How high performance computing brought Galician to YouTube
I’m Galician, I’m 33 years old and that’s how high-performance computing brought me to YouTube: Sabela Ramos is a Galician computer engineer who works since 2017 as a software engineer on YouTube, at Google Zurich. It is dedicated to “make software faster and make better use of hardware.” This is how she defines High Performance Computing (or HPC, High Performance Computing), the art of adding computing power to multiply the performance of computer systems to, for example, run data intensive computer applications or with large computing needs. The purpose is to accelerate the resolution of problems, whether in the scientific field, in engineering or business, providing scalability and speed. Ramos has been doing this for more-than 10 years, before completing the degree in Computer Engineering at the University of La Coruna. He did it with honors: he won the final degree and also the National Award for Excellence in University Academic Performance for the 2...