[Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades

[John Hearns]

Jim, thankyou for that link. It is quite helpful! I have a poster accepted
for the Julia Conference in two weeks time.
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.
I havent done a damn thing for the poster yet.. ooops.
I am also arranging a visit to Bletchley Park at the end of the conference.
JuliaCon is sold out but I am sure you can watch the presentations
http://juliacon.org/2018/




On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 15:06, Lux, Jim (337K) <james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov>
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> 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.
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> Silicon valley wasn’t very developed when Dana was doing his shipboard
> duties, and there weren’t any disk drives at the time.
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> They **did**, 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.
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> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-women-behind-the-jet-propulsion-laboratory/482847/
> describes a 1953 version of the same.
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> *From: *Beowulf <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org> on behalf of "
> beowulf at beowulf.org" <Beowulf at beowulf.org>
> *Reply-To: *John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, July 27, 2018 at 1:03 AM
> *To: *Jörg Saßmannshausen <sassy-work at sassy.formativ.net>
> *Cc: *"beowulf at beowulf.org" <Beowulf at beowulf.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades
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> 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.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutty_Sark
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> Just fill her hold with hard drives and set sail. Aaar me hearties.
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> I can just see HPC types being made to climb the rigging in a gale...
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