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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-... A few morning thoughts...: - The problem with TV streaming services? Overwhelming choice. - A DJ mode for @netflix.com would be an excellent addition to make TV more interactive, and less overwhelming. What do you think? #streaming #Netflix #AI

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#ai #streaminginnovation #netflix #digitaltransformation #personalization… | Chris Coates

I had a "moment" this morning, whilst drinking my coffee. It was a realisation of one of the issues with streaming platforms. There's just... Too much choice.…

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Matt Schramm Ph.D @mattschramm.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I have some good news and some bad news for my #HPC friends. Ansys 2025 R1 is now available.... Bad news is that it is now twice the size of 2024 R2 (looking at the number of DVD ISOs compared to last release). Best of luck to everyone...

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Damn, that's a big performance regression.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Who would have thought that in todays age, I would have to create a secret, base64-encoded to store a simple one-line JSON string to do a github action... Because... I already use secrets so it _must_ be a risk i'm leaking a secret? What cold hell is this? @github.com please sort this out.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

An #AI product idea: A search-engine that can filter out all #AI-generated content, and fact-check all items prior to displaying search results. Some people just want the real. The facts. Not opinion, not generated content. The cold, hard, original content so they can make up their own minds.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Today I was annoyed. #cert-manager didn't renew its own #letsencrypt certs... ...So here's a quick-and-dirty cronjob to do it in #K8s. The cert-manager-sa ServiceAccount needs ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding to manage certs, and kubeconfig stored as a secret. gist.github.com/CJCShadowsan...

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Cert-Manager Auto-Renew Cronjob

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Random request - can someone on a Grace Hopper and/or a Grace Grace system run: getconf LEVEL1_DCACHE_LINESIZE for me please. For that matter, anyone on any latest CPUs too, please. It'd be very helpful 👍 #HPC

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This... Is VERY cool. A generative #AI #physics engine usable via #python called Genesis. genesis-embodied-ai.github.io

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

For those of you who have Intel Arc GPUs, Intel has something called AI Playground, which lets you create an image, enhance image, and use LLM like Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct. It also creates an embeddings for RAG. github.com/intel/AI-Pla...

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

For someone who works in a very controlled atmosphere... I do embrace the chaos more than I probably should hahaha!

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Just remember the old phrase... If something is free? You are the product. #AI

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The #WHPC breakfast at #CIUK2024 with @tobiasweinzierl.bsky.social discussing situations putting off contributors to coding was inspiring, and highlighted that comms in collaborative coding projects, are key. PRs rejected/corrected on review often highlights poor comms prior to the PR. #Code #HPC

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

What a great time at #CIUK2024 this year! Great attendance, the atmosphere was excellent and there were some fantastic sessions. The party atmosphere this year was pretty special.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

People talk about the applications of #AI and almost always reference how much it can generate - I don't want AI to do the creative things for me; I want it to do the menial tasks for me that I don't want to do, freeing me up to be more creative. Give me an AI weekly food shopper.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Here's one for you lot working on #K8s... ...Has anyone noticed that Pod livenessProbe's findPortByName function has recently stopped working? I've had to change the name in my livenessProbe back to the actual port, or I get: Liveness probe errored: strconv.Atoi: parsing "http": invalid syntax

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is what happens with #HPC chiller doors when you get hotspots in racks... Now there's a good explanation in a visual format people can show and highlights the importance of matching flow! 😂

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Oh my god. These are like pure rocket fuel in sweetie form. Happy Friday everyone! #Coffee

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A throwback to 20 years ago, releasing GCOS for the #GameCube...! Reverse-engineering, working out how things work, and making stuff like this was fun - And if anything, probably got me more into digging right into hardware than ever (and so probably got me working in #HPC in a roundabout way).

