead of catering lunch, they gave us meal cards and sent us the dorms. Pines Dining Hall food was pretty sad for the non-American options, but at least was fun to eat in the dorms and relive undergraduate memories? Geisel Library was on the way as well, and the ~1km walk each way was good bit of exericse.
Tour of SDSC's Data Center in the afternoon was pretty cool too. A mostly-modern data center with proper hot and cold aisles as well as liquid cooling of Expanse, SDSC's newest supercomputer-- was great not only to see it in person, but to hear details about design and operation. Liquid cooled compute nodes (CPU at least) don't seem to be an urgent need for us, bot absolutely something to consider for planning purposes, at least. Quite a bit of older hardware still in there as well, although generally way more modern than what we have at UCLA.
Taco bar and drinks after for a social hour (surprisingly good tacos from UCSD catering!), then had to run to catch up with Dr. Wu for dinner. Randomly saw a Hyundai IONIQ 6 in the mall parking lot (verdict: ugly, but very aerodynamic), then was good to catch up with Mike at the very popular Pacific Catch chain. Food was nothing special but definitely beat dorm food. Topped off the night with a random lifted Lexus GX470 sightning as I wrapped up my errands.