[Beowulf] [OT] MPI-haters

[John Hanks]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:31 PM Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com>
wrote:

> On 03/11/2016 11:23 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> > On 03/11/2016 05:02 AM, John Hanks 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.
> >>
> >>
> > Stay off my lawn with your  damn containers, you damn whippersnappers!
>
> root at borg:~# docker run ubuntu /bin/echo 'Resistance is futile ... you
> will be assimilated into the container collective'
>
> Resistance is futile ... you will be assimilated into the container
> collective
>
>
>
I'll be looking forward to the first year of the Useless Use of Docker
Awards. cat is so last century.

jbh



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