OK… I didn’t actually hear this quote today, but I thought it as I was sitting in our weekly departmental meeting…<\/p>\n
“The less a user knows about the underpinnings of the cluster, the better<\/em>”<\/p>\n Basically, what I am saying here is that users should just use the cluster for their work, and not mess with anything else unless told to. If they have a problem, they should provide a distinct request with as much information about the problem as they can, and if we identify what the problem is we come up with a solution that we provide to them, and they use that solution. They don’t need to know that there are some switches to MPI commands that might make their program run a bit faster, because most likely they are going to screw it up and cause bigger problems than they would possibly be solving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK… I didn’t actually hear this quote today, but I thought it as I was sitting in our weekly departmental meeting… “The less a user knows about the underpinnings of the cluster, the better” Basically, what I am saying here is that users should just use the cluster for their work, and not mess with anything else unless told to. If they have a problem, they should provide a distinct request with as much information about the problem as they can, and if we identify what the problem is we come up with a solution that we provide to them, and they use that solution. They don’t need to know that there are some switches to MPI commands that might make their program run a bit faster, because most likely they are going to screw it up and cause bigger problems than they would possibly be solving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}