I am at the end of the 2nd week of my Senior semester, but I feel that I am already five months in. Consistently, I have been awake past 12. Not for playing video games or hanging out with people, but because of research. I keep telling myself that “I am almost done with it”, and “after this paper, I can focus on other stuff”. Ya, like applying for graduate school. I am grateful for my girlfriend holding on for me. I don’t know what I could do without her.
Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy the overall idea of Research. I feel like my code has purpose and publishing brings authenticity to my work, but the grind, the long nights, the dungeon that is the computer lab I live in can be demotivating at times.
What has to be the most demotivating thing is when, after everything you try, the program does not work. It is either MPICH or the computer cluster. A single processes keeps running, consuming 100% of the core its on, and I have to hand kill it for it to stop. I am pretty sure its a loop in MPI_Finalize that is checking a variable to see if it can close. The code runs to the end of the commands except that line, and it just stays there. Why?
I will have to become an MPICH developer to figure that out I guess because it is extremely hard to look for others answers, the ones that are present did not make sense to me or were too vague.
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