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If you work on supercomputers they feel a lot less sexy. As the old quote goes "supercomputers are devices to turn compute bound problems into IO bound problems
by petschge 3y ago
If you work on supercomputers they feel a lot less sexy. As the old quote goes "supercomputers are devices to turn compute bound problems into IO bound problems". So you spend a lot of time fighting IO. (And thinking about memory movements.)
- rbanffy 3y agoI miss the Seymour Cray designs as well.
- green-salt 3y agoI called it "sysadmin by committee" because the decisions were made for the cluster were usually made by someone else who didn't know what they were doing.