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

We've just updated the hpc.social events calendar and feed, and we are looking for event contributions and feedback. 📅 View the calendar: hpc.social/events/ 🖥️ Code on GitHub: github.com/hpc-social/e...

Strength of the body extends to the mind, and our daily work. If we learn to push our physical limits and embrace discomfort, our relative perception of what is hard completely changes. I am absolutely certain that nerds rule the world! 🤓

Affirmation! 🙌 Another 1990s throwback - jamming while driving with imaginary drums. I'm actually not sure about the year - the song came out in 1999, so likely this was within a few years of that. This is dedicated to my Dad. Many good memories to this song. 🥰 youtu.be/my-xEWC1pe4

Would it really be a proper Monday without some terrible, extraordinarily fun dancing? 🪩 youtu.be/_kQFsdsLsE8 Happy Monday everyone! 😘

We used state machines to orchestrate a complex #HPC workload in #Kubernetes, and performed a Usability study across #Azure, #GoogleCloud, and #AWS with over 28K CPU and 256 GPU that resulted in over 26K datasets! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Will be presented at #SC25.

Felt like noodle dancing today - throw back to 1999 and Lou Bega! 🙌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGQZ...

Belated Halloween Dance! 🎃 This is the first time that I've ever attempted this dance - I've seen it enough times that I got the general gist! But let's be real, it's terrible. 😄 I guess I don't care, because I had fun. Happy belated Halloween!

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And so it begins! Is lifting the bar hard for me? Yes. Is my shirt inside out? Also yes. 😂 Am I going to be consistent, and steadfast in my ability to manifest what I want in life? HELL yes. 👏

hey @rockylinux.org 👋 We have been getting 404s for some of the Rocky mirrors today (and recently) in our CI. Usually a rerun fixes it, but I wanted to make sure you were aware, and if there is a status page we could refer to for future issues? Thank you! 🙏

When things are hard, we remember that we are responsible for ourselves, and the outcomes of our choices. Today I chose strength, and to prove to myself that I am still the strongest person that I know. With time (and protein!) you will see it too. I embrace darkness, but I choose to be a light.

It's about time we think more about our job shape. This is something I'm really excited about for #FluxFramework! Have you ever thought about the implications of your flag choices for binding? I made a little tool today (WIP) that can detect (and then predict) topology (binding) down to PU.

Developer tip - taking the time to write comments for the next day. If you are a gerbil, a monster, a three toed sloth, or a goblin that will die alone, make sure to be honest with yourself about that. 🧌

Da nananana na na na na Batman! 🦇 I got a really challenging build environment working today (took 11 hours 🙃) and then... new track adventure! youtu.be/on8UcrpMy8c?... Dirt tracks are slippery, but you can still have a lot of fun! This was 4x400 (4 miles) of a relaxed pace, 3 warm up/cool down.

What did I do for the holiday weekend? 🤔 Biked around for 15 miles looking for a track. I didn't find one, so opted for paved paths instead. I didn't hit the pace I wanted, but in retrospect, this was a good effort! I ran this at noon on Saturday, when it was in the 90s. 😎

I like the message that I imbue this song with - life experience stays with us, and we choose to have strength. Often that means doing things that are hard. youtu.be/_XtLGncK1pk Today was my first interval workout - I found a dirt track and maintained a 5:20-6 minute mile pace for 12x300m. 💪

If you missed the #FluxFramework #HPC Innovation Center (HPCIC) Tutorial this year - have no fear! 🦸 We just posted the video online: youtu.be/EjA3qvbzzHU See the description for detailed timestamps. You can watch from the start, and I'll highlight 🖊️ sections of interest here. 🧵

About 76 miles of biking and running since Tuesday. 🌞 youtu.be/JxaVDqKoxa4?... There is so much beauty out there, and I feel so lucky to have the life experiences that I do. 🥰

For folks familiar with #SLURM- we are looking for a way to validate SBATCH directives. Slurm has --test-only but it does validation for flags *and* against a cluster, and they seem tied. In #Flux we can validate directives (via a directive parser) separately from resources (feasibility plugin). Ty!

This was 20 years ago. When we are young we often can't anticipate oncoming darkness. But we also can't anticipate our own resilience. What we come to realize with experience is that we are always in a mixture of light and shadow. It is a choice to not just see, but try to be a source of light. 🕯️