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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jul 18

Podcast: “Supercomputing used to be about going fast in one direction. In AI, that just drives you off a cliff faster.” — @glennklockwood.com Lockwood on why flexibility, not just performance, defines next-gen infrastructure. Now at VAST. shared-everything.simplecast.com/episodes/fro...

From Supercomputers to the Frontlines of AI Inference: Glenn Lockwood on Infrastructure That Lasts | Shared Everything

In this episode of Shared Everything, Glenn Lockwood, just named Principal Technical Strategist at VAST Data, shares what decades at the bleeding edge of large-scale systems design have taught him abo...

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jun 27

Neat. RIKEN’s CGRA arch (research project/not product) systolic AI acceleration with FP64 HPC precision on a reconfigurable mesh. cogarchworkshop.org/assets/paper... #HPC #AI

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jun 24

Datacenters inside wind turbines? Aligns renewable power with flexible #AI workloads like model training but thermal challenges, latency headaches, and intermittent wind raise big questions about AI #datacenter readiness. #HPC www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

Why Aren’t We Building Datacenters Inside Wind Turbines?

Embedding compute clusters in wind turbines matches AI workloads to renewable power, but cooling, latency, and reliability limit large-scale AI datacenter use.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jun 17

McKinsey says Gen AI is stuck: lots of hype, little bottom-line impact. But banks, research firms, and others are quietly breaking through with AI agents and something called the "agentic mesh." Is this AI’s big pivot moment? www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

Can the Agentic Mesh Solve the Enterprise AI Paradox?

McKinsey says Gen AI is stuck but banks, research firms, and others are quietly breaking through with AI agents and the "agentic mesh." Is this AI’s big pivot moment?

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jun 16

Countries now see data as territory to protect. If the U.S. doesn't tune in, it might get tuned out.
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Why Everyone’s Talking About Sovereign Clouds (+Why the US Should Be Listening)

Countries now see data as territory to protect. If the U.S. doesn't tune in, it might get tuned out.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jun 13

Just my hydrangeas.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jun 11

In drug development, where timelines are long, costs are high, and many bets fail, any tool that helps reduce risk is worth keeping. But only if we’re honest about what it can’t do yet. #AI - www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

The Molecule or the Method? Inside Biotech’s Reckoning with AI

In drug development, where timelines are long, costs high, and bets fail, any tool that helps reduce risk is worth keeping. But only if we’re honest about what it can’t do yet.

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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · Jun 11

All things, with one exception, have to end

After years of sharing #HPC news and insights, it's time to log off

It was fun while it lasted and I remain grateful to all of you who followed and interacted

Stay curious, stay kind!

— @hpcguru.bsky.social signing off

#HPC #Farewell

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jun 9

Antoine Bordes, ex-head of AI at Meta FAIR now leading AI at Helsing, discusses intelligent defense, data-driven warfare, and ethical AI integration in military applications. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

Intelligent Defense and the AI Revolution

Antoine Bordes, ex-head of AI at Meta FAIR now leading AI at Helsing, discusses intelligent defense, data-driven warfare, and ethical AI integration in military applications.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jun 7

TACC's Dan Stanzione on Horizon and how supercomputing is evolving beyond raw compute: real-time AI workflows, power efficiency, quantum futures, and why data rules the stack. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

Shared Everything Podcast From VAST

Welcome to the Shared Everything podcast with new episodes airing every Friday.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jun 2

An in-depth chat with NERSC chief architect Nick Wright exploring how the forthcoming NVIDIA Vera Rubin CPU+GPU Doudna machine redefines supercomputing to meet real-time demands of science. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt... #HPC #AI

How NERSC Is Rewriting the Role of the Supercomputer

In-depth with NERSC chief architect Nick Wright, we explore how the forthcoming Doudna machine redefines supercomputing to meet real-time demands of science.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · May 30

Take a moment to dive into #DigitalTwin infrastructure and future work blending #HPC and #AI. I'm joined this week for the Shared Everything podcast by Wes Brewer from Oak Ridge National Lab and Adrian Jackson from EPCC. youtu.be/s-Y4SQ4etA4?...

