[Beowulf] Working for DUG, new thead

[Jonathan Engwall]

Yes. Very good idea, it is a mining company in Ausralia.

On Jun 13, 2018 12:23 PM, "Ryan Novosielski" <novosirj at rutgers.edu> wrote:

> > On Jun 13, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Jonathan Engwall <
> 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???
>
> As others have said, it does depend on what “low level” means — eg. entry
> level or low level in the hardware sense, as Prentice said. In general,
> though, I’d say that you should have some working knowledge of what a job
> scheduler is, be it SLURM or SGE ob PBS or whatever, the major components,
> the concepts behind it. It’s almost a given that they’re using a job
> scheduler. You should also probably at least have a concept of how MPI
> works, and what sort of interconnects and storage one tends to encounter in
> HPC.
>
> They also may have some information on their website about their systems,
> depending who they are, which might help you target your review.
>
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