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Adam Thompson
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Principal Technical Product Manager for Edge HPC at NVIDIA. Connecting GPUs to real-time instruments.

Likes modern lit, indie music, real time sensors, coffee, and GPUs. Creator of #cusignal. Views are my own.
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PRESS RELEASE
The SETI Institute announced that it will incorporate the new NVIDIA IGX Thor platform to enhance its real-time search for signals from space at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Northern California. 🧪

Learn more: www.seti.org/news/seti-in...
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Harvest Moon, via Seestar s50.
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I mean. What could be better?
October 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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New Milestone: Our first validated Coyote server!

Packed into a 4U chassis:

- 192 GB of VRAM – 4x RTX 6000 Ada
- 16 TB NVMe storage
- 800 Gbps of networking

Powering the next-generation signal processing at the Allen Telescope Array. Designed for science, engineered for more!
July 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Emerging workflows for discovery require deep integration between compute, software and service models, fabrics, storage, and external integration. Very happy to be working with both Dell and NERSC on this project to accelerate complex science.
www.nersc.gov/news-and-eve...
DOE Announces New Supercomputer Powered by Dell and NVIDIA to Speed Scientific Discovery - NERSC: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
During a visit to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced a new contract with Dell Technologies to develop NERSC-10, the next flagship su...
www.nersc.gov
May 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Two of my favorite bands playing one of my favorite bands' song. I think I may explode.

youtu.be/4IuyMBxPlLI
Maggie Rogers & Sylvan Esso - Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl
YouTube video by Arts & Crafts
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April 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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"Not only will it provide sharper details of proteins and other molecules imaged with cryo-EM," says
@berkeleylab.lbl.gov 's Peter Denes, "but it should enable microscopists to image even proteins roughly half the size of what is currently possible."
Ultracool microscopy yields a sharper look at proteins
After years of frustration, researchers learn how to sharpen molecular images with liquid helium
www.science.org
April 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We're all pedants about something, and mine is with ratings.

The Adam Rating System

⭐- Bad - would actively dissuade people
⭐⭐- Okay - would caution against if asked
⭐⭐⭐- Good - standard experience [default!]
⭐⭐⭐⭐- Great - would recommend if asked
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- Excellent - would evangelize to people
April 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today is a good day.
April 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Used NVIDIA’s Global Free Days this quarter to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary in beautiful San Miguel de Allende, Mexico!
March 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Everyone is singing the birthday song way too slowly. It’s a celebration, not a dirge!
February 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you're at #AGU24 this week, consider attending "Automated Seismic Detection for Planetary Missions" on 12/11 at 10:20a to learn how we can conduct better far-edge missions by detecting good data at the source and not spending energy to transmit noise to the Earth!

agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...
Automated Seismic Detection for Planetary Missions
The costly power and data volume limitations of delivering seismic data back to...
agu.confex.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:30 PM
I have been playing the Wingspan board game with my wife over the past couple evenings, and it's such a beautiful game and playing experience. I love how each game unique, how it's competitive -- but not cut-throat -- and most of all, it's fun to learn about birds!
November 27, 2024 at 4:04 PM
400GbE streaming from FPGA to GPU in Radio Astronomy! arxiv.org/pdf/2411.15630
arxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 7:31 PM
It's been 2 years since many of us have connected, so here are some updates!

#cuSignal has been deprecated as an NVIDIA product and merged into #CuPy. We closed out with over 400k Conda downloads!

I now lead product for Edge HPC, where we think about connecting GPU compute to large instruments.
November 26, 2024 at 3:30 PM
I'm biased, but I thought #SC24 was particularly special as it featured a lot of new folks to HPC (myself included!). While I've been on the "HPC Orbit" for years, the emergence of converged edge, AI, and simulation workflows - led by DOE initiatives like IRI and HPDF - has me fully committed.
November 25, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Sharing our #SC24 demo built in partnership with the @setiinstitute.bsky.social. 100Gbps of streaming #RF data is RDMA’d from RFSoC to CX7 + RTX A6000 where it is then processed + AI inferenced in real-time. AI for real-time instruments is here!
November 24, 2024 at 2:18 PM
👋🏻 Bluesky. So great to see friendly faces from #SDR and #HPC ex-Twitter here! These worlds have united for me, and now I’m deeply thinking about data streaming to HPC. Had a great time at #SC24 last week talking, learning, and sharing!
November 24, 2024 at 12:43 PM