Time to try blogging again. I've been wanting to get into blogging (and podcasting) for a while now, and figure life is getting interesting enough to start again.
So what's the blog about?
The main focus will probably be work (as the title suggests), since I don't think high performance computing has enough voice from a sysadmin perspective sometimes. HPC programmers love to talk and dream and voice their opinions, but a lot of times I feel their perspective gets skewed. Even the admins that are voicing opinions seem to be out of touch, as they tend to work on smaller scale machines. More on those ideas in future posts.
When I run out of technical topics to talk about, there's always music and other current events in my life. At least I find them interesting. Your mileage may vary.
Skewed perspective? Small imagination? Unreasonable imagination? I think HPC research will eventually contribute producing a strong AI someday. Is this what you're talking about?
ReplyDeleteNot always unreasonable imagination, but imagination that doesn't exactly correspond with reality. There's a big community around doing HPC things because they are novel ideas, not necessarily because they're useful (the Beowulf mailing list is full of those kinds of threads).
ReplyDeleteThe actual science being done using HPC is (usually) fairly sound, it's more the systems side of things that people seem to have crazy ideas about.