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You know, I've been in some data centers and top 50 HPC clusters ... I don't understand why the US government doesn't run it's own cloud systems, except for the
by killjoywashere 7y ago
You know, I've been in some data centers and top 50 HPC clusters ... I don't understand why the US government doesn't run it's own cloud systems, except for the appropriations. There are enough computer scientists in the larger org to field a major distributed systems engineering group.
- delfinom 7y ago>I don't understand why the US government doesn't run it's own cloud systems, except for the appropriations. Inability to pay high enough salaries for anyone to maintain it properly AND move it forward with new tech.
- acdha 7y agoHere’s the civilian pay scale – think of how it compares with AWS or Google: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/2019/general-schedule/ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries... Now, think of the political climate: there’ve been decades trying to “trim waste” by steering money to the private sector, where efficiency is taken as a matter of faith. First you’d need to hire the technical leadership to properly plan something like that and then hire all of the people who’d build it, not to mention procuring all of the hardware & data centers, etc. You’re looking at years before you have a positive return on any of that – and all the while, every big contractor is going to have their lobbyists talking about how it’s a waste of money compared to going with them. NASA tried this a decade ago with Nebula, which was part of the early OpenStack history. I don’t know exactly what happened with that but the people I know working on NASA projects are all using AWS.