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

[Prentice Bisbal]

OMG! I just came up with the name of my next cluster... Curmudgeon! No 
one else take it. I called it!

Anyone else feeling like Abe Simpson right now?

“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what 
I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll 
happen to you!

-- Abe Simpson.

Of course, if we were talking in Slack, I could just post a meme image 
of Abe Simpson with the that text overlaid on it like the cool kids do, 
or I could have cut-and-pasted it into this e-mail, but something tells 
me that if your still in favor of mailing lists, you're probably reading 
this e-mail on a console-based e-mail client. ;)

At least I'm "with it" enough to use Thunderbird.

Prentice Bisbal
Senior HPC Engineer
Computational Sciences Department
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton, NJ
https://cs.pppl.gov
https://www.pppl.gov

On 7/27/23 11:46 AM, Gus Correa wrote:
>
>
> 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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