Quoting Guy Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Fri 04 Apr 2008 05:59:34 AM PDT:
Does someone who has maintained a personal cluster for their graduate
research have any reasonable chance of landing some sort of admin
position?
That probably describes the career progression of 99% of the people on
this list. If you manage to become an admin by design rather than by
accident/getting press-ganged, you are doing really well.
The folks on this list may not be representative of "cluster
operators" as a whole. There's probably some significant
over-representation of academic clusters for which the cluster admin
may be expected to participate in the "science".
If you wanted a cluster admin job in a trading firm running risk
models, I suspect that having a PhD might not be as important. Having
a finance background *might* be useful, but might not.
Having a background in formal software engineering (as differing from
Computer Science) might be valuable at some places.
Does someone who has maintained a personal cluster for their graduate
research have any reasonable chance of landing some sort of admin
position?
IMHO, that would put you in the top 5% of applicants. Finding people
who know something about systems administration *and* something about
scientific / HPC applications is really hard; to be a good cluster
admin,
in a academic/research environment
you need to know something about both.
Cheers,
Guy
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