Anyone one in the UK know of a company that does computer hardware consulting/design/validation work?

[oliverguy]

So a recent comp sci grad looking for (fun) employment.

 

I like software engineering, and I'm good at at. But what I actually want to do is work on unique hardware projects.

 

The kind of company I would work for does this sort of project...

 

A small engineering company needs a CFD simulation cluster, looking to run their CFD simulations in single digit minuets. What hardware do they need? Whats the network topology? Storage? Software stack? What does each individual node look like?

 

That's the kind of problems I want to work on, and I'll be good at it, it's honestly something I do for fun sometimes (not commercially obvs, I just invent a problem and plan out how I would approach it from all the relevant angles.)

 

Think what L1T or ServeTheHome does in some of their videos/reviews testing a platforms performance, those are the sorts of tests I would want to do. Find out exactly what hardware configuration leads to the optimal performance

 

What I don't know is who does this? (in the UK) And what qualifications would they want from me?

[TimedPing]

Well, If you live in my country I can definitely put you directly to my office for an interview. Sadly that wouldn't happened.

29 minutes ago, oliverguy said:

A small engineering company needs a CFD simulation cluster, looking to run their CFD simulations in single digit minuets. What hardware do they need? Whats the network topology? Storage? Software stack? What does each individual node look like?

For this, it's depends, if you just want to brute force with bare CPU power, built-up blade server is still the best thing especially for space saving in the rack. For storage, I saw several big dog company using insanely fast dedicated SAN/iSCSI cluster using all-flash NVMe storage, some processing server even boot from those SAN. For networking they using several 100Gbe DPU or InfiniBand cards (don't know is infiniband still relevant nowadays). And some system resort to network bonding for higher throughput. I can't say much about networking since I'm not an expert on those thing and my position in my company is more of an managerial role.

 

Most big company nowadays resort to using exotic hardware like ASIC cards for better performance at scale, take a look at amazon and google. My company using custom ASIC for high performance video transcoding server build because buying regular GPU is not that good at scale.