Podcast: “Supercomputing used to be about going fast in one direction. In AI, that just drives you off a cliff faster.” — @glennklockwood.com Lockwood on why flexibility, not just performance, defines next-gen infrastructure. Now at VAST. shared-everything.simplecast.com/episodes/fro...
Posts by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
Neat. RIKEN’s CGRA arch (research project/not product) systolic AI acceleration with FP64 HPC precision on a reconfigurable mesh. cogarchworkshop.org/assets/paper... #HPC #AI
Datacenters inside wind turbines? Aligns renewable power with flexible #AI workloads like model training but thermal challenges, latency headaches, and intermittent wind raise big questions about AI #datacenter readiness. #HPC www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
McKinsey says Gen AI is stuck: lots of hype, little bottom-line impact. But banks, research firms, and others are quietly breaking through with AI agents and something called the "agentic mesh." Is this AI’s big pivot moment? www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
Countries now see data as territory to protect. If the U.S. doesn't tune in, it might get tuned out.
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Just my hydrangeas.
In drug development, where timelines are long, costs are high, and many bets fail, any tool that helps reduce risk is worth keeping. But only if we’re honest about what it can’t do yet. #AI - www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
All things, with one exception, have to end
After years of sharing #HPC news and insights, it's time to log off
It was fun while it lasted and I remain grateful to all of you who followed and interacted
Stay curious, stay kind!
— @hpcguru.bsky.social signing off
#HPC #Farewell
Antoine Bordes, ex-head of AI at Meta FAIR now leading AI at Helsing, discusses intelligent defense, data-driven warfare, and ethical AI integration in military applications. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
TACC's Dan Stanzione on Horizon and how supercomputing is evolving beyond raw compute: real-time AI workflows, power efficiency, quantum futures, and why data rules the stack. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
An in-depth chat with NERSC chief architect Nick Wright exploring how the forthcoming NVIDIA Vera Rubin CPU+GPU Doudna machine redefines supercomputing to meet real-time demands of science. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt... #HPC #AI
Take a moment to dive into #DigitalTwin infrastructure and future work blending #HPC and #AI. I'm joined this week for the Shared Everything podcast by Wes Brewer from Oak Ridge National Lab and Adrian Jackson from EPCC. youtu.be/s-Y4SQ4etA4?...
Some insight into how CoreWeave is replacing Hollywood’s render farms with AI-native data engines that turn every frame into a dataset. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
Everyone’s talking about NVIDIA Dynamo... disaggregation, smarter routing, KV cache tricks: all solid moves. But behind the GPU inference magic, there’s a deeper infrastructure story nobody’s mentioning. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
GenAI’s infrastructure crisis of costly inference and rigid stacks is driving an open, Linux-like shift. Modular, community-built solutions are already rewriting datacenter rules as we saw with Red Hat's announce today (among other cues) www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
My HS senior made the rounds to her old elementary school to see her 4th grade handprint on the wall and her youngest sister. I know it’s cliche ya’ll but time..it really does fly.
Remember hearing about Koomey's Law? With AI in the mix, this datacenter energy figure just keeps more interesting. Here's my chat with Koomey filmed this week www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
James it was great to meet you today!
Lip-Bu Tan: Intel’s new – and maybe last – CEO
Analysis and commentary here on Intel's future and its new boss www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/13/l...
Is object storage taking over AI training? What comes after parallel file systems? How do we speed long-context #AI? Moderating a convo with AI Infra Architect at Microsoft, Glenn Lockwood and Jeff Denworth at #GTC. Have breakfast with me! -events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-breakfast-mic...
If you are at #GTC this session has to be a priority:
1. Because of #HPC celebs involved - @glennklockwood.com @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social & Jeff Denworth
2. The important topic for #AI & #supercomputing - the future of #IO, #data and filesystems (or not)
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A Q&A that details why I am moving from reporting on the future to helping build it. Big change but for great reasons. www.vastdata.com/blog/nicole-...
I really wish these folks would stop naming their projects after perfectly good science fiction shows.
Beet not beer
A terminal case of #AI fever: It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the #AI dragon
Million #GPU clusters, #gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic
www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/s...
#HPC via @tobiasmann.bsky.social @theregister.com
Oh this looks right up my alley. And the spa just means uninterrupted time and full book immersion so yes, thanks
Oh yes but have gone through them all. Cheers to your good taste though!
Many refreshing things about being here but top of the list this week are all the book recommendations found via people I don’t follow directly. Open to more, it’s winter and I have a birthday spa weekend ahead. Just finished Fayne, took sci-fi break but ready for more. #Booksky (I’m guessing)