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<p>Thanks for sharing this. I was recently asked for my input in a
job description for a new position. They wanted to make the
education requirements a minimum of a BS in Math, Physics,
Engineering, or CS. I recommended that they DO NOT list any
education requirements for this position, because most of the
skills they were looking for (git, make files, GNU autoconf,
CMake, etc.), are not taught in any college curriculum I know of,
so a formal education is no guarantee of those skills. and some of
the best sys admins and programmers I ever met had no formal
education in STEM, or at all. <br>
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<p>I was overruled. <br>
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<p>--<br>
Prentice<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/21/19 5:08 AM, Benson Muite wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/23/19 4:30 PM, Will Dennis
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I thought I’d give a brief introduction,
and see if this list is a good fit for my questions that I
have about my HPC-“ish” infrastructure...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am a ~30yr sysadmin
(“jack-of-all-trades” type), completely self-taught (B.A. is
in English, that’s why I’m a sysadmin :-P) and have ended up
working at an industrial research lab for a large
multi-national IT company (<a href="http://www.nec-labs.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.nec-labs.com</a>). In
our lab we have many research groups (as detailed on the
aforementioned website) and a few of them are now using
“HPC” technologies like Slurm, and I’ve become the lead
admin for these groups. Having no prior background in this
realm, I’m learning as fast as I can go :) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our “clusters” are collections of 5-30
servers, all collections bought over years and therefore
heterogeneous hardware, all with locally-installed OS (i.e.
not trad head-node with PXE-booted diskless minions) which
is as carefully controlled as I can make it via standard OS
install via Cobbler templates, and then further configured
via config management (we use Ansible.) Networking is basic
10GbE between nodes (we do have Infiniband availability on
one cluster, but it’s fell into disuse now since the project
that has required it has ended.) Storage is one or more
traditional NFS servers (some use ZFS, some not.) We have
within the past few years adopted Slurm WLM for a
job-scheduling system on top of these collections, and now
are up to three different Slurm clusters, with I believe a
fourth on the way.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My first question for this list is
basically “do I belong here?” I feel there’s a lot of HPC
concepts it would be good for me to learn, so as I can
improve the various research group’s computing environments,
but not sure if this list is for much larger “true HPC”
environments, or would be a good fit for a “HPC n00b” like
me...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for reading, and let me know your
opinions :)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Will<o:p></o:p></p>
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