[Beowulf] [External] Re: interconnect wars... again...

[Gus Correa]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 9:41 AM Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf <
beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:

> Ugh. I hate Slack and those other "instant message" apps for stuff like
> this. My employer pays me to do work, not spend all day watching messages
> scroll by in a chat session. And those apps favor short messages w/o, so
> topics needing  a long e-mail with details and nuance suffer.
>
> Am I becoming an grumpy old curmudgeon, stuck in his ways and wary of new
> technology? Maybe. While I ponder this existential crisis, GET OFF OF MY
> LAWN!
>
> Prentice
>
>
+1

All Slack channels that people started here for various interest groups,
died quickly, or dwindled into dispersive "tete-a-tete" conversations
between very few individuals.
[Instead of using an IRC with bells and whistles, they might as well email
each other. :) ]
As Prentice pointed out, most people just don't have the time to follow
those too many channels.

Mailing lists are simple, effective, normally have a wider range of
interests, and reach out to a larger community.
[And don't belong to Slack / Saalesforce, or any other company.]

Gus Correa

On 7/26/23 10:14 AM, John Hearns wrote:
>
> All the cool kids are on hpc.Social
>
> I am on the Slack there. I would encourage everyone to come over
>
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023, 14:39 Michael DiDomenico, <mdidomenico4 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> just a mailing list as far as i know.  it used to get a lot more
>> traffic, but seems to have simmered down quite a bit
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 6:50 PM Andrew Falgout <andrew.falgout at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Just curious, do we have a discord channel, or just a mailing list?
>> >
>> >
>> > ./Andrew Falgout
>> > KG5GRX
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 9:12 AM Michael DiDomenico <
>> mdidomenico4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> ugh, as someone who worked the front lines in the 00's i got front row
>> >> seat to the interconnect mud slinging...  but franky if they're going
>> >> to come out of the gate with a product named "Ultra Ethernet", i smell
>> >> a loser... :) (sarcasm...)
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/20/ethernet-consortium-shoots-for-1-million-node-clusters-that-beat-infiniband/
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