Great question, @glennklockwood.com! Here’s the AI Factory Lego set I left #SC25 with. I hope this answers your questions. 🤪😂

Wait, have I always known we are mutual Jersey kids? 🤣🤯

After seeing all of the floor traffic and boxes, major props to whoever shot this video and made it look this awesome!

Well 18k was also a record high. This is still 2nd highest.

Bonus: Ask me about our sunflower pins.

Our on-prem s3 is nightmare-ish to maintain. Should the monitoring team be looking to add VAST as the future vmstorage/backup backend? 🤔

at the finest granularity possible. Not everyone is as grounded in the reality of the ask. I love that bit from our switch vendor. Equally good - when a popular fs vendor said, "sure, you could have the best telemetry ever from our backend - but you'd get 0% fs performance." These are my people. 😜

Looks awesome! Hope you have an awesome workshop!!

Also, yay Bill! :D @nersc.bsky.social is lucky to have him. 😁

But ultimately the appeal of the field is how much can rapidly change when the underlying principles remain the same. With quantum, the underlying principles change yet again. I thrive on the lifelong learning aspect, even when new things are fast & furious. 🤩

One of my fave things about tech is that it is ever-changing, always evolving. In the trenches, I sometimes wish the release lifecycle was a bit less breakneck these days. And always approach the newness w/ the caution of cybersec, ethics, and a healthy dose of human-in-the-loop still important.

I shared with my colleague that this is arguably the best news I've ever received at the top of a ladder while pulling cable in the data center! In actuality: my personal best top-of-ladder news ever! Anyone have another fun story of receiving awesome #HPC news in-situ of the architecture? 😅

After ASI? And here I thought Agent Reese won the war!

Lots of cool advantages of off-prem / cloud too - more easy integration w/ new and emerging tech.

The fun thing about an engineering degree is that the old adage never dies, despite evolving technology - choose 2; good, cheap, fast. Warms my heart to know we're all still grounded in this foundation

Especially true when using on-prem resources - while you save on an ever-evolving "cloud cost model," the upfront $$$ amount for on-prem may looks exorbitant on outset. Same time, you've gotta price out annual licensing vs on-prem. It becomes extremely trade-off--based and nuanced as you scale.

We're here to help! But if you're a newbie breaking in, while we welcome every new person, all ideas, and are always open to improvement... my only caution is the same to any engineer as it was told to me too - "you don't know what you don't know." And in this case, historical knowledge matters. 😜