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Karl Podesta

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HPC (& Linux! & Cloud!) enthusiast @ #Microsoft. Software Engineer for Azure HPC. All about #AI now tho, amirite? Irish! Dubliner! Exclamation marks!

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Microsoft Mechanics @msftmechanics.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Optimize your HPC workloads by choosing the right hardware—CPUs for memory-intensive workloads, avoiding GPU-induced complexities and latencies. Get started. youtu.be/NGuVGM6amsw #HPCinAzure #microsoftazure #hpc #microsoft #highperformancecomputing #azurehpc
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Ernst Bablick @ebablick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New Open #ClusterScheduler and and fully QAed #Gridware #ClusterScheduler packages will be available soon (v9.0.5). github.com/hpc-gridware... #HPC #HTC #AI #Grafana #Cluster #GridEngine
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Release OCS/GCS v9.0.5 · hpc-gridware/clusterscheduler
Major Enhancements v9.0.5 qtelemetry (Developer Preview in GCS) This release introduces qtelemetry, a new metrics exporter for Gridware Cluster Scheduler (GCS). It allows administrators to easily c...
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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 16/04/2025
Ha, I am featured on the #ISC25 registration page along with a bunch of my favorite Microsoft colleagues. I wonder if I can cash this in for a discount on registration. Sadly, it's mostly the side of my head that is featured. @karlpodesta.bsky.social should probably get the bigger discount.
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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 26/03/2025
I've published some notes I took while at #GTC25 last week. Have a look: blog.glennklockwood.com/2025/03/gtc… Part of why I write is to foster discussion, and I'd love to hear or read others' takes on the conference! #AI
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GTC 2025 recap
I attended GTC for the first time this year and got to experience what turned out to be one of the strangest, over-the-top conferences I've ...
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Microsoft Mechanics @msftmechanics.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Boost your HPC workloads with Azure's HB-series VMs, offering an 8x generation-over-generation improvement in memory bandwidth powered by AMD’s custom processors, only available on Azure. Get started. youtu.be/NGuVGM6amsw #HPCinAzure #microsoftazure #hpc #microsoft #highperformancecomputing
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Greg Leonardo @gleonardo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Power up HPC with #Serverless! Learn how to optimize performance, slash costs, and scale in the cloud. Check out our deep dive with #AzureFunctions & #AWSLambda. #HPC #CloudComputing #CloudDailywire
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Revolutionizing HPC with Serverless Computing
High-Performance Computing (HPC) has traditionally been associated with specialized clusters of powerful servers, complex scheduling systems, and rigorous performance optimizations. Over the years, HPC has been a driving force behind groundbreaking research in physics, genomics, climate science, financial modeling, and more. Today, however, we find ourselves at an interesting crossroads: serverless computing has come of age, and the potential to meld it with HPC is opening new vistas of efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
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SimOps @simopscom.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Simulations are crucial for modern product development, but managing them can be complex. This blog explores SimOps, a framework designed to make your simulation workflows smoother and more efficient. Read on to learn more!
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Understanding Simulation Operations (SimOps)
Simulation Operations (SimOps) is a strategic framework designed to optimize and automate simulation processes within engineering and product development. As products become increasingly complex and interconnected, the role of simulations in validating designs, testing hypotheses, and driving innovation becomes more critical. SimOps aims to streamline these processes, enhancing productivity and enabling faster, data-driven decision-making.Core Principles of SimOpsSimOps is built upon a foundatio
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Mike Croucher @walkingrandomly.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I just made my first YouTube video showing off the new MATLAB extension for Visual Studio Code www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWRP... Waaaay out of my comfort zone here! Maybe like and subscribe to help me feel better? ;)
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The MATLAB extension for Visual Studio Code. Now with Debugging support!
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Chrissy LeMaire @funbucket.dev · 19/10/2024
Finally! I get it when people say that AI can be used for automation. I just used gpt-4o-mini, aider and PowerShell to rewrite 700+ of my tests. foreach ($test in $tests) { aider --message "$prompt" --file $test.FullName --model azure/gpt-4o-mini --no-stream } #OpenAI #aider #PowerShell
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Aider AI, the command-line code assistant, is phenomenal
I'm currently working on the final chapter of our book! It's the DevOps chapter, which for a while, I thought would probably be about LLMOps or GenAIOps. But I …
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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Woohoo! Decisions have been made on the @fosdem.bsky.social'25 HPC, Big Data & Data Science DevRoom talks and the schedule is beginning to populate at fosdem.org/2025/schedul... for what will eventually be a full day of talks in Brussels Sunday 2 February 2025 with recording and streaming available.
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FOSDEM 2025 - HPC, Big Data & Data Science
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 14/12/2024
Sometimes you get a good boss. If you get one, appreciate them. We have regular “Connect” reviews, and my boss takes them seriously. He rejected mine last week and redlined it. I was upset, then fixed and returned it. He was right, and the changes set me up for success. Darn it for being right lol.
