2020-01-16-ben-glick.md

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title	HPC and Samoan Fire Knife Dancing, What Could Go Wrong?
author	@vsoch
rse	Ben Glick
phenotype	ben-glick-phenotype.png
excerpt	Ben Glick shares a rich undergraduate experience that ranges from building an HPC system to dancing with fire.
date	2020-01-16 00:30:00 -0800
image	ben-glick.png
media	rse-stories-ben-glick-episode-9.mp3
length	13585543
duration	00:21:53
explicit	no
resources	name url Personal Website https://glick.cloud/ name url Twitter https://twitter.com/glennbick name url GitHub https://github.com/benhg name url Lewis and Clark College https://www.lclark.edu/ name url The Parsl Project https://parsl-project.org/

For this second episode of the new year, we interview Ben Glick, our first undergraduate guest on RSE Stories. Ben shares his experience of setting up an HPC cluster at Lewis and Clark College, and some of his thoughts on research software engineering. If you think software is risky, wait until you hear about Samoan Fire Knife Dancing!