<div dir="ltr"><div>Jim, thankyou for that link. It is quite helpful! I have a poster accepted for the Julia Conference in two weeks time. <br></div><div>My proposal is to discuss computers just like that - on the Manhattan project etc. Then to show how Julia can easily be used to solve the equation for critical mass from the Los Alamos Primer.</div><div>I havent done a damn thing for the poster yet.. ooops.</div><div>I am also arranging a visit to Bletchley Park at the end of the conference.</div><div>JuliaCon is sold out but I am sure you can watch the presentations <a href="http://juliacon.org/2018/">http://juliacon.org/2018/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 15:06, Lux, Jim (337K) <<a href="mailto:james.p.lux@jpl.nasa.gov">james.p.lux@jpl.nasa.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></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
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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/" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-women-behind-the-jet-propulsion-laboratory/482847/</a> describes
a 1953 version of the same.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Beowulf <<a href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org" target="_blank">beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</a>> on behalf of "<a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>John Hearns <<a href="mailto:hearnsj@googlemail.com" target="_blank">hearnsj@googlemail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, July 27, 2018 at 1:03 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Jörg Saßmannshausen <<a href="mailto:sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net" target="_blank">sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just fill her hold with hard drives and set sail. Aaar me hearties.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can just see HPC types being made to climb the rigging in a gale...<u></u><u></u></p>
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