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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>John,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Yes indeed at that Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop –
quite a while ago – maybe 2001 or 2002<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Mike gave out as the freebie on their booth Boxer Shorts with the
Streamline logo on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Compared with giving away say t-shirts, I am not sure how much
market exposure they got (!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Daniel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>-------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:#1F497D'>Dr. Daniel Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. <a
href="mailto:daniel.kidger@quadrics.com">daniel.kidger@quadrics.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>One Bridewell
St., Mobile:
+44 (0)779 209 1851<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Bristol, BS1 2AA,
UK
Office: +44 (0)117 915 5519<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>----------------------- <a href="http://www.quadrics.com/">www.quadrics.com</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org
[mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Hearns<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 September 2008 16:06<br>
<b>To:</b> beowulf@beowulf.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Beowulf] Pretty High Performance Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2008/9/24 Ellis Wilson <<a href="mailto:xclski@yahoo.com"
target="_blank">xclski@yahoo.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>This assumes my understanding
of middleware is correct in that it is a<br>
package or entire system that simplifies things by being somewhat<br>
blackboxed and ready to go. Anything canned like tuna is bound to<br>
contain too much salt.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I believe that that Mike Rudgyard, the chief exec of
Streamline Computing, coined the term 'underware' for this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>This wa s presentation at one of the Daresbury Lab's Machine
Evaluation Workshops, which I can't find via Google at the moment.<o:p></o:p></p>
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