#Stanford Research Computing is hiring an HPC Systems Administrator to steward our physical infrastructure. 2,000+ compute nodes, GPU galore, IB islands, PBs of flash storage. None of it runs without you.
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#HPC #datacenter #hiring
Stanford medical students speak up on the DoJ investigation into admissions:
“We want to see Stanford enroll more Black, Latino and Indigenous medical and PA students, not for optics, but because they deserve to be here without having their success dismissed as the product of DEI.”
#Stanford Research Computing is hiring a Storage Architect / Senior Storage Sysadmin.
100PB+ of research data, 5+ billion files, Lustre/MinIO/HSM. The research is Nobel-caliber, the storage should be too.
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#HPC #Lustre #Linux #hiring
Urge Stanford to reject the DOJ's demands for sensitive personal information about Stanford Medical School students:
Please sign & share the petition:
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#Stanford Research Computing is hiring a Principal Storage Architect, to lead our HPC Data Platforms team.
100PB+ of research data, full-flash file systems, Lustre at scale.
Come architect storage for Nobel-caliber research!
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#HPC #Lustre #storage #hiring
And it's not a ban, it's an 18-month pause, until Nov. 2027, to "assess the impact of such development on the environment and electricity grid".
For sure! But in a world where login nodes already have GPUs, that's even cheaper than buying a subscription.
Unless OpenClaw (or any agentic tool) helps them improve their HPC workloads and run them more efficiently? There could be a benefit in spending some GPU dollars now to allow more jobs to run on the same amount of GPUs in the end.
And we're definitely seeing an trend to experiment in that direction.
Login nodes with GPUs? Ouch! That's wild.
screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA
My resignation letter
The nature of HPC environments with their job schedulers, resource usage policies and time limits are not the best setup for persistent LLM endpoints.
Creative workarounds are always possible, but there's probably even less incentive to hijack GPUs for OpenClaw than during the crypto mining boom.
Not OpenClaw specifically, but we’re definitely seeing increasing use of Ollama for running local, open models privately. In addition to the rapid growth in adoption of commercial models, with Claude standing out as a clear leader.
And that's not just students. :)
“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better
Just expanded Sherlock’s /scratch to 15 PB of all-flash Lustre at Stanford Research Computing. Built in-house on community Lustre with our own backported patches, OSTs added live. No vendor black box. No appliance magic. Just open source and a couple people who know their way around it! 🧱🔧⚡️
I have a feeling will be watching this a couple of times in the weeks, months, and years to come.
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Yes, looks like it's been Groq'ed and branded as LPxx
> The Groq 3 LPX compute tray is comprised of 8 GROK LPUs and is codenamed LP30. Each Groq 3 LPU offers 500 MB of SRAM, 150 TB/s of SRAM bandwidth, and 1.2 PFLOPs of FP8 performance. Each chip houses 98B transistors.
wccftech.com/nvidia-vera-...
Tired of watching your API credits disappear mid-session? New Sherlock docs cover running Zed + Ollama entirely on-cluster: full AI coding assistant, free GPU allocation, zero data leaving Stanford.
news.sherlock.stanford.edu/publications...
#Sherlock #HPC #Stanford
Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?*
A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.
Yet www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
Dunno, fitting, isn't it? 😁
Photoshopped selfies would still work better than AI generated avatars, IMO :)
What's even the point? VAST doesn't have a creative team capable of taking employees' pictures?
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
notice to Americans: the French are rapidly innovating in the burger space
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
If you are (as I am) watching The Princess Bride for REASONS today, please take a look at the quoted thread for a master's look at the masters of swords
