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Richard Siggs

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Slaving away smashing rocks in the Data Mines.  “Understand commander … you heard it hit the hull. And I was never here” - The Hunt For Red October.  Doing the hard yards in HPC / Supercomputer operations, IoT & cloud engineering.  The Ghost in the Machine aka Infrastructure Nerd.  Business owner.  #BBS operator from the ‘80s. Ran ISPs from the ‘90s through to 2007.  CompSci degree with post-grad in Animation.  Union member of Professionals Australia.  Vegetarian for decades.

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nostr:npub1xr8gd35szene0r2yvfafr29tjwdedgwd89lnfpmh3pylnygnvd4qmf3q0g “All these kinds of stuff-ups are typical when you give dollars to companies with zero relevant skill, knowledge and expertise, and ask them to build the bureau’s next computing facilities.”

Federal government is absolutely addicted to consultants, this looks like a phenomenal waste of money. Surely there are suppliers with relevant expertise in this space???

Richard Siggs 2y ago

nostr:npub1f7d04cetdnjkhmecqnuhpa0wcy840xzzuu4sqrr5zxp5dvh7wlwsv3znlj nostr:npub1xr8gd35szene0r2yvfafr29tjwdedgwd89lnfpmh3pylnygnvd4qmf3q0g The BOM is not alone in this, super-computers are hard to do, both right & anything approaching year like timeframes.

I’ve seen global scale megacorps fail at other super-computer builds, so nothing written here is a surprise to those of us that know modern super-computers.

Hint: it’s not just the technology that’s super hard in these builds.