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Torsten Hoefler 🇨🇭 @thoefler.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Yes, Quantum MPI was a thing, even at #SC21 with @microsoft.com. arxiv.org/abs/2105.01109 Better late than never ;-).
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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The next episode of our Scott and Mark Learn To podcast series is out. In this one, we learn how to...take a dump!
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EPISODE 6 - Scott & Mark Learn To... Take a Dump
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Mike Croucher @walkingrandomly.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Really interesting interactive visualization and demonstration of how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. These form the basis of technologies such as ChatGPT. bbycroft.net/llm 🧪
A visualisation of the nano-gpt LLM
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Part of my “new” job (#azure #batch #HPC) means I come to the Dublin office a lot more (i.e. “at all”). It’s a pretty nice place, and pretty busy today - there’s an all hands and a Christmas party. I can feel the buzz! Almost 4000 people work across whole site. People! #microsoftlifeireland
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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 02/12/2024
I spent the Thanksgiving break typing up my notes from #SC24 which I've posted online. 30% more words than my notes from SC23 (sorry!). Feedback is welcome! buff.ly/41fBhho #HPC
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SC'24 recap
The premiere annual conference of the high-performance computing community, SC24, was held in Atlanta last week, and it attracted a reco...
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EESSI @eessi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
We could not have articulated it better. In our view EasyBuild or Spack are not good enough anymore. They’re both essential tools, and will remain so going forward, but we need to take the next step and go beyond them, and collaborate even more on a shared stack of software *installations*. #HPC
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I love this write up. Not least for the references to (& photo of!) Bill Gates at SC05, almost 20 years ago, showing off a #windows #hpc capability that somewhat lives in my current group at work :-)
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thank you for the shout out @underfox3.bsky.social. Thomas Jakobsche - the lead author and my soon to graduate PhD student will be happy to learn about it. @dmi-hpc.bsky.social #HPC #Security @unibasel.bsky.social
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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 28/11/2024
New supercomputer, new record-breaking HACC run. This job ran a single job over 9,000 nodes on Frontier—an impressive feat, and a proof point that Frontier is prime time. buff.ly/3CRqMH1 #HPC
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Record-breaking run on Frontier sets new bar for simulating the universe in exascale era
The universe just got a whole lot bigger—or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is. In early November, researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used the…
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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Call for proposals for the HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at the #FOSDEM’25 open source “conference” taking place in Brussels during the weekend of 1-2 Feb 2025 is still open! hpc-bigdata-fosdem25.github.io Submission deadline Sunday 1 Dec 2024. #HPC community: help us spread the word!
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FOSDEM'25 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom
FOSDEM'25 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom
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Mike Croucher @walkingrandomly.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The #HPC starter pack has been used by many people new to BlueSky who want to immediately start following a decent cross-section of the HPC community go.bsky.app/7NSBuP1
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I enjoy these live learning sessions with two of Microsoft’s most entertaining (techie!) celebrities.
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The #azure section here makes a great call out for some relevant #HPC things not mentioned by Microsoft at #SC24! In particular: - Da/Ea/Fa v6 VMs - Spot placement score - Attribute VM select in Fleet But also missed: - ND GB200 v6 VM release!
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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Some #HPC fun for you all after #SC24 #supercomputing ... Test yourself with this quiz from our SC24 Tutorial "Delivering HPC: Procurement, Cost Models, Metrics, Value & More" No prizes, merely fun. Feel free to post your scores. forms.office.com/r/YSM7avEwFk
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
High performance computing or highly-prioritizing AI? The NSF talk at #SC24 gave a nod to infrastructure needs for HPC but with an eye on how those are used for building next-gen AI for sci and industry. www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/22/n...
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NSF Comes to SC24 With Money Map, AI Blueprint
You’d be forgiven for thinking the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) was a global AI-specific event this year. From the show floor to a sizable
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is a nice write up on the design, architecture & workings of Bluesky!
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🇨🇦ReaktorField🇨🇦 @reaktorfield.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
More photos of the machines powering #Microsoft #Azure HBv5 #HPC instances. Now imagine having 3D V-Cache on this thing... #cloud #AMD www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-...
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This is the Microsoft Azure HBv5 and AMD MI300C
At SC24 we saw the custom 96 core AMD MI300C HBM3 CPU and four-socket system powering the Microsoft Azure HBv5 instances
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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 19/11/2024
Look at this cute little guy hanging off the back of Azure’s ND MI300X v5 node.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The book of News for Ignite 2024 is here ➡️ news.microsoft.com/ignite-2024-... #msignite #microsoft #azure
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Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News
The Book of News is your guide to all key items being announced at Microsoft Ignite 2024.
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james-sanchez.bsky.social @james-sanchez.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I am thankful for being part of this. Today Microsoft and Atom Computing are coming together to ultimately build the world’s most powerful quantum machine. Take a look at the announcement on how we are advancing the future of #quantumcomputing : msft.it/6002WStKG #AzureQuantum #MSIgnite
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Microsoft and Atom Computing offer a commercial quantum machine with the largest number of entangled logical qubits on record - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog
Learn more on how Microsoft and Atom Computing have made rapid progress in reliable quantum computing by creating and entangling 24 logical qubits from neutral atoms.
