[Beowulf] Working for DUG, new thead

[Bill Abbott]

One of my standard interview questions is to say ok, you start on Monday 
and you're placed in charge of a web/db server, tell me what you do your 
first week.

What I want to hear is security, backups, log checking, monitoring, 
performance, functionality, etc., but most of all I want to know how 
they think and if they can come up with a coherent plan.

Another version is "A user says the cluster is slow.  What do you do?"

Bill

On 06/13/2018 02:27 PM, Andrew Latham wrote:
> Such a broad topic. I would assume things like DHCP, TFTP, Networking, 
> PXE and IPMI which come to mind. Troubleshooting tools, configuration 
> management, version control, monitoring, issue tracking and many other 
> processes are at play. I would love to hear any interview questions 
> which could cover this array of topics sanely.
> 
> Suggested question: Tell me the best hardware horror story?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:08 PM Jonathan Engwall 
> <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com 
> <mailto:engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     John Hearne wrote:
>      > Stuart Midgley works for DUG?  They are currently
>      > recruiting for an HPC manager in London... Interesting...
> 
>     Recruitment at DUG wants to call me about Low Level HPC. I have at
>     least until 6pm.
>     I am excited but also terrified. My background is C and now
>     JavaScript, mostly online course work and telnet MUDs.
>     Any suggestions are very much needed.
>     What must a "low level HPC" know on day 1???
>     Jonathan Engwall
>     engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com
>     <mailto:engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com>
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