Comments on: Spam and jam and ham-a-lot http://insidehpc.com/2008/11/02/spam-and-jam-and-ham-a-lot/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: John West http://insidehpc.com/2008/11/02/spam-and-jam-and-ham-a-lot/#comment-113636 John West Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:03:30 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=2798#comment-113636 JB - sorry for the delay. The links put the comment in the spam queue (oh, the irony!) and I had to fish it out. Awesome 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon variant. JB – sorry for the delay. The links put the comment in the spam queue (oh, the irony!) and I had to fish it out. Awesome 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon variant.

]]> By: J. Becker http://insidehpc.com/2008/11/02/spam-and-jam-and-ham-a-lot/#comment-113273 J. Becker Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:49:27 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=2798#comment-113273 Not a Monty Python reference, but... Hormel Foods Corporation owns the Spam brand (http://spam.com/). Hormel also operates The Hormel Institute with the University of Minnesota Graduate School (http://www.hormelfoods.com/responsibility/philanthropy/hormelInstitute.aspx), which is a cancer research facility. Earlier this year, The Hormel Institute announced the purchase of an IBM Blue Gene platform (http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2008/02/04/daily27.html). So now it can be summarized that HPC and Spam are now inexplicity linked together. Not a Monty Python reference, but…

Hormel Foods Corporation owns the Spam brand (http://spam.com/).

Hormel also operates The Hormel Institute with the University of Minnesota Graduate School (http://www.hormelfoods.com/responsibility/philanthropy/hormelInstitute.aspx), which is a cancer research facility.

Earlier this year, The Hormel Institute announced the purchase of an IBM Blue Gene platform (http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2008/02/04/daily27.html).

So now it can be summarized that HPC and Spam are now inexplicity linked together.

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