Rantings

TL;DR: As of 2020, I can only help during office hours, at work, if paid and/or affects our projects, namely what we use in OpenFOAM itself and blueCFD-Core.

Full post:
So nearly 2 years after my blog post Why I contribute to the OpenFOAM forum(s), wiki(s) and the public community, I'm writing this blog post you are reading now.

My last 3 thread posts at the forums in CFD-Online this year, were on May 7th, February 27th and January 20th. And before that, it was 10...

So for whatever reason I went on a nostalgic thought process an hour or so ago and began reading about:

• EPYC vs Skylake-SP: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544...-of-the-decade
• KNL vs Skylake-SP: https://www.emc.com/collateral/white...skylake-wp.pdf

The nostalgic reason for this was that I had briefly gotten a chance to work with a couple of Intel Phi Co-processors a couple of years ago and never got the time...

Here is the TL;DR bullet list:

1. To help others (and possibly gain IRL Karma points).
2. To train/gain/increase/improve my experience, knowledge, patience and user support skills, in a way that no PhD or academic course could ever do.
3. To feel accomplished, in a way similar to playing video games:
   • If I can do this task, I can do other tasks as well. If not at the moment, I'll try and try again until I can overcome this (semi-artificial) hurdle.

And if you can find the time and are willing to do...

This blog post provides a complete answer to Tobias Holzmann's following post at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update...72321633218560

This is because LinkedIn has a limited number of characters per comment and it required me to login in order to read the complete post... so I guess it's better that I answer here instead.

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Hi Tobi and greetings to all!

Since you mentioned me here, I guess I have to answer here as...

This is the third part of a long blog post, see the first part here and the second here.

On the 30th:

• I arrived at around 08h10, had to meet+talk with Miguel Nóbrega to see how the clinics sessions were going to be organized.
• The first (and only) lecture was given by Fred Mendonça, with the title "Custodians of OpenFOAM®".
  • He told us about his career experience. In a nutshell: a lot of experience, both CFD and business/management!
  • Told us and showed us a map

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