I'm not sure what to make of this backyardbrains.com/products/rob... On the one hand, ew cockroaches on the other hand, an army of indestructible little bug tanks, hmm...

I am returning today after switching from managing the High Performance Computing Center at Texas Tech to full-time as Research Professor and co-director of the repacss.org project, focused on energy and resource efficiency in scientific research computing. Find me here or at nsfcac.org for details!

Wrote up the Satochi paper on HPCwire. I tried to pull the important points. HPC Precision Wars: Satoshi Matsuoka Plants the Ozaki Flag www.hpcwire.com/2026/06/15/h...

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system

#HPC must read, "FP8 is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail" from Satoshi Matsuoka arxiv.org/pdf/2606.06510

Phrase of the day "genesis content" www.hpcwire.com/2026/05/22/g...

Tomorrow (Thursday, May 21), Brad Chamberlain and Jade Abraham will be giving an overview, update, and demo of Chapel at the Northwest C++ Users’ Group at 7pm PT. Attend in person in Bellevue WA, or online using Microsoft Teams. nwcpp.org/May-2026.html

In light of all the new potential Linux kernel "bugs," Jasper Nuyens created a simple script to place all unused modules (not currently loaded) in "module jail" i.e.the kernel cannot load them. Good temporary hygiene until things get cleaned up. Read more here: github.com/jnuyens/modu...

#hpc This Friday's exploit: ssh-keysign-pwm github.com/0xdeadbeefne...

Well that is wrap, Spring 2026 Big Data Management (aka scalable tools) at Lehigh University is done, grades submitted, 29 students now know about Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, ... and even a bit of Linux command line 😉

Read how we designed and deployed Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a multi-company step towards Ultra Ethernet, at 800G in Microsoft's datacenters. Demonstrated with a 75k GPU pretraining job running stably through multiple faults. OpenAI blog: buff.ly/X0KL4Xy Paper: buff.ly/I3OcXWn

At the Salishan HPC conference last week, I gave a talk called "AI doesn't need massive supercomputers after all!" A couple people asked me for the slides (as crappy as they were), so here they are in hastily written blog format. blog.glennklockwood.com/2026/05/ai-d... #AI #HPC

Wow. Another HPC acceleration by AI paper. This is the way

Let me see if I got this, "We trained our AI on all your text and code, so your job is not needed, bye. We'll continue to scrape the new AI generated interwebs for even more content because we put the original creators out of work. Profit!" Did anyone read the papers about about model collapse?

First week of June, east coast AI for science! Registration is OPEN for #TPC26! Join us for one of the most forward-thinking conferences in tech, policy, and leadership. Where brilliant minds come together to shape the future. Early-bird pricing here: ow.ly/azv950Ymum0 #artificialintelligence

Reason number 251 why you should read hpcwire.com supercarblondie.com/tech/superco...

At this point in the game, has anyone noticed that effective use of GenAI requires actual wet intelligence. Just say'n

Bit windy today on the east coast

Please share to help spread the word! We have already have some applications for the #HPC system administrator open position in our team at Ghent University (Belgium), but it's not too late yet! Deadline to apply is Sun 1 Feb 2026. jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Sy...

Show floor safari from sc25 (BTW, this is obviously AI generated because, I would never ask such goofy questions and try and explain QC) ow.ly/mhHC50Y0F1m

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