'Top Secret Rosies" is a good documentary on the women computers of
yesteryear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secret_Rosies:_The_Female_%22Computers%22_of_WWII
On 07/27/2018 09:06 AM, Lux, Jim (337K) 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.
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*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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