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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/11/13 13:23, Lux, Jim (337C)
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday,
November 27, 2013 4:35 AM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Beowulf]
Docker in HPC<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 November 2013 12:29, Tim
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<div style="WORD-WRAP:break-word">Yes, Pete, Guy and I
have been debating this stuff for some time, together
with some of our informatics coders. </div>
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<div> Should virtualisation ever also be necessary (for
example to ship ... to another site to analyse some of
their data)</div>
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<div>Well why not just clone your informatics coders?</div>
<div>I'm sure you have all the necessary technology at the
Sanger Centre - line up your coders, take a DNA sample,</div>
<div>clone them and send off the clones on low cost
airline flights to where they are needed.</div>
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<div>I suppose the nine-month lead time might be a bit
problematic from a project planning point of view.</div>
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<div>I took a project management class on task planning, and we
worked in fungible work months. (I think the instructor was born
after Brooks wrote his book) Why can you not divide the
reproductive work among 9X workers and get your toilers in a
month? OK, I recognize that this isn't possible today (although
see below for a better idea).</div>
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<div>Perhaps a bigger concern is the latency from birth to
"productive coder". Is there a potential application of
computational chemistry here to produce pharmacological agents
that will reduce that 10 year latency (minimum) to something
smaller? Perhaps with selective breeding or genetic
manipulation? Chickens and cows reach marketable size much
faster today than they used to. Software developers (or STEM
graduates in general) are next. Conceivably, one could reduce
the gestation period as well. These physically smaller coders
(make em smarter faster, but don't waste energy on growing large
bodies) will occupy less space in the office, so we can turn
today's space wasteful cube farms with their 8 foot ceilings
into something more reasonable. Perhaps not to the size of the
cages for battery hens, but still smaller than today's cubicle.</div>
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This made me smile. Sort of Futurama heads in jars meets Big Bang
Theory<br>
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