Re:Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power
by greglindahl on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:32PM
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You appear to be thinking that problems can typically be replicated in a lab without sending an expert to the remote site. My supercomputing startup (PathScale) made specialized networks for supercomputers. While most problems could be solved with remote diagnostics, I still spent a lot of time flying to customer sites. Sure, you can call it "a last resort", but it's necessary if the problem can't be replicated in the lab.
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Re:Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power
by ptero on Thursday March 30, 2017 @08:58AM
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Agree completely. Sometimes you cannot replicate things in the lab; then you go. But you do this only if you cannot replicate.
I spend part of my time developing large, real time, visible systems and when things do not go as planned there is always a lot of pressure to go on site now and "just fix it". I have taken my lumps to learn that the right approach is to say "no, we will start in our lab".