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by GordPosted onJuly 20, 2021September 4, 2021Personal

The Night the Devil Came Down from the Gaspe

Thanks to Keith and Gloria Gathercole. This brilliant article was penned by Keith and Gloria as a tribute to Rejean Lanthier who sadly passed away…

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by GordPosted onJuly 20, 2021September 4, 2021Uncategorized

Limping Back to Life

Unfortunately, the sissons.ca website has been neglected for several years. I let it go off the air in 2017 after getting busy with other things.…

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by GordPosted onFebruary 28, 2016September 4, 2021Personal

Memories of a Falcona Camper

YMCA Camp Falcona Contributed Article The article below is a re-post of an article that appears in a YMCA newsletter. The original article appears here…

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by GordPosted onJune 28, 2015September 4, 2021Personal

June Trip to Ottawa

On June 13th I traveled to Ottawa to support our good friends Brian and Sue Parsons in the Ottawa Walk for ALS.  I was also…

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by GordPosted onMarch 17, 2015March 28, 2021Neat geeky stuff

Fairshare scheduling – How fair is fair?

Sharing is good. Whether we’re sharing a soda, an apartment or an HPC cluster, chances are good that sharing can save us money. As readers…

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by Posted onMarch 6, 2015March 28, 2021Neat geeky stuff

An HPC cluster for the cheapest of cheapskates

This proves I have too much time on my hands, but I thought it would be fun to setup a small test cluster using the…

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by Posted onFebruary 14, 2015March 28, 2021Neat geeky stuff

From 50,000 feet all water looks drinkable

From 50,000 all water looks drinkable. I need to credit my former manager Paul Giroux at Sun Microsystems with this nugget. It’s one of several…

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by Posted onFebruary 14, 2015March 28, 2021IBM Stuff

Walking on clouds – IBM and Twitter

New tooling built into BigInsights for Hadoop simplifies landing and processing raw twitter data. If you blinked you might have missed it, but back in…

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by Posted onMay 30, 2014March 28, 2021Neat geeky stuff

The Evolving HPC Cluster

Big Compute meets Big Data HPC systems have evolved significantly over the last two decades. While once the dominion of purpose-built supercomputers, today, clustered systems…

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by Posted onApril 17, 2014March 28, 2021IBM Stuff

Untangling YARN Multitenancy

Untangling YARN: Building a Multitenant Hadoop Environment All in the Hadoop world are excited about YARN. For those who don’t follow goofy topics like this,…

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