here too! Played since I was 4. I actually had a weekly jazz gig in the east village for a few years, and played with some big bands here in DC up until the last couple years when I just got too busy.
i don't think it was necessarily a north shift, but the goods spread north in Jan 2016 to allow us in NYC to cash in (into what is still NYC's biggest storm on record).
we had something similar when I was working for a couple larger investment banks - but the library we used to submit jobs basically tried to mirror the multiprocessing library in Python so it was fairly simple (and probably a fraction of the compute you are dealing with).
interesting - basically a F ton of cores for parallel execution. All the massive LLMs are trained on huge clusters with thousands of GPUs because the core calculations involve gigantic matrices, which GPUs are really efficient at.
i'd actually be curious what kind of hardware these models run on. Do they require a lot of GPUs like machine learning models / LLMs? Or just a ton of CPUs for parallelization?