(of jokes or stories) slightly rude or shocking, especially because about sex
Cultural flashpoint
"The Levi's Launderette advert was a significant cultural flashpoint," Dr Hannah Hamad, reader in media and communication at Cardiff University, tells the BBC. Beyond its effect on our buying patterns, it was, she says, "symptomatic of cultural re-evaluations of masculinity… that placed emphasis on the sexual desire of women, via the sexual objectification of men".
Ali Hanan, founder of inclusive marketing consultancy Creative Equals, agrees. "It was such an iconic ad at the time and probably one of the first times the script had been flipped around to have a female gaze on a male body," she tells the BBC. The older, less progressive script was used everywhere, from the suggestive 1970s Cadbury's Flake commercials to the controversial Calvin Klein campaign featuring a 15-year-old Brooke Shields whispering the tagline, "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." In the early '80s, women were still the object of the commercial, rather than shaping its viewpoint.
'Launderette' Levi's advertisement, Bartle Bogle HegartyThe Launderette ad was different. "It came from a female perspective," says Hanan, and was written by Barbara Nokes, one of eight founding partners of global advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH). Nokes's role, says Hanan, "has got quite lost in the story of that ad". The advert reflected a wider "rebellious culture", Hanan believes, that created the conditions for change. "In the '80s, it was all about innovation and creativity," she says. "There were a lot of old ways of thinking and working that were upended during that time."
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A workload manager for HPC (High-Performance Computing) is software that schedules and allocates resources (like CPUs, GPUs, memory) to parallel jobs on large clusters, ensuring efficient use and fair access, with Slurm Workload Manager being the dominant open-source standard used in most supercomputers for complex simulations and AI/ML tasks, coordinating job submission, execution, and monitoring.
Key Functions of HPC Workload ManagersResource Allocation: Grants exclusive or shared access to compute nodes for specific durations.
Job Scheduling: Queues and manages thousands of jobs, optimizing for fairness, priority, and resource availability.
Execution & Monitoring: Starts, monitors, and manages the execution of parallel applications across allocated nodes.
Scalability: Designed to handle massive clusters with hundreds of thousands of cores.
Top HPC Workload ManagersSlurm Workload Manager (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management):Dominant: Used by over 50% of the TOP500 supercomputers.
Open-Source: Free, highly scalable, and supports complex policies.
Versatile: Excellent for traditional HPC, AI, and Machine Learning workloads, managing GPU resources effectively.
Acquisition: Recently acquired by NVIDIA, ensuring continued open-source support.
Other/Related ToolsPBS Professional (Portable Batch System): A commercial alternative, also widely used in HPC.
LS-DYNA/ANSYS/etc. Integrations: Specialized tools often integrate with workload managers like Slurm to manage their complex simulations.
How it Works (Simplified)User Submits Job: A researcher submits a job script with resource requests (e.g., "2 nodes, 4 GPUs, 2 hours") via the command line (CLI).
Slurm Queues Job: Slurm places the job in a queue.
Scheduler Finds Resources: When resources are free, Slurm allocates nodes to the job.
Job Runs: The job executes on the allocated nodes, potentially across many cores/GPUs.
Results Collected: Data and results are gathered upon completion.
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