Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

[Shane Ginnane]

I wonder if they have a massively parallel collection of (modern) GPUs on board 
?. If so and they can wait just a little while longer they may be in luck.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/llvm-to-get-fortran-compiler-that-targets-parallel-gpus-in-clusters/

Shane ...

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Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

[John Mattson]

This is just too sweet. Decisions decisions, retire and spent lots of time
in Italy, or code assembler for NASA. Hmmm let me have a glass of Pinot
grigio and some pasts and think about it. zzz

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Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

[Shane Ginnane]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 09:30:38 -0800, John Mattson wrote:

>This is just too sweet. Decisions decisions, retire and spent lots of time
>in Italy, or code assembler for NASA. Hmmm let me have a glass of Pinot
>grigio and some pasts and think about it. zzz

I've no desire to go to Europe, and I prefer wine with a bit more body (a 
decent "big" Aussie Shiraz let's say), but I can certainly empathise with the 
general train of thought.
Let me also cogitate on it whilst I chuck a stick into the surf for the mutt to 
chase ...

No contest.

Shane ...

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Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

[Aled Hughes]

This reminds me a bit of that great Movie 'Space Cowboys'. (Made when Hollywood 
still had real stars!)

ALH

 

 

 

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Elardus,

Yep, very funny...I see a parallel and not parallel universe,
mainframe
systems folks and developers retiring and mainframes going the way
of
Voyager 1 ...


Scott

On Monday, November 2, 2015, Elardus Engelbrecht
<
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote:

> Jon Butler wrote:
>
> >Is this
remote work or will extended travel be involved?  ;-))
>
>
> I foresee some
serious terrible problems:
>
> 1. How do you motivate extended (and perhaps
failing) dial-up time in your
> overtime sheets? Those top-brass people (PHB,
bean-counters and auditors)
> don't understand technicalities...
>
> 2. Same
for travel. I believe, AFAIK and the last time I checked, there
> are no
hotels, sightseeing points (you'll have to zip past those planets)
> or repair
facilities. Just remember to bring blankets, apparently it is
> freezing out
there ...
>
> 3. Now those Mars wannabee travellers don't have any plans to
return due
> to some problems, how will you travel back? Do you have any
'escape' plans?
>
> Is it already Friday ??? ;-))
>
> Groete / Greetings
>
Elardus Engelbrecht
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Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

[Scott Ford]

Absolutely

On Monday, November 2, 2015, Aled Hughes <
0050619ca8df-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> This reminds me a bit of that great Movie 'Space Cowboys'. (Made when
> Hollywood still had real stars!)
>
> ALH
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Scott Ford <idfzos...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <javascript:;>>
> Sent: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:40
> Subject: Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for
> Voyager • Job For Shane?
>
>
> Elardus,
>
> Yep, very funny...I see a parallel and not parallel universe,
> mainframe
> systems folks and developers retiring and mainframes going the way
> of
> Voyager 1 ...
>
>
> Scott
>
> On Monday, November 2, 2015, Elardus Engelbrecht
> <
> elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Jon Butler wrote:
> >
> > >Is this
> remote work or will extended travel be involved?  ;-))
> >
> >
> > I foresee some
> serious terrible problems:
> >
> > 1. How do you motivate extended (and perhaps
> failing) dial-up time in your
> > overtime sheets? Those top-brass people (PHB,
> bean-counters and auditors)
> > don't understand technicalities...
> >
> > 2. Same
> for travel. I believe, AFAIK and the last time I checked, there
> > are no
> hotels, sightseeing points (you'll have to zip past those planets)
> > or repair
> facilities. Just remember to bring blankets, apparently it is
> > freezing out
> there ...
> >
> > 3. Now those Mars wannabee travellers don't have any plans to
> return due
> > to some problems, how will you travel back? Do you have any
> 'escape' plans?
> >
> > Is it already Friday ??? ;-))
> >
> > Groete / Greetings
> >
> Elardus Engelbrecht
> >
> >
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Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

[Scott Ford]

Elardus,

Yep, very funny...I see a parallel and not parallel universe, mainframe
systems folks and developers retiring and mainframes going the way of
Voyager 1 ...


Scott

On Monday, November 2, 2015, Elardus Engelbrecht <
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote:

> Jon Butler wrote:
>
> >Is this remote work or will extended travel be involved?  ;-))
>
>
> I foresee some serious terrible problems:
>
> 1. How do you motivate extended (and perhaps failing) dial-up time in your
> overtime sheets? Those top-brass people (PHB, bean-counters and auditors)
> don't understand technicalities...
>
> 2. Same for travel. I believe, AFAIK and the last time I checked, there
> are no hotels, sightseeing points (you'll have to zip past those planets)
> or repair facilities. Just remember to bring blankets, apparently it is
> freezing out there ...
>
> 3. Now those Mars wannabee travellers don't have any plans to return due
> to some problems, how will you travel back? Do you have any 'escape' plans?
>
> Is it already Friday ??? ;-))
>
> Groete / Greetings
> Elardus Engelbrecht
>
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Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you - for Voyager . Job For Shane?

[Paul Gillis]

Loved the last sentence, personally I don't know about the current
penetration of Fortran, but how many ancient z/OS shops do not run COBOL.
Apart from those who have PL/1 of course.

"Along with NASA's aging fleet of spacecraft, many businesses still rely on
ancient languages such as Fortran or COBOL for specialized tasks and
critical infrastructure."

Cheers,
Paul Gillis

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/31/brush_up_on_your_fortran/


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Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

[Jon Butler]

Is this remote work or will extended travel be involved?  ;-))

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Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager • Job For Shane?

[Jack J. Woehr]

Ed Gould wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/31/brush_up_on_your_fortran/



Ha! I so would love to do that and keep "Veeger" running so it can make its 
rendezvous with NCC-1701 ...

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[Ed Gould]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/31/brush_up_on_your_fortran/


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