Scale Up Your HPC Job Interviews

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Written by Alex McKee

Published: 09 March 2020

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Give your HPC resume a performance boost by creating a Resume Profile

If your job search was a parallel program, then your resume would be the code that outputs interviews. You wouldn’t want to scale up your job count until your code is optimized and bug free, right?

An inefficient resume can cause you a lot of wasted time, extending your job search out for several months. Sure, brute forcing your job search by sending out 100’s of resumes will typically land you a job, eventually. But it’s likely that you will burn-out before then, or get into a “I’ll take anything I can get” mindset.

So what can you do to optimize your resume to increase your interview rate?

There are several ways, but one stands out in my book as the most important, and that is adding a resume profile at the top of your resume.

Hadoop Is Not a Toaster

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Written by Douglas Eadline

Published: 18 September 2019

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From the "Here comes the cluestick" department

Apache Hadoop has been in the press lately. Some of the content has not been positive and, often times, reflects a misunderstanding of how Hadoop relates to data processing. Indeed, we seem to be in the Trough of Disillusionment in the Technology Hype Cycle. In my opinion, many of these recent "insights" seem to come from the belief that Hadoop is some kind of toaster. For the record, Hadoop can make great toast and as it traveled up the hype curve, market exuberance thought good tasting toast could do anything. Turns out, these days, people want something to go along with their toast. What happened to the great toast?

Nothing happened to the toast. It turns out that Hadoop may have started out as a toaster, but now it is quite a bit more. Hadoop has evolved into a full kitchen. To understand modern Hadoop technology, one must understand that just like kitchen that is designed to prepare food for consumption, Hadoop is designed as a platform to prepare data for analysis and insights.

SC19 Stranger Beowulf Things

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Written by Number Six

Published: 17 November 2019

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Time once again for the best (well we think so) party at SC. This year we borrow some "stranger" notions of the 1980's. You remember the IBM PC, the Mac, the WWW, and Windows 2.0. And, if you don't we'll remind you anyway. Pro tip: There are three Hyatt hotels near the Convention center, the Beowulf Bash is at the GRAND HYATT Hotel (head up Welton Street to 17th when you leave the CC on Monday night) We are on the 38th floor, best view in Denver.

Official invitation is here Plus, you help contribute and get a snarky T-shirt at the same time, check out this page All funds go the event. Okay, show the cool graphics we prepared

HPC and AI on Wall Street 2019

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Written by Number Six

Published: 27 August 2019

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As mentioned, Cluster Monkey has been attending the HPC & Other on Wall Street meetings and exposition since they began. The event is a great way to meet vendors and learn the latest news happenings on the HPC in finance front (especially those of us on the east coast ). Like before it will take place at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC.

The Conference Program is posted and it looks to a good day and half of leading edge HPC presentations. The show is focusing on the following themes:

• Artificial Intelligence Use Cases for HPC
• Hybrid and Cloud Computing HyperScale Use Cases
• Data Analytics Use Cases for HPC
• Containerization and Microservices in HPC
• Cyber Analytics for Hyperscale Environments
• Global Blockchain Use Cases in HPC

For those on the east coast and beyond, the event will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, September 11 and 12 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. See you there!