Pipelines, Power, and Parallel Worlds: Inside the Digital Twin Stack

YouTube video by VAST Data

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · May 29

Some insight into how CoreWeave is replacing Hollywood’s render farms with AI-native data engines that turn every frame into a dataset. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

CoreWeave’s AI-Driven Pipeline Is Rewriting Hollywood’s Script

CoreWeave is replacing Hollywood’s render farms with AI-native data engines that turn every frame into a dataset.

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The Register @theregister.com · May 28

Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China

Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick Over the past few years, Uncle Sam has made it progressively harder for US chip designers to flog their AI wares in China. But not impossible.…

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · May 28

Everyone’s talking about NVIDIA Dynamo... disaggregation, smarter routing, KV cache tricks: all solid moves. But behind the GPU inference magic, there’s a deeper infrastructure story nobody’s mentioning. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

Why Everyone’s Talking About NVIDIA Dynamo (and Why It Actually Matters)

Everyone's talking about NVIDIA Dynamo, but here's why disaggregation, KV caching, and smarter routing might actually rewrite inference—and why GPU cache isn't enough.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · May 21

GenAI’s infrastructure crisis of costly inference and rigid stacks is driving an open, Linux-like shift. Modular, community-built solutions are already rewriting datacenter rules as we saw with Red Hat's announce today (among other cues) www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

AI’s Linux Moment is Already Happening

Gen AI’s infrastructure crisis with costly inference, rigid stacks is driving an open, Linux-like shift and modular, community-built solutions are rewriting datacenter rules

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · May 20

My HS senior made the rounds to her old elementary school to see her 4th grade handprint on the wall and her youngest sister. I know it’s cliche ya’ll but time..it really does fly.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · May 16

Remember hearing about Koomey's Law? With AI in the mix, this datacenter energy figure just keeps more interesting. Here's my chat with Koomey filmed this week www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

AI Is Challenging the Old Efficiency Rules

Jonathan Koomey’s take on AI’s rising power demands, the limits of computing efficiency, and whether Koomey’s Law still holds in the era of synthetic data and grid constraints.

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Mar 19

James it was great to meet you today!

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The Register @theregister.com · Mar 13

Lip-Bu Tan: Intel’s new – and maybe last – CEO

Analysis and commentary here on Intel's future and its new boss www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/13/l...

Lip-Bu Tan: Intel’s New – And Maybe Last – CEO

In his letter to Intel employees, new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan, who starts his new job next Tuesday, tells them that he is “never deterred by

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Mar 12

Is object storage taking over AI training? What comes after parallel file systems? How do we speed long-context #AI? Moderating a convo with AI Infra Architect at Microsoft, Glenn Lockwood and Jeff Denworth at #GTC. Have breakfast with me! -https://events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-breakfast-microsoft

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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · Mar 7

If you are at #GTC this session has to be a priority:

1. Because of #HPC celebs involved - @glennklockwood.com @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social & Jeff Denworth

2. The important topic for #AI & #supercomputing - the future of #IO, #data and filesystems (or not)

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VAST + Microsoft: Rethinking AI Training Infrastructure

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Mar 6

A Q&A that details why I am moving from reporting on the future to helping build it. Big change but for great reasons. www.vastdata.com/blog/nicole-...

Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Joins VAST

Nicole Hemsoth Prickett explains why she’s joined VAST after almost two decades in media, and why she thinks VAST represents true industry disruption.

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ajdecon @ajdecon.org · Jan 22

I really wish these folks would stop naming their projects after perfectly good science fiction shows.

a man is swinging a golf club in front of a bag that says callaway golf

Alt: Jack O’Neil hits a golf club into the Stargate

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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social · Jan 5

Beet not beer

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