[Beowulf] Working for DUG, new thead

[Stu Midgley]

OR... we could answer your questions directly...

Stu (who has worked at DUG for 12 years, built and designed the systems...
was CTO and now Systems Architect)

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:32 AM Jonathan Engwall <
engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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