I matriculated (enrolled) at Glasgow University in 1981 (Scots lads and lasses start Yoonie at a tender age!). My Computer Science teacher was Jennifer Haselgrove. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenifer_Haselgrove
Wonderful lady, who of course did not have a degree in Comp Sci - as there were none when she was an undergrad. First lecture - algorithms and debugging. How do you make a cup of tea? Well - describe the steps to make a cup of tea to your cat. Best advice on development and debugging I have ever had. Get yourselves a cat. Cats are wise and can debug most any program. On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 17:51, Lux, Jim (337K) via Beowulf < beowulf@beowulf.org> wrote: > This is somewhat off topic for the list, but what you are describing is a > phenomenon known as “signaling” – that is, the possession of the degree > isn’t strictly required for the task at hand (an autodidact could > potentially do it), but that possession is a signal of other > characteristics which are deemed desirable. > > And yes, most well-known folks in the “computer science” business up to > around 1980 (well known in 1970 or 1980, I mean) most likely did not have a > degree in CS, because they weren’t very many CS programs. It is true that > most had degrees in Math, Physics, Engineering though. > > > > > > > > > > > > *From: *Beowulf <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org> on behalf of " > beowulf@beowulf.org" <beowulf@beowulf.org> > *Reply-To: *Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov> > *Date: *Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 1:32 PM > *To: *"beowulf@beowulf.org" <beowulf@beowulf.org> > *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Re: [Beowulf] Introduction and question > > > > Thanks for sharing this. I was recently asked for my input in a job > description for a new position. They wanted to make the education > requirements a minimum of a BS in Math, Physics, Engineering, or CS. I > recommended that they DO NOT list any education requirements for this > position, because most of the skills they were looking for (git, make > files, GNU autoconf, CMake, etc.), are not taught in any college curriculum > I know of, so a formal education is no guarantee of those skills. and some > of the best sys admins and programmers I ever met had no formal education > in STEM, or at all. > > I was overruled. > > -- > Prentice > > On 3/21/19 5:08 AM, Benson Muite wrote: > > "Many employers look for people who studied humanities and learned IT by > themselves, for their wider appreciation of human values." > > Mark Burgess > > https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/jesa_0201_issue.pdf > > On 2/23/19 4:30 PM, Will Dennis wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I thought I’d give a brief introduction, and see if this list is a good > fit for my questions that I have about my HPC-“ish” infrastructure... > > > > I am a ~30yr sysadmin (“jack-of-all-trades” type), completely self-taught > (B.A. is in English, that’s why I’m a sysadmin :-P) and have ended up > working at an industrial research lab for a large multi-national IT company > (http://www.nec-labs.com). In our lab we have many research groups (as > detailed on the aforementioned website) and a few of them are now using > “HPC” technologies like Slurm, and I’ve become the lead admin for these > groups. Having no prior background in this realm, I’m learning as fast as I > can go :) > > > > Our “clusters” are collections of 5-30 servers, all collections bought > over years and therefore heterogeneous hardware, all with locally-installed > OS (i.e. not trad head-node with PXE-booted diskless minions) which is as > carefully controlled as I can make it via standard OS install via Cobbler > templates, and then further configured via config management (we use > Ansible.) Networking is basic 10GbE between nodes (we do have Infiniband > availability on one cluster, but it’s fell into disuse now since the > project that has required it has ended.) Storage is one or more traditional > NFS servers (some use ZFS, some not.) We have within the past few years > adopted Slurm WLM for a job-scheduling system on top of these collections, > and now are up to three different Slurm clusters, with I believe a fourth > on the way. > > > > My first question for this list is basically “do I belong here?” I feel > there’s a lot of HPC concepts it would be good for me to learn, so as I can > improve the various research group’s computing environments, but not sure > if this list is for much larger “true HPC” environments, or would be a good > fit for a “HPC n00b” like me... > > > > Thanks for reading, and let me know your opinions :) > > > > Best, > > Will > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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