Discussion:
[Beowulf] SC18: Needed Beowulf Memories
Douglas Eadline
2018-08-16 12:42:03 UTC
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Hello fellow Beowulfers

Normally we send emails about SC and Beowulf Bash in a timely fashion
a few weeks before November (okay that is a bit generous,
but let's continue)

This year is the 30th anniversary of SC (BTW "SC" stands for
Supercomputing, which is what it was originally called, but now it is
called SC to save letters or something)

In any case, this year as part of the historical perspective
at SC18 the Beowulf Bash committee is planning a Beowulf Booth!

As we are still in the planning phase and I cannot divulge what
the booth will "be" exactly, but in the Beowulf tradition
it will be built from various constituencies in the community
(people, projects, companies, etc) And, I can say you will want
hang out at this booth.

This is the point where your input is needed, particularly the old-timers
on the list (you know who you are) Here is what we are looking
for:

- written antidotes, stories, lessons, community, reflections about
the whole Beowulf era (and what it means today) These stories,
at a minimum, will be published on the web (1000 words or less)
- pictures of people, hardware, etc. Please include captions and
credits for the pictures.Please Identify people places and things
- Any old school Beowulf Hardware you would be willing to
loan to the booth. We are not looking for rack of old servers,
but that Pentium Pro motherboard from the basement might be
interesting.
- Any stories about the Beowulf Bash or the LECCIBG (Google it)
- What ever else you think would be important to have in your booth


IMPORTANT PART:

Send all materials or suggestions to me (***@eadline.org) by:

***Monday October 1st, 2018***

Also, make sure the Subject Line contains "BEO18"

Thanks!

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Peter St. John
2018-08-16 13:10:18 UTC
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There is no antidote to Beowulfry, but I'm sure you will get anecdotes.
:-)

Peter

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:42 AM, Douglas Eadline <***@eadline.org>
wrote:

>
>
> Hello fellow Beowulfers
>
> Normally we send emails about SC and Beowulf Bash in a timely fashion
> a few weeks before November (okay that is a bit generous,
> but let's continue)
>
> This year is the 30th anniversary of SC (BTW "SC" stands for
> Supercomputing, which is what it was originally called, but now it is
> called SC to save letters or something)
>
> In any case, this year as part of the historical perspective
> at SC18 the Beowulf Bash committee is planning a Beowulf Booth!
>
> As we are still in the planning phase and I cannot divulge what
> the booth will "be" exactly, but in the Beowulf tradition
> it will be built from various constituencies in the community
> (people, projects, companies, etc) And, I can say you will want
> hang out at this booth.
>
> This is the point where your input is needed, particularly the old-timers
> on the list (you know who you are) Here is what we are looking
> for:
>
> - written antidotes, stories, lessons, community, reflections about
> the whole Beowulf era (and what it means today) These stories,
> at a minimum, will be published on the web (1000 words or less)
> - pictures of people, hardware, etc. Please include captions and
> credits for the pictures.Please Identify people places and things
> - Any old school Beowulf Hardware you would be willing to
> loan to the booth. We are not looking for rack of old servers,
> but that Pentium Pro motherboard from the basement might be
> interesting.
> - Any stories about the Beowulf Bash or the LECCIBG (Google it)
> - What ever else you think would be important to have in your booth
>
>
> IMPORTANT PART:
>
> Send all materials or suggestions to me (***@eadline.org) by:
>
> ***Monday October 1st, 2018***
>
> Also, make sure the Subject Line contains "BEO18"
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Doug
>
> --
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>
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Douglas Eadline
2018-08-16 13:34:51 UTC
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Ha Ha, yes I mean anecdotes

And by the way, you can't use the anecdote when I used antidote
instead of anecdotes, just to be clear

