re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#32 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#36 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#37 American Airlines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#40 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First at '91 SIGOPS held at Asilomar, Jim and I had a running argument about whether "availability" required proprietary hardware ... which spilled over into the festivities at the SIGOPS night Monterey aguarium session (SOSP 13, Oct 13-16) ... past references to the "argument" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#40 Comparison Cluster vs SMP? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#60 Will multicore CPUs have identical cores? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#2 360 longevity, was RISCs too close to hardware? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#24 computational model of transactions Anne and I were in the middle of our ha/cmp product with "commodity" hardware http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp as well as our "cluster" scale-up activities ... old email references: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa and only a dozen weeks away from the meeting referenced here http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 Jim was nearly a decade with proprietary "availability" hardware .... first at Tandem and then had moved on to DEC (vax/cluster) ... he was there until DEC database group was sold off to Oracle in '94 .... reference here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Rdb As per previous references ...it was only fitting that later he was up on the stage exposing availability and scaleup for Microsoft clusters. podcast reference for the tribute: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23082 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23083 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23087 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23088
