Bill's question re. "the cluster is slow"is fantastic. That covers people skills in addition to technical skills.
ps. best of luck. You never know who you might end up working with ;-) On 13 June 2018 at 20:46, Andrew Latham <lath...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bill's question is good and I have heard it many times. Practice answering > that. > > Related examples: > > Tell me how you would setup and install 100 new servers? > How do you describe to onsite support staff (smart hands) to move a > network cable to another port on the same system? > At 2am you are trouble shooting an issue from home and you lose connection > to the node. What do you check first? > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 1:37 PM Bill Abbott <babb...@oarc.rutgers.edu> > wrote: > >> One of my standard interview questions is to say ok, you start on Monday >> and you're placed in charge of a web/db server, tell me what you do your >> first week. >> >> What I want to hear is security, backups, log checking, monitoring, >> performance, functionality, etc., but most of all I want to know how >> they think and if they can come up with a coherent plan. >> >> Another version is "A user says the cluster is slow. What do you do?" >> >> Bill >> >> On 06/13/2018 02:27 PM, Andrew Latham wrote: >> > Such a broad topic. I would assume things like DHCP, TFTP, Networking, >> > PXE and IPMI which come to mind. Troubleshooting tools, configuration >> > management, version control, monitoring, issue tracking and many other >> > processes are at play. I would love to hear any interview questions >> > which could cover this array of topics sanely. >> > >> > Suggested question: Tell me the best hardware horror story? >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:08 PM Jonathan Engwall >> > <engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > John Hearne wrote: >> > > Stuart Midgley works for DUG? They are currently >> > > recruiting for an HPC manager in London... Interesting... >> > >> > Recruitment at DUG wants to call me about Low Level HPC. I have at >> > least until 6pm. >> > I am excited but also terrified. My background is C and now >> > JavaScript, mostly online course work and telnet MUDs. >> > Any suggestions are very much needed. >> > What must a "low level HPC" know on day 1??? >> > Jonathan Engwall >> > engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org >> > <mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org> sponsored by Penguin Computing >> > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url= >> http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beowulf.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fbeowulf&data=02%7C01% >> 7Cbabbott%40rutgers.edu%7C3dccc87b23f6445e544e08d5d15b69b1% >> 7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C636645112905753024&sdata=sr% >> 2FGxwT6uV5hOD029A6Pgbc7%2BGrciWMP7jq77Ap1sy0%3D&reserved=0> > > -- > - Andrew "lathama" Latham - > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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