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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett

@nicolehemsoth.bsky.social
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VAST Data. Former Deputy Editor in Chief, The Register. Co-founder The Next Platform. Datacenter, chips, systems with a side of sauce.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Podcast: “Supercomputing used to be about going fast in one direction. In AI, that just drives you off a cliff faster.” — @glennklockwood.com Lockwood on why flexibility, not just performance, defines next-gen infrastructure. Now at VAST. shared-everything.simplecast.com/episodes/fro...
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From Supercomputers to the Frontlines of AI Inference: Glenn Lockwood on Infrastructure That Lasts | Shared Everything
In this episode of Shared Everything, Glenn Lockwood, just named Principal Technical Strategist at VAST Data, shares what decades at the bleeding edge of large-scale systems design have taught him abo...
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Neat. RIKEN’s CGRA arch (research project/not product) systolic AI acceleration with FP64 HPC precision on a reconfigurable mesh. cogarchworkshop.org/assets/paper... #HPC #AI
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Datacenters inside wind turbines? Aligns renewable power with flexible #AI workloads like model training but thermal challenges, latency headaches, and intermittent wind raise big questions about AI #datacenter readiness. #HPC www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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Why Aren’t We Building Datacenters Inside Wind Turbines?
Embedding compute clusters in wind turbines matches AI workloads to renewable power, but cooling, latency, and reliability limit large-scale AI datacenter use.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
McKinsey says Gen AI is stuck: lots of hype, little bottom-line impact. But banks, research firms, and others are quietly breaking through with AI agents and something called the "agentic mesh." Is this AI’s big pivot moment? www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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Can the Agentic Mesh Solve the Enterprise AI Paradox?
McKinsey says Gen AI is stuck but banks, research firms, and others are quietly breaking through with AI agents and the "agentic mesh." Is this AI’s big pivot moment?
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Countries now see data as territory to protect. If the U.S. doesn't tune in, it might get tuned out. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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Why Everyone’s Talking About Sovereign Clouds (+Why the US Should Be Listening)
Countries now see data as territory to protect. If the U.S. doesn't tune in, it might get tuned out.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Just my hydrangeas.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
In drug development, where timelines are long, costs are high, and many bets fail, any tool that helps reduce risk is worth keeping. But only if we’re honest about what it can’t do yet. #AI - www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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The Molecule or the Method? Inside Biotech’s Reckoning with AI
In drug development, where timelines are long, costs high, and bets fail, any tool that helps reduce risk is worth keeping. But only if we’re honest about what it can’t do yet.
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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
All things, with one exception, have to end After years of sharing #HPC news and insights, it's time to log off It was fun while it lasted and I remain grateful to all of you who followed and interacted Stay curious, stay kind! — @hpcguru.bsky.social signing off #HPC #Farewell
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Antoine Bordes, ex-head of AI at Meta FAIR now leading AI at Helsing, discusses intelligent defense, data-driven warfare, and ethical AI integration in military applications. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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Intelligent Defense and the AI Revolution
Antoine Bordes, ex-head of AI at Meta FAIR now leading AI at Helsing, discusses intelligent defense, data-driven warfare, and ethical AI integration in military applications.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
TACC's Dan Stanzione on Horizon and how supercomputing is evolving beyond raw compute: real-time AI workflows, power efficiency, quantum futures, and why data rules the stack. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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Shared Everything Podcast From VAST
Welcome to the Shared Everything podcast with new episodes airing every Friday.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
An in-depth chat with NERSC chief architect Nick Wright exploring how the forthcoming NVIDIA Vera Rubin CPU+GPU Doudna machine redefines supercomputing to meet real-time demands of science. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt... #HPC #AI
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How NERSC Is Rewriting the Role of the Supercomputer
In-depth with NERSC chief architect Nick Wright, we explore how the forthcoming Doudna machine redefines supercomputing to meet real-time demands of science.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Take a moment to dive into #DigitalTwin infrastructure and future work blending #HPC and #AI. I'm joined this week for the Shared Everything podcast by Wes Brewer from Oak Ridge National Lab and Adrian Jackson from EPCC. youtu.be/s-Y4SQ4etA4?...
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Pipelines, Power, and Parallel Worlds: Inside the Digital Twin Stack
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Some insight into how CoreWeave is replacing Hollywood’s render farms with AI-native data engines that turn every frame into a dataset. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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CoreWeave’s AI-Driven Pipeline Is Rewriting Hollywood’s Script
CoreWeave is replacing Hollywood’s render farms with AI-native data engines that turn every frame into a dataset.
