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Doug Eadline

@thedeadline.bsky.social
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HPC dude, currently contributing editor at HPCwire, Truth is a slippery fish. BLM

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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.tomshardware.com/software/clo...
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Infrastructure upgrade week. Fiber came to the neighborhood in June. Upgraded some infrastructure in July and BAM!
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm not sure what to make of this backyardbrains.com/products/rob... On the one hand, ew cockroaches on the other hand, an army of indestructible little bug tanks, hmm...
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RoboRoach Kit | Build a Cyborg Cockroach | Backyard Brains
The RoboRoach Kit by Backyard Brains teaches students real neuroengineering by wirelessly controlling a cockroach's movements.
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Alan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I am returning today after switching from managing the High Performance Computing Center at Texas Tech to full-time as Research Professor and co-director of the repacss.org project, focused on energy and resource efficiency in scientific research computing. Find me here or at nsfcac.org for details!
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REPACSS
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Wrote up the Satochi paper on HPCwire. I tried to pull the important points. HPC Precision Wars: Satoshi Matsuoka Plants the Ozaki Flag www.hpcwire.com/2026/06/15/h...
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HPC Precision Wars: Satoshi Matsuoka Plants the Ozaki Flag - HPCwire
A recent paper submitted to ArXiv by famed HPC scientist Satoshi Matsuoka, Director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, has shaken the tried-and-true FP64 HPC relationship to...
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/06/2026
History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system
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History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system
When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#HPC must read, "FP8 is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail" from Satoshi Matsuoka arxiv.org/pdf/2606.06510
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Phrase of the day "genesis content" www.hpcwire.com/2026/05/22/g...
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Genesis Content: Where Does GenAI Get Its Next Meal? - HPCwire
Something about building GenAI LLMs bugs me. Before I begin, let me be clear: I am a supporter of AI technologies, particularly in science. Lately, however, a question keeps surfacing that I find hard...
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Chapel Programming Language @chapellanguage.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tomorrow (Thursday, May 21), Brad Chamberlain and Jade Abraham will be giving an overview, update, and demo of Chapel at the Northwest C++ Users’ Group at 7pm PT. Attend in person in Bellevue WA, or online using Microsoft Teams. nwcpp.org/May-2026.html
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In light of all the new potential Linux kernel "bugs," Jasper Nuyens created a simple script to place all unused modules (not currently loaded) in "module jail" i.e.the kernel cannot load them. Good temporary hygiene until things get cleaned up. Read more here: github.com/jnuyens/modu...
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GitHub - jnuyens/modulejail: Proactively shrink a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface by blacklisting every module not currently in use.
Proactively shrink a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface by blacklisting every module not currently in use. - jnuyens/modulejail
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Owen 🐧 @c3iq.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#hpc This Friday's exploit: ssh-keysign-pwm github.com/0xdeadbeefne...
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GitHub - 0xdeadbeefnetwork/ssh-keysign-pwn: Steal SSH host private keys and /etc/shadow via the ptrace_may_access mm-NULL bypass + pidfd_getfd. Pre-31e62c2ebbfd kernels.
Steal SSH host private keys and /etc/shadow via the ptrace_may_access mm-NULL bypass + pidfd_getfd. Pre-31e62c2ebbfd kernels. - 0xdeadbeefnetwork/ssh-keysign-pwn
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Well that is wrap, Spring 2026 Big Data Management (aka scalable tools) at Lehigh University is done, grades submitted, 29 students now know about Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, ... and even a bit of Linux command line 😉
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Torsten Hoefler 🇨🇭 @thoefler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Read how we designed and deployed Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a multi-company step towards Ultra Ethernet, at 800G in Microsoft's datacenters. Demonstrated with a 75k GPU pretraining job running stably through multiple faults. OpenAI blog: buff.ly/X0KL4Xy Paper: buff.ly/I3OcXWn
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Supercomputer networking to accelerate large scale AI training
OpenAI introduces MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection), a new supercomputer networking protocol released via OCP to improve resilience and performance in large-scale AI training clusters.
