{"id":2282,"date":"2016-10-06T01:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T06:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:29:32","slug":"wheres-the-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/10\/wheres-the-supercomputer\/","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the Supercomputer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n

While I sip my morning coffee, I’m using a computer that is somewhere else, run by someone else, and paid for my someone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am taking a data science course online. As part of the course, I have some weeks of limited, free time on a machine leaning platform that is “in the cloud,” i.e., in a data center somewhere.<\/p>\n

I sit in front of my puny 11″ screen adjusting the coefficients on a machine learning algorithm (sounds much more impressive than it is). I hit the enter key, and viola, magic happens somewhere.<\/p>\n

I’m not paying for this computing time. Someone is, someone has to be, someone must be, but it isn’t me. What is happening here in the 21st century?<\/p>\n

Oh, by the way. One of the limitations is that I can only submit three runs per day. That takes me back to the days of punch cards, computing I\/O rooms, and turnaround that is so slow that I could only run three programs a day.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe this clouded supercomputing century isn’t all that it is made to be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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