It is hard to ever describe the SC show floor as quiet, but all things are relative. The overall feel I get from the show floor this year is that things are much more sedate this year, with less people in the booths and less technology on the floor. This seems to be particularly true across my domain of interest, visualization. None of the system vendors have a large visualization presence on the show floor, with only HP having a "visualization pod". The biggest company presence in visualization is the nVidia booth (not too surprising), and they do have a lot of nice technology on show. Comparably, the ATI presence within the AMD booth (WRT visualization at least) is relatively small.
The "big" academic players also seem to have scaled down booths, with what appears to be less people and less technology. It is hard to quantify if this is really true, but it is certainly my initial feeling... From a visualization perspective, I was expecting lots of high res displays (4K, tiled displays), high res visualizations, visualization clusters, and high resolution video streaming. Certainly, this all exists at SC this year, but my guess is that there is less on the show floor this year than there was last year.
I always come to SC looking for the "next big thing", and quite often I come away with some ideas and thoughts in this direction. This year, so far, not so much... Two more days to go - we will see.
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