Reply to: GPU, GPGPU & Parallel Programming

[Churchill]

For any 'proper' coders - those who really enjoy getting down and dirty with programming - I reckon GPU coding is fascinating. I'd love to work in that area.

There is stuff out there if you know where to look.

There's a certain company that uses CUDA to do fancy stuff on optical fibre vibration analysis on pipelines and railway lines, they're not far from Farnborough, they have a Canadian parent...

For example...

Me, I'm just happy writing CUDA modules for GNURadio in my spare time.

[d000hg]

For any 'proper' coders - those who really enjoy getting down and dirty with programming - I reckon GPU coding is fascinating. I'd love to work in that area.

[suityou01]

ASP.NET MVC is going to pay the bills, pay the mortgage off, buy you a top of the range executive German car second hand Saab convertible, take the family on nice foreign holidays to Hemsby for the next 10 years. What's not to like. Money for old rope.

Personally, I'd forget the other stuff, stick with the good ole MS gravy train. Toot toot!

FTFM

[clearedforlanding]

Except that you are posting in a UK based forum (the hint is in the name "ContractorUK") and neither did you mention in your first post that you are based abroad.

The simple fact is that SDN is a stagnant pool here in the UK and from the rates you quote abroad no better there either.

Next.

Boo

Boo,

My apologies for being rude to you earlier.

I hope you would be so kind as to accommodate me in appreciating that a lot of UK based contractors ran for the hills on the cusp of IR35.

I do not believe that this disqualifies UK contractors who left the UK from participating in this forum. Indeed, the progression of off shoring to near shoring illustrates that we are working in a cross cultural, multi territory environment which is dictated by market forces.

I would like to agree to disagree with you. I believe that SDN developers command a premium, you do not.

I accept your position.

Warmest regards,


CFL.

[Boo]

I am not based in the UK and my point was mostly that SDN development does not happen in the UK, so using UK centric Jobserve with a sample of 4 to provide indicative rates of SDN development contract rates is an exercise in futility.

Except that you are posting in a UK based forum (the hint is in the name "ContractorUK") and neither did you mention in your first post that you are based abroad.

The simple fact is that SDN is a stagnant pool here in the UK and from the rates you quote abroad no better there either.

Next.

Boo

[clearedforlanding]

Fiction. Link please ?


Jobserve is in no way restricted to IOS etc, it is in fact the UK's leading job site in the IT world in all technologies. It is true that it's not the force it was but it is still a good indicator of what is hapening in the IT space in the UK.

The remainder of what you say in that quote seems to be entirely irrelevant, but whatever you found in your Xmas stocking, I wish there'd been some in mine...


So what ? You said SDN / NFV is "smokin'" which, in the UK at least it clearly is not. And the salary for the role you post in your link is paying £101k equiv, which is easily matched and bettered in permanent IB roles in London and by contract rates in almost every other field to boot. Certainly a full year in contract nets me a whole lot more than that in embedded C / C++.

One hears of 7 figure salaries being paid in the West Coast of the USA but that is as irrelevant as the nonsense you posted for the simple reason that UK citizens will struggle to get interviews let alone visa's.

"Smokin'" my FHUA.

So my comment stands : kindly take your nonsensical spam jobs posts for jobs that don't really exist to somewheer they belong like, well, like Bobserve for example.

Boo

Boo you <snip>. I am not posting jobs, I am suggesting that SDN development pays well. I am not an agent, I am a board director of a multinational company. I don't need to punt for contractors on CUK and nor have I.

I am not based in the UK and my point was mostly that SDN development does not happen in the UK, so using UK centric Jobserve with a sample of 4 to provide indicative rates of SDN development contract rates is an exercise in futility.

We have a facility in San Jose, and I can assure you that UK citizens will have no problem getting visa sponsorship with the right skills and background. Do you even have a UK passport? Judging by your comprehension & posting not.

Before you accuse me of being racist, let me point out I am Welsh (eek!), speak fluent English, Spanish, German & French and will be happy to continue this discussion in any of them with you.

[Boo]

Boo, in another post you claim that you work for a Telco

Fiction. Link please ?

SDN / NFV development doesn't happen in London. The players are Cisco, Juniper, ConteXtream, Huawei, Brocade, VMware/Nicira et al. Name one serious player in the Telco space who develops in the UK?

'kin hell, you should know that even VF technology is on the new campus in DUS. Have you ever been to the office behind Paddington? Seen any developers? Or just SAs?

Development positions in carrier technology on Jobserve? You are looking in the wrong place buddy. Find me an SDN developer for £550 who cut his teeth in something like IOS development with 15 years experience. Find me several and I'll make you rich.

