Spin it like Peanut Butter Jelly... I'll give you something to do (Galantis)! I heard this song for the first time last week and watched the video today. I had to dance to it! The music video is 🙌 if only going to the grocery store were that fun... 😂 youtu.be/1WYqQzl7Plg

🫒 Olive oil review! I loved this oil because it tastes like arugula. I also do a deeper dive on the polyphenol Oleocanthal, and how it is works as an anti-inflammatory and interacts with TRPA1 and COX enzymes. Enjoy! 💃 olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/oliv...

🫒 Sciabica's Tasting Room, Costa d'Oro and California Gold, and the Hillside 7. olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/scia...

Interested to learn about our work in agentic science, with some added #FluxFramework? Please attend the #HPCKP meeting in Barcelona! 💃 I am excited for this work, and for the future of science. After recording this talk, I was moved to dance!🌹 hpckp.org/annual-meeti...

Adventures this week, with miles of beaches, running, biking, and beauty. olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/true...

The time has come to know Clear your head, mind the open road Your heart will never lie It's the trip that keeps us alive ❤️

I am building large containers locally that have layers too large for push from my home wireless. "Ah, I'll use an instance on Google Cloud!" I thought. I tried to get *one* c4-standard-96 instance, and then c3-standard-88. Could I? Nope. I tried every zone. 😭 It is Saturday. 🙃

Morning adventure into town to see art, roses, live music, and the farmer's market! 👉 olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/la-o...

🫒 Olive Oil, orchard, and market review - La Olivina, and Olive Oil Pantry! olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/oliv...

Olive Oil Review: La Tourangelle, Regenerative. 🫒 olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/la-t... On that note, I'm off for some adventures! 🍃

An agent just wrote and ran an entire #snakemake workflow using our agentic tools + mcpserver! 🐍 Running snakemake would be too easy. I've given the agent just inputs + a wrappers catalog and said "figure it out." The agent gets controlled access to a workdir, and incrementally figures out steps.

García de la Cruz from Toledo Spain. What was most interesting was learning about the history of the amphora. They are used to date shipwrecks. At first glance the design seems nonsensical, but this is with my applied bias of storage today. Enjoy! olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/04/garc...

New olive oil review! 🫒 These are made by the same producer in Morocco. Both have good price points, and beautiful bottles. I recommend Desert Miracle if you want to try oil that is subtly peppery, and Atlas if you want something primarily smooth. olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/04/atla... Enjoy!

Running jobs with our #Slurm Operator today! 😘 I'm enjoying learning about build, admin, and config of Slurm. I'm running on AWS hpc7g with EFA, and (so far) the jobs are comparable in performance to Flux! Would ❤️ to write a paper, "Workload managers, they are all pretty good. Stop the quibbles" 😆

🍍 Olive Oil Review! olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/04/aiva... This one is really special, and I learned a bit about how (I think) a small facet of the business works. Enjoy!

This looks to be the cloud compute variant of the famous vending machine, "The light is out but I still work." 😅 We feel you, little Gemini 2.0 Flash API. 🫂

🫒 Olive Oil review! This is Sciabica's California Olive Oil: Mission + Arbequina. It really is buttery and sweet, totally unlike anything I've ever had. 👇 www.reddit.com/r/oliveoil/c...

Olive Oil Review! 🫒 www.reddit.com/r/oliveoil/c... I'm trying to catch up with my empty bottles. 😅️ This is "Old Town Oil" in Chicago, a little side trip I made during the @hpsf.bsky.social Conference in March. Yum. 😋️

Olive Oil Review! 🫒 This is Graza, single origin Picual from Jaen Spain, the non-cooking "Drizzle" variant. I got the squeeze bottle for travel. Little did I know it was available in the supermarket across from the venue! I consumed most of my first bottle in that week. 😁 How was it? 🤔

Some thinking on how observation (meta-cognition) can lead to a mindset of acceptance, and better appreciation and pursuit of life experience. vsoch.github.io/2026/observa...

The @hpsf.bsky.social pictures are up! www.flickr.com/photos/20274... There are so many great shots of smiles! This is my favorite - myself and Evan from #AWS on our panel on distributed workflows. 🌀

I wear a respirator to run, give talks, everything. Unless you live remote, the air is not great. All the PM 2.5 particles? They are filtered by lungs or something else. I choose something else! 😆 I also get publicly shamed a lot for it. I largely ignore it. But something great happened today.

Finally, my two tutorials. First, an Introduction to Flux Framework: youtu.be/AWyTx6uLSlM?... Warning: there is a bit of singing in the beginning. 😆

Our panel on Emerging Infrastructure and Workflows for Distributed Science from @hpsf.bsky.social in Chicago is up! 🙌 youtu.be/7SHSE2qQM_g?... Take a listen for insights on the current challenges and work for our distributed workflows, cloud and #HPC and everything in-between.

My main track talk from the @hpsf.bsky.social Conference in Chicago on Converged Computing and Agentic Workflows is online! 🥳 youtu.be/lmVid4ntya8?... This was my first live talk in 9 years. I am *so* excited about this work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

I eat about half a cup (or more) of olive oil a day. I go through them quickly, and try a lot. I've decided to share my opinions! Let's start with the second half of February. I was spending time around Stanford and went to #SigonasFarmersMarket. Here is the full batch (2 trips), in full glory. 💫

I am not at #KubeCon this week, but we have a treat for you! We are excited to announce support for #FluxFramework with the release of Kubeflow v2.2 to enable AI/ML simulation in #Kubernetes. See the demo (and full thread) for details, and please reach out with any questions, or just to say hello!👋🥳

We are excited to announce support for Flux for #Kubeflow v2.2 to enable AI/ML workloads paired with #HPC simulation. Flux adds a ZeroMQ bootstrap, support for #PMIx, more flavors of #MPI, and bypasses potential etcd and kube-sched bottlenecks. We are excited to bring this to the larger community! 🥳

A quick glimpse of what we are working on with respect to agentic dispatch! First, it's important to understand the design of our mcp-servers. It's hierarchical, with any single server being able to serve as a hub or a worker, neither, or both! This is github.com/converged-co....

