Yeah, I often thing some people are using the letters HPC as in 'high profile computing' nowadays. The diluting effect I mentoined a few posts ago.
Actually LOT of HPC admin folks I know are scientists, scientificly active and tightly coupled to scientists in groups and they were doing DevOps even before it got that fancy name. Here at my uni I find it is *regular* IT that needed and is (indeed in a strange herdy way) adjusting to the pace and workings of scientists and science. They are using old concepts that have recently relabeled into configuration management or stack deployments etc. (as if we used to install them hundreds of HPC nodes all by hand or something?) Things there get re introduced by them commercial-here-is-my-bill-consultants with a fancy gui klickemy-thingy oh and an icon. Let me tell you, now they are doing them stand up comedy things there with their scum mates every day and are talking about 'fragile' software and saying things like 'moving fast breaking things' ?! Ha, all i can say is i am keeping my distance there cause there is a lot of branding and marketing buzzword speak involved and it is giving me a rash ! Back to running my Molecular Quantum Dynamics I am. m. -- mark somers tel: +31715274437 mail: m.som...@chem.leidenuniv.nl web: http://theorchem.leidenuniv.nl/people/somers _______________________________________________ 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
