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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 20/08/2026

Also? Social media is real life. If you're being an ass on the internets but nice at home, you are still being an ass. This especially goes for "but they're only doing it as a public persona!" My sibling in Mithras, whatever you're willing to do for your persona is SOMETHING YOU'RE WILLING TO DO.

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High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) @hpsf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Save the date for HPSF Conference 2027! #HPSFCon will take place April 12-16, 2027 in Montreal, Canada

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

When women do obtain tenure, the effects extend well beyond their own careers. Beyond the direct promotion of the qualifying candidate, departments experience on average one additional female promotion over the subsequent fifteen years, a substantial expansion of the female PhD pipeline, and improved retention and career progression among female doctoral graduates. These effects are concentrated in departments where women are underrepresented, but not entirely absent, suggesting that a minimal female presence is a precondition for trickle-down effects to materialize, whether through mutual support, departmental influence, or other channels that require women not to be entirely isolated.

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm very excited to announce that Wi4MPI joined the HPSF! The project will now benefit from the valuable support of the foundation to continue growing! We're also launching a new website for the project: wi4mpi.io hpsf.io/blog/2026/hi...

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High Performance Software Foundation Welcomes Wi4MPI as a New Project – High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

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High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) @hpsf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We’re excited to welcome Wi4MPI to the High Performance Software Foundation. Wi4MPI helps applications run across MPI implementations without recompilation, making HPC workflows more portable and flexible. A strong addition to the open HPC ecosystem. bit.ly/44oeBvL

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Torsten Hoefler 🇨🇭 @thoefler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As #ISC26 is coming up, I wrote down thoughts on the central metric in our #HPC and #AI community: flop/s. A flop is a count; flop/s is a rate. FLOPS is yelling, flops is confusing, and “TFLOPS” is how unit symbols go to therapy. HPC deserves better. buff.ly/LpWDYBU Enjoy & see you in Hamburg!

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

If you'vee ever spent some time installing packages, you have to check this talk! You'll definitely laugh, and maybe cry a little remembering the days spent installing (or at least trying) your most dreaded piece of software. I've spent 15+ years doing that, I can tell you everything is true

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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The recording of my "How to Make Package Managers Scream" talk at FOSDEM'26 is now available, enjoy! youtu.be/PBlDHlFnzGo

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How to Make Package Managers Scream @ FOSDEM'26 - Kenneth Hoste

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

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One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Going to be there, as I have been for the past few years!

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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Schedule for #HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at FOSDEM'26 (on Sun 1 Feb 2026, in Brussels) has been published: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

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FOSDEM 2026 - HPC, Big Data & Data Science

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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Tik tok, the clock is ticking… Only 10 more days left to submit your talk proposal for the #HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at #FOSDEM’26 ! hpc-bigdata-fosdem26.github.io Same goes for pretty much all of the other devrooms BTW… See fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

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FOSDEM'26 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/11/2025

Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Great interview of Ian Buck on NVIDIA's vision on the future of HPC. Few important messages: "AI is a tool, one of many tools to be able to do scientific discovery" "FP64 is a requirement" "It has to be great at simulation; it has to be great at AI; and it also has to be a quantum supercomputer"

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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

By annual tradition, the HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom will be part of FOSDEM again next year (Sat-Sun 31 Jan + 1 Feb 2026 in Brussels). \o/ Please help us spread the word, and/or submit a talk proposal by 1 Dec 2025. All details available via hpc-bigdata-fosdem26.github.io 🍻

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FOSDEM'26 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom

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Alan Sill @alansill.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Deadline for submissions for the 11th #HPC, #BigData, and #DataScience devroom at #FOSDEM26 (Brussels, Sat-Sun 31 Jan + 1 Feb 2026) is Mon 1 Dec 2025. Please see details at the link below. Looking forward to another dynamic, exciting, packed session! hpc-bigdata-fosdem26.github.io

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FOSDEM'26 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. 🧪 🎃 The fools at The Academy all said he was mad, but he showed them all in 1872 when he announced that he had created a MONSTER. Let's learn about the terrible thing he did. Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Black and white photo of Karl Weierstrass in his later years. His white hair is receding, longer in the back, and he is wearing a dark suit with a white collared shirt underneath.

