Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
@nicolehemsoth.bsky.social
VAST Data. Former Deputy Editor in Chief, The Register. Co-founder The Next Platform. Datacenter, chips, systems with a side of sauce.
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...
From Supercomputers to the Frontlines of AI Inference: Glenn Lockwood on Infrastructure That Lasts | Shared Everything
In this episode of Shared Everything, Glenn Lockwood, just named Principal Technical Strategist at VAST Data, shares what decades at the bleeding edge of large-scale systems design have taught him abo...
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July 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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...
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
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June 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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...
Why Aren’t We Building Datacenters Inside Wind Turbines?
Embedding compute clusters in wind turbines matches AI workloads to renewable power, but cooling, latency, and reliability limit large-scale AI datacenter use.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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...
Can the Agentic Mesh Solve the Enterprise AI Paradox?
McKinsey says Gen AI is stuck but banks, research firms, and others are quietly breaking through with AI agents and the "agentic mesh." Is this AI’s big pivot moment?
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June 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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Why Everyone’s Talking About Sovereign Clouds (+Why the US Should Be Listening)
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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June 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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.
June 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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...
The Molecule or the Method? Inside Biotech’s Reckoning with AI
In drug development, where timelines are long, costs high, and bets fail, any tool that helps reduce risk is worth keeping. But only if we’re honest about what it can’t do yet.
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June 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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...
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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
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
June 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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
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...
Intelligent Defense and the AI Revolution
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.
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June 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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...
Shared Everything Podcast From VAST
Welcome to the Shared Everything podcast with new episodes airing every Friday.
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June 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
How NERSC Is Rewriting the Role of the Supercomputer
In-depth with NERSC chief architect Nick Wright, we explore how the forthcoming Doudna machine redefines supercomputing to meet real-time demands of science.
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June 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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?...
Pipelines, Power, and Parallel Worlds: Inside the Digital Twin Stack
YouTube video by VAST Data
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May 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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...
CoreWeave’s AI-Driven Pipeline Is Rewriting Hollywood’s Script
CoreWeave is replacing Hollywood’s render farms with AI-native data engines that turn every frame into a dataset.
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May 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
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Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick
Over the past few years, Uncle Sam has made it progressively harder for US chip designers to flog their AI wares in China. But not impossible.…
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May 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
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...
Why Everyone’s Talking About NVIDIA Dynamo (and Why It Actually Matters)
Everyone's talking about NVIDIA Dynamo, but here's why disaggregation, KV caching, and smarter routing might actually rewrite inference—and why GPU cache isn't enough.
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May 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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...
AI’s Linux Moment is Already Happening
Gen AI’s infrastructure crisis with costly inference, rigid stacks is driving an open, Linux-like shift and modular, community-built solutions are rewriting datacenter rules
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May 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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.
May 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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...
AI Is Challenging the Old Efficiency Rules
Jonathan Koomey’s take on AI’s rising power demands, the limits of computing efficiency, and whether Koomey’s Law still holds in the era of synthetic data and grid constraints.
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May 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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...
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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...
Analysis and commentary here on Intel's future and its new boss www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/13/l...
Lip-Bu Tan: Intel’s New – And Maybe Last – CEO
In his letter to Intel employees, new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan, who starts his new job next Tuesday, tells them that he is “never deterred by
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March 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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...
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! -https://events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-breakfast-microsoft
March 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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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)
events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-b...
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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VAST + Microsoft: Rethinking AI Training Infrastructure
Speakers
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March 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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)
events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-b...
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)
events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-b...
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-...
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Joins VAST
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett explains why she’s joined VAST after almost two decades in media, and why she thinks VAST represents true industry disruption.
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March 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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-...
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I really wish these folks would stop naming their projects after perfectly good science fiction shows.
a man is swinging a golf club in front of a bag that says callaway golf
Alt: Jack O’Neil hits a golf club into the Stargate
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January 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I really wish these folks would stop naming their projects after perfectly good science fiction shows.
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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
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
The scale of AI defies logic and yet it's still happening
It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon
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December 19, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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
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
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Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?
Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?
Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like
Analysis Nvidia is facing its stiffest competition in years with new accelerators from Intel and AMD that challenge its best chips on memory capacity, performance,…
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December 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?