Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?
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Somebody in Duper thinks it appropriate to charge north of 2 grand for a 1-week STEM enrichment course. Room and board extra, so it's not the accommodations creating the cost.
What supercomputing lab in DuPage county is selling time to 6th graders? If none, @Polygeekery I got a project for you.
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@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
Somebody in Duper thinks it appropriate to charge north of 2 grand for a 1-week STEM enrichment course. Room and board extra, so it's not the accommodations creating the cost.
Money laundering cover? Grifting the public via "grants"? It is close enough to Chicago that any manner of corruption and/or incompetence is
possibleprobable.
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@Polygeekery said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
Somebody in Duper thinks it appropriate to charge north of 2 grand for a 1-week STEM enrichment course. Room and board extra, so it's not the accommodations creating the cost.
Money laundering cover? Grifting the public via "grants"? It is close enough to Chicago that any manner of corruption and/or incompetence is
possibleprobable.Duper's our Republican county. Cook is Chicago. If this is right near O'Hare, tho, all bets are off.
iirc, the insides of the refrigerators at O'Hare are technically DuPage County again
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@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
What supercomputing lab in DuPage county
Fermi?
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@dcon said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
What supercomputing lab in DuPage county
Fermi?
Only if it's them will I pay that.
Fishing in their ponds in winter is weird as all hell btw.
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There's a couple little high-tech companies that might have something worth seeing at that price in the area. Those things being MRI machines and the like, and then there's the fun little firms that do nearly incomprehensible tests on stuff using Very Expensive Instruments.
More likely though, it's some goddamn grifters looking to pad their resume and steal from children at the same time.
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@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
There's a couple little high-tech companies that might have something worth seeing at that price in the area.
Sigh. Bell Labs is gone. (I used to work there - well, on the AT&T GIS / NCR side)
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@dcon said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
Sigh. Bell Labs is gone.
Bell Labs gave the world C and C++. Are you really sad they're gone?
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@HardwareGeek said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
@dcon said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
Sigh. Bell Labs is gone.
Bell Labs gave the world C and C++. Are you really sad they're gone?
Since my career is still built on them...
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@HardwareGeek said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
@dcon said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
Sigh. Bell Labs is gone.
Bell Labs gave the world C and C++. Are you really sad they're gone?
Don't forget Unix.
Without Bell Labs, we'd probably all be stuck paying out the nose to proprietary vertical vendors. That's not something software should accept! let hardware deal with that.
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@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
Without Bell Labs, we'd probably all be stuck paying out the nose to proprietary vertical vendors. That's not something software should accept! let hardware deal with that.
*snicker* Apple...
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@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
supercomputing lab in DuPage county
That'll be Argonne. Worked there for a while nearly 20 years ago.
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@dkf you ever run into a Jan Ryk? He was my (relative) who (something) magnets (something) Fermi.
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@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
Don't forget Unix.
And the bipolar transistor...
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@Planar said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
Don't forget Unix.
And the bipolar transistor...
Hard to forget that one with Shockley being such a damn glory-hog. But I managed!
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@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
@dkf you ever run into a Jan Ryk? He was my (relative) who (something) magnets (something) Fermi.
No idea. I was there explicitly to work with the distributed supercomputing people (as part of an absolute fustercluck of a project that's best forgotten). The stuff they were doing at the time, Globus, was horrible but somewhat successful; it never made the leap into commercial use however, and AWS/Cloud gobbled the market opportunity a few years later.
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@dkf said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
@dkf you ever run into a Jan Ryk? He was my (relative) who (something) magnets (something) Fermi.
No idea. I was there explicitly to work with the distributed supercomputing people (as part of an absolute fustercluck of a project that's best forgotten). The stuff they were doing at the time, Globus, was horrible but somewhat successful; it never made the leap into commercial use however, and AWS/Cloud gobbled the market opportunity a few years later.
What kind of filesystem was that over? I know those places have some interesting storage needs. Plus their engineers work with scientists so long that I bet after like 5, 7 years they'll implement anything, no matter how insane. So should be double interesting filesystems.
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@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
What kind of filesystem was that over?
It wasn't really. They had an implementation of parallel FTP instead, and a really complicated security model based on (IIRC) limited impersonation.
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Well, it's not a national lab. It's some mobile outfit. Sort of puts an upper limit on how good of kit they'll have available, still smells like a rip so far. The least cheap-out-able part is robotics programming - but technically, you could do that with no actual robots whatsoever.
Maybe sending the girl in armed with some forensics and havoc techniques would be fun tho. Nobody suspects the girl of copying your financials and wrecking your systems.
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@Gribnit said in Supercomputers in DuPage County IL?:
The least cheap-out-able part is robotics programming - but technically, you could do that with no actual robots whatsoever.
It's normal to do most robotics work in simulation. Less chance of having the damn device wreck itself beyond repair that way. Only once you think you've got a working program do you let it get anywhere near an actual robot.
And then it doesn't work anyway because all the time constants are different.
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@dkf okay. so my outlay is 2K plus whatever time to arm the girl with VBA malware.
Argonne National Laboratory - Wikipedia