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Christian Forjahn @cloudcoffeebreak.com · 19/11/2024
Did you know that #Microsoft developed a new glas fiber that transfers light 1.5 times faster than every other fiber in the world? They achiev that by creating a fiber with a core of a special gas inside. Welcome the Hollow Core Fiber (HFC) #MSIgnite
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Tony G. Robinson @tonserrobo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We had a great day at the 4th annual Northern Ireland High Performance Computing conference (#NIHPC) here st ulster university. Great turn out and some interesting talks. #HPC, #UU #conference
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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 19/11/2024
I don’t know about lure and lock. If you buy a cluster of this for yourself, you’re locked in for 5+ years just the same. If Azure does a bad job, you’re free to walk away whenever and stop paying 🙂
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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#Microsoft and #AMD work together to develop a custom Genoa CPU with #HBM In an Azure HBv5 VM, four of these CPUs work jointly to deliver nearly 7 TB/s of memory bandwidth techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurehi... #HPC #AI #SC24 #MSIgnite
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Announcing Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines: A Breakthrough in Memory Bandwidth for HPC | Microsoft Community Hub
Discover the new Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite, designed for high-performance computing applications. With up to 7 TB/s of memory...
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
MOAR POWER PLEASE! #Azure #HPC Flagship CPU machine - HBv5 announced at #MSIgnite. Preview signup: aka.ms/AzureHBv5_Si... And available to see at #SC24! (Microsoft booth #1905) 352 CPU cores (AMD EPYC), 450 GB RAM, 800 Gb/s IB, 14 TB local NVMe disk. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurehi...
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Announcing Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines: A Breakthrough in Memory Bandwidth for HPC | Microsoft Community Hub
Discover the new Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite, designed for high-performance computing applications. With up to 7 TB/s of memory...
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Jef Kazimer 😶‍🌫️ 🆔 @jeftek.com · 18/11/2024
2 Bluesky Feeds for posts for those attending Microsoft Ignite 2024 in Chicago! Microsoft Ignite 2024 - All Posts bsky.app/profile/did:... MS Ignite 2024 | Best Of - Posts with high engagement bsky.app/profile/did:... Subscribe,Pin, Like and Share! #msignite #microsoft #entra #security #chicago
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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 19/11/2024
Here’s a Reindeer node at the Microsoft booth. Looks a lot like the Eagle node. And the MI300X node. Not a coincidence. #SC24
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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#Green500: Europe takes the top 3 spots 1. JEDI at FZJ Germany retains the crown at 72.73 GFlops/Watt 2. ROMEO-2025 - new system in France with identical architecture to JEDI but twice as large 3. Adastra 2 - new Cray/AMD system at GENCI, France top500.org/lists/green5... #SC24 #HPC
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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
64th #Top500 is out! o #ElCapitan at LLNL is the new #1 o We now have 3 #Exascale systems officially o #HPC6 at Eni is new at #5 o Tuolumne, a smaller version of #ElCapitan, rounds up the #Top10 top500.org/news/el-capi... #HPC #AI #SC24
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A quick primer 🧵 on #Microsoft #Azure #HPC for your #SC24 experience! (Got pulled into meet, stuck in elevator, or beside one of us in the coffee queue? Just wanna know more? This might help!) - Compute - Storage - Networking - Software - History - Customers - People - Headline SC ...
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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
As we close up #Kubecon and enter #SC24, here are some thoughts on current challenges and possible futures for innovation and collaboration between #HPC and cloud. vsoch.github.io/2024/across-...
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A Future for HPC and Cloud: Collaboration Across Boundaries
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Mandatory things to ask my #Microsoft #Azure colleagues at #SC24 : “I’m having a problem with <obscure-hardware-driver> on my Windows laptop - can you fix it?” 💻 “Got any free Xboxes?” 🎮 “When will you rename Copilot to Clippy 2.0?” 🤖 #we-also-do #HPC 🤦 ❤️🚀
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
#HPC career recommendations for #SC24 - “Don’t be shy” :-)
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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Countdown to #SC24: Interesting #Top500 trivia o The last 5 #1 supercomputers made their debut at ISC (Germany, June) and not at SC in the US (Nov) o 7 of the last 10 #1 systems were announced at ISC o The last time SC debuted a top system was Titan at #SC12 (Nov 2012) #HPC #Supercomputing
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
By far, my favourite tutorial at #SC is Parallel I/O in Practice. Though not for a while, I attended it two years in a row and learned so much! (and not about juggling).
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Chris @chris.blue · 25/10/2024
I made an infra engineer starter pack. Folks posting about databases, stream processing, durable execution, orchestrators, service meshes, and more. go.bsky.app/SCZe42X
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Karl Podesta @karlpodesta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m not going to be at #SC24… still feeling grateful for all the SC experiences I’ve had to date :-) Hope everyone has a great conference. And check out my #Microsoft #Azure friends there for all the #HPC things!
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