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By: Michael L.

As an HPC sysadmin working in a university setting, I am all-too familiar with the negative opinions of outspoken graduate students. Often times, new or unfamiliar systems are panned by researchers as...

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By: Rich

Michael, a rebuttal of sorts, Yes every new hybrid, exotic, bleeding edge system made will go through a rough patch as people learn to use them. This is a fact of life. But, why should a physics...

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By: Michael L.

Rich, I actually agree with just about everything you write. The HPC space is dense and inaccessible and I do sympathize with my users who have to learn and deal with complicated software stacks that...

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By: John Leidel

I’ve also had the pleasure of dealing with angry users from time to time. Unfortunately, I would have to disagree with the users that this is our [the HPC community] fault. Indeed, the latest round of...

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By: Paul Adams

“The average Physics PhD student gets on average 250 hours of computer instruction during his or her education.” I presume you are talking about total hours, not semester hours. I only had 7 semester...

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By: anon

The original poster points out “Many different people are seeing memory leaks using vastly different codes.” Having talked to many ranger users at the teragrid meeting last month I would say that that...

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By: Michael L.

To anon: What I’m saying is that we should not assume that the system is broken simply because a user reports it as so. I’m not blaming the user for anything other than overstatement and...

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By: Stephen Skory

To all: Wow! I never thought my little post aimed at my family would spark such a discussion. I should be more careful in the future when I write publicly. Lesson learned. I did write the post in a...

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By: John West

Stephen – not a bit. I hope you keep writing pure, unvarnished reactions to the tools that HPC gives you to get your job done. Everything that everyone has said on this thread is true. HPC machines do...

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By: Michael L.

As an HPC sysadmin working in a university setting, I am all-too familiar with the negative opinions of outspoken graduate students. Often times, new or unfamiliar systems are panned by researchers as...

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By: Rich

Michael, a rebuttal of sorts, Yes every new hybrid, exotic, bleeding edge system made will go through a rough patch as people learn to use them. This is a fact of life. But, why should a physics...

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By: Michael L.

Rich, I actually agree with just about everything you write. The HPC space is dense and inaccessible and I do sympathize with my users who have to learn and deal with complicated software stacks that...

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By: John Leidel

I’ve also had the pleasure of dealing with angry users from time to time. Unfortunately, I would have to disagree with the users that this is our [the HPC community] fault. Indeed, the latest round of...

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By: Paul Adams

“The average Physics PhD student gets on average 250 hours of computer instruction during his or her education.” I presume you are talking about total hours, not semester hours. I only had 7 semester...

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By: anon

The original poster points out “Many different people are seeing memory leaks using vastly different codes.” Having talked to many ranger users at the teragrid meeting last month I would say that that...

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By: Michael L.

To anon: What I’m saying is that we should not assume that the system is broken simply because a user reports it as so. I’m not blaming the user for anything other than overstatement and...

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By: Stephen Skory

To all: Wow! I never thought my little post aimed at my family would spark such a discussion. I should be more careful in the future when I write publicly. Lesson learned. I did write the post in a...

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By: John

Stephen – not a bit. I hope you keep writing pure, unvarnished reactions to the tools that HPC gives you to get your job done. Everything that everyone has said on this thread is true. HPC machines do...

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