Watching @jeffgeerling.com sharing his experiences with single board computing clusters with our students as part of the #SBCC this year. Excited to see how my students do. Go GigaDawgs! #HPC

The Gigadawgs are gearing up for the Single Board Cluster Competition. 20 #raspberrypi compute nodes, some also acting as storage nodes, connected with both a 1Gbit and 2.5Gbit network, and a mess of cables. Best of luck, y’all! #hpc #sbcc #picluster #rpi

finally painted the dumbest 3D sculpt i’ve made to date #art

Been a while since I’ve been here. Time to review applications!

This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

Why am I not surprised.

What a day to wake up to.

This is seriously disheartening. I know a few people from NCAR, and it was one of the places I’d wanted to take my career post-Mississippi. I’m wondering who will absorb the supercomputing resources and if the US will ever come back from this stupidity of climate denial.

So looking to alternative BlueSky clients to avoid having to come from “elsewhere” to use it, the one a lot of people recommend, @graysky.app, seems to have been abandoned for months now. Bonus: it’s broken on iOS. Guess I’ll keep coming from outside of the state. Mildly disappointed.

Still don’t like how it’s implemented. Either the law needs to change or Apple needs to implement an anonymous verification system. Assuming what they did for their implementation of a federal ID, it wouldn’t be too hard to do an age-only verification request to that.

Anyone else learn some things on this? 😉 #SC25

Reminder! This is happening soon tonight in room 162-163. #SC25

Found something last night at the @epcc.bsky.social booth during the #SC25 gala that @jeffgeerling.com might like. Not quite a mini-rack, but there’s blinken lights!

hugops to the folks dealing with the cloudflare outage today

The City Museum is a great location for the Beowulf Bash this year for #SC25. Exhausting, but in a good way.

📣 The #WHPC workshop at #SC25 is under way in room 276. Come by, listen to some good talks, and pick up some swag!

If you were at the SIG-HPC workshop at #SC25 and were wondering about the Proxmox implementation of WW, this is the project one of my students implemented with the help of a colleague.

Looks like folks at #SC25 can get their own fractal. The kiosks seem fussy and one was broken when we showed up, but I got mine!

#WHPC board game night at #SC25! See you there! mswhpc.org/events/2025-...

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

Do you know an undergraduate student who has shown outstanding potential in computing research? Now is the time to nominate them for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. Due Oct 15: cra.org/crae/awards/...

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...

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.

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Literally weaponizing AI with industry partners.