Alan Sill
@alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy
Physics/cloud/data centers/HPC. This one's for personal viewpoints/tech stuff I find cool. For official work look elsewhere, for example at the metadata links […]
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The HPC Carpentry project is a community-driven lesson program to provide lessons to introduce students and researchers to high-performance computing. To express interest the project as instructors, lesson adopters, maintainers, or more, please fill out the survey at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
HPC Carpentry Community Survey
The HPC Carpentry project is a community-driven lesson program to provide lessons to introduce new students and researchers to high-performance computing (HPC). HPC Carpentry is reaching out to gather...
docs.google.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The HPC Carpentry project is a community-driven lesson program to provide lessons to introduce students and researchers to high-performance computing. To express interest the project as instructors, lesson adopters, maintainers, or more, please fill out the survey at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This is beyond infuriating. It is criminal negligence. https://futurism.com/space/nasa-staff-throw-out-science-equipment-garbage
NASA Staff Horrified at Plan to Throw Out Incredibly Specialized Science Equipment Like Garbage
"It’s like taking a Maserati to the junkyard to get crushed because your driver’s license expired."
The post NASA Staff Horrified at Plan to Throw Out Incredibly Specialized Science Equipment Like Garbage appeared first on Futurism.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is beyond infuriating. It is criminal negligence. https://futurism.com/space/nasa-staff-throw-out-science-equipment-garbage
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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
#retrocomputing
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
#retrocomputing
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
#retrocomputing
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
#retrocomputing
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You know how the existence of cars and power tools makes it necessary to have “exercise” and “manual crafts” as a deliberately chosen part of a balanced life?
We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.
We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
You know how the existence of cars and power tools makes it necessary to have “exercise” and “manual crafts” as a deliberately chosen part of a balanced life?
We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.
We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.
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To get good at anything, you have to practice.
So practice treating others well.
So practice treating others well.
October 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
To get good at anything, you have to practice.
So practice treating others well.
So practice treating others well.
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In August, the #Trump admin sent #ucla a 27-page list of demands and settlement proposal, which UCLA wanted to keep confidential during its deliberations and negotiations. The UCLA Faculty Association sued to compel its disclosure, and the California Supreme Court just decided in favor of the […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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@AlanSill As many of my colleagues expressed today, Canada's National Research Computing Infrastructure would look very different today without Greg's contribution. The structure he helped to create during his time at #computecanada still lives on under the Alliance.
We truly miss him.
@gbnewby
We truly miss him.
@gbnewby
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
@AlanSill As many of my colleagues expressed today, Canada's National Research Computing Infrastructure would look very different today without Greg's contribution. The structure he helped to create during his time at #computecanada still lives on under the Alliance.
We truly miss him.
@gbnewby
We truly miss him.
@gbnewby
I have known Greg Newby for nearly 20 years and benefitted enormously from his contributions to OGF and other community activities he worked on. He was always ready to provide his technical and organizational abilities to benefit things he thought would help others […]
Original post on mast.hpc.social
mast.hpc.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I have known Greg Newby for nearly 20 years and benefitted enormously from his contributions to OGF and other community activities he worked on. He was always ready to provide his technical and organizational abilities to benefit things he thought would help others […]
Jesus, I am older than FORTRAN.
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115376695877635248
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115376695877635248
On This Day In History (@onthisday@mastodon.social)
Today in 1956, 69 years ago: FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community. #OnThisDay
mastodon.social
October 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Jesus, I am older than FORTRAN.
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115376695877635248
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115376695877635248
Steps with any automatic build process with any package manager these days:
... build (package1)
... build (package2)
... build (package3)
... build cmake....................
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... build (package1)
... build (package2)
... build (package3)
... build cmake....................
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October 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Steps with any automatic build process with any package manager these days:
... build (package1)
... build (package2)
... build (package3)
... build cmake....................
...
... build (package1)
... build (package2)
... build (package3)
... build cmake....................
...
