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Re: side note to ppfChdir



Pierre Phaneuf wrote:

> > > Don't worry about me, will ya? :-) By day, I'm a system analyst on
> > > weather modeling supercomputers, worrying about clustering-related
> > > multithreaded kernel deadlock problems in high performance applications
> > > and things like that. Layered storage subsystems, I also meddle with.
> >
> > Eck! I hope you *really* like your work...
> 
> It is very cool work actually. There is very little problems happening,
> the machines are very reliable. But when there IS a problem, it is
> usually REALLY hairy!!!

By the way, here are some pictures of our new toy, a NEC SX-5. They are
assembling it at the customer site across the street from here as I
write this!

http://newsfeed.sx.nec.com/SX5pics.html

-- 
Pierre Phaneuf
Ludus Design, http://ludusdesign.com/
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Gandhi