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Charitable act of the day done...! Code changes and improvements don't always have to be huge sweeping changes. Sometimes they can be little things, like this. If you can see something quick to fix? Do it. Like the tube stations say...: See it, Say it, Sorted. #ContributeUpstream #HPC

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Some great conversations were had tonight with everyone... It was great to meet up with old and new #HPC friends! Anyone new - get involved! hpc.club

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Great job for Team UKSCC, winning this years #SC24 IndySCC on debut! Some of these started out in the #CIUK Student Cluster Challenge competition, so it's great that we can show that our best in the UK can go head to head on the world stage and compete.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Don't forget everyone, one of the key tips for people who went to #SC24 - Continue the conversation! Make sure once you're over travelling that you follow up. Supercomputing is for life, not just conference season 🤣

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I'm sorry, is this a real design, or a mock-up? #SC24

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Love things like this - We should share failure more often to help push forward understanding!

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Make sure you're configuring your environments properly #HPC people!

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Chris Holdgraf @choldgraf.com · 19/11/2024

Big milestone for Project Jupyter 🚨: Jupyter has finalized the creation of the Jupyter Foundation, hosted by @linuxfoundation.org. www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...

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Linux Foundation Announces Formation of the Jupyter Foundation

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Exactly this. I get that the race to the solution breeds innovation, I do - But there *must* be a better way.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'll make this post here, because, y'know... Thought Leadership™️: "It's amazing what can be achieved when nobody wants to take the credit" Let that sink in. Now think of all the "open" projects that could be better if nobody wanted to take the credit, but accepted anyone's help.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

As with many tech things...: If something is free? You are the product.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Go to see the fantastic work the UCL team are doing at #SC24 - Booth 4031: sc24.conference-program.com/map/?locatio...

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Map – SC24 Schedule

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

When you just *have* to push before you leave the office on a Friday...

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A fun #SC24 drinking game for all of you attending the shop floor tonight...: "Take a sip every time you hear the phrase AI" ...Thank me later.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Fun fun fun! This feels like perfect timing to test people's live #SC24 LLM demos...

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Holy moly. I just realised that the + sign when writing a post or a reply... Is to ADD ANOTHER POST TO FOLLOW-ON! What a killer feature! #BlueskyTips

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Today's fun... Coding an SSH tunnel proxy to deliver 60FPS over a web connection. Smooth. As. Butter. I can now use a remote Slurm instance as if it was a local desktop. Not bad for my first coffee of the day!

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We all talk about wanting community in #HPC... And here's a golden opportunity to have it, and not just at events. Rally around! Get your colleagues on, and help each other where you can.

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FCLC (being a silly goose) @fclc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Call for help #HPC/ #SC / #SC24 : One of the crates for the TexasTech booth never made it to Atlanta; they’re in need of: - AC power strips (preferably with long cords) - A couple of small computers to drive displays - Ethernet cables (at least 20' long) - A small network switch Booth 814

A mastodon post from Alan Sill saying:

If anyone in our #HPC circle of friends at #SC24 can spare a few items to help us out with a missed shipment, we'd appreciate a short-term loan of the following materials for at least a few days until we can get our shipment there:

- AC power strips (preferably with long cords)
- A couple of small computers to drive displays
- Ethernet cables (at least 20' long)
- A small network switch

Again, look for a spare-looking metal frame with some forlorn Texas Tech people at booth 814.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Slurm in Kubernetes is the way. The power of K8s orchestration, the scheduling capabilities of Slurm, in a unified platform.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is *not* the report that people travelling to #SC24 want to see 🙈

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Is there anything more British and Northern than a Friday night chippy tea? I'll wait.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Someone asked me the other day what #Bluesky was like: "Like old-school Twitter before a megalomaniac took it over and ruined it" was my reply. Is that on the money?

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Want a #HPC and #AI platform where the #Research and #Teaching environments can be unified? Want a huge catalogue of applications out of the box? Want to tie into any auth provider to do it? Want on-prem & in-cloud support? Stop by the Eviden booth at #SC24 to know more. More sneaky peaks to come!

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