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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the first laboratory photograph I have ever been in, and that feels pretty great. Can you find me? lnkd.in/p/gt5GrSh5 Thank you to Sandia and the other labs for putting together this event! 🥳

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The HPCIC 2026 Flux Tutorial is officially out! 🥳 Learn about using Flux, integrations with Kubeflow and quantum, and how Flux enables converged computing. There are Harry Potter references, bad jokes, and event-driven donuts! 🍩 👉 youtu.be/xIY7PVAUppY?...

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Tutorials 2026: Flux

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Does descriptive metadata improve our ability to dispatch computational work? 🤔 👉 youtu.be/zNIEVDAvKfY These experiments assess the ability of agents to assist with preparation, transformation, and dispatch of #HPC jobs to a multi-cluster environment. I hope you enjoy! 🥳

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✍️ Descriptive Dispatch of Computational Work

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you to the #EdgeWalk at the @tourcntower.bsky.social (Andrea, Domino, Lobster), and to Paragliding San Francisco (Mike) for the amazing roller-coaster paragliding! It was a fabulous kick off 🪂 into my next decade, and I fully intend to continue growing younger every year. 😊

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🪂 Sky Dancing

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am not afraid of heights! 😎

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mark your calendars! We have the first fully content-complete #FluxFramework tutorial at #SC26 this year. If you want to learn about graph-based scheduling—from cloud to quantum computing—and you want to have some fun, we hope to see you there! 🥳 sc26.conference-program.com/presentation...

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@quantummachines.bsky.social do sites provision your interface, the FrontendServicer? We are prototyping with the #FluxFramework graph scheduler, and it occurred to me that this work might be useful for others that control that interface. Are there folks I can talk to, community meetings? Thank you!

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

No mention of Flux, which is message (RPC) and event-driven? 🤔

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🌊 Ocean Bed by Darlingside youtu.be/3UsuTh3g8ZY?... I wanted to dance tonight, and this was the right song. This song is about strength, and the duality of immersing in our joy while accepting that we cannot control the storms. Our acceptance mirrors the quiet stability of the deep.

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🌊 Ocean Bed

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thank you @pearcconference.bsky.social! Here is the full photo taken by the track chair so I can show off my current (non running sneakers) favorite shoes. ♥️ We will be hosting the first Flux tutorial (not combined with a vendor) this fall at Supercomputing - we hope to see everyone there! 🥳

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🫒Olive oil update! I’ve finished 69 bottles in about 5 months, and my current favorites are La Tourangelle Smooth and Fruity (on my second tin), Finca La Barca (finishing my second bottle) and Castillo de Canena Sherry Cask (fourth bottle). 😋

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

One task I'd like to never do again in #HPC is debug MPI, or submit commands. I am prototyping experiments with the #Flux Secretary, an agent that receives a general job command and figures out the rest. youtu.be/PwsXIMJdsEA Credentials stay in user space and I don't need to remember MPI_OMP_* 🙌

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Flux Secretary Demo

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I wrote some additional good feelings and thoughts 😊 about the trip here. vsoch.github.io/2026/hpc-cen... Thank you to @pearcconference.bsky.social for the beautiful venue and opportunity to share my excitement for our #HPC and agentic future.

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I gave the invited talk for the Systems track at #PEARC26. If you were not able to attend, you're in luck! 🍀 I walked back to my room and recorded a second time so all would have access in the present and into the future. youtu.be/qiKfTgYoKkE?...

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🌀 The Agentic HPC Center: Orchestrating the Future of Science

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Born ready 🙌 - thanks for coming to my talk! 😊

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I present the two-queue problem for co-scheduling of two different queues, and design solutions using the #FluxFramework scheduler Fluxion in Kubernetes and (WIP) on-premises. Our graph-based approach models quantum as a first class resource, and is extendable to other custom types

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Interested in co-scheduling of quantum resources? We presented "Hybrid Quantum and Classical Workload Management with Graph-based Scheduling" at t OpenQSE Day today. I recorded the talk to share with the larger community. 🥳 youtu.be/9TV4Nxb7guk Thank you #ORNL and collaborators for having us! 🙏

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🌀 Hybrid Quantum and Classical Workload Management with Graph-based Scheduling

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you missed our #HPCKP talk on Flux Framework Supporting Agentic Science, and some early vision for the #HPC Center of the future, the folks at HPC Knowledge Portal have prepared all the event videos beautifully. We hope that you enjoy! 🥳 hpckp.org/talks/flux-f...

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Flux Framework Supporting Agentic Science - HPCKP

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thank you to @hpcwrangler.com and HPC Club for the T-shirts, hats, and stickers! 👕 We will wear them proudly. What happens in HPC Club stays in HPC Club, however we all can take moments to share our joy. Happy Sunday folks! 🥳 youtu.be/EprYDd6HmNs

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😎 HPC Club Chariot!

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time. If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. ❤️ youtu.be/YnCa3aieZUk?...

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⛰️ Mt. Tam Adventures

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We presented #FluxFramework at #HPC club this week, showing the basic designs and projects of Flux and a prototype example using agents for finance. youtu.be/Zk3f5ijgiM0?...

