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Becky Springmeyer
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Computer Scientist at Livermore Computing. HPC R&D. My views are my own.
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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An overview of the High Performance Software Foundation #fosdem #hpc. Very interesting!
February 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever
December 13, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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#PlanetaryHealth and #Brain and #Mentalhealth

Exposure to #glyphosate, an ingredient widely used in agriculture, forestry, and lawn and garden care, causes #neuroinflammation and increases the risk of neurodegenerative disease, a study in mice shows. #NeuroSky
www.news-medical.net/news/2024120...
Mouse study links glyphosate to Alzheimer's-like brain changes and anxiety
Glyphosate exposure in mice exacerbates Alzheimer's-like neuropathologies, increases neuroinflammation, and leaves lasting effects, even after prolonged recovery.
www.news-medical.net
December 13, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Fastest supercomputer in our center so far.
El Capitan: NNSA’s First Exascale Computer is Here
YouTube video by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
m.youtube.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:43 AM


Quantum bits, or “qubits,” behave very differently from normal bits. Two qubits can hold four values at once. And as the number of qubits grows, a quantum computer becomes exponentially more powerful.
Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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We are pleased to announce an #IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE) Special Issue on Converged Computing! ☁️

www.computer.org/csdl/magazin...

Discussion of the best of both worlds, #cloud and #HPC, on the level of technology and culture, is of utmost importance.
December 9, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Welcome back from #SC24! If you are wondering what workload manager is running as the system scheduler on the newly appointed 🥇 in the #top500 El Capitan - it's Flux Framework! And guess what? Today we are releasing another Dinosaur Tutorial series to deploy flux on #AWS! youtu.be/LJh-ab6fAqE
Flux Tutorial Series - "Flux on AWS" (Dinosaur Tutorials)
YouTube video by vsoch
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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After some formatting tweaks, our automated jobs bot is now posting the hpc.social #HPC community jobs here to BlueSky!
December 7, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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Younger journalists "understand how journalism has failed our society, they also know that people who are committed to producing journalism in the public interest have the power to help to repair it." www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/youn...
Young journalists will reimagine a better press
"The newest generation of journalists will not give in to pessimism about whether their profession still matters in an age of cynicism about the press."
www.niemanlab.org
December 5, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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RBC PAC’s $20 million last-minute spending spree boosting Trump on abortion was one of the most brazen stunt campaigns in recent memory, designed to evade basic transparency rules.

Turns out it was 100% funded by Elon Musk. @rollingstone.com.web.brid.gy

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Elon Musk Bankrolled the Pro-Trump Troll Campaign RBG PAC
The Super PAC spent $20 million claiming Trump won’t support a national abortion ban. Now we know Musk funded it
www.rollingstone.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.
November 28, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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“Notably, Isaacman also has a financial stake in SpaceX. His company, Shift4 — in which he personally owns a 30% stake — purchased $27.5 million worth of SpaceX shares in February 2021, according to financial documents. As of June, Shift4 reported $10.8 million in gains from the investment.“
December 7, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
6 hours under martial law in Seoul
On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building
www.theverge.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Have you been here? The view serves as a reminder of what we are working to protect.
December 4, 2024 at 1:43 AM