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by CinchWrench 2077 days ago
I totally agree on the sophistication--I did a ton of HPC work for my masters thesis.

But a class where you had to write some code to do basic finite element analysis or solve linear systems doesn't make you qualified work on a distributed software system.
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C1sc0cat 2077 days ago
Neither does a CS degree, if it comes to it.

And if your working on big clusters you will using a distributed software system MPI Map Reduce Hadoop etc

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CinchWrench 2076 days ago
Right. And you're not going to learn to use any of those in a sophomore-level course on MATLAB to earn your MechE degree.
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