[AG-TECH] PIG?

[John Shalf]

Heh...
And having grown up in an agricultural setting, where we crossed many a 
dairy field to get to school, I generally walk very carefully through 
the machine room that houses these COWs as they produce many mega FLOPS.

On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 07:19  AM, Don Morton wrote:

> When you think about it, one of the popular topics discussed
> over the AG is COW's!  I'm beginning to think that techies
> are closet-hicks :)
>
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>> Some folks actually like PIGs.  Keep'm for pets and even eat them.
>> I supposed we could call it "the other white meat"
>>
>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Don Morton wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Particularly since AG has an "Agricultural" ring to it, I think
>>> it's kind of fitting to have acronyms that make us think of
>>> livestock and crops - right Barbara (Kucera)??!!!! :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Randy Groves wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry folks - Don is right.
>>>>
>>>> I didn't mean to cast any aspersions on the efforts.  Just wondering 
>>>> how
>>>> the folks here at Boeing will take to using a PIG at their desks.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not really that hard over on it, actually - it does have it's
>>>> attractions ...
>>>>
>>>> -randy
>>>>
>>>> At 01:56 PM 7/9/2002 -0600, Don Morton wrote:
>>>>> I "think" Randy was pleading for an acronym other than PIG :) :)
>>>>> I don't know, it's kind of growing on me..... :)
>>>>>
>>>>> "Ivan R. Judson" wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey Randy,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been holding off responding hoping someone who's actually 
>>>>>> touching
>>>>>> the code would first, but I can't help it now.  We're actively 
>>>>>> working
>>>>>> to make things easier, the PIG is a very limited first pass at 
>>>>>> getting
>>>>>> the 1.0 software able to run on a single box to provide 
>>>>>> interactions for
>>>>>> a single user.  That being said, we are looking for people to 
>>>>>> request
>>>>>> features and report bugs!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please read the release notes (they answer Cindy's question among
>>>>>> others), and continue to send email to ag-tech.  If you don't get a
>>>>>> response let me know and I'll go shake the trees until someone 
>>>>>> falls out
>>>>>> who can answer you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm sorry for the lack of response, we're not ignoring anybody, 
>>>>>> but we
>>>>>> are scrambling to make sure we can answer the questions the best 
>>>>>> way
>>>>>> possible.  That means fixing things, for now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Ivan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ..........
>>>>>> Ivan R. Judson .~. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~judson
>>>>>> Futures Laboratory .~.  630 252 0920
>>>>>> Argonne National Laboratory .~. 630 252 6424 Fax
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>>>>>>> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Randy Groves
>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:13 PM
>>>>>>> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>>>>>>> Subject: [AG-TECH] PIG?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not sure if this acronym was intended to reflect the size
>>>>>>> or speed of
>>>>>>> the AG's little brother, but the gleam is wearing off for me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -randy
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>    Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
>>>>>    Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
>>>>>    Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
> --
>    Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
>    Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
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