Dear Drew
Yes, Dwayne G. is still here (as is Matt C.). I’ll pass the note on.
Sincerely
Keith
> On Aug 23, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Drew Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I will ask around Keith. If Dwayne is still there Jesse Wiley said to tell
> you both hello.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Drew Clarke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: General [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Thorne
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [brlug-general] Background on Keith Thorne - LIGO Livingston
> Observatory
>
> Dear Dustin and other.
>
> Hello. This is Keith Thorne. I am the head of the Computing and
> Electronics Group at the LIGO Livingston Observatory. You may have heard
> of us back in February when we announce the first detection of gravitational
> waves (predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity).
>
> My specific areas are the interferometer control and data acquisition
> computers and software. These are pretty much all Linux systems that have to
> run 24/7 to operate the laser interferometer. Some are running a
> real-time-patched version of Linux for very low latency (~ micro-seconds).
> We are running some Gentoo but mostly Ubuntu 12. We are now transitioning to
> Scientific Linux 7. We do a bit of shell scripting, as well as Python and
> Perl. The custom software we maintain is written in C or C++.
>
> We are also looking for an Linux System Administrator at the Assistant level
> to help with our data acquisition and large grid computer used for data
> analysis. Please see the ad at the CalTech web-site
>
> https://jobs.caltech.edu/postings/5362
>
> We have had trouble getting personnel from cities on the coasts to relocate
> here, so definitely hope there is some local talent (or talent that wants to
> move back to the area) who would be interested.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Keith Thorne
>
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