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From what I understand it's not so much a "disadvantaged" problem as it is a time-sharing problem. There are a lot of demands on these and the wait list to perf
by TrueDuality 4y ago
From what I understand it's not so much a "disadvantaged" problem as it is a time-sharing problem. There are a lot of demands on these and the wait list to perform calculations on these machines starts long before the machines are built.
If you're a researcher waiting on your turn to come up and it gets pushed out four years... and you still don't have an actual end in sight... Well a lot of those grants do expire and you may no longer be able to pay for the compute at all...
- bayindirh 4y agoYes, this is another problem. You might not need a whole machine, but part of it, and your turn may never come due to limited capacity. We operate on a different model, so our problems are a bit different, however we see other sites which operate with this model, and the researchers’ feelings and anxiety about getting their time and use it to its fullest. Expiration of compute time or the time window before finishing a research is really crippling in some scenarios.