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