<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Evan, hi all,<div><br></div><div>there’s a wonderful book about the Supercomputing Center at the University of Stuttgart, Germany by David Gugerli and Ricky Wichum: Simulation for All. The Politics of Supercomputing in Stuttgart. Zürich 2021.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28049"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:228px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28049" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="228"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:228px;background-color:#CFCFCF;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="228"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:228px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:385px;" width="228" height="385" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="9783034016216_0.jpg" src="cid:C4C5966C-D563-43DD-9760-1872530AF80C"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#CFCFCF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="228" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(207, 207, 207, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28049" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Simulation for All</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28049" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">chronos-verlag.ch</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div><br></div><div>I recently wrote a review about the great book, which you find here: https://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/reb-96086?title=geschichte-und-umwelt-von-rechenzentren</div><div>It’s in German, but you can easily translate it.</div><div><br></div><div>They also cover more recent developments. I’m not sure though if they elaborate on Linux</div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am 28.04.2025 um 21:34 schrieb Koblentz, Evan via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>It's been about 30 years since supercomputer designers started using Linux and off-the-shelf hardware. Does anyone study the history of that field? </div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,111,111)">Evan Koblentz</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(111,111,111)"></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,111,111)"><br>- Senior Writer, Office of Communications and Marketing</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,111,111)">- Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,111,111)">- Advisor, NJIT Lego Club</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,111,111)"><br><a href="mailto:evan.a.koblentz@njit.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">evank@njit.edu</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,111,111)"><a href="tel:9735963065" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">(973) 596-3065</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,111,111)"><a href="https://web.njit.edu/~evank/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://web.njit.edu/~evank/</span></a></span></div></div></div></div>
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