[toddm]

Kudos to Victor for assembling such a wonderful resource!

While I am not acquainted with him personally, I did my doctoral work at UT Austin the the 1990's and had the privilege of working with the resources (Cray Y-MP, IBM SP/2 Winterhawk, and mostly on Lonestar, a host name which pointed to a Cray T3E at the time) maintained by TACC (one of my Ph.D. committee members is still on staff!) to complete my work (TACC was called HPCC and/or CHPC if I recall the acronyms correctly).

Back then, it was incumbent on the programmer to parallelize their code (in my case, using MPI on the Cray T3E in the UNICOS environment) and have some understanding of the hardware, if only because the field was still emergent and problems were solved by reading the gray Cray ring-binder and whichever copies of Gropp et al. we had on-hand. That and having a very knowledgeable contact as mentioned above :) of course helped...

[victotronics]

> Lonestar, a host name which pointed to a Cray T3E

Lonestar5 was a Cray again. Currently Lonestar6 is an oil-immersion AMD Milan cluster with A100 GPUs. The times, they never stand still.

[huitzitziltzin]

Dealt with him via TACC for a big simulation I did and was grateful enough for his help to buy a paper copy of the first volume in the series. Very interesting though a bit outside of my area. I will look at the others and encourage anyone interested to check them out.