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Product Manager, HPC at AWS // Allergic to Jargon Monoxide // Opinions mine alone
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Personally, I like to think #HPC at #AWS kicked off the annual #preinvent season with our August launch of AWS Parallel Computing Service. Check it out if you were on summer holiday or planning Labor Day festivities. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service
aws.amazon.com
Two big AWS PCS updates out today 👇
✅ Update cluster settings on the fly - no more rebuilds
✅ Fine-tune 60+ new Slurm parameters for scheduling, access, and resource control
More agility. More control. Same managed HPC experience.
🔗 Links in the comments
October 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Posted with alt text bc I fricking love this. No I couldn't find a pronunciation
February 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I've always loved the fact that the word 'sneeze' is the result of a historical accident. The original form, in the Middle Ages, was 'fnese', but someone mistook the 'f' for the long medieval 's' and wrote down 'sn-' instead.

Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.
January 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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December 19, 2024 at 8:39 PM
#HPC is… High Performing Coke-and-Coke-products
todays my birthday.

it’s also the day 16 years ago I discovered that a customer for the data center I worked at had racked 3 full cabinets with over $200k of brand new server hardware on top of $80 of canned soda from our customer lounge vending machine to avoid spending $600 on mounting rails
December 20, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Reminder Superman is not a power fantasy, he's an altruism fantasy.

The idea of someone with godlike powers using them solely for good (with an antagonist who is a billionaire, who by definition do the opposite) was dreamt up by Jewish kids in the 30s and its just as if not more relevant now.
December 19, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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why call ourselves The Museum of English Rural Life when WeRateHogs was right there
December 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM
I didn’t find this humerus
December 18, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Annual reminder:

Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.

Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
December 14, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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If someone wishes you "happy holidays," it doesn't mean they hate Christmas. They're simply acknowledging that there are *many* sacred observances that take place this month, including the anniversary of Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at George W Bush on this date in 2008.
December 14, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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Museums really are leaving money on the table by not selling more reproductions of Little Guys
Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys
December 12, 2024 at 11:25 AM
It’s actually Galadiator.
November 30, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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“what do you bring to the table?” bro, i am the table. reliable, versatile, a little wobbly, and occasionally covered in crumbs
November 30, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.
November 26, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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i know
i know
its serious
Hamster with a Blunderbuss
November 22, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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who made this? it's gold. hat tip to whoever did.

#SC24
November 23, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Personally, I like to think #HPC at #AWS kicked off the annual #preinvent season with our August launch of AWS Parallel Computing Service. Check it out if you were on summer holiday or planning Labor Day festivities. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service
aws.amazon.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:40 PM
It me.
November 22, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Nobody else follow me
November 17, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Arrived in ATL for #SC24 - looking forward to seeing old friends and new.
November 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Speaking of #HPC nerds … we have some rather special nerd shirts at our booth in Atlanta this year.

Don’t forget to pick one up. They went kinda quick last year.
This place is BUSY! Thar be #HPCers in those feeds. I need a “follow everyone back” button.

Welcome HPC Nerds. So nice to see you all again.
kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
ALT: kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
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November 14, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Coming down to Earth to attend #SC24. Drop by the #AWS booth 2501 to say hi and catch up on all the cool stuff we’ve been building.
November 17, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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These are seriously cool.
November 15, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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OK, let's try this to show the HPC community already has momentum and can thrive here on Bluesky ...

If #HPC or #supercomputing is of interest to you, please interact with this post in some way - either repost, quote, like, reply with insights or just your fav gif, tag friends, etc.
November 13, 2024 at 11:21 PM