Blessed with a derp
Good news: I'm a summer intern at the top national laboratory in the nation. I'm running computer simulations of superconducting quench phenomena on a 3-D CAD module embedded in an iterative PDE (partial differential equation) solving program...
Bad news: ...on an HP Dell notebook with half a gig of RAM and a pretend processor. It takes four freaking seconds to right-click. And it's trying to solve 3-D simulations with about twelve different interpolation functions input into a multivariable heat transfer PDE with five boundary conditions. Each simulation takes upwards of 30-40 minutes per heater energy parameter I run it for (when it works...). And I have to run a couple dozen.
As a result, 90%+ of my time is free time. Which would be okay, if I wasn't in a national laboratory. There's a superconducting materials lab right under my feet that I could be working in and learning, but instead I'm sentenced to this machine and have to sit at it for seven hours a day because my supervisor demands it of me.
I know, I know, LIFE IS HARD whine whine et cetera. But it's still frustrating, and I hate that I can't think up anything to do about it. The program I'm on requires me to be at it so I can diagnose errors when they come up, but it's practically random when they will so I'm left sitting here for many hours at a time as a result, aware that I may be needed at any time at the program but generally not but I need to stay but I could be in the lab but arrrgghbble.
In other news, I finished the line art for a character of mine. It only took four and a half hours, just for the character. /falls over
Bad news: ...on an HP Dell notebook with half a gig of RAM and a pretend processor. It takes four freaking seconds to right-click. And it's trying to solve 3-D simulations with about twelve different interpolation functions input into a multivariable heat transfer PDE with five boundary conditions. Each simulation takes upwards of 30-40 minutes per heater energy parameter I run it for (when it works...). And I have to run a couple dozen.
As a result, 90%+ of my time is free time. Which would be okay, if I wasn't in a national laboratory. There's a superconducting materials lab right under my feet that I could be working in and learning, but instead I'm sentenced to this machine and have to sit at it for seven hours a day because my supervisor demands it of me.
I know, I know, LIFE IS HARD whine whine et cetera. But it's still frustrating, and I hate that I can't think up anything to do about it. The program I'm on requires me to be at it so I can diagnose errors when they come up, but it's practically random when they will so I'm left sitting here for many hours at a time as a result, aware that I may be needed at any time at the program but generally not but I need to stay but I could be in the lab but arrrgghbble.
In other news, I finished the line art for a character of mine. It only took four and a half hours, just for the character. /falls over