--
Doug



> There is no antidote to Beowulfry, but I'm sure you will get anecdotes.
> :-)
>
> Peter
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:42 AM, Douglas Eadline <***@eadline.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hello fellow Beowulfers
>>
>> Normally we send emails about SC and Beowulf Bash in a timely fashion
>> a few weeks before November (okay that is a bit generous,
>> but let's continue)
>>
>> This year is the 30th anniversary of SC (BTW "SC" stands for
>> Supercomputing, which is what it was originally called, but now it is
>> called SC to save letters or something)
>>
>> In any case, this year as part of the historical perspective
>> at SC18 the Beowulf Bash committee is planning a Beowulf Booth!
>>
>> As we are still in the planning phase and I cannot divulge what
>> the booth will "be" exactly, but in the Beowulf tradition
>> it will be built from various constituencies in the community
>> (people, projects, companies, etc) And, I can say you will want
>> hang out at this booth.
>>
>> This is the point where your input is needed, particularly the
>> old-timers
>> on the list (you know who you are) Here is what we are looking
>> for:
>>
>> - written antidotes, stories, lessons, community, reflections about
>> the whole Beowulf era (and what it means today) These stories,
>> at a minimum, will be published on the web (1000 words or less)
>> - pictures of people, hardware, etc. Please include captions and
>> credits for the pictures.Please Identify people places and things
>> - Any old school Beowulf Hardware you would be willing to
>> loan to the booth. We are not looking for rack of old servers,
>> but that Pentium Pro motherboard from the basement might be
>> interesting.
>> - Any stories about the Beowulf Bash or the LECCIBG (Google it)
>> - What ever else you think would be important to have in your booth
>>
>>
>> IMPORTANT PART:
>>
>> Send all materials or suggestions to me (***@eadline.org) by:
>>
>> ***Monday October 1st, 2018***
>>
>> Also, make sure the Subject Line contains "BEO18"
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Doug
>>
>> --
>> MailScanner: Clean
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Beowulf mailing list, ***@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing
>> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
>> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
>>
>
> --
> MailScanner: Clean
>
>


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Lux, Jim (337K)
2018-08-16 14:06:09 UTC
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Written antidotes?

Are those shell scripts that prevent something bad from reoccurring?
Incantations that should be pronounced before starting that really, really long job without checkpointing?

Or are you really looking for the inappropriate singular of data?


On 8/16/18, 5:43 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Douglas Eadline" <beowulf-***@beowulf.org on behalf of ***@eadline.org> wrote:



Hello fellow Beowulfers

This is the point where your input is needed, particularly the old-timers
on the list (you know who you are) Here is what we are looking
for:

- written antidotes, stories, lessons, community, reflections about
the whole Beowulf era (and what it means today) These stories,
at a minimum, will be published on the web (1000 words or less)


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Tad Slawecki
2018-08-16 14:31:57 UTC
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This puts me in mind of Bob Howard, a computational demonologist in Charles Stross's Laundry series. See http://www.oddlyweirdfiction.com/2012/07/laundry-files-by-charles-stross.html for some background. Stross's Halting State is also heavily computer-geek-oriented.
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Subject: Re: [Beowulf] SC18: Needed Beowulf Memories

Written antidotes?

Are those shell scripts that prevent something bad from reoccurring?
Incantations that should be pronounced before starting that really, really long job without checkpointing?

Or are you really looking for the inappropriate singular of data?


On 8/16/18, 5:43 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Douglas Eadline" <beowulf-***@beowulf.org on behalf of ***@eadline.org> wrote:



Hello fellow Beowulfers

This is the point where your input is needed, particularly the old-timers
on the list (you know who you are) Here is what we are looking
for:

- written antidotes, stories, lessons, community, reflections about
the whole Beowulf era (and what it means today) These stories,
at a minimum, will be published on the web (1000 words or less)


_______________________________________________
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To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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Prentice Bisbal
2018-08-16 14:22:30 UTC
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> - written antidotes,

Antidote for evil eye:

2 eyes of newt
1 wing of bat
a pinch of dragon's breath
...
...


