Thanks for passing by. I am indeed new to Twitter since a few weeks, and I try to build connections there, these being shared between Hive and scientists.
I got a job in France in 2008. This is thus now almost 15 years... That does not make me younger :p
Ahaha =) I am imagining that you have to deal with HPC (High Performance Computing) on a regular basis? If so, any big machines you play with lately? (I am assuming of course that LHC needs to crunch things outside of BOINC too).
Apologies for the slow answer. I am attending a conference that followed a four-day week-end (I was thus quite offline). However, I always reply :)
We indeed deal with HPC every day. In my case, I can deal with a small cluster (of about 1000 cores). There are advantages in being a theorist. However, for my experimental colleagues, they use the so-called Worldwide LHC Computing Grid that is way more powerful.
On the other hand, there are specific problems handled on specific machines. For instance, lattice QCD calculations (see here) lie at the forefront for what concerns HPC.
I know that they are a few BOINC projects related to LHC physics, but I must confess I never really dug into them. Therefore, I am totally helpless here. Sorry.
No worries, and thanks for the reply. Feels nice to find people that are involved with HPC for a change =)
In my case, it's an everyday thing. 😎 all around we have now surpassed 30k cores in aggregated core count between all the clusters on the same facility. A big mess to control =)
I don't recall if we have science related to the same area as LHC stuff... I know we had some astronomy observations projects users, running stuff, but I can't recall what exactly.
I thought the Computing Grid was the one supported by BOINC. But looking now at it, I can see it's a collaboration of institutions. Didn't recall about that, Nice... would be super cool to see LHC stuff reaching New Zealand for collaborations of computing resources if that is a place to happen... I need to talk with some people apparently. Let me know if you have any leads on something that would be interested in this part of the world. Work or non-work related.
What are you doing exactly (don't feel obliged to answer if you want to stay anonymous)? Are you managing a kind of HPC facility in New Zealand? (I now know you are based in New Zealand. ;) )
A facility with 30k core could be quite useful for heavy theoretical computations such as those related to the LHC studies I am involved in. In fact, the cluster I use is probably similar in order of magnitude (in terms of total amount of cores, although I am not allowed to use it entirely).
In fact I have checked and found this. It seems several institutions from New Zealand are part of the CMS collaboration. You can also check out this page. You can even found lists of names
If you are interested in the kind of calculations we do, maybe having a look at the #citizenscience tag could be a great starting point. I run a small citizen science project here on chain, and we will soon enter a heavy computation phase.
If something I am not anymore is that. =) I am just an engineer.
Let's put it, that I can be found =) But yeah, it's not news that I am in NZ. Not even that I know about HPC now how to read many languages or know about blockchain.
But I am Portuguese and I can read French! Also not classified =)
NDA's only for the future that will torment us all and its still inside our planet =)
I will quark things up when possible ... I will check. Thank you!