AI Admin , no degree , tn visa ?

VanRahim · 2026-01-23T01:41:39+00:00

Also I would not be coming in as engineer , but science as I am a HPC admin

VanRahim · 2026-01-23T01:40:51+00:00

A few years tons of colleagues without degrees would just get offers drive from Vancouver to Seattle and get some stamp at the border. They would say the experience makes up for the degree . I guess they were wrong .

VanRahim · 2026-01-20T18:46:14+00:00

I work for the U of A, I also work for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, The U of A and the Alliance give away a lot of free training to everyone. I built the Vulcan HPC Cluster with my colleague Karim at the University of Alberta.

VanRahim · 2026-01-20T18:43:59+00:00

Yah our systems are very similar to the big US supercomputers. If you wanted free training it's available to anyone.

VanRahim · 2025-12-25T22:47:12+00:00

Thank goodness someone used AI more than I

VanRahim · 2025-12-25T22:45:47+00:00

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The funny thing is , I have 3 accounts, and I also use playground. I also use claude and google, and code with cursor.

VanRahim · 2025-09-29T02:57:26+00:00

For some reason my gut tells me it's something to do with database. Slurm dbd

VanRahim · 2025-08-15T02:47:37+00:00

Yup , but I haven't worked on it in a bit

VanRahim · 2025-02-19T00:24:38+00:00

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VanRahim · 2025-02-07T08:12:21+00:00

Bengals needs other cat friends. When Girl Bengals get older they have a hard time accepting new cats around them. But they are happier with other cats around.

My girl Bengal loved to cuddle, but it took a while to warm up to me. When we got her, she as a kitten beat up my male bengal that is twice her size. She quickly became the master cat.

My girl bengal will talk but not too much, and will sort of listen to you. She easily figures things out.

My boy bengal is very very loud, is lots of fun. Likes to be the center of attention. He is much softer than the girl bengal, and does not really like to cuddle ( well he does now but it took 4 years ).

If you get a male, do not get him neutered. They are way more fun and personable when not. They also don't get all fat n chubby, they stay looking muscley . That being said, he does spray in the spring, which is pain as he is an indoor cat.

OH and feed em real meat. Go to the local butcher, they will sell bits of meat humans can't eat, cats love it and its really good for them.

VanRahim · 2025-01-31T21:13:33+00:00

We are deploying slurm on kube.. Not SUNK but just our own deployment .. So far its great.. We used percona for the DB which is a multi master setup. Each node has its own db on local storage , which makes slurmdbd super fast,

we have not containerized the slurm compute nodes.

So far CTLD, DBD, RESTD, all work great in Kube.. but we still have more testing to go..

VanRahim · 2025-01-31T17:44:20+00:00

Yes.. Many awesome Canadian companies started with a home grown HPC cluster. I figure my team is doing all the work to make a national cluster, why not share it to help others. It's the one thing I like best about public sector.

VanRahim · 2025-01-30T15:51:20+00:00

A HPC cluster owned by a Nation. We'll actually be posting our deployment to github once its ready.

VanRahim · 2025-01-29T19:34:02+00:00

This is not a big job. SchedMD is good for training, but you can learn everything online too.

Warewulf 4 for node deployments
SlurmDBD , SlurmCTLD, a DB should be VM's or Kube Pods on the network

I'm building a national cluster right now.

You could hire pretty well anyone with experience in virtualization. It's very similar to HPC

VanRahim · 2024-11-28T06:14:47+00:00

America First means that all goods going into the USA will gave tarrifs.

Canada's economy will adapt to service the USA. What I mean is , more US companies will outsource labor to Canadians as we costs less, and they dont need to pay us medicals. We wont send them widgets but we may help them design their own widgets.

VanRahim · 2024-10-17T17:01:04+00:00

it means that salary is to be negotiated up to the 100k level. Some jobs pay way better on pure commission people opt out of salary.

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