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Richard Knepper

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Center for Advanced Computing Cornell University CASC 🇵🇱

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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ooh, I got the email that my preorder for Thrice-Bound Fool by @buehlmeister.bsky.social is waiting for me and that is making the workday better already.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I upped my print media intake last year and started buying whatever books I felt like getting, and it's fantastic to just sit down and read. And there's such good stuff to immerse your brain in!
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We're hiring at the Center for Advanced Computing - join us on an exceptional team contributing to the Leadership Class Computing Facility, Fred Young Sub-millimeter Telescope, ArXiv, and Cornell Future of American Agriculture Initiative! Details at jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
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Associate Director for Consulting, Center for Advanced Computing in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Information Technology at Cornell University
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We're hiring at the Center for Advanced Computing - join us on an exceptional team contributing to the Leadership Class Computing Facility, Fred Young Sub-millimeter Telescope, ArXiv, and Cornell Future of American Agriculture Initiative! Details at jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
jobs.hr.cornell.edu
Associate Director for Consulting, Center for Advanced Computing in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Information Technology at Cornell University
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is a deep cut but I am here for it.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Great discussion of what damage to the research enterprise the past year and a half has done - and what the implications are for those who think we might be able to just free-market all of the innovations www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
Quote from linked article:
Some argue that industry can pick up the slack. Since our founding, MIT has worked enthusiastically with industry on applied technical research. But today’s breakthrough advances grew from years of curiosity-driven forays, pushing through a maze of possibilities until the right door swung open. Whose shareholders would back decades of that kind of open-ended exploration without the certainty of commercial returns for the company in question? Philanthropy is equally unable to replace steady federal funding at scale.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Cheered by the fact that I have successfully spread "Invisible Fight" to more people... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmWs...
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The Invisible Fight – Official U.S. Trailer
YouTube video by Kino Lorber
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Cornell CAC is looking for a Senior System Administrator - HPC, OpenStack, Ceph environment, great team, exciting projects, "gorges" location! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
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Senior Systems Administrator, High Performance Computing in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Information Technology at Cornell University
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Hello, Spring friend
A small spider silhouetted in front of a rainy, foggy background
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Registration for Linux Clusters Institute Intermediate Workshop is now open! June 1-5 at Swarthmore College. Details at linuxclustersinstitute.org/2026-lci-int...
Singer Hall at Swarthmore College, a modern gray building with many reflective windows.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Same here, I don't understand what people are up in arms about. Based on the RH stuff I read I sort of thought we would be changing bodies/genders/species for the weekend in the big bright beautiful future.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
2026 Linux Clusters Institute Intermediate Workshop registration is live! Join our exciting instructors at Swarthmore College for the next level in HPC system administration instruction. appserv7.admin.uillinois.edu/FormBuilderS...
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LCI Workshops / New Form
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Things going great in Sarasota, it seems
A clipped screenshot from an email advertisement for the "Socratic Stage" dialogues from an email with the subject "Two Incredible Socratic Stage Events Next Week! Don't Miss It!" that goes on to list three events. The clipping is for the event "Recovering The Orgiginal [sic] Constitution?"
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Who can resist a delicious French taco?
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Bookmail!
A stack of books on top of a turntable. The books are "Fighting Tyranny" by Gene Sharp and Bruce Jenkins, "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi, "I am the Law" by Michael Molcher, and two volumes of "The Dept of Truth" by Tynion/Simmonds/Cadonici/Bellaire/Bidikar/Sampson/Charretier/Boss/Pearson/Romero/Fornes
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Idiot box is a true classic, glad that it's finally on media. Also, congrats on that Stoker Nomination!
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
media.tenor.com
a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face .
Alt: a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face that conveys a deep confusion, as if he has woken from a dream of an unreal world, or perhaps he has consumed a truly olympic number of leaded paint chips.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
CAC is hiring! We have posted a senior sysadmin for HPC position. Exciting research projects, fantastic team, "gorges" location! Posting at: jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
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Senior Systems Administrator, High Performance Computing in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Information Technology at Cornell University
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A FLAS fellowship is what brought me to Indiana University and set me up for my two masters' degrees (and much later PhD), informed my career interests, made me a published translator of Polish, participant in research exchange with amazing faculty at University of Warsaw, 2-decade+ friendships...
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Not my photo, but the UTEP sculpture "Mining Minds" by Michael Clapper goes really hard
An illuminated burnt-orange sculpture of a giant pickaxe head embedded in the rock in front of the UTEP Bookstore, perforated with illuminated zeros and ones. The pickaxe stands up in front of a brilliant blue sky.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I lucked into one of these at a discount store a while back and it is an incredible daily driver - fantastic coffee, visitors need no schooling, easy to clean, makes our kitchen look fabulous.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Save us, Giant Robot Hand!
Researchers in Japan and Switzerland demonstrated a giant robotic hand designed to aid disaster response, as part of Japan’s Collaborative AI Field Robot Everywhere (CAFÉ) project. The device, built in collaboration with Japan’s Kumagai Gumi, Tsukuba University, and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, and Switzerland’s ETH Zurich, is able to grip fragile or heavy debris with precision. The researchers paired the robot hand with an AI excavation system using reinforcement learning, which allows it to safely tackle hazards like natural dams from landslides.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Possum t-shirt is best t-shirt!