Prentice

On 08/16/2018 08:42 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
>
> Hello fellow Beowulfers
>
> Normally we send emails about SC and Beowulf Bash in a timely fashion
> a few weeks before November (okay that is a bit generous,
> but let's continue)
>
> This year is the 30th anniversary of SC (BTW "SC" stands for
> Supercomputing, which is what it was originally called, but now it is
> called SC to save letters or something)
>
> In any case, this year as part of the historical perspective
> at SC18 the Beowulf Bash committee is planning a Beowulf Booth!
>
> As we are still in the planning phase and I cannot divulge what
> the booth will "be" exactly, but in the Beowulf tradition
> it will be built from various constituencies in the community
> (people, projects, companies, etc) And, I can say you will want
> hang out at this booth.
>
> This is the point where your input is needed, particularly the old-timers
> on the list (you know who you are) Here is what we are looking
> for:
>
> - written antidotes, stories, lessons, community, reflections about
> the whole Beowulf era (and what it means today) These stories,
> at a minimum, will be published on the web (1000 words or less)
> - pictures of people, hardware, etc. Please include captions and
> credits for the pictures.Please Identify people places and things
> - Any old school Beowulf Hardware you would be willing to
> loan to the booth. We are not looking for rack of old servers,
> but that Pentium Pro motherboard from the basement might be
> interesting.
> - Any stories about the Beowulf Bash or the LECCIBG (Google it)
> - What ever else you think would be important to have in your booth
>
>
> IMPORTANT PART:
>
> Send all materials or suggestions to me (***@eadline.org) by:
>
> ***Monday October 1st, 2018***
>
> Also, make sure the Subject Line contains "BEO18"
>
> Thanks!
>

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Jeff Johnson
2018-08-16 21:38:57 UTC
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Doug,

The Aeon lobby museum has a Pentium-Pro, a slotted Alpha processor and an
old Seagate Elite-23 23GB 5.25 SCSI-FWD drive among other things. If you're
looking for antiques...

--Jeff


On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 5:42 AM, Douglas Eadline <***@eadline.org>
wrote:

>
>
> Hello fellow Beowulfers
>
> Normally we send emails about SC and Beowulf Bash in a timely fashion
> a few weeks before November (okay that is a bit generous,
> but let's continue)
>
> This year is the 30th anniversary of SC (BTW "SC" stands for
> Supercomputing, which is what it was originally called, but now it is
> called SC to save letters or something)
>
> In any case, this year as part of the historical perspective
> at SC18 the Beowulf Bash committee is planning a Beowulf Booth!
>
> As we are still in the planning phase and I cannot divulge what
> the booth will "be" exactly, but in the Beowulf tradition
> it will be built from various constituencies in the community
> (people, projects, companies, etc) And, I can say you will want
> hang out at this booth.
>
> This is the point where your input is needed, particularly the old-timers
> on the list (you know who you are) Here is what we are looking
> for:
>
> - written antidotes, stories, lessons, community, reflections about
> the whole Beowulf era (and what it means today) These stories,
> at a minimum, will be published on the web (1000 words or less)
> - pictures of people, hardware, etc. Please include captions and
> credits for the pictures.Please Identify people places and things
> - Any old school Beowulf Hardware you would be willing to
> loan to the booth. We are not looking for rack of old servers,
> but that Pentium Pro motherboard from the basement might be
> interesting.
> - Any stories about the Beowulf Bash or the LECCIBG (Google it)
> - What ever else you think would be important to have in your booth
>
>
> IMPORTANT PART:
>
> Send all materials or suggestions to me (***@eadline.org) by:
>
> ***Monday October 1st, 2018***
>
> Also, make sure the Subject Line contains "BEO18"
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Doug
>
> --
> MailScanner: Clean
>
> _______________________________________________
> Beowulf mailing list, ***@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing
> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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