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Taking it slow (lemmy.world)
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[–] -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

because they have never done it before, or to a very limited degree. why would you assume anyone knows how to ssh from a terminal? that's a very specific skillset. nobody is learning that at school.

using linux/unix has nothing to do with computer science especially today, vs 20 years ago.

maybe you use ssh daily your entire life, but that's not how other people do things. my research org has moved off linux/unix platforms to the point that our researchers only use ssh for legacy/archival projects. nobody is using it for anything after 2014. yeah, 10-20 years ago it was a ssh was a daily necessity, now it's like once a month or less.

all of our new stuff is web based. you login to a website and you access resources through the web, that way everyone can work remote and the infrastructure for those at home and in office and across the country, is unified and simplified and easy to access.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    SSH is still a daily tool of sysadmins and security people. It's just maybe not a tool for the pure machine learning people with their Jupiter notebooks who have only ever used cloud or organization resources managed by somebody else. The people managing these things and building these clusters almost certainly still use SSH and other basic Unix tools as all modern large scale machine learning like those used to train ChatGPT or DeepSeek still happens on Linux systems. Although to be honest SSH works equally well from Mac and Windows these days, and has always worked from FreeBSD. Whatever platform you choose has SSH capabilities.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    We are talking about people who daily run calculations with tens of GPUs that have to run for weeks.

    The only way to run those calculations is in a computing cluster. Knowing how to use Linux and ssh is the most basic requirement for the job.

    I'd assume someone who has a postdoc in the field would know how to connect to a server.

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