Summer time (or almost) bike rides! 😍 Actually, it will be way too hot to go out in the actual summer time. 😅

Light only sometimes reaches us because something got in the way. True strength is not avoidance, but sitting comfortably in the unknown. Strength is found in learning to accept all of our pieces. youtu.be/9Z9Fec8xnyY You are the strongest person you know. Never give up on yourself.

In January we presented early thinking on converged computing and agentic science at an #HPC workshop in Paris. I waited to share this since I presented an updated variant for @hpsf.bsky.social. youtu.be/TUrIz60Y-AY See the description for timestamps and abstract. More to come - stay tuned! 🎉

I took 3 weeks off, no running or biking, and largely I've been sleeping and eating lots of protein and (bottles!) of olive oil. I took my first run today. Did my body forget how to move? Absolutely not! Feeling grateful tonight for strength. In the photo, I'm shouting "I'm Rick James, bitch!" 😅

We are approaching @hpsf.bsky.social in Chicago and I am pumped! 🥳 If you can attend, please come to my main track talk on converged computing and agentic workflows, our panel on emerging infrastructure, or the two tutorial sessions I am leading for the #FluxFramework community day. See you there!

Coming to the @hpsf.bsky.social Conference in March? I hope you will attend the Flux Framework sessions! 🌀 We will have a half day of interesting and fun talks, including an AI/ML Simulation Tutorial in Kubernetes. All sing with me now - "I like to Kube It, Kube It!" youtu.be/21hi3jtGytg 🦩

"How to Cloud" 🌥️ youtu.be/WMSlk8HJFig Video courtesy of my best friend (and a nice camera)! This is the end of my dance, and the funniest part is that I turned around, and there was a family enjoying my performance. You can see my little awkward wave right at the end. 😆

I love you, I love you And all of your pieces ❤️❤️❤️

I have no idea how hearts work. I was in the highest red zone for 20-50 minutes for a tempo or fast run just in September, and I can barely reach it now. This particular run I like to go out a few miles and turn around and pick up on the way back. 🙃 Whatever heart, you do you. 🤜 🤛

Love this song... it's so fun to dance to! 😍🚀 youtu.be/41nIkE_u3_s Friendly dinosaur reminder that life is short. Dance the 😈 out of it!

Looking for testers! 🤓 We've just put together a #Zenodo JSON validator, something the community has been wanting for years. github.com/vsoch/zenodo... You can use it as a standalone container or a GitHub Action. Give it a test, and please open an issue if you run into any trouble!

Happy 2026! 🥳 This year I'll start the 5th decade of life, and I'm grateful. To another year of learning, growth, self-awareness and authenticity. I will continue to push myself physically and try to be assertive and kind, and place more emphasis on self-care and rest. youtu.be/WeJEHzY-tIY?...

Happy New Year! 🎉 To celebrate, I want to share work from 2025 (Nov.) that I am most excited about continuing into 2026. We designed an agentic team to build, deploy, optimize, and scale #HPC applications in #Kubernetes. We used #Gemini and it worked remarkably well. vsoch.github.io/2025/hpc-orc....

Interested in features, design, history or migration to #FluxFramework? We've updated our admin guide for you! flux-framework.readthedocs.io/projects/flu... Have questions? Let us know! We are aiming to better engage with all of you, our community, in 2026 🎉 starting with joining @hpsf.bsky.social!

With initiatives like the AmSC, Genesis, and the lab's NG-HPCC, it's obvious that the "HPC center of the future" is very cloud-like. What gives me pause is whether staffing and mindset are ready for a focus on infrastructure innovation. I think I saw this coming. 🙃 www.authorea.com/users/872044...

Uh, Facebook, bro, the choice of these images *together* is slightly concerning. What exactly are you saying here? 🔪🫣👁️

Happy holidays, folks! 🥞 Whether you like latkes or roast (I am privy to both) I hope you enjoy the holiday, and make time for dancing and time with friends and family. I haven't reflected fully on the year yet (still adventures to be had) but man, it was great! 🥳 youtu.be/jA2J9TbE9OA

If you care about the intersection of high performance software and open source, we are pleased to announce that #FluxFramework will have a project meeting at the @hpsf.bsky.social 2026 Conference next year! Please respond to the CFP to be a part of it! events.linuxfoundation.org/hpsf-confere...

And please engage with us! We are joining #HPSF soon and looking to grow the community and provide support to our users. We need to understand use cases and what folks are looking for. We will best figure this out if you ask questions, and tell us what you need. 🙏

We are getting a lot of questions about #FluxFramework! 🎉 If you are new to the project, this is the right one: flux-framework.org. You can most quickly get to the devs via an issue on flux-core on GitHub, or ping us in the hpc.social slack or here. ☎️ Let us know the questions you have! 🤓

Google Photos made an end of year video, but it was bad. I made my own. This year was about adventure, pushing limits, and growth. This is a small glimpse of my experiences. Thank you to all the people that have supported me and filled this year with so much joy... encore! 🥳 youtu.be/F8qoEXjTJlI