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All those years of listening to Kurzweil talk about the Singularity, and I never thought it would manifest itself in the form of...

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 becoming dependent on output of algorithms that cannot be prevented from making mistakes at high speed and that are optimized to present their errors with increasing verisimilitude, but still wrong.

A simple plea: quit burning up the planet to make fake stuff. It is no longer amusing.

A simple plea: quit burning up the planet to make fake stuff. It is no longer amusing.

Good afternoon everyone! Attention: Trump is an incompetent fool who damages everything and everyone he touches. Climate change is very very...

Good afternoon everyone! Attention: Trump is an incompetent fool who damages everything and everyone he touches. Climate change is very very real and we need to do far more to address it. General AI is *not* at all yet real and all we have so far are heavily curated prediction algorithms that are still prone to dangerous errors. Taking care of each other is necessary and is its own reward. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

In which @hpcnotes asks some well-formed quizzical but as usual insightful questions, and I contemplate whether AI is yet a real thing or...

In which @hpcnotes asks some well-formed quizzical but as usual insightful questions, and I contemplate whether AI is yet a real thing or just a waste of power pretending to be a duck: https://bsky.app/profile/hpcnotes.bsky.social/post/3lvilue6tic22

Come work with me and tackle some of the most rewarding and interesting topics in high performance computing! PhD with experience in #HPC...

Come work with me and tackle some of the most rewarding and interesting topics in high performance computing! PhD with experience in #HPC preferred, many research opportunities available as we push forward the state of data center automation for academic workloads with modern tools and methods.
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/hpcc/employment.php

^-- Looking at you, @phoronix !https://masto.ai/@phoronix/114942164676009001

^-- Looking at you, @phoronix !

https://masto.ai/@phoronix/114942164676009001

A request please for those making announcements: Please don't use "drop" to mean "release" unless it's a music...

A request please for those making announcements: Please don't use "drop" to mean "release" unless it's a music video. Saying in a headline that such and so "drops" something makes it sound like discontinuance of that item rather than it being newly available.

Dear Web Programmers:I will never, ever, ever click on either of these options or anything like them that you force onto a page. I will...

Dear Web Programmers:

I will never, ever, ever click on either of these options or anything like them that you force onto a page. I will stubbornly scroll content under it to read past it, or just nope out of the whole web page entirely if that's the only option to get rid of it. Please stop doing this.

If you use curl and want to do anything beyond the most basic usage, the following resource is extremely helpful:...

If you use curl and want to do anything beyond the most basic usage, the following resource is extremely helpful: https://everything.curl.dev/

To the person in the car on the freeway exit ramp just ahead of me who ran over the dog hard when it darted in front of you with no...

To the person in the car on the freeway exit ramp just ahead of me who ran over the dog hard when it darted in front of you with no warning:

There was nothing you could have done to avoid this. But you didn't stop.

I stopped and set my flashers to keep others from also running it over.

It didn't last long. I called 911 and they called Animal Control but they didn't get there in time and there was nothing they could do anyway. I rolled it from the road when it passed.

It had big brown eyes.

Shorter @glennklockwood : Academics care about knowledge creation and sharing, and when building computing systems tend to build them to...

Shorter @glennklockwood : Academics care about knowledge creation and sharing, and when building computing systems tend to build them to maximize these values. Commercial enterprises care more about profits and build systems to maximize these. Are these approaches incompatible? No, but the window for overlap in #HPC and #AI for academia and hyperscale commerce was brief and may have closed. Also you have to decide how to spend your time in this world, and he is moving on. https://mast.hpc.social/@glennklockwood/114832950520089114

News: the project I have been working on as one of the co-PIs with a large and active team has completed its first-year commissioning...

News: the project I have been working on as one of the co-PIs with a large and active team has completed its first-year commissioning review! https://repacss.org https://allocations.access-ci.org/resources/repacss.ttu.access-ci.org

Downside: having to go in on a holiday due to a cooling system failure. Upside: this is precisely why we started this project on remote data...

Downside: having to go in on a holiday due to a cooling system failure. Upside: this is precisely why we started this project on remote data center control, and now the students and postdocs know exactly why.

From that other platform (I do wish @radxa would join BlueSky or the Fediverse as I personally do not use Elon's stuff at all if I can...

From that other platform (I do wish @radxa would join BlueSky or the Fediverse as I personally do not use Elon's stuff at all if I can avoid it!) Congratulations to UCSD and Texas Tech! https://x.com/RadxaComputer/status/1934949891308187686

A general rule I'd like to offer: The use of the word "democratize" in a technical context almost never means what it is...

A general rule I'd like to offer: The use of the word "democratize" in a technical context almost never means what it is intended to mean.

Shorter summary: Everybody wants GPU access and computer scientists are trying to shame academic institutions into buying more....

Shorter summary: Everybody wants GPU access and computer scientists are trying to shame academic institutions into buying more. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19019

To my mind it’s a positive feature and not a bug that we have programs like https://nairrpilot.org/ to soak this interest up. Scaling GPUs at universities at the rate that they are scaling up in industry is not possible, in my opinion.

Counterpoint: These (e.g., AI) use cases are popular and it's the job of universities to explore them.

Does anyone have an opinion on the merits of restricting access to GPU performance counters in HPC cluster settings and the options for...

Does anyone have an opinion on the merits of restricting access to GPU performance counters in HPC cluster settings and the options for enabling such access in practice? Are you seeing this on your clusters also in terms of requests from users? (2/2)

An increasing number of our computer science)students are asking for access to the performance counters for our NVIDIA gpus. It seems we...

An increasing number of our computer science)students are asking for access to the performance counters for our NVIDIA gpus. It seems we have the choice of enabling this for everyone or for administrative users only (i.e., there’s not an equivalent of the “perf group” approach we can use on our cpu nodes).
The risk of enabling for everyone is that it allows side channel attacks. The “fix” that NVIDIA put in place 6 years(!) ago as described in https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-development-tools-solutions-err_nvgpuctrperm-permission-issue-performance-counters seems very clunky to me. 1/2

#HPC Hallway Huddle alert! ~2 hours to next #hpc-huddle! Will we have lots of news from #ISC25 and other happenings this past week? Join to...

#HPC Hallway Huddle alert! ~2 hours to next #hpc-huddle! Will we have lots of news from #ISC25 and other happenings this past week? Join to find out! https://hpc-hallway.github.io/The-Hallway/

Sorry to see this Kickstarter fail. It was an effort with noble ambitions!...

Sorry to see this Kickstarter fail. It was an effort with noble ambitions!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cerebrocluster/cerebro-the-next-generation-clusterboard