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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 8d

Eye-opening since leaving MSFT: how many buyers are out there who just want to turn space+power into $$$. They have zero interest in #AI; it's just the next BTC. This is for them.

How this $130 billion energy management company is fueling Nvidia’s infrastructure growth www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/h...

How this $130 billion energy management company is fueling Nvidia’s infrastructure growth

Schneider announced in June it would collaborate with Nvidia to serve the growing demand for sustainable, AI-ready infrastructure.

www.cnbc.com

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 9d

I couldn't wait to get early access to Copilot for Office when I worked at Microsoft. But as soon as I got it, I realized I always got better results (and infinitely fewer random timeout errors) when I fell back to ChatGPT.

I'm only paying for one AI service, and Copilot can't beat ChatGPT.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 9d

Although I am not officially attending OCP this year, I will be participating in an early morning breakfast panel that will discuss future directions of #AI infrastructure. If you'll be in San Jose that week, consider attending!

solidigm.techarena.ai/ocp-panel/

#shameless #selfpromotion

Navigating the AI Compute Curve: Adoption of Efficiently Scalable Data Center Solutions

Join Solidigm and industry experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities managing, optimizing, and cooling today’s data centers.

solidigm.techarena.ai

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 10d

No, not a fan of the sweets. Closest I came was a small spoonful of rømmegrøt.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 10d

Time for my vacation in North Dakota to come to an end. I can fly to either Denver or Denver. I guess I’m flying to Denver.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 13d

The funny thing is, Americans (and Canadians) of Norwegian descent eat more lutefisk than actual Norwegians do. At that point, is it really a Norwegian tradition?

(Source: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/scand...)

Scandinavians’ Strange Holiday Lutefisk Tradition

People in the Old Country won’t touch the stuff, but immigrants to the American Midwest have celebrated it for generations

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 13d

A+. I didn’t even remember that episode til I saw it on the lutefisk wikipedia page. Your King of the Hill knowledge is noteworthy

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 13d

Lefse is hard to pass up. My wife makes it. But lutefisk…she won’t touch it, and certainly won’t make it.

Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 13d

Here is the lutefisk (bottom right) that I had for dinner. If you don’t know what that is, it’s worth looking up. Sounds way worse than it tastes.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 14d

Here’s the klub I had for lunch. Hard to see the ~cm of melted butter at the bottom of the container.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 14d

I’m in North Dakota this week celebrating Scandinavian heritage.

That liquid on top is butter.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 15d

I like Garth but this decision doesn’t really scream “modern and innovative.” If you stack the C-suite of an AI company with #HPC people, you wind up with an HPC company.

chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 15d

VDURA names RAID pioneer Garth Gibson as CTO - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/23/v...

VDURA names RAID pioneer Garth Gibson as CTO – Blocks and Files

VDURA has appointed RAID and parallel file system developer Garth Gibson as its first chief technology and AI officer.

blocksandfiles.com

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 16d

Third(!) earthquake today, all centered along the Hayward fault in Berkeley. Not a huge fan of this.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 16d

I vibe coded(ish) a numerical analysis of tens of thousands of checkpoints pulled from tens of millions of GPU-hours of production telemetry, and it just passed (lightweight) peer review.

Next stop: dodging tomatoes on stage at #SC25.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 18d

VAST is the first job I’ve ever had where I didn’t have access to my own supercomputer, so I’ve never had a reason to run MPI over any home networks.

Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 18d

Ultra Ethernet is attractive from that standpoint. You can run it over any Ethernet-compatible router, even home wifi junk. Gets you further than just using the Linux TCP stack, and you can see how its perf improves with better NICs and switches.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 18d

Agreed 100%. But I don’t think Raspberry Pi is going to provide good exposure to those issues since its I/O subsystem is so minimal.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 18d

That’s the thing—it’s fun, and it gets people interested in exploring parallel computing. But it’s not a cost-effective way to teach anything beyond the concepts. MPI runs just fine on VMs or containers on a basic laptop.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 18d

Yes! This is exactly what I was hoping that someone has articulated. Also helps me figure out how to avoid going down that road.

I am also amazed you had this article locked and loaded. Clearly I am not the only one among us who’s thought about this 🙂

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Reposted by Glenn K. Lockwood

Dan Ernst @ernstdj.bsky.social · 18d

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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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 18d

Amazes me that people can claim to be an expert, regurgitate what others have said, and have audiences actually believe they are visionary. Do they truly drink their own kool aid, or do they know that they are actors on a stage? Genuinely curious what it takes to be that kind of person.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 19d

Also, check out the earthworks being done in preparation for their upcoming Doudna system. Going to require a lot of cooling!

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 19d

Visited some of my old pals at @nersc.bsky.social this afternoon. It feels like a lot has changed, but at the same time, it’s the same old place. I do miss working here, but am glad I now get a chance to visit under the auspices of my new role at VAST.

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 19d

Breaking news everyone: spending $3K on Raspberry Pis does not get you anything close to a productive #HPC system.

There’s a reason people don’t do this.

www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-...

I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster | Jeff Geerling

www.jeffgeerling.com

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 20d

I assume this +$4b buildout is the huge site next door to the just-disclosed Fairwater site. If you consider this a single "datacenter," this is what a ~gigawatt AI supercomputer is going to look like in 2027.

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