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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/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-women-behind-the-jet-propulsion-laboratory/482847/</a> describes
a 1953 version of the same.<o:p></o:p></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 <beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org> on behalf of "beowulf@beowulf.org" <Beowulf@beowulf.org><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>John Hearns <hearnsj@googlemail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, July 27, 2018 at 1:03 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Jörg Saßmannshausen <sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"beowulf@beowulf.org" <Beowulf@beowulf.org><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"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutty_Sark">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutty_Sark</a><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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