> ObHPC: Transputer counted as HPC at one time, right?
A single development board, not so much, but a proper Transputer machine with
many nodes, such as a Meiko machine, absolutely!
(Says one of the original founders of Meiko :-) You may have used the Fortran
compiler fo rwhich I wrote teh code-
That Supermicro board sounds like one of the boards from an ICE cluster,
right?
I know Joe flagged up the BIOS - thinking out loud is it not possible to
copy the BIOS from another, working, board of the same model?
Regarding SGI workstations when I worked in post production at Framestore
we had lo
Mentioning it to him was pointless. You know the serenity prayer? Well,
I had the serenity to accept that his backwards attitude was something I
could not change, so it was just a source of entertainment for me.
I did share my experience with my boss, who was the best boss ever, and
she was li
In the mid-1990s I went on an interview at Pixar for a sys admin job.
This was a much smaller less sophisticated Pixar than what exists now.
They were a heavy SGI shop, given their graphics requirements.
One of the people I interviewed with was rather strange. He wore
all black, and had the prere
I nearly dropped my coffee lol, did you make note & record his face if
you ever did in past tense mention such by chance the comparisons? -I'm
just curious with wonder..
On 23/03/2023 19:08, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
Yeah, that whole situation was frustrating. From 2004 -2007, I was
I remember in 1999/2000 I did a simple BLAST benchmark on my SGI Pentium
workstation running linux, and one on my R10k box. Similar clock
speeds. Pentium was 2x faster in Int heavy calcs. Did similar things
with FP, and discussed the results with my team and engineering.
None of them were hap
Yeah, that whole situation was frustrating. From 2004 -2007, I was
working for a pharmaceutical startup supporting their Computer-Aided
Drug Discovery (CADD) team. Had I been hired before the director of
CADD, it would have been a 100% Linux shop. Instead, as soon as he was
hired he started ins
On 3/23/23 11:59 am, Fischer, Jeremy wrote:
HPUX 9. Hands down.
v9? Luxury!
For my sins in the mid 90s I was part of the small team that managed a
heterogenous UNIX network for folks doing portable compiler development,
I think we had ~12 UNIX variants on ~8 hardware platforms (conservative
At some point in my career, I was responsible for Solaris (from 2.5 to 10), AIX
(I don’t recall the versions of this, but we had RS/6000s), HP-UX (10 to 11i),
IRIX (5.3 to 6.5), Linux (probably kernel 2.0 days to the present?), NextOS,
macOS X, and now mostly Linux. Never touched Digital, and I
AIX crossed my mind as a contender, but fortunately my exposure to it
was only a few times during a 2-3 month contract position, so I didn't
feel qualified to judge it - it was definitely below toxic exposure
limits. What I did see wasn't very promising, though!
On 3/23/23 2:54 PM, Joe Landma
HPUX 9. Hands down.
J
On 3/23/23 2:54 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
>
> Nah ... that honor belongs to HPUX or AIX. If you used them, you would
> understand.
>
> Irix was my daily driver for ~7 years, until 1999 when I switched to
> Linux (and stayed there up to this day).
>
> Work machine is a MacOS t
They had laid off all the good people doing workstations by then, I
think they outsourced design/production to ODMs by that time. MIP
processors were long in the tooth in 1999, never mind 2007.
Having been at SGI from 1995-2001, I can tell you the reason MIPS sucked
wind at that point, was the
Nah ... that honor belongs to HPUX or AIX. If you used them, you would
understand.
Irix was my daily driver for ~7 years, until 1999 when I switched to
Linux (and stayed there up to this day).
Work machine is a MacOS to Linux machines. Home machines 70-30 linux to
mac. No windows.
On 3/
Between 2003 and 2007, I worked with a lot of O2s, Octanes, an 8-way
Origin 350, and even a Tezro. I don't miss those days.
I always felt like the design of their workstations was done by the same
people who design Playskool toys rather than professional hardware.
Prentice Bisbal
Senior HPC E
irix
Worst. Unix. Ever.
On 3/23/23 1:07 PM, Michael DiDomenico wrote:
ack, irix flashbacks... :) fortunately, this machine isn't quite that
old, circa 2013
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 1:02 PM Darren Wise via Beowulf
wrote:
Hello,
I don't personally have such myself but anything SGI even with to
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