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This was a fascinating one for me, I liked the way the flashbacks, touches of body horror, and basic indignities of being human were all suggestive of something without being ham-handed. I was expecting a different denouement but not terribly disappointed.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
www.wbng.com/2025/05/12/s... Just one example of the impacts of federal stop-work orders, life-saving research cannot move forward.
wbng.com
Stop-work order issued to life-saving heart valve research at Cornell University
"I think it's my lifelong mission. I have literally been working in this field since 1985, and for the past 30 of these years, I have been developing miniature blood pumps."
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Just registered for Durham HPC Days for the 1st week of June, stopping in before ISC'25 -- looking forward to it! www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Durham - HPC Days - Durham University
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I've already been working on a performance-to-power statistic to put a "sustainability cost" on people who won't give up old machines, the SpacePerry would be a great way to drive the concept home when we get to some of the GPU gear.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Cannot wait to factor SMR into costing model for a startup negotiation, "bear in mind, these quotes are good for now but by the time you get to the institution, things may have changed."
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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A Disaster for American Innovation
The Trump administration is jeopardizing the AI boom.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I'm not the biggest metal fan but today is really hitting me with Oxygen Destroyer vibes. oxygen-destroyer.bandcamp.com/album/guardi...
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Guardian of the Universe, by Oxygen Destroyer
9 track album
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
At work, lining up all the stuff I need to do, thinking of when I will return home to continue @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and have my wig completely and utterly flipped by it.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
#HPC person
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
One job of the scientist in our times is to speak the truth with a collective voice based on evidence. That's why I'm proud to join over 140 leading researchers to affirm the scientific consensus that bias in AI is a real problem that needs to be prioritized. www.aibiasconsensus.org
aibiasconsensus.org
Scientific Consensus on AI Bias
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Mines and cluster munitions.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The first mission in the Roadcraft demo is with a timber harvester and a logging crane, maybe oversuccessful in sealing the deal. I probably would have been in if you had given me a simple bulldozer or bucketloader.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
They absolutely are, and other action in addition to budget updates...
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I think Killian's assessment is pretty on target for HPC. CASC is meant to be a means of conversation between the funding agencies and RCD centers; without our colleagues at the agencies--no one to speak with. I wish I could say there are plans for science spending to come, I don't see any.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
CASC Statement on science agency firings in HPCWire today: www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire... The impacts to our national competitiveness, health, safety, and science leadership will have longer consequences than one quarter, one year, or one presidential term.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
CASC Statement on science agency firings in HPCWire today: www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire... The impacts to our national competitiveness, health, safety, and science leadership will have longer consequences than one quarter, one year, or one presidential term.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
High-performance computing at a crossroads
Long-term plans and comprehensive vision are needed
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and hat is saying to exterminate all rational thought
Alt: Peter Weller in a suit and hat is saying to exterminate all rational thought
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This changes my perspective, feeling much better about dragon. 50 years young and 250lbs thin in 2025. However being 6'2" short may turn out to be a drag.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Continued. Excellence.
A screenshot of a bluesky notification reading "Beyonce followed you". This is not anything approaching the real Beyonce, and the actual bsky account name is beyoce, which seems like a pretty rough type for someone who is supposed bear the name.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
As a mark of my continued excellence, I remain associated only with the most exceptional things
screenshot of results of a bing search entitled "Videos of Richard Knepper" - the results are "Wild Thing - Trailer" from Mar 16 2022 and "Getting Out" 1994, a crime drama starring Rebecca De Mornay on Chicken Soup for the Soul TV. What in the everlasting gobstopper is "Chicken Soup for the Soul TV"???
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The ones I've seen are all so tiny!
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Position open at the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cornel... Great team, exciting projects, "gorges" location! #HPC #HPCjobs
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Assistant Director, CAC Systems and Operations
Assistant Director, CAC Systems and Operations Info Tech Assoc Director, Band H Center for Advanced Computing Join Our Journey Cornell Research & Innovation creates an environment that unifies and...
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Today, I have learned...
Screenshot of Wikipedia article text about the song "Turn Down for What", reading "'Turn Down for What' is written in the E Phrygian mode and is set in common time at a moderate tempo of 100 beats per minute."
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Under my tree was this lovely calendar by Natalia Naszczyńska and Sebastian Łuczywo, the artwork and text make me happy.
The front of a 2025 calendar in Polish, featuring artwork of Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Mrs. Kn got me Dungeon Academy: No Humans Allowed by Madeleine Roux and these illustrations by @timprobert.bsky.social are so endlessly charming!
A black and white illustration of an adventuring party sitting around a campfire consisting of an owlbear, a diminutive dragon, and a young teifling. The illustrations has orange accents.Color illustration on a book cover with an owlbear, dragon, and tiefling girl entering a dungeon room.
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Richard Knepper @rknepper.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Join us for Linux Clusters Institute Workshops in 2025: LCI is offering HPC Cluster instruction at Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced levels! linuxclustersinstitute.org #HPC #Linux #Linuxclusters
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Linux Clusters Institute
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