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George Porter

@georgemporter.bsky.social

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AWS S3 & UC San Diego professor Building networks and systems that enable high-performance, scalable, and sustainable computing and storage. https://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~gmporter

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Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 5d

Frame #3534 from 50s E22-23 outcast marbles

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 5d

I’m letting Claude pipe the output of an awk script it wrote to “xargs kill -9”

I’m sure that’s fine, right?

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 16d

Run to the store before the sell out? Gladly!

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 16d

Pumpkin spiced salmon at the grocery store

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 17d

I’m not, but I wish I was! An article like this would have been a real accomplishment for a 10 year old.

I think my biggest accomplishment that year was probably beating Zelda 2 on the NES if I recall correctly.

An academia email asking if I wrote an article in 1989

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 27

"The George"

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 20

There is a Pumpkin Beer festival in Seattle, featuring 60 pumpkin beers on tap. That is a shocking variety of pumpkin beers! 🎃🍺🎃🍺

A flyer for a pumpkin beer festival with 60 beers on tap

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 2

I'd like a 40% stake in this business in exchange for buying you two (2) beers the next time we hang out. Do we have a deal?

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 2

Very proud of my student Amanda Tomlinson, who just successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation: "Leveraging the Variability of Computing Resources and Renewable Energy to Lower the Carbon Footprint of Computing." Congrats Amanda!

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 2

Wait I misunderstood the original comment. I thought you were talking about cooling, not fire suppression. The liquid cooling is tap water, not some exotic 3M refrigerant.

Regarding the fire suppression, I have no idea. Probably water because I don't recall any Halon signs.

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 2

Fire Fighters entering a secure facility, you say?

Mission Impossible ( 1996 ) American LaFrance 900 Firetruck Scene

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 2

I recall Microsoft working with 3M(?) to develop some pretty exotic liquids for liquid cooling their datacenters.

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 2

No. It's not a very big space and there are now O(100) faculty in UCSD CSE. I believe there is going to be a recharge type situation for renting the space/power/cooling.

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 2

tap water (apparently... I asked twice to make sure)

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Aug 1

I got to see the new UCSD CSE machine room. The approach to cooling is dramatically different than the older machine room, with a focus on in-rack heat exchanging into liquid which is pumped out of the room. It's pretty neat, and quite impressive!

me in the new CSE datacenter, wearing a high-viz vest and hardhat

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Jul 15

"Variables" are by default immutable. But... the word variable means mutable??

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Alt: psyduck with a question mark on its head

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Jun 30

People say that Paxos is quite intimidating, but it looks really beautiful, tbh...

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Jun 28

Soon we'll have wood-paneled station wagons that are bulletproof!

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Jun 23

Finally submitted grades for the quarter

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Jun 22

I still can't get my computer to stop autocorecting Sigcomm to Sitcom, and I've decided to just run with it. Might add a laugh track and funny opening credit sequence to the opening session this year!

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Alt: a man in a red shirt is standing in front of a door with the words adult swim on it

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Jun 21

This looks like a very interesting weekend!

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thanks! I am taking a leave from UCSD and will be continuing to advise my current students remotely

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thank you!

George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Jun 20

Would love that!