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Spack @spackpm.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

💥Spack v1.0 is out!💥 This is a huge milestone. We reworked the core to add compiler dependencies, and we're introducing a stable package API. 🚀1.0 also adds concurrent builds, better includes, and much more -- read it all in the release notes! github.com/spack/spack/...

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EUPEX project @eupex-project.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🚨 Last call! Our next EUPEX webinar is tomorrow! Join Aurélien Cedeyn (CEA) as he presents OCEAN, the admin software stack used in production for HPC cluster management. 📅 June 4, 11 AM CEST 🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #HPC #Webinar

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I worked at the Living Computer Museum from 2014 until it closed due to Covid (and then never reopened because Paul Allen did a shitty job with his estate planning.) It's been a bit over 5 years since the museum closed to the public and I thought I'd share some pictures I took around that time.

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

BlueSky: Attack of the Clones The one with Jango Fett was more entertaining!

The same post skeeted twice by two different users who are suspiciously similar

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Today we released the latest version of #Wi4MPI that includes major changes, in particular in the internals of the library. It doesn't change much for the users but it has a huge impact on the flexibility, versatility and robustness of the library. github.com/cea-hpc/wi4mpi #HPC #MPI

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GitHub - cea-hpc/wi4mpi: Wrapper interface for MPI

Wrapper interface for MPI. Contribute to cea-hpc/wi4mpi development by creating an account on GitHub.

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EUPEX project @eupex-project.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🚨 Last call! Our next EUPEX webinar is tomorrow! Join Aurélien Cedeyn (CEA) as he presents OCEAN, the admin software stack used in production for HPC cluster management. 📅 April 9, 11 AM CEST 🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #HPC #Webinar

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EasyBuild @easybuild.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

EasyBuild now has a blog! blog.easybuild.io First post is a report on the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'25) -> blog.easybuild.io/2025/03/28/e... #HPC

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EasyBuild blog

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

If you are interested in running #HPC apps in cloud with #Kubernetes "Trends for Pulling HPC Containers in Cloud" - a look at the ecosystem since 2014 and a robust pulling study - is published this week at Cloud Computing 2025. It is work driven by my love and curiosity of container technologies. ❤️

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ThinkMind(TM) Digital Library

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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Kicking off day two of the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) with a keynote by Jeff Hammond (NVIDIA) Live stream via www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-4p... Slides will be made available via easybuild.io/eum25/#program @fzj-jsc.bsky.social #HPC

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Very nice to see French #QuantumComputing companies (Pasqal and Alice & Bob) on stage at #GTC25, we do indeed have a very exciting quantum ecosystem here! And if you're an EU researcher, a Pasqal QPU will soon be available at @cea.fr TGCC!

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

That's big news for France as the AI2F consortium is one of the #AIFactories selected. It strengthens the AI dimension of Alice Recoque, the EuroHPC exascale system deployed in France at @cea.fr, and it will help to foster & support an already very lively AI ecosystem in France #HPC #AI #Europe

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EnvModules @envmodules.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The recorded video of our talk at FOSDEM25 is available: fosdem.org/2025/schedul... Many thanks again to @marcjoos.bsky.social who did an excellent job presenting the talk and answering questions.

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EasyBuild @easybuild.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If you actively use or contribute to EasyBuild, please participate in the 8th EasyBuild User Survey: ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Help us reach our goal of at least 100 participants by the end of the month! #HPC

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8th EasyBuild User Survey

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Stéphane Thiell @sthiell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

ClusterShell 1.9.3 is now available in EPEL and Debian. Not using clustershell groups on your #HPC cluster yet?! Check out the new bash completion feature! Demo recorded on Sherlock at @stanford-rc.bsky.social with ~1,900 compute nodes and many group sources! asciinema.org/a/699526

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clustershell bash completion (v1.9.3)

This short recording demonstrates the bash completion feature available in ClusterShell 1.9.3, showcasing its benefits when using the clush and cluset command-line tools.

