Postdocs in Germany and Alaska in Supercomputing
For my postdocs (postdoctoral positions) I continued to do
research in climate modeling on supercomputers; first in
Germany at the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener
Institute (AWI) and then in Alaska at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks (UAF) and the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
(ARSC).
As an American living and working in Germany among the native
population (not on or near a U.S. Air Force base), many of
whom do not like Americans, I had to be more concerned about
security, both physical and IT.
In Alaska, ARSC had some of the fastest supercomputers in the
world and was a Department of Defense facility, which thus
emphasized security, including requiring security
training.
In Alaska I became disillusioned with the disastrous
politicization of climate modeling, which included the
ignoring of the inherent terminal weaknesses of climate models
and pretending they are perfect predictors. See
Climate
of Incompetence.
I thus quit climate modeling to return to my earlier and
continuing passion, computer networking. First though, I did
the hard work and took a year of courses to become up to date
in networking; see next entries.
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