The Home Page of Peter Hayes

Who am I?

I've retired as a Technical Support Analyst supporting various Cray systems.

My work interests were -

Compilers and program optimization techniques.
Teaching (Optimization, MPP Programming and Korn shell).
Web page development. I use these page as my sandpit to play in so please let me know of any problems.
Network support.
Systems support.

My personal interests are -

Astronomy (but not a practical observer any more).
I have written JavaScript for an astronomical ephemeris, you can find a copy here and a simpler Sun and moon rise/set page here.
Preservation of the landscape and our historical buildings.
I'm a life member of Friends of Woodchester Mansion, Campaign for National Parks, Friends of the Lake District, English Heritage and the National Trust.
Antique glass (but can not afford the vintage wines that should go in them!).

My life history is -

Born in Norfolk raised in Lincolnshire and Merseyside.

1966-79 - University of Manchester.

1966 to 1969 BSc Physics

1969 to 1970 Msc Radio Astronomy at Jodrell Bank.

1970 to 1973 Programming and preliminary scientific analysis for an experiment on the Ariel 4 satellite. Published Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 343, 227-240 (1975), Walsh, Hayes & Harrison.

1973 to 1979 Regional Computer Centre (later Manchester Computing and now shrunk to a fraction of it's original size as HECToR has taken over it's roll as a national resource). First doing user support then becoming a compiler specialist.

1979-84 - Control Data Ltd.

1979 to 1980 Developing a PDP cross-assembler and APL code for a new customer site.

1980 to 1984 Supporting major customer sites, developing network based tools and porting compilers to a non-standard operating system.

1984-2009 Cray.

1984 to 1996 Cray Research

1996 to 2000 SGI

2000 to 2009 Cray

Surviving mergers and de-mergers whilst supporting Cray customers.
Working with American analysts to port Cray compilers to Folklore (one of 2 non-standard OS's on Cray systems, the other being Cray Time Sharing System- based on LTSS).
Specializing in applications support, compilers, optimization techniques and user training.

Contact Me

Because of junk mail I don't want to put my e-mail address here, you can work it out from the following rule -

Look for a part of the URL of this page containing hayes, this is myself in myself@blueyonder.co.uk

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