* Posts by rsondhi

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Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb

rsondhi

Consulting Systems Engineer

This article reminds me of those two Boeing 737 Max jets that crashed and killed a combined 350 people. There was so much abstract (non-transparent) automation with the flight control system that the pilots could not manually take control of the AOA (Angle of Attack) feature within the flight control system that was forcing the nose of the plane down since the feedback from the sensors was telling it that the plane was stalling, when it wasn't. Really sad situation and very bad engineering on the part of Boeing. So many innocent men, women, and young children died because of the stupidity of the design of this aircraft's flight control system. The testing of this flight control automation wasn't properly done either, which should have detected this serious issue.

HPE pulls sheets off largest Arm-based supercomputer Astra

rsondhi

What is the connectivity between these Apollo compute nodes??

Is it Mellanox adapters? Is RDMA involved (if it's Ethernet and not IB)??

When discussing supercomputing and the nodes involved i would think that the inter-node connectivity is a critical element!