I'm currently at Supercomputing '22: https://sc22.supercomputing.org/ As the name suggests, it's a very large conference on supercomputing and HPC in general, this year held in Dallas. It is (far) larger than any conference I have previously attended; likely because of the significant industry interest in the topic. The expo hall itself is very large, and most booths sell solutions to problems I didn't even know exist. I am particularly amazed at just how many vendors sell various novel (or not so novel) cooling systems. HPC is on the periphery of my work, so while the more programming-related material is interesting, a lot of what is happening here is well outside my wheelhouse. I'm surprised at how relatively crude many of the still-popular programming models are.