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The Register @theregister.com · 28/05/2025
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
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Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick Over the past few years, Uncle Sam has made it progressively harder for US chip designers to flog their AI wares in China. But not impossible.…
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Everyone’s talking about NVIDIA Dynamo... disaggregation, smarter routing, KV cache tricks: all solid moves. But behind the GPU inference magic, there’s a deeper infrastructure story nobody’s mentioning. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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Why Everyone’s Talking About NVIDIA Dynamo (and Why It Actually Matters)
Everyone's talking about NVIDIA Dynamo, but here's why disaggregation, KV caching, and smarter routing might actually rewrite inference—and why GPU cache isn't enough.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
GenAI’s infrastructure crisis of costly inference and rigid stacks is driving an open, Linux-like shift. Modular, community-built solutions are already rewriting datacenter rules as we saw with Red Hat's announce today (among other cues) www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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AI’s Linux Moment is Already Happening
Gen AI’s infrastructure crisis with costly inference, rigid stacks is driving an open, Linux-like shift and modular, community-built solutions are rewriting datacenter rules
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My HS senior made the rounds to her old elementary school to see her 4th grade handprint on the wall and her youngest sister. I know it’s cliche ya’ll but time..it really does fly.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Remember hearing about Koomey's Law? With AI in the mix, this datacenter energy figure just keeps more interesting. Here's my chat with Koomey filmed this week www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...
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AI Is Challenging the Old Efficiency Rules
Jonathan Koomey’s take on AI’s rising power demands, the limits of computing efficiency, and whether Koomey’s Law still holds in the era of synthetic data and grid constraints.
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The Register @theregister.com · 13/03/2025
Lip-Bu Tan: Intel’s new – and maybe last – CEO Analysis and commentary here on Intel's future and its new boss www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/13/l...
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Lip-Bu Tan: Intel’s New – And Maybe Last – CEO
In his letter to Intel employees, new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan, who starts his new job next Tuesday, tells them that he is “never deterred by
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Is object storage taking over AI training? What comes after parallel file systems? How do we speed long-context #AI? Moderating a convo with AI Infra Architect at Microsoft, Glenn Lockwood and Jeff Denworth at #GTC. Have breakfast with me! -https://events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-breakfast-microsoft
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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
If you are at #GTC this session has to be a priority: 1. Because of #HPC celebs involved - @glennklockwood.com @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social & Jeff Denworth 2. The important topic for #AI & #supercomputing - the future of #IO, #data and filesystems (or not) events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-b...
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VAST + Microsoft: Rethinking AI Training Infrastructure
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A Q&A that details why I am moving from reporting on the future to helping build it. Big change but for great reasons. www.vastdata.com/blog/nicole-...
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Joins VAST
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett explains why she’s joined VAST after almost two decades in media, and why she thinks VAST represents true industry disruption.
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ajdecon @ajdecon.org · 22/01/2025
I really wish these folks would stop naming their projects after perfectly good science fiction shows.
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a man is swinging a golf club in front of a bag that says callaway golf
Alt: Jack O’Neil hits a golf club into the Stargate
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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A terminal case of #AI fever: It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the #AI dragon Million #GPU clusters, #gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/s... #HPC via @tobiasmann.bsky.social @theregister.com
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The scale of AI defies logic and yet it's still happening
It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon
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The Register @theregister.com · 17/12/2024
Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?
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Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?
Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like Analysis  Nvidia is facing its stiffest competition in years with new accelerators from Intel and AMD that challenge its best chips on memory capacity, performance,…
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Many refreshing things about being here but top of the list this week are all the book recommendations found via people I don’t follow directly. Open to more, it’s winter and I have a birthday spa weekend ahead. Just finished Fayne, took sci-fi break but ready for more. #Booksky (I’m guessing)
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The Register @theregister.com · 11/12/2024
China gorging on silicon before Uncle Sam slams the door
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China gorging on silicon before Uncle Sam slams the door
Chip imports up more than 14% this year in anticipation of fresh restrictions China's semiconductor imports were up more than 14 percent in 2024 as companies in the country stockpiled ahead of widely expected fresh restrictions from Washington and…
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It’s that time of year again…
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Iain Thomson @iainthomson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Imagine working for a company that puts out ads like this. "We're keeping you around to harvest skills then dumping you."
