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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bets for #Supercomputing26 weather? (h/t @hpcnotes.bsky.social) 1️⃣ I should have brought t-shirts 2️⃣ Light coat needed 3️⃣ White Walkers on the Lakeshore 4️⃣ Not going but wish I were 📊 Show results

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only 6 weeks to #SC26. Not close enough yet to predict which version of November weather Chicago we will get.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Monday mop factor" This is the fraction of your Monday spent mopping up tasks hanging over from the previous week, or new tasks that jumped into your inbox at start of this week, before you can get on with your original hopes and plans for this Monday. #MondayMopFactor

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A common half-joke/truth is "the world of #supercomputing advances one retirement at a time". But there's a necessary counterpart: "supercomputing advances one fresh emerging visionary at a time". How do you help ensure our #HPC community is fertile & welcoming for the latter?

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 09/09/2026

I’ve been a bit lax about updating here on things … just me or is #HPC on Bsky still a thing? Anyway not even HPC related but thought I’d share. Especially for the techies out there that also like taking photos cloudhpc.news/vibe-coding-... @hpcnotes.bsky.social

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Vibe Coding & Photography

Are LLMs to software engineering what digital cameras were to photography?

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Law 127 : Studiously carving out a sustained period of focus to complete a key technical project somehow directly invites the emergence of the necessary number of 'fires' required to fully overwhelm that focus time.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The two extra seats were snapped up within hours!

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not many guesses yet ... too difficult? Or not many #avgeeks among my #HPC/#AI friends? There’s a fun story related to my visits to each of those lounges, eg celebrities, oddity, laughable, … but those are for when we meet in person! All are real photos from my visits, not AI or marketing shots.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Accidentally scrolled my photos to around 10 years ago and found these 4 photos of airport lounges. So a quiz: Can you identify each of these lounges? (airport, airline, and specific lounge if there are multiple options)

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Time for some #supercomputer fun! Reply to or quote this post adding your best AI generated image on theme of "supercomputing". No cheating wth real photos (who thought we'd ever say that!?) We/I will pick the top 3. No prizes for winners, merely satsisfaction. #HPC #AIinfra

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Torsten Hoefler 🇨🇭 @thoefler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We presented how Maia 200's Software-Define Dataflow delivers highest inference performance for production LLMs in Microsoft's fleet at #HotChips26 today. We also released the full paper with many details on arXiv: buff.ly/KJ8yMOp And a blog post: buff.ly/TsrPppe

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We opened 2 extra seats for HPC/AI Leadership Training Institute - deadline Friday 28 Aug so act fast! Executive style tutor-led learning with peers from around the world - how to plan, buy, build, operate #supercomputing infrastructure & services. www.bsc.es/news/events/... #HPC #AI #cloud

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Last few places open for 2026 HPC/AI Leadership Training Institute at Barcelona Supercomputer Centre, Sept 7-10 www.bsc.es/news/events/... Everything (almost 😁) you need to know to effectively plan, buy & manage #HPC/#AI infra services. Plus networking with peers doing the same.

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HPC Leadership Institute - Edition 2026 | BSC-CNS

Date: 07/Sep/2026 Time: 09:00 - 10/Sep/2026 Time: 17:00

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s gone a bit dark well before sunset

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system." - Seymour Cray, 1964 "Anyone can build a fast system. The trick is to build a usable, reliable, and affordable fast system!" - me 2026 #AI update - "and get it into production quickly" :-) #hpc #supercomputer #supercomputing

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Observations on different social media platforms for #HPC / #supercomputing / #AIinfra engagements - numbers of views vs followers, subjective engagement rates, ... lnkd.in/p/edSb626s

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Also, sadly there will be no HPC procurement/leadership tutorial at #SC26, so this #HPCLI hosted in Barcelona is your only opportunity for this learning this year.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m not telling you, I’m asking you (yes, you)! 1. What do you predict will be the biggest single #HPC or #supercomputing story at #SC26? 2. What will be the main theme or buzzword of the overall week?

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

How can benchmarking or Total Cost of Ownership models sometimes lead you to buy the wrong #HPC system or deliver #supercomputing that is sub-optimal for science impact? 2026 edition of the HPC Leadership Training Institute in Barcelona, 7-10 Sept. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

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HPC Leadership Institute - Edition 2026 | Andrew Jones

How can you buy the best #supercomputer in today's world of spiralling #HPC market economics, whilst balancing the reality and hype of #sovereign, #AI, #cloud, and more? Is there a difference between...

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Perspective: is not #AIslop - it is still human slop, i.e., content with questionable quality or accuracy - but simply that #AI helps the human to do so in much greater volume than before.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Deadline to apply for support to attend 2026 #HPC Leadership Institute is 27th July Help your journey to a #supercomputing leader with experience-based insights on procurement, cost/value models, technology evaluation, optimizing HPC/AI services, ... www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Also, sadly there will be no HPC procurement/leadership tutorial at #SC26, so this #HPCLI hosted in Barcelona is your only opportunity for this learning this year.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Given that a USB-A stick only has two possible orientations - why does it always take at least three attempts for the stick to go into the socket?

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In the category of “top frustrations”: Trying to get rid of a stubborn red notification dot that won’t clear from an app icon where the app already has all notifications marked as read

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A lot of the focus on today’s latest #Top500 list will obviously focus on the new #1 system from China. But the other big story is that a single commercial user site (ENI) now has 2 #supercomputers in the top 10. I don’t think that has ever happened before? #HPc #ISC26

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#Top500 FUD: Meaningless because not all #supercomputers are listed. - This has always been true. HPL doesn’t represent range of real applications. - No single benchmark ever will. #FP64 isn’t critical anymore. - It’s still heavily used in many/most production #HPC apps.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“Sovereign #HPC” Definition: A label self-applied to #supercomputers by buyers who bought similar hardware from similar vendors as previous systems they bought, and hosted in the same datacentre, but it’s now sovereign because they said so. A debate for #ISC26 attendees?

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Obviously every #HPC press release at #ISC26 - whether by vendor or by customer site - will mention #AI but it will also need to mention #sovereign to get the full bonus points.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The #HPC (+ #AI ) Leadership Training Institute returns to Barcelona: 2026 Sept 7-10. Strategy, technology evaluation, cost models, TCO, procurement, acceptance testing, sovereign HPC/AI, balancing on-prem / cloud / AI, business cases, + more. Registration & more info soon!

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Have swapped heatwave sunny UK for raining cold Redmond this week …

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