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On 12/04/2013 04:36 PM, justin wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> I would like to introduce Nickolas Bock (nicolasbock) who recently |
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> joined the gentoo dev team. |
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> He is a computational scientist and tries to solve some crazy stuff on |
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> his cluster (ask him for more details if you are brave :) ). His cluster |
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> is of course running Gentoo, which is he is using for ages. |
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> As part of his job he is involved in several projects related to cluster |
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> computing and quantum chemistry. And exactly those package really need a |
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> helping hand in Gentoo, which he is already providing through the |
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> science overlay. So it was time to let him do the job in the tree. |
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> Please join me in giving him a warm welcome. |
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> Justin |
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Welcome Nicholas! I have a ph.d. in theoretical physics and did a lot |
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of number crunching back in 1988-1992. I was working on 2-d Hubbard |
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models and diagonalizing what was then huge matrices. I've often wanted |
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to resurrect that code on modern clusters just to see. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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