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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · 1d

Excited for this 😊

Tobias Mann @tobiasmann.bsky.social · 1d

Say what you will about the hardware or the software, @tenstorrent.bsky.social's Blackhole QuietBox is a gorgeous bit of kit.

Full review is already in the works #AI #Workstation #watercooling #Tech

Side view of a Tenstorrent QuietBox (Blackhole) with the side panel removed.

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · Nov 29

With the next product launch season fast approaching, a reminder of the first question you should *always* be asking when a figure of merit is presented without context:

#HPC

A version of the goose chasing meme with the text changed to read “What type of FLOPS?!?!?”

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InstLatX64 @instlatx64.bsky.social · 8d

perhaps #VPMM ~= ACE...
bsky.app/profile/inst...

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InstLatX64 @instlatx64.bsky.social · 8d

#AMD & #Intel unified future instructions:
#FRED #AVX10 #ChkTag #ACE (=ACE (Advanced Matrix Extensions for Matrix Multiplication): www.amd.com/en/blogs/202...

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 9d

Happy #thanksgiving to my Canadian chums!

Here’s ten reprobate Massachusetts turkey found wandering around our back yard this afternoon to celebrate. 🤣

Mostly for @aspuru.bsky.social and @fclc.bsky.social

🇨🇦

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · 9d

Happy thanksgiving all!

Wishing you and your families a lovely Autumn filled with love and contentment!

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · 10d

Really nice Thesis on the current breadth of HPC tools, approaches and more: inria.hal.science/tel-05298148...

inria.hal.science

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · 14d

And thanks for the Mug!!! Was good fun!!

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · 18d

On the MBA vs MBP question, I’d go back to what you’re likely to be doing.

If it’s a travel and leisure machine with some productivity/code, the air is more than enough.

The pro is mainly for *many* external displays, or large, continuous workloads (think games, large modsim, big compile jobs)

FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · 18d

My opinions of Microsoft being what they are (“the best thing {they} sell is Linux servers”) I’d avoid windows.

If this is a machine to play *with*, lots of Linux options.

The best is likely going to be something like a FrameWork 14-16

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · 18d

What are your main constraints/workloads?

My unsurprising recommendation is going to be a 12-14inch MBA. Lovely little machines with great battery life and performance that’s disproportionately good.

Will you be using it for photo editing? Or mostly browsing?

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · 18d

In Chicago until Wednesday, would love to say hi if anyone is around 😊

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · 28d

Hey friends! At #ALL.IN in Montreal, would
Love to say hi!

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · Sep 23

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

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Tobias Mann @tobiasmann.bsky.social · Sep 12

Look what just landed in the lab

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · Sep 12

I may or may not have been involved in this 😇

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · Sep 9

Going to be a really, really fun machine!

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Torsten Hoefler 🇨🇭 @thoefler.bsky.social · Sep 8

New #ISC25 podcast with Kevin Jackson on ISC highlights on connecting everything, #AI vs. #HPC? No! HPC is the Engine for AI and AI is HPC.

Precision boosting, Ultra Ethernet, Reasoning Language Models, AI applications, and Supercomputing as driver for future societies!

Torsten Hoefler, ISC25 Program Chair, on Community, Connections, and the Vital Role of HPC and AI

Listen to Torsten Hoefler, ISC25 Program Chair, on Community, Connections, and the Vital Role of HPC and AI by Scaling Intelligence #np on #SoundCloud

buff.ly

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very interesting to me that it will only be a 6 X increase in DGEMM.

Fugaku is famously under provisioned for low precision flops, I must wonder if this is an over correction?

OGAWA, Tadashi @ogawa-tadashi.bsky.social · Sep 8

Huawei Unified Bus bsky.app/profile/ogaw...
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「富岳NEXT」開発体制始動記念式典及び記者会見、2025年8月22日 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPQY...
S. Matusoka www.r-ccs.riken.jp/wp/wp-conten...
(32枚) bsky.app/profile/ogaw...
近藤正章 www.r-ccs.riken.jp/wp/wp-conten...
FUJITSU-MONAKA-X: 1.4nm

NVLink Fusion bsky.app/profile/ogaw...

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OGAWA, Tadashi @ogawa-tadashi.bsky.social · Sep 8

Huawei Unified Bus bsky.app/profile/ogaw...
=>

「富岳NEXT」開発体制始動記念式典及び記者会見、2025年8月22日 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPQY...
S. Matusoka www.r-ccs.riken.jp/wp/wp-conten...
(32枚) bsky.app/profile/ogaw...
近藤正章 www.r-ccs.riken.jp/wp/wp-conten...
FUJITSU-MONAKA-X: 1.4nm

NVLink Fusion bsky.app/profile/ogaw...

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Chris Medland @chrismedlandf1.bsky.social · Sep 6

Grid for the Italian Grand Prix:

Verstappen
Norris
Piastri
Leclerc
Russell
Antonelli
Bortoleto
Alonso
Tsunoda
Hamilton (had qualified P5)

#F1 #ItalianGP

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · Sep 5

This was super fun! Thanks to @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social for the invitation and @epcc.bsky.social for hosting a lovely conference!

Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Was great fun teaching the @tenstorrent.bsky.social tutorial at @ieeexplore.bsky.social #CLUSTER with @fclc.bsky.social this week. And thanks Owain Kenway for finding (and fixing!) the bugs in the practical exercises ;) Great to introduce the architecture to new people!

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Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Was great fun teaching the @tenstorrent.bsky.social tutorial at @ieeexplore.bsky.social #CLUSTER with @fclc.bsky.social this week. And thanks Owain Kenway for finding (and fixing!) the bugs in the practical exercises ;) Great to introduce the architecture to new people!

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FCLC (home!) @fclc.bsky.social · Sep 1

Picturing all my AMD friends MULing over the current Zen5 bug

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · Aug 29

The £750m UK Next National Supercomputer will be hosted by EPCC and is expected to launch in 2027. In his Universities UK article, EPCC Director Prof. Mark Parsons explains why supercomputers are vital for research and discovery, from designing aircraft engines to drug discovery: edin.ac/45XUwwO

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