lo_stronzo

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by lo_stronzo 2y ago
I work in HPC and mostly on the shell/console. Without a doubt, the combination of Bash (or another shell) and AWK is truly amazing. Being able to quickly generate statistics, filter out unnecessary information, generate pipelines, e
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by lo_stronzo 3y ago
> I'll disclose one long enough ago: HostGator I was offered a job by them long enough ago, too. When I tried to negotiate a salary I was ghosted by H.R. Looks like I dodged a bullet though!
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by lo_stronzo 3y ago
> Counterpoint: most shops do not need most of the bespoke cloud services they're using. If you actually do, you should know (or have someone on staff who knows) how to operate it, which negates most of the point of renting it from
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by lo_stronzo 6y ago
> Out of curiosity, do you know what happens to the decomissioned hardware? is it scrapped for useful parts like perhaps the PSUs? or is gold and other metals extracted from the chips and the metal sold for recycling? I cannot state with
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by lo_stronzo 8y ago
We were being harassed (read: annoyed) by rsync's incremental and non incremental backups for our primary research storage, accounting for ~66 TB. We were able to reduce run times by 80 to 90% by using GNU parallel and rsync. In a nut
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by lo_stronzo 8y ago
"I think you have to be a bit of a masochist to use a standing desk alone for more than 15 minutes per hour." I'll agree to a point regarding the 15 minutes per hour when you first transition to a standing desk, but after tha
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by lo_stronzo 9y ago
Agreed, sometimes the reward is just too high to simply "pass on an opportunity". We had an undergrad utilize our then, nascent CUDA nodes. But, simple monitoring of the nodes raised a red flag. When we looked into his running jo
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by lo_stronzo 9y ago
Just an update in case that someone is experiencing something similar. 1.) If using RHEL, most likely the latest microcode updated offered via RHEL entitlements will contain the requisite updates. 2.) Slapping myself over this one(!), but
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by lo_stronzo 9y ago
I hate to say it, but I'm also finding myself scratching my head at this one. I've randomly chosen 3 separate Xeon E5 family processors that are in production, and _each time_ I look at the intel-ucode files, _absolutely none_ of
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by lo_stronzo 9y ago
"sed is useful for making small, line-wise tweaks to text." Couldn't agree more! A great example of this was using (surprised it wasn't mentioned) sed with the -i & 's///g' operators while &q
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by lo_stronzo 9y ago
Although, I cannot comment personally on what employment chances are after serving in prison, I can state with confidence that having a single, felony drug conviction [0] doesn't automatically result in a denial of employment all of th
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by lo_stronzo 9y ago
I believe it. At least the Lustre developers (pre-Intel) had the foresight to enable extremely good debugging - you could simply enable a few procfs settings and easily find the offenders. It's still amusing to me however, that the big
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by lo_stronzo 9y ago
> GPFS is the gold standard but it's expensive. Confirming! And going on a small tangent (ha!). Our previous configuration was Lustre and XFS/NFS; the former was the scratch file system for HPC applications and the latter for