eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (12/08/85)
I have just returned from a one week "vacation" to the Washington DC
area where I visited friends at the Langley Research Center, NASA HQ,
and the Goddard Space Flight Center. I caught a cold very early on
and was in fact an hour late for my own presentations at LARC (talk
about feeling sick :-( ). Presentations at HQ and Goddard went better.
They are amused with the USENET and net.space, net.columbia.
I also gave demos of Phil Karn's sat/azel system and Bob Morris's
sky program (people were impressed). I learned that Goddard was now
on BITNET, they are hoping for an ARPA connect thru UOM. These presentations
were mostly about UNIX, computer networks, and recent trends in Si Valley.
Special thanks go the the National Bureau of Standards for inviting
me to talk about my current research on performance measurement:
"Beyond the Livermore Loops: Second Generation Benchmarking."
A NASA Technical Note will be issued in January on this with some
prototype ideas run on Crays, Cybers, Convex, ELXSI, and other machines.
From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
--eugene miya
NASA Ames Research Center
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