[Beowulf] [OT] MPI-haters

[John Hanks]

I remember rgb, although not any Vincent who must have appeared in the
intervening years I didn't follow the list. My first cluster was 8
discarded IBM PS/2 machines with MCA buses and tiny hard drives and yes,
3.5" floppies circa 1996. I originally joined the beowulf list around
1996/1997 and although I'd have sworn I posted more, I don't seem to have
much of anything in the archive. This confirms my lifelong status of
lurker. Which is probably good, no one wants to hear those stories about
hard-coding your IRQ in the ne2000 driver source, pushing packets between
nodes by hand, in the snow, uphill both ways over coax cables.... Now it's
all "container this, as a service that, blah, blah, blah" Kids today.

jbh

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:18 PM Lux, Jim (337C) <james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov>
wrote:

> Yeah, and you'll be telling stories about how you brought up your first
> cluster using 3.5" floppies.
>
> Jim Lux
> (818)354-2075 (office)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Prentice
> Bisbal
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 10:49 AM
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [OT] MPI-haters
>
> On 03/10/2016 01:34 PM, Jeff Becker wrote:
> > On 03/10/2016 10:32 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> >> This list used to get A LOT more traffic. Not sure what happened over
> >> the past few years. I miss the witty banter and information I used to
> >> get from all that traffic, but I definitely don't miss Vincent.
> >
> > :-)
> >>
> It just occurred to me that if you know who Vincent or RGB is, you're
> probably an old-timer on this list now.
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