"Present"

As a 'welcome back' gift after my 3.5 days long weekend, the project manager dropped me a bomb.

I am to provide cooling solution proposals for two very different laptop configurations and component powers, with simulation results, in less than two weeks time.

I could barely get one configuration done in two weeks time when all went smoothly, with the powerful computing resources that I used to have access to, which let me run multiple large simulations concurrently.

Now I have two workstations that require a reboot after every simulation, and occasionally would just quit without warning half way working on the model, making me lose all the progress. Not to forget I can now only run model below a certain mesh size else the workstations would just die on me. Like, even kill the remote access function that kind of death, requiring me to go on site to reboot the workstation or trouble someone on site to do it.

Also, the required information to generate thermal model is not available, still lacking many crucial pieces. But I am given less than two weeks, because to the program manager, thermal simulation takes no time at all, and cooling solution always work on the first design, no optimisation and fine-tuning required.

What a blast huh? I am blown to pieces.

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