re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#16 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s)) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#25 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s)) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#31 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))
for other drift, part of the time in Europe was talking to the French BOIS (branch office information system) group on the work to deploy vm/4300 systems into IBM branch offices, first in France and then in other parts of EMEA. old email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#email820912 >From just about the beginning one of my hobbies had been supporting the HONE system (online, virtual machine based world-wide sales & marketing support) from the beginning back to cp67 days when it was just in the US. Then as it was propogating clones to the rest of the world, I would be asked to do the install (a decade before BOIS, IBM EMEA hdqtrs moved from the states to Paris, and I was brought in to do the install in Paris). past posts mentioning HONE http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone vm/4341s were sort of the leading edge of both large compute farms as well as the distributed computing tsunami (both at customers and inside IBM). This is old email about AFDS initially looking at 20 distributed vm/4341s ... growing to 210: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404b This is doing benchmarks for LLNL looking at getting 70 vm/4341s for compute farm http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220 70 vm/4341s compute farm could be considered leading edge of GRID computing (which is also a precursor to modern cloud computing) .... recent posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#18 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#52 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#83 internal vm/4341s was also major factor in the internal networking passing 1000 nodes the summer of 1983 ... old reference to some 1983 node announcements as well as list of all corporate locations that had one or more new nodes added during 1983 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8 other past posts mentioning internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet France/EMEA BOIS pioneered the branch office distributed vm/4341 systems, and then similar program starts showing up in the states ... with the "VMIC" machines ... starting out for USA sales/marketing regional hdqtrs. past email mentioning vm/4300s http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx as an aside, the internal network had been non-SNA until the late 80s when the communication group started generating a lot of mis-information as part of push to get the internal network converted to SNA. However, their program of mis-information wasn't just limited to the internal network ... but also extended to claims that the NSFNET backbone could run over SNA ... the NSFNET backbone is the precursor of the modern internet ... discussed in the above (and other) GRID related posts ... referencing this article Grid Computing; Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/401444/grid-computing/ old email mentioning NSFNET backbone ... and working with participants leading up to NSFNET backbone http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet when i was in San Jose Research ... they use to joke that I worked 4shift weeks; ... 1st shift in san jose researach, 2nd shift in the disk engineering lab, 3rd shift in STL (now silicon valley lab) and 4th shift (weekends) up in Palo Alto at the HONE system. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