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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 09/05/2026
At the Salishan HPC conference last week, I gave a talk called "AI doesn't need massive supercomputers after all!" A couple people asked me for the slides (as crappy as they were), so here they are in hastily written blog format. blog.glennklockwood.com/2026/05/ai-d... #AI #HPC
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AI doesn't need giant supercomputers after all
I attended the 2026 Salishan Conference on High Speed Computing last month, and it was a week well spent in coastal Oregon hearing what man...
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Wow. Another HPC acceleration by AI paper. This is the way
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Let me see if I got this, "We trained our AI on all your text and code, so your job is not needed, bye. We'll continue to scrape the new AI generated interwebs for even more content because we put the original creators out of work. Profit!" Did anyone read the papers about about model collapse?
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
First week of June, east coast AI for science! Registration is OPEN for #TPC26! Join us for one of the most forward-thinking conferences in tech, policy, and leadership. Where brilliant minds come together to shape the future. Early-bird pricing here: ow.ly/azv950Ymum0 #artificialintelligence
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The Trillion Parameter Consortium
Convening AI leaders globally from industry, academia, and national laboratories
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Reason number 251 why you should read hpcwire.com supercarblondie.com/tech/superco...
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Home - HPCwire
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
At this point in the game, has anyone noticed that effective use of GenAI requires actual wet intelligence. Just say'n
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Bit windy today on the east coast
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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Please share to help spread the word! We have already have some applications for the #HPC system administrator open position in our team at Ghent University (Belgium), but it's not too late yet! Deadline to apply is Sun 1 Feb 2026. jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Sy...
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System Administrator HPC
System Administrator HPC
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Show floor safari from sc25 (BTW, this is obviously AI generated because, I would never ask such goofy questions and try and explain QC) ow.ly/mhHC50Y0F1m
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Hpcw Videos - HPCwire
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
What started as a few paragraphs to help explain AI to a friend grew into this long article (with reference links). If you have not been watching AI and LLM progress closely, like I have, you may find this background primer helpful. www.hpcwire.com/2025/12/16/a...
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A (Mostly) Non-Technical AI Primer - HPCwire
I have studied and watched artificial intelligence grow over the last forty years. Like many, back in 1968, I was inspired by HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The question on my mi...
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I just got saw Nvidia acquired ShedMD (Slurm), hmm blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...
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NVIDIA Acquires Open-Source Workload Management Provider SchedMD
NVIDIA will continue to distribute SchedMD’s open-source, vendor-neutral Slurm software, ensuring wide availability for high-performance computing and AI.
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
IBM just purchased Kafka (Confluent). Smart move because building data pipelines is the first step in model building If you want to learn about Kafka, guess what, yours truly has created a video course to get you started (complete with serious looking head shot). www.oreilly.com/videos/kafka...
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Kafka Essentials LiveLessons: A Quick-Start for Building Effective Data Pipelines
8+ Hours of Video Instruction Learn how to manage high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications with Apache Kafka. Apache... - Selection fro...
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
As I understand the situation, the price of DDR5 memory has tripled (or more) because memory vendors have switched to making more lucrative HBM used on the GPUs that will be placed in unpowered AI systems that are waiting for a data center.
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
If you are interested in HPC and AI, take the time to read this piece. Plus, the best vendor analysis charts ever!
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Bonus fun, who can you identify
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A few #SC25 observationS www.hpcwire.com/2025/11/19/s...
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SC25 Observations: More Pumps than Processors - HPCwire
Each year at SC, I like to report on some of the experiences and observations I find as the show progresses. There is so much more going on, and I’m sure I missed a lot of news and events. There is a ...
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
While you deal with the cloudflare outage, please ponder this important question
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
We just did a walk through of the beowulfbash.com at the City Museum, it is hard to describe, but let's just say it is a labyrinth of "holy crap look at that" and then in most cases you can climb on it or walk through it I'll just leave you with this picture
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
And let's not forget #BoowulfBash supporter Omnibond omnibond.com And a special call out to Omnibond's Walt Ligon, original founder of the LECCIBG (www.clustermonkey.net/Cluster-Even...)
