Blue sky and sunshine - haven’t seen much of that recently … nice location for some calls before I head to meetings.

Used the long flight to rearrange the app icons on my iPhone screen … so now I’ll spend all week not being able to find my apps quickly!

I used to visit Houston several times a year in my previous role but as far as I can remember this is my first visit to Houston since joining Microsoft 6 years ago - here for the always excellent #Rice #EnergyHPCAI conference #HPC

“I’ve found some old DIMMs in the house, wonder if they are worth a fortune” … is the modern equivalent of “I found a potentially valuable antique in the attic” #AI #DIMM #memory #HPC

There's a line between big bets using free cash flow and bailing out bad ideas. AI infra buildout as a big bet; as the MSFT leadership once said, the risk of under-investing now is higher than the risk of over-investing. But you typically don't want to sink _all_ your FCF into one bet!

Listening to #SCAsia / #HPCAsia closing session keynote by Kathy Yelick on how the community of #HPC must adapt in the new world of computing driven by #AI …

Had a good chat over lunch yesterday with @thoefler.bsky.social about a most important topic of mutual interest … … airline miles/points and qualities 😁 I wonder how many other people in #HPc are geeks on this topic?

Rio Yokota on the #SCA2026 fishbowl panel: "I don't think humans are in any way more trustworthy than an advanced AI" - "In the same way we trust other humans, we could develop trust to AIs" - "If people or AI generate code - how do we know there is no bug inside?" profound thoughts by a wise man.

Amirreza Rastegari - benchmarking expert from Microsoft #HPC / #AI engineering group - giving talk at #SCAsia / #HPCAsia on Azure HBv5 clusters using AMD CPUs with HBM plus InfiniBand interconnect - enabling sector-leading #HPC application performance via huge memory bandwidth

Noooooooo!! #ExaFlops not ExaFlop #SCAsia / #HPCAsia

The future of #AI infrastructure is AND NOT OR 😁 Microsoft will have AI running on #MAIA200 and successors + more #Nvidia #GPUs + more #AMD GPUs + a few others things we aren’t talking about publicly yet. Exciting times to be part of thinking, planning, delivering all this.

At 2500 attendees, good spread of international attendance, lots of good talks/papers, can we argue that the combined #SCAsia + #HPCAsia is finally joining SC and ISC to form a “big three” annual event of #supercomputing instead of just the traditional “big two”?

Keynote at #SCAsia / #HPC Asia @thoefler.bsky.social being introduced by Rio Yokota #UltraEthernet for Next Generation #AI and #HPC workloads

#SCAsia / #HPCAsia

My first time at #SCAsia/#HPCAsia this week. I don’t have a crazy preset agenda as I would at SC/ISC, so looking forward to having time to explore new experiences, hopes, and perspectives on #HPC and #AIinfra, meet people, etc.

Impressive altitude on my flight earlier today

Sunset HND airport

I have voucher A to get [thing] for $20. I also have voucher B to get same [thing] for $0. However, voucher B is not working … and I have now spent a lot more than $20 worth of my time trying to make it work … and won’t be giving up any time soon yet …

Using someone else’s smartphone and being unable to use it easily because they HAVE ALL THEIR APPS IN THE WRONG ORDER!!

interested in your suggestions for the pages on #HPC/#AI events, and relevant news/analysis publications, podcasts, social media, etc.

That tense moment when you switch what your primary domain and sub-domains urls point to … and your entire online presence evaporates for several long minutes while waiting for the DNS updates to go live and spread … the tension to see if you made a mess of the DNS edits …

In what is now a solid tradition, the most important post-SC event ... publication of Glenn's SC notes! #HPC #SC25 #supercomputing #HPCignites

Runways, roads, railways, datacentres, houses, supermarkets, … this observation often feels accurate

Can you claim to be a real #HPC software engineer if you've never coded with at least 2 of #Fortran, #MPI, #OpenMP, or #CUDA? Can you claim to be a modern #supercomputing scientist if you've never worked with at least 2 of #cloud, #AI/#ML, #FP16, or #RSEs?

Crossed off 12 items from my To-Do list today. Just 188 more to go from the "urgent" folder.

Big #F1 news - Adrian Newey to become Aston Martin team principal! Could go either way - some technical leaders discover they have a hidden management genius within them. For others, the difference between a top team leader and a top tech leader rapidly become clear.

US DOE is being directed to go all-in on AI: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... #HPC

Why can you never fix the blame on good C programmers? Because they always know how to point to another memory!

Why are C++ programmers so rich? Because they know how to do inheritance!

Why are plays written by Fortran 77 programmers boring? Because they can’t have more than 6 characters!

Why are Unix programmers like crabs? Because they prefer to stay in their shells!

Why are Unix programmers like crabs? Because they prefer to stay in their shells!

Why are plays written by Fortran 77 programmers boring? Because they can’t have more than 6 characters!

Why are C++ programmers so rich? Because they know how to do inheritance!

Why can you never fix the blame on good C programmers? Because they always know how to point to another memory!

Evidence that PGMOL/VAR interpretation of offside rule clearly varies from one week to next When will PGMOL be held to account other than Howard occasional TV appearances to explain away poor decisions? PGMOL’s mistakes are what is harming attitudes to refs, not behaviour of managers or players

Happening now in room 132 on the ground floor! There’s still time to drop in and be part of the session. 11:00: Capturing Value with @hpcnotes.bsky.social – don’t miss it. #HPC #SC25

#HPCignites Fun watching this be installed on the Microsoft booth at #SC25 today

Only Sunday lunchtime at #SC25 and already had so many useful and interacting conversations #HPCignites #HPC

Make time at #SC25 to visit the #ArtOfHPC exhibition - beauty and science all in one place - well worth a few minutes of your time #HPC #Supercomputing #HPCignites All these and much more …

Arrived at #SC25 I’m away from my computer today 😁 mostly … you’ll understand if you see me … Feel free to say hello if you see me around. Looking forward to a great week of people and technology etc. #HPC #AI #cloud #supercomputing

Boarding first of the three flights I need to take today to get to #SC25 … long day of travel ahead! Wonder how many other #HPC people I will see on these flights?

This week has been so crazy I’m actually considering the wild intensity of #SC25 next week will be an improvement!

Several mentally challenging meetings this week, ranging from ones where I’m wondering how/if to tell someone their perspective is significantly detached from reality, to ones where there an opportunity to do something really amazing, to ones where alleged experts’ competence might be debatable …

Some advice for #SC25 … bsky.app/profile/hpcn... #Supercomputing #HPC

A fun but maybe not easy question as we look forward to #SC25 … Which of these most resonates with how you think of yourself? Can only pick one, can’t say “all of them” - get off the fence & pick a team 😁 1. #HPC/#Supercomputing 2. #AI 3. #Cloud 4. None - no resonance with any of them

1 week until #SC25 3 bits of advice: 1. Prioritise shoes for comfort not smart. 2. Find/force downtime during SC. Enough talks/meetings/receptions done well is better than lots rushed/tired/etc. 3. SC is about people as much as (or more than) technology. #HPC #Supercomputing

Inspired by 18 innings? Interested in #AI, #Supercomputers, #Cloud, #HPC? Attending #SC25? Get your place at the sought-after #Microsoft + #AMD SC reception! Tue 18th, 6.30pm, Busch Stadium Pre-registration & approval required: aka.ms/microsoftamd... #HPCignites #Supercomputing