zac_hudson

>Is this legal?

In my limited experience, if your clients are asking if its legal, there's going to be a minefield of ethical and regulatory problems involved...

I've personally tried building the software I need for source before, but getting all the BLAS/LAPACK and MPI libraries with it has been annoying and time consuming. Your supercomputer cluster may offer pre-built optimized binaries for your CPU. For mine, I've been using prebuilt software offered by compute canada over CVMFS[1]. I assume something similar is available for wherever you get your supercomputing resources from.

1. https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Accessing_CVMFS

I bought an old server from ebay, and ripped the guts out to make a desktop computer. 128GB of ddr3 ram and 48 E5 v2 xeons for 300$.

What an appalling bit of pro-israel propaganda.

All this talk about how Israel's intelligence agencies were turned to the task of Palestinian terrorism without a single mention of why these palestinians, an occupied people on their own land, might resort to force.

Then there's the almost gloating tone they took to the planned murder of a 12 year old boy, justified by "jewish blood will not be spilled with impunity"

I wonder if the author will take the same attitude when Palestinians assasinate an Israeli soldier in retaliation for the countless airstrikes and starvation campaigns conducted against the palestinian bantustans.

Firstly, its surprising that this school allows what would apparently be the lay public gain access to human anatomical gifts. In Canada, this is restricted to persons with a legitimate interest, ie med students and grad students in bioengineering/bio-adjacent fields.

I think that the author is not an individual with such an interest was quite clear from the tone taken on this piece - most discussions involving cadavers are quite respectful of the fact that they are working on the mortal remains of a person; for some reason the way this piece was written felt almost disrespectful.

Fortran is very well suited for highly parallalized workloads, given that all HPC tasks are basically parallelized matrix manipulations.

For some reason people have the notion that Fortran is still the punch-card days, but Fortran 08 is in fact widely used and quite friendly nowadays. If you're building a very-parallel application that could use something like MPI, you should very seriously consider Fortran.

This was noted in an earlier post here[1]. Naturally I imagine that not only are social media outlets flooded with "righthink", but I suspect, but can't prove, that traditional media have also recieved their marching orders on ensuring the "correct narrative" is pushed on the war.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32745602

Huawei has a very unusual leadership/ownership structure, even amongst its peers in the tech industry. Legally, its a worker-owned cooperative, but unlike most cooperatives, its workers don't directly vote on policy; rather they choose 51 shareholder representatives and 9 alternate representatives, who in turn select a politburo, which in turn selects a CEO from the standing committee.

This is deeply interesting work, and its quite disturbing it should be associated with the defense department. As the authors themselves note, this is a perfect game-theoretic scenario where countries must cooperate to avoid "geoengineering wars", but have little trust that someone else won't jump the gun first. Having this sort of research done in cloistered, non-public forums is only going to exacerbate this threat. If I were the leader of say, China's climate policies, I'd consider such research, if done as part of a military-industrial complex, as opposed to a collaborative, public effort, a real threat - how do I know that the US isn't going to unilaterally start pumping sulfates into the atmosphere to try to end the californian drought? Or even darker - what if the US found an optimal way to inject sulfates that would cause failed crops in China but leave the west unscathed?