Roland Piquepaille Dies

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 9, 2009 @06:33AM from the in-memoriam dept.

overheardinpdx writes "I'm sad to report that longtime HPC technology pundit Roland Piquepaille (rpiquepa) died this past Tuesday. Many of you may know of him through his blog, his submissions to Slashdot, and his many years of software visualization work at SGI and Cray Research. I worked with Roland 20 years ago at Cray, where we both wrote tech stories for the company newsletter. With his focus on how new technologies modify our way of life, Roland was really doing Slashdot-type reporting before there was a World Wide Web. Rest in peace, Roland. You will be missed." The notice of Roland's passing was posted on the Cray Research alumni group on Linked-In by Matthias Fouquet-Lapar. There will be a ceremony on Monday Jan. 12, at 10:30 am Paris time, at Père Lachaise.

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Re:Rest in peace by Goaway · 2009-01-09 07:05 · Score: 5, Informative

Years ago, perhaps. That hasn't been true in a long time, however.
Re:What happens to... by jamie · 2009-01-09 07:14 · Score: 5, Informative

The "Roland Piquepaille" account is a troll.
The actual Roland's account, as mentioned in the story, was "rpiquepa".
Re:Wait a second by jamie · 2009-01-09 07:15 · Score: 5, Informative

Kdawson made the phone calls to confirm this before posting it.
Re:Slashdot by jamstar7 · 2009-01-09 12:25 · Score: 5, Informative

Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?
4chan.
Yeah, definitely 4chan.
And of course here where it's expected to laugh yer ass off.

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