Dale W. Carder

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Network Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working on the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), building networks for International science projects such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the FABRIC testbed.
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"Today we have released a series of rare and never-before-seen images of Colossus, in celebration of the 80th anniversary of the code-breaking computer that played a pivotal role in the Second World War effort. “

https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/colossus-80

GCHQ celebrates 80 years of Colossus

Today we celebrate 80 years of Colossus, the code-breaking computer that played a pivotal role in WWII.

I'm pretty sure my job is just staring into the Matrix and then knowing what to work on next.
Why the phone company shouldn’t run the internet, in 1 picture.
A week at IETF 117

IETF v6ops, ARE YOU READY TO ROCK!

(I have achieved the appropriate level of caffeine required for my talk this AM)

It's an exciting day to work for the Department of Energy. Congrats to our sister lab, LLNL which I learned today actually stands for "Lasers, Lasers, Nothing but Lasers".

I was reminded of when the center of the network was effectively the Bell System Reference Frequency, distributed from the Stratum 1 in Hillsboro, MO. Today, the former long-lines facility looks abandoned.

http://www.coldwarcomms.org/l5/hillsboro/hillsboro.html

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3255339,-90.5289255,249m/data=!3m1!1e3

Hillsboro, MO L5 Main Station

Given that I started in my career with MByte filesystems and that some of our sites are closing in on an Exabyte (I think just HPSS alone at NERSC is around 0.3EB), I'm hopeful we will have these new prefixes in everyday usage by the time I retire.