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Dan Ernst

@ernstdj.bsky.social

750 followers 76 following 87 posts

HPC Architecture Ronin, currently at Nvidia. ex-MSFT, but forever a Crayon. I am proud of my home state (MN) and you will hear about it. All posts (especially the dumb ones) reflect my own positions and not that of my employer.

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · 5d

My 13yo showed me this passage in a book he was reading the other day. My response: "yeah, I've got one of those (blades) in my office". 😄

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah, this has been a go-to for years. Becoming especially important lately trying to find facts in the AI hype cycles.

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · 19d

See also: fs.blog/two-types-of...

Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test

Charlie Munger identifies the two types of knowledge and shows us how to distinguish between those with Chauffeur knowledge and those with Planck knowledge.

fs.blog

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · 19d

www.behance.net/blog/the-cre...

Blog :: The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex

Blog :: Don’t fall into the trap of being an expert before you’re ready. We have enough of those.\n\n

www.behance.net

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Sep 10

wut

The only office in the Twin Cities was for educational software and Office trainings, last I looked.

That would have been super valuable

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Sep 9

The extra fun trivia is that I posted that message while sitting at the project kick-off meeting in Tokyo. :-)

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Sep 8

That's a DFMA target number. Not GEMM.

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Aug 22

To be chosen to participate in the design of the next iteration is a massive honor for us.

Through this partnership, we aim to develop a scientific discovery ecosystem based on the full integration of simulation and AI. We hope this work will benefit not only Japan, but also researchers worldwide.

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Aug 22

Those who have been around #HPC a while know the historical significance (and probably the names) of Japan's flagship supercomputers. They always push the boundaries of technology, but in ways that are driven uniquely by the needs of Japan.

blogs.nvidia.com/blog/fugakun...

RIKEN, Japan’s Leading Science Institute, Taps Fujitsu and NVIDIA for Next Flagship Supercomputer

Japan is once again building a landmark high-performance computing system — not simply by chasing speed, but by rethinking how technology can best serve the nation’s most urgent scientific needs. At t...

blogs.nvidia.com

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Aug 22

Those numbers were from their feasibility study and not necessarily where the design will land.

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Vega Shah @dr-alphalyrae.bsky.social · Aug 16

For PhD students in my network, NVIDIA is now accepting applications for our graduate fellowship program. If you are working on topics across AI, life sciences, healthcare and HPC - consider applying.
blogs.nvidia.com/blog/applica...

Applications Now Open for $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards

The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides grants, mentors and technical support to doctoral students doing outstanding research relevant to NVIDIA technologies. The application deadline for the ...

blogs.nvidia.com

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Aug 8

Not enough parallelism to saturate either.

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Aug 2

For some reason, my three day weekends don't produce things like this...

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just confirming - despite the best efforts of the Minnesota Twins front office, I was *not* traded to Philidelphia this week. #Twins

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Jul 19

Congrats, Glenn! Hope you enjoy the new gig! 🥳

Reposted by Dan Ernst

Drew Jolly @amjolly.bsky.social · Jul 17

Isambard-AI Now Fully Operational, Supporting Cancer Research and AI Security
ow.ly/ncsf50WrnMI #NVIDIA #HPC #HPCwire

Isambard-AI Now Fully Operational, Supporting Cancer Research and AI Security

July 17, 2025 — Faster, more accurate cancer diagnoses and new clean-energy innovations are some of the key breakthroughs which are now closer to reality as the UK’s most powerful […]

ow.ly

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Jul 12

I, too, was once highlighted by DCD once on a move (to Azure).

Enjoy the ego stroke 😁

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Jul 1

This is a well-known Minnesota-ism, so I've been polluted from birth.

If it makes you feel better, it bugs the heck out of my wife.

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Jul 1

Can I come with?

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aka_pugs @akapugs.bsky.social · Jun 26

OTD 1913: Birthday of Maurice Wilkes, computing pioneer.
en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Among his many firsts: authorship of the first book about software.

Book title page: "The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer" by Maurice V. Wilkes, David J. Wheeler, and Stanley Gill. 1951

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Jun 19

Having watched engineers do the hybrid HPL run on Trinity, you should be sure to give anyone who attempts it lots of love (and a raise 😄)

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Jun 19

There are none installed so the numbers would be the same. 😋 Once they come, they could try to do a hybrid run, but it would be an enormous pain to do and not much upside.

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Jun 13

If only there was a project that experimented with cell phone chips as supercomputers, where we could learn about this!

www.montblanc-project.eu

I mean, it was a decade long and even European!

The Mont-Blanc Project: Towards a European HPC Processor

The Mont-Blanc Project: Paving the way towards a modular, power-efficient processor for HPC. Explore the four phases through the initiative’s realization.

www.montblanc-project.eu

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Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Jun 12

I lost mine 🙁

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · Jun 11

Same here. I came to social media to try to teach people things once in a while. You've always been happy to amplify whomever is helping others grow.
#IamHPCGuru should be a rallying cry for giving new points of view a fair shake.

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