What started as a few paragraphs to help explain AI to a friend grew into this long article (with reference links). If you have not been watching AI and LLM progress closely, like I have, you may find this background primer helpful. www.hpcwire.com/2025/12/16/a...

I just got saw Nvidia acquired ShedMD (Slurm), hmm blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...

IBM just purchased Kafka (Confluent). Smart move because building data pipelines is the first step in model building If you want to learn about Kafka, guess what, yours truly has created a video course to get you started (complete with serious looking head shot). www.oreilly.com/videos/kafka...

As I understand the situation, the price of DDR5 memory has tripled (or more) because memory vendors have switched to making more lucrative HBM used on the GPUs that will be placed in unpowered AI systems that are waiting for a data center.

If you are interested in HPC and AI, take the time to read this piece. Plus, the best vendor analysis charts ever!

Bonus fun, who can you identify

A few #SC25 observationS www.hpcwire.com/2025/11/19/s...

While you deal with the cloudflare outage, please ponder this important question

We just did a walk through of the beowulfbash.com at the City Museum, it is hard to describe, but let's just say it is a labyrinth of "holy crap look at that" and then in most cases you can climb on it or walk through it I'll just leave you with this picture

And let's not forget #BoowulfBash supporter Omnibond omnibond.com And a special call out to Omnibond's Walt Ligon, original founder of the LECCIBG (www.clustermonkey.net/Cluster-Even...)

Let's thank one of our coolest #BeowulfBash sponsors nVent! nvent.com/en-us/

Another great sponsor of the #SC25 #BeowulfBash DDN www.ddn.com

Another great #SC25 #beowulfbash sponsor: Arcitecta www.arcitecta.com See you there!

The #BeowulfBash thanks Aeon Computing aeoncomputing.com for their continued support (we won't mention the other stuff)

We thank you SourceCode sourcecode.com and the #BeowulfBash Aliens thank you for sponsoring the best party in the outer rim.

Thanks to long time support from Penguin Solutions penguinsolutions.com the #BeowulfBash at #SC25 will once again be a stupendous, fantastic, awesome, event beowulfbash.com

I'm happy to be offering FREE 30 minute coaching sessions at #SC25. Having a career dilemma? Leadership challenge? Conflict at work? Existential drama? I'll be a sounding board to process through whatever you have going on! DM for the reg link - I'll see you in St. Louis! #HPC #Supercomputing

Making sure this hits the #WomenInTech feed.

Uhm, there is a typo in the headline, remove the "s" from insane. That should fix it.

Many people ask, "Just what is this Beowulf Bash thing anyway?" I tell them, "It started with cigars and cognac and became a legend at SC". The story is best told by the invitations (see you there at #SC25) www.clustermonkey.net/Supercomputi...

Many thanks to #AMD for their continued support of the #SC25 Beowulf Bash beowulfbash.com

Thrilled to join @hpsf.bsky.social ! Excited for the road ahead 🎉

Check it out! new look www.hpcwire.com

Big thanks to #SC25 Bash sponsor @arcitectamakers visit them at booth #1439. www.arcitecta.com

FFA to cut flights by 10% on Friday, if shutdown continues. Yikes #SC25 !

Looking forward to appreciating all aliens at the intergalactic #BeowulfBash at #SC25 beowulfbash.com

So I've been posting about the #SC25 on those other sites (they know who they are), but BlueSky is where the action is, so if you are attending SC25, you know where to go: beowulfbash.com

#SC25 Question for those in Gov sector: Will the US Government shutdown cause you to alter you plans for SC25 this year?

Ugh, as a meatspace writer, I have mentioned this previously, the snake is eating it's tail. BTW: I predict there will be a rating system for all written or video content (and possibly an "AI free" certification) BAI before AI (before 2022) AAI after AI graphite.io/five-percent...

We do like the aliens beowulfbash.com

Hint-hint. Just wanted to point out, I have more free time now that I stepped back from managing editor at HPCwire, and I know vi www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...

I got the flu and COVID vaccine yesterday, I had a small reaction this morning, so I took some Tylenol. Now I have the urge to watch some trains (more than usual). Should I be worried?

Bit of news: I have stepped back from Managing Editor of HPCwire, still a contributor and still busy with a bunch of other things. New ME is Alex Woody www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire...

ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed

You may want to get some tissues. When AI Sneezes, Do We All Catch a Cold? www.hpcwire.com/2025/09/11/w...

Serious question: Will future US government HPC HW procurements favor US-Intel parts over AMD, Nvidia, etc. ? Seems like you want to support your brand.

New LI newsletter. Woo Hoo www.linkedin.com/pulse/get-ca...

Here is the recap video from TPC25. Great event. (Talk videos are coming later this week) youtu.be/7b6XUqWtMRI

I love how any mention of Fortran creates lots of comment drama and discussions of dropped punch cards hackaday.com/2025/08/04/a...

Yup. The runway/growth for #AI is only just starting. People who mistakenly assume AI is going nowhere because of their limited experience with some chatbots or specific LLM are missing the (much) bigger picture.

Heading home from TCP25.org in San José One word summary: WOW Full summary: buckle up buttercup AI for Science is here and growing fast Lots more coverage to come at hpcwire.com but for now I lost my coffee, seems it it wearing a disguise or something

Great article by my co-editor Jaime Hampton. The AI-$$$ is getting absurd www.aiwire.net/2025/07/16/a...

I am at heart an introvert, except when I have a microphone and camera following me. I don't know why but this happens; Go here: www.hpcwire.com/livewire-int... Scroll down to: Show Floor Safari @ ISC 2025 You have been warned.

The term "AI" can be confusing and can have various outcomes depending on what you teach it. One area that seems to be working well is AI and HPC. I muse a bit as to why www.hpcwire.com/2025/07/10/t...

Science in action. The ending is still unknown. www.hpcwire.com/2025/07/02/a...

Got this today - an AI podcast created from my old 2011 white paper/Dummies book "High Performance Computing for Dummies" I did not listen to the whole thing, seems I had to pay something. Weird, is this were we are headed? BTW, "book" is available many places, but missing new topics like GPUs!

I have been posting and writing about the TPC (Trillion Parameter Consortium), assuming everyone knows all about it. That assumption may not be valid! In case you have questions, I have answers www.hpcwire.com/2025/06/19/e...

Daily video recaps from #ISC25 are up (yesterday's still in progress) Have a look. I'm still here in Hamburg and heading to the TPC workshop this afternoon. Great week! taborevents.com/live-from-is...

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

Heading out to ISC-2025