NewbieProgrammerMan

Hi folks; I was thinking about putting together a machine to support GPGPU stuff for work and/or school, and I'd just like to get some feedback on this setup. It will be at least 2 months before I can afford to start buying parts--are there any fantastic upgrades coming out soon that I should wait a bit longer for?

I may also want a PCI SSD but I didn't see any available on PCPartPicker (and I haven't looked around to find a motherboard that will support 4 GPU's and still have a PCI slot left over for a SSD).

Thanks in advance for any tips/suggestions!

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I'm looking for a job, and I'm willing to move just about anywhere in the US or Canada. I grew up in the country, and I have a large dog that could use a (much) bigger yard than I have now, so I would really like to find a place where one can rent/buy a home in a rural or semi-rural area and still have a reasonably short commute (less than 30 minutes, perhaps).

I don't need a huge salary, free gourmet lunches, video games in the lounge, casual Fridays, or telecommuting. Just a decent tech job where I can help people solve some interesting problems, and drive to my rural(ish) home before it gets dark.

Can anyone suggest any regions where I'm likely to find something like this? Thanks!

I just heard someone pontificating on NPR (sorry I can't find a transcript anywhere yet) that the blue ribbon panel that's going to be put together to investigate the Gulf oil spill should consist entirely of drilling industry experts. "You don't want theoretical physicists on that panel," is what I recall hearing.

The amazing part is that this same person not 30 seconds earlier mentioned the Challenger investigation panel. How can you know anything substantive about that panel and then go on to imply that theoretical physicists couldn't possibly make any useful contribution into an area that they haven't worked in directly?

Richard Feynman was valuable on that panel not so much because

I'm hoping somebody at physicsworld.com reads this subreddit, and can tell me why they allow article comments on their site. It seems that the comments section is mostly just a venue for everybody with an "alternative" theory to explain that Big Science is keeping them down, and then include links to their website and/or papers on the preprint server.

It would seem to me that letting people freely post links on a (presumably) reputable site such as physicsworld.com to various forms of crackpottery just serves to increase the ranking of said crackpottery in search engines. But then I'm not a search engine guru, so I could be wrong there. Anybody know?