[ale] HPC replies

[Leam Hall]

Hey all, I just wanted to follow up on this.

I just finished Coursera's short class on Introductory HPC. Learned a little Slurm and got to play with it on the course interface. Then, naturally, I found out how to install Slurm locally to play with the commands. Cool...

Leam


On 12/10/24 07:51, Brian MacLeod via Ale wrote:
> It may be economically inefficient, but if it seems like something you
> might like or love to do, then you do inefficient things.  That's at the
> very least what a hobby is, if not a specialization in certain minutiae in
> common areas.
> 
> I've found that despite my interest and accessibility in HPC (very
> economically efficient path, I found it wasn't for me in the end.  But the
> experience has definitely informed me for dealing with so many filesystem
> issues that that has become what I am known for.
> 
> I know plenty of people who've entered it in less efficient means and don't
> make near as much money as in their studied fields, but they love it and
> feel satisfied helping others use these technologies.
> 
> 
> bnm
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 9:32 PM Russell L. Carter via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings!
>>
>> I am temporaily, regretably, locate4d in Douglasville
>> GA.  Yet I am wondering about the discussion here about
>> uh, erm, "HPC computing".
>>
>> All the comments so far are true; it's a mess, always
>> has been.
>>
>> But there is a reason for HPC computing: various algorithms
>> need memory locality to work efficiently.  People here surely
>> know what I mean: your nonlinear PDE solver (a galaxy here)
>> likely needs locally efficient memory accesses to work
>> "well enough" to get your PhD and then a low paid (relatively
>> speaking) job if you get tenure through the publications.
>>
>> This all means that unless you are already in the PhD/HPC
>> ecosystem, it's quite economically inefficient to try to
>> be employed there.
>>
>> Russell L. Carter
>>
>>
>> On 12/9/24 8:32 PM, Dev Null via Ale wrote:
>>> Dec 9, 2024 17:40:27 matthew.brown--- via Ale <ale at ale.org>:
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>>> Well said! I completely agree.
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