I was recently a postdoc at LLNL, and took a real-life 1-week in-person crash-course on pthreads, OpenMP and MPI from Blaise. Afterwards I really felt like I c

I was recently a postdoc at LLNL, and took a real-life 1-week in-person crash-course on pthreads, OpenMP and MPI from Blaise. Afterwards I really felt like I could get going. I guess it is not SUPER surprising---LLNL and LANL are basically where high performance computing was invented, and they have a tradition of excellence. I have accounts at a few other supercomputing facilities, and none compare in expertise and professionalism to LLNL.