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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Lmod is getting a shoutout during the talk on Environment Modules (@envmodules.bsky.social) at the 10th #HPC, Big Data, and Data Science. There’s no rivalry between “competing” FOSS projects at #FOSDEM, only mutual respect and exchange of ideas!

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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We are accepting mini-donations for HPC.social in the 10th #HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at #FOSDEM25. I’ll pool these together and donate it all in one go right after FOSDEM, pinky swear! You can also donate directly yourself, see github.com/sponsors/hpc...

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EESSI @eessi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

EESSI will be featured in two back-to-back talks today at 12:30 in the #HPC devroom at #FOSDEM25. Thomas Röblitz (UBergen) will talk about RSM on top of EESSI, Henrik Nortamo (CSC.fi) presenting the EuroHPC Federation Platform, in which EESSI will be integrated. fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

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FOSDEM 2025 - HPC, Big Data & Data Science

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

sshproxy presentation by Cyril Servant from @cea.fr is starting now!

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Great ongoing talk by Laura Durieux at #FOSDEM on women in the early age of computer science

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm very excited to announce that I'll be speaking at #FOSDEM this year to talk about @envmodules.bsky.social in the #HPC devroom, on behalf of Xavier Delaruelle, #EnvModules lead developer. If you want to know more about the tool and its current & future evolution, join us on Sunday at 11:05!

Environment Modules: why this old idea is still useful today and what's next

Since more than 3 decades, Environment Modules helps HPC sites to provide access to their scientific software catalog. Such tool relies on updating the environment of a shell session, being able to undo what it changed.
This talk will first present what is the module command and what it is useful for. We will then quickly go through the history of this tool, describe the different implementations in use nowadays (Modules and Lmod), and give an insight of the most prominent features added in the recent years.
Based on the current context with multiple solutions available to build and install scientific software, we will see why Environment Modules is still useful today. Last part of the presentation will be about the future directions to integrate new ideas and improve the user experience.

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Remember when scientists optimized the performance of computational simulations? Sometimes those optimizations achieved big performance gains. Recall when people then bought smaller #supercomputers as a result? No. They just went on to do more science. #HPC #AI #DeepSeekR1

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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

SemiAnalysis after testing MI300X: “When comparing Nvidia’s GPUs to AMD’s #MI300X, we found that the potential on paper advantage of the MI300X was not realized due to a lack within AMD public release software stack and the lack of testing from AMD” semianalysis.com/2024/12/22/m... #AI #GPU

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MI300X vs H100 vs H200 Benchmark Part 1: Training – CUDA Moat Still Alive

Intro SemiAnalysis has been on a five-month long quest to settle the reality of MI300X. In theory, the MI300X should be at a huge advantage over Nvidia’s H100 and H200 in terms of specifications an…

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

So in 2024 Spotify stopped paying artists who didn't stream enough, now we learn that they are silently injecting stock music within their playlists to increase their margins -- and to artists detriment harpers.org/archive/2025...

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The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

Spotify’s plot against musicians

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EnvModules @envmodules.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Environment Modules is now on Bluesky 🎉. Modules (with its `module` command) helps HPC folks managing their shell environment since more than 3 decades. This account will share news of the project.

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CSCfi @csc.fi · 19/12/2024

🤝 A consortium led by CSC will deliver and operate a federation platform for @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social. The total budget of the platform delivery is EUR 20 million. The delivery will start at the beginning of 2025 and will last for five years. Read more 🔗 csc.fi/en/news/csc-... #HPC #QuantumComputing

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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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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We are pleased to announce an #IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE) Special Issue on Converged Computing! ☁️ www.computer.org/csdl/magazin... Discussion of the best of both worlds, #cloud and #HPC, on the level of technology and culture, is of utmost importance.

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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

HPC devroom is on Sunday this year, so 2nd day in 2025 !

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Marc Joos @marcjoos.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Maybe the coolest tech conference and so many great talks to hear, it's easy to get lost (600+ talks in 2 days!). But thankfully there's the HPC devroom, so it's a no-brainer for the first day on what to follow.

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