[Beowulf] And where is Beowulf/Cluster discussion activity these days

[Adam DeConinck]

I also prefer mailing lists over Slack etc, but [shrug] it is what it is.

FWIW, the two Slack instances I've found best for HPC are associated with:

* SIGHPC-SYSPROS: https://sighpc-syspros.org/
* HPC.social: https://hpc.social/

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM Ryan Novosielski via Beowulf <
beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:

> > On Jan 12, 2026, at 15:11, Kevin Rineer <rineerk at whitman.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > am I the only one who is completely stretched beyond what is healthy,
> or do it wrong?
> >
> > Jörg, I suspect not!
> >
> > I'm not going to complain too much on a public mailing list, but this is
> one of my many responsibilities that I didn't start with in my JD. I know
> that's how many started with Linux clustering, but I still have to do the
> remaining 100% of my JD.
> >
> > Experience is indeed giving me more time within the week, but the
> expanding responsibility list is growing faster than my gains in efficiency.
>
> A partial oversimplification perhaps — especially depending on your
> jurisdiction — but to some extent, one becomes stretched to the point they
> allow themselves to be stretched, or choose to be stretched if it’s
> self-inflicted because there are just so many interesting things to do.
>
> That is one of the reasons I'm wouldn’t be incredibly interested in taking
> a non-union IT position, even for more money. One could potentially
> substitute the specialized nature of most of our work for having that
> protection (or having the more money), but I’d rather not.
>
> I have at times been told I’m inflexible on one thing or another regarding
> how far I will allow myself to be stretched, but I think boundaries are
> important.
>
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