Advert of AI staff replacement.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Meta’s new datacenter even looks like a chip. From www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/05/t...
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The Register @theregister.com · 04/12/2024
Just when we think we've seen it all, along comes a PR agency weaponizing Creative Commons licenses Insist the content of announcements and quotes from execs are CC licensed, requiring attribution -- fine -- but crucially, a link through to the source Thus ensuring clients get links in articles
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
the thing about using ChatGPT as a search engine is that we literally solved the problem of reliable search engines a decade ago, proceeded to destroy that in search of ad revenue, then reinvented it again, but somehow weirdly reliant on reddit shitposts
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The Register @theregister.com · 04/12/2024
AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows
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AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows
Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft's OS at pleasing speed re:Invent  Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman opened the cloud computing service's 13th annual re:Invent conference by observing: "Generative AI…
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The Next Platform @nextplatform.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
More than half of the server CPU capacity installed at AWS is now homegrown, and it won’t be long before this is true for AI accelerators. $AMZN $NVDA $AMD $INTC www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/03/a... #AWSreinvent
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AWS Reaps The Benefits Of The Custom Silicon It Has Sown
When the hyperscalers and cloud builders were smaller and the Arm collective had failed to storm the datacenter and AMD was not yet on its path to
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The Register @theregister.com · 03/12/2024
Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net
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Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net
Tens of thousands of AWS’ Trn2 instances to fuel Anthropic's next-gen models Re:Invent  Amazon Web Services teased its next gen AI accelerator dubbed Trainium3 at re:Invent on Tuesday, which it says will deliver 4x higher performance than its…
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The Register @theregister.com · 02/12/2024
The cost of Gelsinger’s ambition proves too much for Intel
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The cost of Gelsinger’s ambition proves too much for Intel
At least he'll have company as he joins 15,000 of his colleagues headed for the door Comment  Pat Gelsinger is out as Intel CEO, cutting short his nearly four-year crusade to revitalize the beleaguered chipmaker.…
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If China can’t get HBM, then that memory will be available for other uses, which will benefit Nvidia, AMD, and those making their own AI accelerators. More supply will be available for them to play with, which is the real upside (whether Biden admin realized it or not)…
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Intel still has two-thirds of the share of the X86 server market, and the X86 server recession that has plagued Intel and bothered AMD – and that we think was caused in part by a shift in focus on spending for AI systems-is largely over… “ www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/02/w...
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With Gelsinger Gone, Who Benefits From An Intel Break Up?
We did not think that today we would be writing about Pat Gelsinger "retiring" from the company that he loves best and most. Intel’s prodigal and now
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Frank Bösenberg @fboesenberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Interesting visualisation by Visual Capitalist on the results of TOP500’s latest #supercomputer ranking from a country perspective. More info: www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-top-c...
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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joined Samsung in a $700 million bet on Tenstorrent, valuing the #AI chip startup with ambitions of taking on Nvidia at about $2.6 billion www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #HPC #RISCV
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Pat Gelsinger is out as Intel CEO, and the debate begins anew about breaking Intel up. Consider TSMC and the US government when calculating your odds. www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/02/w...
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With Gelsinger Gone, Who Benefits From An Intel Break Up?
We did not think that today we would be writing about Pat Gelsinger "retiring" from the company that he loves best and most. Intel’s prodigal and now
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retiring effective today. www.intc.com/news-events/...
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Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Nothing like coming back to the real world after break to the immediate #awsreinvent news deluge…
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Wood Brothers at the Orange Peel Asheville this Friday and Avett Brothers coming to MerleFest in April. I can get through this winter 🙌
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
If you are from the American Midwest this is the only acceptable receptacle for green bean casserole
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Frank Bösenberg @fboesenberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Tried a starter pack on #semiconductors - please let me know who else should be in! go.bsky.app/AwKDHi9
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Fascinating.
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was trying to explain US #Thanksgiving traditions and food to a British colleague and it was hard so I found an explainer
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The Next Platform @nextplatform.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
HPE is upgrading its supercomputer lineup across compute, storage, and interconnects in 2025. We go through the details. $HPE $AMD $NVDA $INTC www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/h...
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HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025
If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there
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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 25/11/2024
I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. 1/n
A Navajo rug with a complex pattern with muted reds, pinks and blues. The pattern consists of various vertical and horizontal rectangles with stripes. Around the border are small alternating black and colored rectangles. The weaving is mounted in a wooden frame and hanging on the museum wall.
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