Hello, I have no education. I left school at 16 and, in my mid 20's, somehow got into supercomputing and now am doing all kinds of silly stuff.
Thing is, I need some kind of degree in this stuff to do the kind of work I really want to do. Especially in Germany, organisations involved in HPC usually strictly require an advanced degree if you want to be paid. They can hire you but can't pay you due to union restricted pay grades that are based on your level of education. I've managed to do some interesting stuff freelance but it was a real PITA. Im currently working as a system architect for a Berlin firm, designing and testing a new large scale cloudy type infrastructure. I am the project lead and am completing pretty much all the work myself. Playing with technologies such as Infiniband, ZFS, iSCSI, Databases et al. The problems are complex and require a very special understanding of the whole stack. Would it be possible to turn this kind of work into a masters degree or perhaps even a PHD? Its been suggested that the scale of the projects that I am working on now are equivalent to a PHD....... I have the resources, time, intent and lots of complex problems to solve. Would it be possible for a friendly professor to supervise me in this kind of circumstance? If this is possible, what kind of costs would I incur? Thanks, Andrew Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewholway References - https://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~holway/ Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - I want to build a better telescope. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