Unexpected surprise visit from a former student. He dropped by after 10 years to say that I had inspired him and given him the confidence to pursue what he wanted to do, that he and his wife are both doing well and that after several years of growing salaries […]
[Original post on mast.hpc.social]
[Original post on mast.hpc.social]
October 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Unexpected surprise visit from a former student. He dropped by after 10 years to say that I had inspired him and given him the confidence to pursue what he wanted to do, that he and his wife are both doing well and that after several years of growing salaries […]
[Original post on mast.hpc.social]
[Original post on mast.hpc.social]
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#visualization:
The Cartography of generative AI
An incredibly detailed map of the generative AI ecosystem by Estampa
#informationdesign #systems
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
The Cartography of generative AI
An incredibly detailed map of the generative AI ecosystem by Estampa
#informationdesign #systems
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#visualization:
The Cartography of generative AI
An incredibly detailed map of the generative AI ecosystem by Estampa
#informationdesign #systems
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
The Cartography of generative AI
An incredibly detailed map of the generative AI ecosystem by Estampa
#informationdesign #systems
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
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Students and other early-career CS researchers! Participating in an Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) is a good way to get acquainted with research in an area and to get hands-on experience. The AEC for the International Conference on Performance Engineering (https://icpe2026.spec.org/) is […]
Original post on discuss.systems
discuss.systems
October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Students and other early-career CS researchers! Participating in an Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) is a good way to get acquainted with research in an area and to get hands-on experience. The AEC for the International Conference on Performance Engineering (https://icpe2026.spec.org/) is […]
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We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]
If you want to know why the barkeep in the Star Wars cantina threw out the droids, the current state of AI should give you some understanding.
October 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If you want to know why the barkeep in the Star Wars cantina threw out the droids, the current state of AI should give you some understanding.
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Re we entering a period in which the primary application are for RISC-V will be for FPGAs?
October 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Re we entering a period in which the primary application are for RISC-V will be for FPGAs?
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) on solar: "everything about solar is going better than anticipated. (...) Everything we thought would be a solar bottleneck turns out to be a feature, not a bug." But there's a risk: enshittification. Because "solar is a technology, not a fuel."
A Doctorow's must […]
A Doctorow's must […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) on solar: "everything about solar is going better than anticipated. (...) Everything we thought would be a solar bottleneck turns out to be a feature, not a bug." But there's a risk: enshittification. Because "solar is a technology, not a fuel."
A Doctorow's must […]
A Doctorow's must […]
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@eatyourgreens For RSECon attendees the videos are all uploaded to watch (see the conference event hub page for the link to Zoom). For everyone else, they will be on https://www.youtube.com/@SocRSE, probably around the end of the year.
September 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
@eatyourgreens For RSECon attendees the videos are all uploaded to watch (see the conference event hub page for the link to Zoom). For everyone else, they will be on https://www.youtube.com/@SocRSE, probably around the end of the year.
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"Benchmarking is core to High-Performance Computing, assessing hardware performance and software capabilities. Here we present a list of over 100 HPC benchmarks and benchmark suites, introduced in the accompanying paper."
- https://fzj-jsc.github.io/benchmark-survey/
- […]
- https://fzj-jsc.github.io/benchmark-survey/
- […]
Original post on mast.hpc.social
mast.hpc.social
September 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Benchmarking is core to High-Performance Computing, assessing hardware performance and software capabilities. Here we present a list of over 100 HPC benchmarks and benchmark suites, introduced in the accompanying paper."
- https://fzj-jsc.github.io/benchmark-survey/
- […]
- https://fzj-jsc.github.io/benchmark-survey/
- […]
All those years of listening to Kurzweil talk about the Singularity, and I never thought it would manifest itself in the form of machine-reprocessed junk drowning out human-created content. It’s not that the machines are getting smarter, not at all, but the humans are making themselves dumber by […]
Original post on mast.hpc.social
mast.hpc.social
August 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
All those years of listening to Kurzweil talk about the Singularity, and I never thought it would manifest itself in the form of machine-reprocessed junk drowning out human-created content. It’s not that the machines are getting smarter, not at all, but the humans are making themselves dumber by […]
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I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.
The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don't Know Why Either)
gizmodo.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.
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Because destroying the US is not enough, Trump is using tariffs, visa restrictions, and trade deals to pressure other countries to abandon climate goals and increase fossil fuel use, further destroying the world and the future […]
Original post on mastodon.world
mastodon.world
August 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Because destroying the US is not enough, Trump is using tariffs, visa restrictions, and trade deals to pressure other countries to abandon climate goals and increase fossil fuel use, further destroying the world and the future […]
A simple plea: quit burning up the planet to make fake stuff. It is no longer amusing.
August 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A simple plea: quit burning up the planet to make fake stuff. It is no longer amusing.
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For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it.
Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]
Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
August 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it.
Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]
Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]