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I remember when I was a college student at UIC and I took a class that taught me how to use Maple (now they use Sage). The professor also taught supercomputing
by zitterbewegung 5y ago
I remember when I was a college student at UIC and I took a class that taught me how to use Maple (now they use Sage). The professor also taught supercomputing and he bought some specialized NUMA computers and a few dense multiprocessor systems. If you don't have a large company that will support what you buy then there is a huge risk if the company folds and then your hardware becomes useless to the point that you will let an Undergraduate try to figure out how to fix it (that undergraduate was me). Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful.
- choppaface 5y agoThe CS1 had a Tensorflow / pytorch API; the CS2 probably has the same capability. There’s still a lot of risk for sure, but at least it’s not sawzall.
- madengr 5y agoWouldn’t these things, like quantum computers, be leased? The complexity is getting so high that you would need full time staff dedicated just to that hardware. At least if it goes belly up, you are not stuck with unsupported hardware.
- stainforth 5y agoWas the hardware broken or was it a matter of figuring out how to run something on it?
- zitterbewegung 5y agoIIRC Hardware was broken and unserviceable (at least the ones I was given).