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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But... by Linker3000 · 2009-01-09 06:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...did he run Linux?

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Re:No Need for Insult by Myopic · 2009-01-09 07:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I mistakenly moderated that post as overrated instead of funny, so I'm replying to it so that my moderation is eliminated.
Re:Rest in peace by steelfood · 2009-01-09 09:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This resolved any potential I, personally, might have had.
Way to blame him for your inability to breed.

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