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'Top Secret Rosies" is a good documentary on the women computers of
yesteryear: <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/27/2018 09:06 AM, Lux, Jim (337K)
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<p class="MsoNormal">William Henry Dana – “Two Years Before the
Mast” – An excellent book describing what it was like to be a
sailor in the days just before steam, there’s plenty of
climbing the rigging in a sleet storm, while trying to round
Cape Horn. – but when they got to California, the weather was
a lot nicer. Dana later went on to be a lawyer fighting for
sailor’s rights.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Silicon valley wasn’t very developed when
Dana was doing his shipboard duties, and there weren’t any
disk drives at the time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They *<b>did</b>*, however, have parallel
cluster computing – rooms full of computers grinding out
navigation tables. And I suppose they were commodity
computers, using commodity interconnects (of the day), so
could they fairly be called a Beowulf.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-women-behind-the-jet-propulsion-laboratory/482847/"
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describes a 1953 version of the same.<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Beowulf
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org"><beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org></a> on behalf of
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org">"beowulf@beowulf.org"</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org"><Beowulf@beowulf.org></a><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>John Hearns
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hearnsj@googlemail.com"><hearnsj@googlemail.com></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, July 27, 2018 at 1:03 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Jörg Saßmannshausen
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net"><sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net></a><br>
<b>Cc: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org">"beowulf@beowulf.org"</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org"><Beowulf@beowulf.org></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jörg, then the days of the Tea Clipper
Races should be revived. We have just the ship for it
already. Powered by green energy, and built in Scotland of
course.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just fill her hold with hard drives and
set sail. Aaar me hearties.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can just see HPC types being made to
climb the rigging in a gale...<o:p></o:p></p>
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