[mattpallissard]

One of the most intense and fun user bases I had was in HPC at an academic healthcare research institute. I've also worked in high energy research.

When most folks think of academia they think faculty, but staff vastly outnumber then. Contrary to popular belief there are legions of cold, level headed, engineers that get shit done.

A lot of the research isn't some random study of something that may or may not be useful in half a century or more, it's often immediately applicable and winds up in products or shaping government policy on a global scale. Especially the well funded ones.

But we don't hear about that stuff. We hear what the media and tech companies are currently trying to cram down our throats.