[Beowulf] Working for DUG, new thead

[Andrew Latham]

Bill's question is good and I have heard it many times. Practice answering
that.

Related examples:

Tell me how you would setup and install 100 new servers?
How do you describe to onsite support staff (smart hands) to move a network
cable to another port on the same system?
At 2am you are trouble shooting an issue from home and you lose connection
to the node. What do you check first?


On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 1:37 PM Bill Abbott <babbott at oarc.rutgers.edu>
wrote:

> 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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