Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Infrastructure upgrade week. Fiber came to the neighborhood in June. Upgraded some infrastructure in July and BAM! 010
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I'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...backyardbrains.comRoboRoach Kit | Build a Cyborg Cockroach | Backyard BrainsThe RoboRoach Kit by Backyard Brains teaches students real neuroengineering by wirelessly controlling a cockroach's movements. 000
Reposted by Doug EadlineAlan Sill @alansill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I 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!repacss.orgREPACSS 041
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Wrote 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...hpcwire.comHPC Precision Wars: Satoshi Matsuoka Plants the Ozaki Flag - HPCwireA 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... 021
Reposted by Doug EadlineThe Register @theregister.com · 08/06/2026History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating systemtheregister.comHistory of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating systemWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product' 3122
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/2606.06510arxiv.org 174
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Phrase of the day "genesis content" www.hpcwire.com/2026/05/22/g...hpcwire.comGenesis Content: Where Does GenAI Get Its Next Meal? - HPCwireSomething 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... 000
Reposted by Doug EadlineChapel Programming Language @chapellanguage.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Tomorrow (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 022
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 18/05/2026In 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...github.comGitHub - 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 000
Reposted by Doug EadlineOwen 🐧 @c3iq.bsky.social · 15/05/2026#hpc This Friday's exploit: ssh-keysign-pwm github.com/0xdeadbeefne...github.comGitHub - 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 022
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Well 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 😉 070
Reposted by Doug EadlineTorsten Hoefler 🇨🇭 @thoefler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Read 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/I3OcXWnbuff.lySupercomputer networking to accelerate large scale AI trainingOpenAI introduces MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection), a new supercomputer networking protocol released via OCP to improve resilience and performance in large-scale AI training clusters. 062
Reposted by Doug EadlineGlenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 09/05/2026At 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 #HPCblog.glennklockwood.comAI doesn't need giant supercomputers after allI attended the 2026 Salishan Conference on High Speed Computing last month, and it was a week well spent in coastal Oregon hearing what man... 1117
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Wow. Another HPC acceleration by AI paper. This is the way 010
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Let 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?media.tenor.coma black and white silhouette of a cat laying on its back on a white backgroundALT: a black and white silhouette of a cat laying on its back on a white background 151
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 28/02/2026First 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 #artificialintelligenceow.lyThe Trillion Parameter ConsortiumConvening AI leaders globally from industry, academia, and national laboratories 031
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Reason number 251 why you should read hpcwire.com supercarblondie.com/tech/superco...hpcwire.comHome - HPCwire 041
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 13/02/2026At this point in the game, has anyone noticed that effective use of GenAI requires actual wet intelligence. Just say'n 110
Reposted by Doug EadlineKenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Please 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...jobs.ugent.beSystem Administrator HPCSystem Administrator HPC 002
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Show 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/mhHC50Y0F1mow.lyHpcw Videos - HPCwire 000
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 16/12/2025What 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...hpcwire.comA (Mostly) Non-Technical AI Primer - HPCwireI 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... 021
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I just got saw Nvidia acquired ShedMD (Slurm), hmm blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...blogs.nvidia.comNVIDIA Acquires Open-Source Workload Management Provider SchedMDNVIDIA will continue to distribute SchedMD’s open-source, vendor-neutral Slurm software, ensuring wide availability for high-performance computing and AI. 031
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 10/12/2025IBM 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...oreilly.comKafka Essentials LiveLessons: A Quick-Start for Building Effective Data Pipelines8+ 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... 010
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 01/12/2025As 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. 162
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 01/12/2025If you are interested in HPC and AI, take the time to read this piece. Plus, the best vendor analysis charts ever! 020
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 20/11/2025A few #SC25 observationS www.hpcwire.com/2025/11/19/s...hpcwire.comSC25 Observations: More Pumps than Processors - HPCwireEach 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 ... 2102
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 18/11/2025While you deal with the cloudflare outage, please ponder this important question 010
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 16/11/2025We 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 150
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/11/2025And 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...)omnibond.comOmnibondOmnibond Home 111
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Let's thank one of our coolest #BeowulfBash sponsors nVent! nvent.com/en-us/nvent.com 120
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Another great sponsor of the #SC25 #BeowulfBash DDN www.ddn.comddn.comDDN: Data Intelligence Platform Built for AIRevolutionize your AI & HPC ops with DDN® data storage & management solutions. Achieve peak performance, seamless cloud integration & scalable efficiency. 000
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Another great #SC25 #beowulfbash sponsor: Arcitecta www.arcitecta.com See you there!arcitecta.comArcitecta - Big Data & Data Management Software & SolutionsArcitecta's big data & data management software solutions lets you leverage the power of metadata to exploit massive data sets to unlock rich insights & speed 030
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 14/11/2025The #BeowulfBash thanks Aeon Computing aeoncomputing.com for their continued support (we won't mention the other stuff)aeoncomputing.comHome3 - Aeon ComputingHigh-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 000
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 13/11/2025We thank you SourceCode sourcecode.com and the #BeowulfBash Aliens thank you for sponsoring the best party in the outer rim.sourcecode.comSourceCodeHands-on Experience Co-Designing Digital Infrastructure for Leading Edge Applications 031
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Thanks to long time support from Penguin Solutions penguinsolutions.com the #BeowulfBash at #SC25 will once again be a stupendous, fantastic, awesome, event beowulfbash.compenguinsolutions.comDesigning & Building Data Center AI Infrastructure at ScalePenguin Solutions designs, builds, deploys, and manages large, complex Al and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures at scale. 030
Reposted by Doug EadlineAJ Lauer @ayjaylauer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I'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 041
Reposted by Doug EadlineAJ Lauer @ayjaylauer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Making sure this hits the #WomenInTech feed. 011
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Uhm, there is a typo in the headline, remove the "s" from insane. That should fix it. 151
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Many 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...clustermonkey.netBeowulf Bash Invitations: 2008 to Present | Supercomputing | Conference ReportsCluster 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... 075
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Many thanks to #AMD for their continued support of the #SC25 Beowulf Bash beowulfbash.combeowulfbash.comBeowulf Bash | The annual celebration of Beowulf at SuperComputing 030
Reposted by Doug EadlineEnvModules @envmodules.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Thrilled to join @hpsf.bsky.social ! Excited for the road ahead 🎉 021
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Check it out! new look www.hpcwire.comhpcwire.comHome - HPCwire 010
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Big thanks to #SC25 Bash sponsor @arcitectamakers visit them at booth #1439. www.arcitecta.comarcitecta.comArcitecta - Big Data & Data Management Software & SolutionsArcitecta's big data & data management software solutions lets you leverage the power of metadata to exploit massive data sets to unlock rich insights & speed 042
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 05/11/2025FFA to cut flights by 10% on Friday, if shutdown continues. Yikes #SC25 ! 370
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Looking forward to appreciating all aliens at the intergalactic #BeowulfBash at #SC25 beowulfbash.combeowulfbash.comBeowulf Bash | The annual celebration of Beowulf at SuperComputing 063
Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 28/10/2025So 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.combeowulfbash.comBeowulf Bash | The annual celebration of Beowulf at SuperComputing 184
