🍍 Aivalos Natural Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Cold Pressed from Türkiye I finished my bottle of Aivalos last week! 🍍 This is one of my favorites. It is a cold-pressed EVOO from Ayvalık olives on the Aegean coast...

🍍 Olive Oil Review!

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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. 🫂

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🫒 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.

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Olive Oil Review! 🫒

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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. 😋️

I need to be conservative about buying this particular packaging again (and others like it) due to microplastics. There is plenty of research to show it's a bad idea. Won't stop me from finishing this one! The good news is that it is also sold in glass and can!🥫

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It is lightly golden, advertised as punchy with a kick. I disagree. It has a subtle, fruity bitterness that gives anticipation of more, but lingers on the tongue. There are several negative reviews, but I like it. I'm on my second bottle. 😋

I will likely try the Sizzle variant next. 👩‍🍳

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!

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There are so many great shots of smiles! This is my favorite - myself and Evan from #AWS on our panel on distributed workflows. 🌀

A nurse listened to my heart, lungs. I took a deep breath, in and out, for each side, top and bottom. She then took off the stethoscope.

"You have the clearest lungs that I've ever heard."

It's just one data point, but it meant the world to me. I want to be around a long time.

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.

I Like to Kube It, Kube It: Move your AI/ML workloads with Flux - Vanessa Sochat YouTube video by HPSF

And next, I "I Like to Kube It, Kube It! Move Your AI/ML Workloads with Flux!"

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How #Flux and #Kubernetes are good friends. I over-estimated the time we had, so we barely got into the agentic demo! If we are accepted for a tutorial at #SC26 I promise I will redeem this! 🙏

Finally, my two tutorials. First, an Introduction to Flux Framework:

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Warning: there is a bit of singing in the beginning. 😆

Panel: Emerging Infrastructure and Workflows for Distr... Vanessa S, Daniel M, Tom S, Evan B, Greg N YouTube video by HPSF

Our panel on Emerging Infrastructure and Workflows for Distributed Science from @hpsf.bsky.social in Chicago is up! 🙌

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Take a listen for insights on the current challenges and work for our distributed workflows, cloud and #HPC and everything in-between.

The screen was also blurry, so I was recalling slides in my head. This was a talk in "expert" mode. 😆

At the time, I was not happy with it. I knew I could do better, and I will! 💪 Thank you to everyone at @hpsf.bsky.social. A conference focused on community, projects is so much better than papers.

This was also the hardest talk I've ever given. By 3 minutes I could not breathe. You can subtly hear gasps and my voice cracks. I don't normally do that! 😆 I cut out detail toward the end (hence the shorter time). Perhaps it was my pace, or CO2? After the fact, I loved we had +time for questions. 🤓

I close with what our team is actively working on, followed by questions. I loved answering the questions! ❤️

The work makes me excited for the future, grateful for the people that I work with, and for #LivermoreComputing for providing a base for intellectual and temporal freedom. Thank you. 🥰

I ask a hard question, which (not surprisingly) delves from the technology space into cultural. Are we ready for this change? There is a skill gap to be bridged, but also a lot of AI skepticism. Some folks sit in slack channels griping all day. It's not the tech. It's how we choose to use it. 💪

A taste of WIP. This is more agentic workload scheduling. The server is designed with a hub and worker architecture. The worker discovers resource providers, registers to the hub, and a secretary agent receives requests for work and respond with proposals. The hub uses algorithms to choose one. 🧠

Agentic frameworks are design philosophies. You have a goal. You have a server with resources. You then have a model that can act as a brain to respond to prompts, and make tool calls. It's up to your framework to decide how to coordinate those things. That's it! We have our own design philosophy. 🌀

I briefly talk about our generic mcp-server, which supports the tools, prompts, resources, and events to be added dynamically. What are those tools? We have developed flux-mcp for Flux Framework, and hpc-mcp is where I put tools for @spackpm.bsky.social, docker, kubectl, git, filesystem, etc.

The updated orchestration can also deliver events for the agent to react to, and is more robust. I'll save that for a future share. 😉

I talk about server deployment use cases: for an application (under a job), for a cluster (as a persistent service) and for a center (same, with hardened authZ).

I transition into our next stage of work (I'm finishing up now) where we've updated the framework to use the model context protocol, and we design the framework to be more modular to accept on the fly sub-agents, tool definitions. It's kind of just an API standard we agreed upon? Can I say that? 😅

I talk about our first agentic work from 2025, a scaling study for #HPC apps on Google Cloud with Gemini. Importantly, we built our own simple state-machine agentic framework. Understanding is most important to me. I want complete control and transparency down to making the tool calls myself. ⚙️

I realized last year that our thinking is changing. Those initial projects? They were *feature* oriented. "Let's take this component of Project A and move into Project B in the opposite environment." The thinking space is now, "How do I make this *entire* center cloud-like? 🤔

The transition from traditional #HPC to #agenticScience is #convergedComputing. While we could not have anticipated LLMs, the move to automation, modularity, and combining the spaces is a vision we have had for a long time. In this talk I trace our work in converged computing leading up to today. ⌛

We are in the post-exascale era, which means our workloads are changing from traditional batch via a monolithic manager to intelligent, reactive orchestrated and prompt-driven science with automated discovery. The "manual" process is transitioning to agentic and declarative. 🧪

The talk was introduced as being specific to #FluxFramework. That actually is not true, and explains my comment in the beginning. We are orienting our thinking to supporting whatever is discovered for hardware, software, network, storage, etc. For workloads that means Flux, #Slurm, #Kubernetes, etc.

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My main track talk from the @hpsf.bsky.social Conference in Chicago on Converged Computing and Agentic Workflows is online! 🥳

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This was my first live talk in 9 years. I am *so* excited about this work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

It's interesting that they sell them in clear bottles since light leads to photo-oxidation that degrades the oil.

I've told this to some, but I think of EVOO as akin to the medicine in Mary Poppins. A magical liquid that comes out different colors and flavors, and is perfect. 🤌

More to come! 😋