bfgpereira

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   by bfgpereira 3mo ago

   The TOP500 rank is not a count of nodes, GPUs, or aggregate FLOPS. Many systems have the node count to be able to run such benchmarks, but are not optimized or even capable of running them. Having these systems run these large calculations
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   by bfgpereira 7y ago

   You describe precisely one of my points there. Its incredible how comfortable people are touching components that they don't fully understand. :D
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   by bfgpereira 7y ago

   > Only time will tell if I am in fact right. I guess you prove a point here: you trust that the deployment of your GKE module allows you to be safe, so your investment vs risk trade seems to satisfy you. But you, yourself, cannot even pr
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   by bfgpereira 7y ago

   I am agreeing with what you wrote, though. Or at least I am trying to. I have seen numerous times the results of that, where for instance, a developer creating a tool decides that his interpretation of a bad requirement is satisfied in a po
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   by bfgpereira 7y ago

   This is what I have learned in many years of work: people who know systems should be let to handle those systems. This is what happens when a developer is left to do the work that a system administrator should be trained to do - not all are
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   by bfgpereira 7y ago

   This is nothing new, or exciting. Most Linux distros will do this either via PXE, with NFS root, or rsync a rootfs to RAM and then boot, etc etc etc. There are literally so many ways of doing this, it would take me eons to stop the creativi