Jobserve is in no way restricted to IOS etc, it is in fact the UK's leading job site in the IT world in all technologies. It is true that it's not the force it was but it is still a good indicator of what is hapening in the IT space in the UK.

The remainder of what you say in that quote seems to be entirely irrelevant, but whatever you found in your Xmas stocking, I wish there'd been some in mine...

$150-175K permie roles in Palo Alto for lowely engineers, which will be with HP who pay below market because they are good to have on your CV in the valley. Sdn Engineer Salary in Palo Alto, CA | Indeed.com

So what ? You said SDN / NFV is "smokin'" which, in the UK at least it clearly is not. And the salary for the role you post in your link is paying £101k equiv, which is easily matched and bettered in permanent IB roles in London and by contract rates in almost every other field to boot. Certainly a full year in contract nets me a whole lot more than that in embedded C / C++.

One hears of 7 figure salaries being paid in the West Coast of the USA but that is as irrelevant as the nonsense you posted for the simple reason that UK citizens will struggle to get interviews let alone visa's.

"Smokin'" my FHUA.

So my comment stands : kindly take your nonsensical spam jobs posts for jobs that don't really exist to somewheer they belong like, well, like Bobserve for example.

Boo

[clearedforlanding]

Well their bets are doing something strange to Jobserve - a search for SDN / NFV finds only 4 references across all countries JS supports. Of those 4 the highest paying is £550 per hour which is average for London at best and nowhere near 4 figures.

So fail, 0 out of 10 for your spam post too...

Boo

Boo, in another post you claim that you work for a Telco.

SDN / NFV development doesn't happen in London. The players are Cisco, Juniper, ConteXtream, Huawei, Brocade, VMware/Nicira et al. Name one serious player in the Telco space who develops in the UK?

'kin hell, you should know that even VF technology is on the new campus in DUS. Have you ever been to the office behind Paddington? Seen any developers? Or just SAs?

Development positions in carrier technology on Jobserve? You are looking in the wrong place buddy. Find me an SDN developer for £550 who cut his teeth in something like IOS development with 15 years experience. Find me several and I'll make you rich.


$150-175K permie roles in Palo Alto for lowely engineers, which will be with HP who pay below market because they are good to have on your CV in the valley. http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Sdn-E...-Alto,-CA.html

[northernladuk]

Well their bets are doing something strange to Jobserve - a search for SDN / NFV finds only 4 references across all countries JS supports. Of those 4 the highest paying is £550 per hour which is average for London at best and nowhere near 4 figures.

So fail, 0 out of 10 for your spam post too...

Boo

I'll have some of that!!! That's more then NLadyUK!!

[Boo]

SDN/NFV, I am having to pay 4 figure day rates for good developers and have a 5 year forecast of several hundred man years. 2015 was the year it went mainstream, now it's nuts.

Telcos are placing big bets on SDN.

Well their bets are doing something strange to Jobserve - a search for SDN / NFV finds only 4 references across all countries JS supports. Of those 4 the highest paying is £550 per day which is average for London at best and nowhere near 4 figures.

So fail, 0 out of 10 for your spam post too...

Boo

[d000hg]

GPGPU is still niche but certainly growing. You can get GPU-based servers on demand with Amazon etc which tells you they are in demand, it is becoming quite widely used especially in the scientific community.

@stek; it really is night'n'day. A GPU can quite easily be 1000X times faster than a CPU for dealing with big chunks of repetitive data... for instance GP coding made brute-forcing hash codes easy that were considered basically unbreakable previously.

[clearedforlanding]

SDN/NFV, I am having to pay 4 figure day rates for good developers and have a 5 year forecast of several hundred man years. 2015 was the year it went mainstream, now it's nuts.

Telcos are placing big bets on SDN.

[Churchill]

GpGPUs will get more interesting next year once they get more or less unified memory (without crazy access penalties), and more general CPU-like capabilities - otherwise they are limited in the amount of data they can keep in RAM and you need to be able to feed lots of GPU cores with it doing things that only some tasks can benefit from.

What he said.

However, if you want a relatively cheap standalone platform that supports unified memory then you could always have a look at one of these...

Jetson TK1

[piotrkula]

ASP.NET MVC is going to pay the bills, pay the mortgage off, buy you a top of the range executive German car, take the family on nice foreign holidays for the next 10 years. What's not to like. Money for old rope.

Personally, I'd forget the other stuff, stick with the good ole MS gravy train. Toot toot!

Word!

[AtW]

OK I get that, but if had access to a SPARC proc with what, 1024 effective vcpus - is that better? Or SGI's old NUBUS tech, where all memory was shared between CPU, IO, GPU the lot?

GPUs are more vector oriented and have more limited set of commands - it can only work is the task is really well paralleliseable and also amount of memory required is relatively low because you'd need it all in GPU RAM (4-24 GB max).