Comments on: Ballad of the Massively Parallel Supercomputing Pioneers http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/09/ballad-of-the-massively-parallel-supercomputing-pioneers/ 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: Olaf Storaasli http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/09/ballad-of-the-massively-parallel-supercomputing-pioneers/#comment-379456 Olaf Storaasli Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:20:14 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3932#comment-379456 I retired from ORNL in May 2012 to join USEC (see http://tinyurl.com/olafcv ) Best wishes, Olaf O. Storaasli I retired from ORNL in May 2012 to join USEC (see http://tinyurl.com/olafcv )

Best wishes,

Olaf O. Storaasli

]]> By: George Lindamood http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/09/ballad-of-the-massively-parallel-supercomputing-pioneers/#comment-223653 George Lindamood Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:19:50 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3932#comment-223653 Yes, my name is not George Lindemuth, although Lindemuth was probably my family name back in Germany before my ancestors migrated to America in 1749. It's not clear how or when the name got changed to Lindamood, but my great-grandfather spelled it Lindemood. And there is some ambiguity as to whether the original German was Lindemuth or Lindenmuth. As to my credentials as a "pioneer" in parallel computing, it should be noted that from June 1962 until September 1963 I was part of Dan Slotnick's research group at Westinghouse (Baltimore), working on the development of the SOLOMON computer, which got renamed and transmogrified into ILLIAC IV after Slotnick moved to Univ of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign. Neither SOLOMON nor ILLIAC IV would qualify as "massively parallel" by today's standards, but they certainly seemed "massive" 40+ years ago. Yes, my name is not George Lindemuth, although Lindemuth was probably my family name back in Germany before my ancestors migrated to America in 1749. It’s not clear how or when the name got changed to Lindamood, but my great-grandfather spelled it Lindemood. And there is some ambiguity as to whether the original German was Lindemuth or Lindenmuth.

As to my credentials as a “pioneer” in parallel computing, it should be noted that from June 1962 until September 1963 I was part of Dan Slotnick’s research group at Westinghouse (Baltimore), working on the development of the SOLOMON computer, which got renamed and transmogrified into ILLIAC IV after Slotnick moved to Univ of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Neither SOLOMON nor ILLIAC IV would qualify as “massively parallel” by today’s standards, but they certainly seemed “massive” 40+ years ago.

]]> By: Olaf O. Storaasli http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/09/ballad-of-the-massively-parallel-supercomputing-pioneers/#comment-153983 Olaf O. Storaasli Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:40:43 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3932#comment-153983 Somewhat related, NASA did a 9-part video of "Lessons" learned when I retired to join Oak Ridge. One episode relates to the Intel Supercomputing days: http://ft.ornl.gov/~olaf/NASA/6Intel.mp4 Somewhat related, NASA did a 9-part video of “Lessons” learned when I retired to join Oak Ridge. One episode relates to the Intel Supercomputing days:

http://ft.ornl.gov/~olaf/NASA/6Intel.mp4

]]> By: John West http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/09/ballad-of-the-massively-parallel-supercomputing-pioneers/#comment-153943 John West Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:41:07 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3932#comment-153943 Olaf - thanks. I've corrected George's name... Olaf – thanks. I’ve corrected George’s name…

]]> By: Olaf O. Storaasli http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/09/ballad-of-the-massively-parallel-supercomputing-pioneers/#comment-153893 Olaf O. Storaasli Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:54:01 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3932#comment-153893 As I recall the last "Pioneer" is George E. Lindamood (not Lindemuth) who wrote for Government Technology after Gartner as per: Google: George Lindamood http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/3884 http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100126419&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=26052575&CFTOKEN=12863288 I may still have the Timberline Agenda & presentations As I recall the last “Pioneer” is George E. Lindamood (not Lindemuth) who
wrote for Government Technology after Gartner as per:

Google: George Lindamood

http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/3884
http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100126419&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=26052575&CFTOKEN=12863288

I may still have the Timberline Agenda & presentations

]]> By: Olaf O. Storaasli http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/09/ballad-of-the-massively-parallel-supercomputing-pioneers/#comment-153890 Olaf O. Storaasli Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:17:34 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3932#comment-153890 By the way, I enjoyed hearing about the background and the ingenuity of Mike to pull off this surprise for all of us. I never thought my complicated Norwegian name could be set to music. ARCO is correct for Bob Decker as Google: Robert Decker ARCO gives his '98 London Presentation: Robert C. Decker ARCO Exploration and Production Technology 2300 West Plano Parkway Plano TX By the way, I enjoyed hearing about the background and the ingenuity of Mike
to pull off this surprise for all of us. I never thought my complicated Norwegian
name could be set to music.

ARCO is correct for Bob Decker as Google: Robert Decker ARCO
gives his ’98 London Presentation:

Robert C. Decker
ARCO Exploration and Production Technology
2300 West Plano Parkway
Plano TX

]]> By: Olaf O. Storaasli http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/09/ballad-of-the-massively-parallel-supercomputing-pioneers/#comment-153882 Olaf O. Storaasli Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:50:18 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3932#comment-153882 I see Dan Anderson continued his activity in HPC at Ford as Director of CAE : http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4948&page=118 http://www.linkedin.com/in/danielanderson14 I'm curious about the others. Please let me know Olaf@ornl.gov I see Dan Anderson continued his activity in HPC at Ford as Director of CAE
:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4948&page=118

http://www.linkedin.com/in/danielanderson14

I’m curious about the others. Please let me know

Olaf@ornl.gov

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