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Omnibond
Omnibond Home
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Let's thank one of our coolest #BeowulfBash sponsors nVent! nvent.com/en-us/
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Another great sponsor of the #SC25 #BeowulfBash DDN www.ddn.com
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DDN: Data Intelligence Platform Built for AI
Revolutionize your AI & HPC ops with DDN® data storage & management solutions. Achieve peak performance, seamless cloud integration & scalable efficiency.
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Another great #SC25 #beowulfbash sponsor: Arcitecta www.arcitecta.com See you there!
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Arcitecta - Big Data & Data Management Software & Solutions
Arcitecta's big data & data management software solutions lets you leverage the power of metadata to exploit massive data sets to unlock rich insights & speed
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The #BeowulfBash thanks Aeon Computing aeoncomputing.com for their continued support (we won't mention the other stuff)
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Home3 - Aeon Computing
High-Performance Computing Solutions for every application from sequence alignment to movie restoration Featured products Read more Lustre Horizon-ND24 Read more Lustre Horizon-SD24 Select options Storage Horizon-W102 Select options Storage Horizon-W60 Select options Lustre EclipseHE-324 Select options Lustre EclipseHA-324 Choose the best solution today! Request a Quote
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We thank you SourceCode sourcecode.com and the #BeowulfBash Aliens thank you for sponsoring the best party in the outer rim.
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SourceCode
Hands-on Experience Co-Designing Digital Infrastructure for Leading Edge Applications
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thanks to long time support from Penguin Solutions penguinsolutions.com the #BeowulfBash at #SC25 will once again be a stupendous, fantastic, awesome, event beowulfbash.com
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Designing & Building Data Center AI Infrastructure at Scale
Penguin Solutions designs, builds, deploys, and manages large, complex Al and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures at scale.
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AJ Lauer @ayjaylauer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I'm happy to be offering FREE 30 minute coaching sessions at #SC25. Having a career dilemma? Leadership challenge? Conflict at work? Existential drama? I'll be a sounding board to process through whatever you have going on! DM for the reg link - I'll see you in St. Louis! #HPC #Supercomputing
A yellow background with Dr. AJ Lauer, a white woman with brown hair who stands confidently. The text reads "Dr. AJ Lauer in MGM's Meet Me In St. Louis @ SC25. Schedule your FREE 30 minute coaching session at the conference"
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AJ Lauer @ayjaylauer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Making sure this hits the #WomenInTech feed.
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Uhm, there is a typo in the headline, remove the "s" from insane. That should fix it.
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Many people ask, "Just what is this Beowulf Bash thing anyway?" I tell them, "It started with cigars and cognac and became a legend at SC". The story is best told by the invitations (see you there at #SC25) www.clustermonkey.net/Supercomputi...
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Beowulf Bash Invitations: 2008 to Present | Supercomputing | Conference Reports
Cluster Monkey is an exclusive content based site that speaks directly to the high performance computing (HPC) cluster market and community. We focus on benchmarks, tutorials, case studies, and how-to...
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Many thanks to #AMD for their continued support of the #SC25 Beowulf Bash beowulfbash.com
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Beowulf Bash | The annual celebration of Beowulf at SuperComputing
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EnvModules @envmodules.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Thrilled to join @hpsf.bsky.social ! Excited for the road ahead 🎉
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Check it out! new look www.hpcwire.com
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Home - HPCwire
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Big thanks to #SC25 Bash sponsor @arcitectamakers visit them at booth #1439. www.arcitecta.com
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Arcitecta - Big Data & Data Management Software & Solutions
Arcitecta's big data & data management software solutions lets you leverage the power of metadata to exploit massive data sets to unlock rich insights & speed
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
FFA to cut flights by 10% on Friday, if shutdown continues. Yikes #SC25 !
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Looking forward to appreciating all aliens at the intergalactic #BeowulfBash at #SC25 beowulfbash.com
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Beowulf Bash | The annual celebration of Beowulf at SuperComputing
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
So I've been posting about the #SC25 on those other sites (they know who they are), but BlueSky is where the action is, so if you are attending SC25, you know where to go: beowulfbash.com
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Beowulf Bash | The annual celebration of Beowulf at SuperComputing
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