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LLNL at HPC Club: Flux Framework and Agentic HPC meets Finance

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

🎆 Happy Fourth of July! This is a great album! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I get obsessively interested in topics, to the point my curiosity is insatiable. It is happening with quantum computing, and here is some learning.😊 vsoch.github.io/2026/quantum... I think along with scheduling work I want to model scheduling algorithms with qiskit (and similar).

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Interested in #quantum? Our converged computing team has started early work to explore integrations of Flux Framework with quantum APIs and local devices, starting in #Kubernetes! You can check out the review of the space in my short talk. 🎥 youtu.be/GScovgpIx18?...

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🌀 Flux Framework and Quantum: Early Work

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High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) @hpsf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🚀 We're excited to welcome Flux Framework to HPSF. Deployed on the #1 Top500 system, El Capitan, Flux provides modern resource management and scheduling for HPC, cloud, Kubernetes, and beyond. 🔗 bit.ly/43F3Y7t

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Come to the Flux Framework tutorial too! 🌀 bsky.app/profile/vsoc...

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PEARC Conference Series @pearcconference.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🌱 #ACM #PEARC26 Invited Speaker | Systems Track Join Vanessa Sochat (vsoch.bsky.social), Principal #Computer Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as she explores the future of #agentic #HPC! 🎤 The Agentic HPC Center: Orchestrating the Future of Science 🗓️ July 28, 2026 | 11:00 AM CT

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PyLadies Bot @pyladies-bot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

📦 expfactory Software to generate a reproducible container with a battery of experiments. 👤 Vanessa Sochat (@vsoch.bsky.social) 🔗 github.com/expfactory/expfactory #pyladies #python #opensource

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Want to learn about #FluxFramework with live presentations and tutorials? Come to our HPCIC Developer Tutorial, July 21st! I may have something up my sleeve this year that is a bit cutting edge... hope to see you there! llnlfed.webex.com/weblink/regi... Registration is free and open to anyone!

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Spin it like Peanut Butter Jelly... I'll give you something to do (Galantis)! I heard this song for the first time last week and watched the video today. I had to dance to it! The music video is 🙌 if only going to the grocery store were that fun... 😂 youtu.be/1WYqQzl7Plg

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Spin it like Peanut Butter Jelly... !

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🫒 Olive oil review! I loved this oil because it tastes like arugula. I also do a deeper dive on the polyphenol Oleocanthal, and how it is works as an anti-inflammatory and interacts with TRPA1 and COX enzymes. Enjoy! 💃 olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/oliv...

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🇫🇷 Oliviers & Co. from Mane, France

I finished one of my favorite olive oils this last week, and with a little help from a tasting that I hosted with a small group. This is La ...

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Here is the full abstract. 🧐

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Interested to learn about our work in agentic science, with some added #FluxFramework? Please attend the #HPCKP meeting in Barcelona! 💃 I am excited for this work, and for the future of science. After recording this talk, I was moved to dance!🌹 hpckp.org/annual-meeti...

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Here is the full abstract. 🧐

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The time has come to know Clear your head, mind the open road Your heart will never lie It's the trip that keeps us alive ❤️

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🌤️ So Many Miles

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

An on-demand model does not work when you are not the target customer, and the demand is greater than the supply. I am using an on-premises node. The same interaction is harder. I needed to find and COPY three custom certs to my container, and use rootless Podman. I wish Google Cloud worked for me.

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I am building large containers locally that have layers too large for push from my home wireless. "Ah, I'll use an instance on Google Cloud!" I thought. I tried to get *one* c4-standard-96 instance, and then c3-standard-88. Could I? Nope. I tried every zone. 😭 It is Saturday. 🙃

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🫒 Olive Oil, orchard, and market review - La Olivina, and Olive Oil Pantry! olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/oliv...

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

An agent just wrote and ran an entire #snakemake workflow using our agentic tools + mcpserver! 🐍 Running snakemake would be too easy. I've given the agent just inputs + a wrappers catalog and said "figure it out." The agent gets controlled access to a workdir, and incrementally figures out steps.

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

García de la Cruz from Toledo Spain. What was most interesting was learning about the history of the amphora. They are used to date shipwrecks. At first glance the design seems nonsensical, but this is with my applied bias of storage today. Enjoy! olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/04/garc...

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🇪🇸 García de la Cruz from Toledo Spain

García de la Cruz is a premium olive oil produced in Toledo, Spain, and founded in 1872. They advertise as one of the oldest oil mills in Sp...

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

New olive oil review! 🫒 These are made by the same producer in Morocco. Both have good price points, and beautiful bottles. I recommend Desert Miracle if you want to try oil that is subtly peppery, and Atlas if you want something primarily smooth. olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/04/atla... Enjoy!

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Atlas and Desert Miracle Moroccan Olive Oils

I present to you two elegant, dark bottles. One is octagonal with shiny, embossed gold lettering, and an elegant "A" with what appears to be...

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I am also wanting to better expose nuanced sections of the slurm.conf so everything is easy to change. I have a lot of learning (and work that I would like to do, since my style has changed since 2023) and I mostly want to say I am enjoying working on this. That's all folks! Back to experiments. 🤓

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v @vsoch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My design approach is simplicity. You install the operator with two commands (eventually will be one) and create your cluster. The spec I might change as I learn more about Slurm. Here is the cluster for EFA. This could be reduced to a node.nodespec and size for a simple deployment.

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