[Beowulf] [OT] MPI-haters

[Justin Y. Shi]

Great memories indeed. Thanks for C's hardwork to keep the list alive!

I happened to remember RGB and Vincent. My last personal web server just
retired after nearly 30 year "non-stop" service (except for power outages)
was the first generation dual processor 386 ... It still runs...

Justin

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:02 AM, John Hanks <griznog at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
>> (818)395-2714 (cell)
>>
>> -----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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