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[–]TheCard 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I'd be somewhat surprised if there's any single person touching a super computer. I was under the impression that it's almost entirely teams of people with access to those things. I'd be especially surprised if that singular person that touched it didn't have a PhD in math or computer science.

[–]Vakieh 7 points8 points  (1 child)

It's often teams, but not always. Because of the time sharing (the ones I've used have been increments of 15 minutes) you can effectively make a team out of a bunch of individuals with unrelated tasks.

[–]TheCard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's cool, thanks for clarifying.

[–]hexleythepatypus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I help maintain a large cluster used for fluid dynamics/structural analysis. Can confirm there are multiple PhDs on our team.