A fun project to distract from *gestures to everything*

This is why we can’t have nice things.

OPINION: 'When we invest in transit infrastructure, we invest in education, jobs, health care and—ultimately—a better quality of life for all Mississippians," Dr. Selika Sweet writes.

Sometimes software bugs and their error messages are just perfect.

We all have these users. Christina Gancayo did a wonderful talk about the importance of #hpc training.

“You can’t kill a stick. Break it in half, and now you have two sticks.”

Thoughts in order: - oh cool - oh, that’s a bit pricey - oh no

Heading to Columbus, OH today to attend #PEARC and excited that I will be doing a short talk Monday during the @womeninhpc.bsky.social workshop about our student mentorship program and the lessons learned.

Incredible shrinking Cone of Uncertainty! Kartina 2005 vs Helene 2024. Dramatic improvement in hurricane forecasting due to expertise of NOAA scientists at NHC & AOML. Since 2005 forecast error on 5-day track has decreased by ~50%! We often take these accurate forecasts for granted but... 1/

The Taser Blazer or: How I Learned to Trust the Guess-o-meter

Having grown up in hurricane country (and somewhat still affected by them), the forecasts have been essential to planning… anything. And unless I’m mistaken, there’s no private resource that can provide the same capability to outsource this too in a pinch, not that I’d want this to be privatized.

Fuck.

Farewell @hpcguru.bsky.social www.hpcwire.com/2025/06/11/f...

During all the #hpc chatter, don’t miss this Apple mic drop moment for the rest of us not working on giantass pieces of tin and silicon. Is this finally a good way to do #linux #containers on mac? I shall compare to my current incus & colima setup. github.com/apple/contai...

I was just informed by one of my students that their participation in a program sponsored by the USDA was revoked since they no longer accept international students. They participated in it last year, but I wasn’t aware of any recent changes.

A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after ICE officers took him into custody because of a “paperwork miscommunication” during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says.

I had a strange dream. I took a Delta flight from Mississippi to Boston, but it was a "herritage flight" that was on a 30's era prop plane that's been somewhat modernized. But it had to stop in Baltimore, but apparently that stop was on local roads.

We're proud to announce the launch of our website and rename to Mississippi Women in HPC. As part of the #WHPC community, our goal is to promote empowerment of women and underrepresented communities in #HPC by fostering a dynamic and inclusive environments within the state of Mississippi.

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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If NSF Snoozes, Then @taccutexas.bsky.social’s “Horizon” #Supercomputer Loses nextplatform.com/2025/04/28/i... #HPC #AI #GPU via @nextplatform.bsky.social

A friend of mine has been going around finding what little photographic documentation about the desegregation in Grenada. There isn’t much written about this, and the kind of history being suppressed. I’m so happy he is putting in this work, and happy to share it. #history youtu.be/ny3yfMYGJgk

Ok, now that the initial screaming and it's echos are done, we're moving forward. We'll be renaming our #whpc affiliate, disassociating it from any state and federally funded entities, and making it independent. When life gives you oranges, make a mimosa.

billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20... *internal screaming*

Reviewing Slurm job data to better architect our infrastructure to support #HPC #AI research. It appears single GPU jobs dominate, specifically the newer L40S cards. Any thoughts on areas of further investigation?

Interesting. This reminds me of a talk at a LUG a while back at SDSC about the dream of a federated scientific computing service. Or something to that effect. Of course needs, opinions, and technology has changed since then. Interested to see where this goes.

🤔

Literally weaponizing AI with industry partners.

Interesting talk about a homegrown CFD software being presented at the second annual #MSHPC conference.

Mood

The latest from Marshall Ramsey: Transfusion buff.ly/41w2D2u

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians can get free tribal IDs until the end of February amid fears over Trump’s immigration orders.

Looking at you, @lifeofacoward.bsky.social

linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/how-to-sta... A good read, and helps me self-justify a bit with how I've been approaching... all of this. *gestures around*

Microsoft today introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture that it expects will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades news.microsoft.com/source/featu...

*screams into the void*

Last full day of #LCI at MSU’s #HPC. Record attendance and great conversations.

Happy Tuesday and Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We recognize the ladies of all ages that study and work in STEM related fields. We see your drive, strength and perseverance. You inspire us! Who inspires you? #WomenandGirlsinScience #GirlPower #STEM

I needed a break from doomscrolling. It’s still a worrying situation in the US right now, but we’re not going down quietly.

Lost science and lost progress hurts us all. Allowing a non-federal employee blanket access to peer reviewed data let's them decide entirely what is and isn't real. And that's not science.

This fuss over DeepSeek being more efficient and faster than western algorithms reminds me of a thought I have time to time: programmers have gotten so complacent about code optimization that “just making it work” by using frameworks and relying on faster hardware to speed up code brought us here.

Please let this be the start a renaissance of IBM in scientific/research computing. I miss seeing IBM’s aesthetic in the datacenter (just look at it), and how much they’ve been able to push everyone forward - AI is everyone’s focus, but I’m still waiting for Quantum.

My feeling today.

Today seems like a LaTeX kind of day.

It’s 2025. A set of my favorite numbers. 2’s, 0’s, and most of all 5’s.