Andrew Jones (hpcnotes)

Listening to #SCAsia / #HPCAsia closing session keynote by Kathy Yelick on how the community of #HPC must adapt in the new world of computing driven by #AI …

Had a good chat over lunch yesterday with @thoefler.bsky.social about a most important topic of mutual interest …

… airline miles/points and qualities 😁

I wonder how many other people in #HPc are geeks on this topic?

Rio Yokota on the #SCA2026 fishbowl panel: "I don't think humans are in any way more trustworthy than an advanced AI" - "In the same way we trust other humans, we could develop trust to AIs" - "If people or AI generate code - how do we know there is no bug inside?" profound thoughts by a wise man.

Amirreza Rastegari - benchmarking expert from Microsoft #HPC / #AI engineering group - giving talk at #SCAsia / #HPCAsia on Azure HBv5 clusters using AMD CPUs with HBM plus InfiniBand interconnect - enabling sector-leading #HPC application performance via huge memory bandwidth

Noooooooo!!

#ExaFlops not ExaFlop

#SCAsia / #HPCAsia

The future of #AI infrastructure is AND NOT OR 😁

Microsoft will have AI running on #MAIA200 and successors + more #Nvidia #GPUs + more #AMD GPUs + a few others things we aren’t talking about publicly yet.

Exciting times to be part of thinking, planning, delivering all this.

The exhibition is much much smaller, and the structured opportunities for informal networking (eg receptions) aren’t as many or vibrant, but those will grow if the event keeps growing.

At 2500 attendees, good spread of international attendance, lots of good talks/papers, can we argue that the combined #SCAsia + #HPCAsia is finally joining SC and ISC to form a “big three” annual event of #supercomputing instead of just the traditional “big two”?

Great talk as always by @thoefler.bsky.social - fully of enthusiasm with mix of technical and asides - but we need to have a chat about legibility of your slides! 😁 (Eg red text on green background)

Keynote at #SCAsia / #HPC Asia

@thoefler.bsky.social being introduced by Rio Yokota

#UltraEthernet for Next Generation #AI and #HPC workloads

#SCAsia / #HPCAsia

Fair point on Leoni,

I meant aura of moving quickly to secure targets before they had chance to look elsewhere for more money - Guehi was ready to sign with us in summer - maybe should have focused on getting him over line earlier in window.

But couldn’t know VVD/Konate form would drop so much.

Yes. Although sadly a season too late. And our #1 target now gone to our main rivals of recent years.

Not just on pitch we’ve lost our aura - no longer heralded for aura of excellence in player deals (in & out).

The biggest problem I think is not Slot but is Hughes’ bungled summer transfer window.

Investing so much cash and effort in Isak and failing to secure Guehi was a big miss.

Then big drop in form of VVD especially, plus Konate.

That put team and Slot in tough position for season.

My first time at #SCAsia/#HPCAsia this week. I don’t have a crazy preset agenda as I would at SC/ISC, so looking forward to having time to explore new experiences, hopes, and perspectives on #HPC and #AIinfra, meet people, etc.

Impressive altitude on my flight earlier today

Sunset HND airport

I have voucher A to get [thing] for $20.

I also have voucher B to get same [thing] for $0.

However, voucher B is not working … and I have now spent a lot more than $20 worth of my time trying to make it work … and won’t be giving up any time soon yet …

😂

I’m still hanging on to a drawer full of blank CDs and DVDs just in case …

Impossible.

Using someone else’s smartphone and being unable to use it easily because they HAVE ALL THEIR APPS IN THE WRONG ORDER!!

A good game of Christmas-time family Monopoly should extend over multiple days and cause at least three big arguments and end with “we are not playing this next year”.

You mean we host a community curated HPC/AI events page on HPC social? And I can just point to it from my page? That’s a great idea!

😁

To be fair that comment has been there long before I joined a hyperscaler - it’s a comment on the applicability of best practiced on HPC procurement/strategy etc - and there are different contexts below a certain amount - eg diff procurement rules maybe.

interested in your suggestions for the pages on #HPC/#AI events, and relevant news/analysis publications, podcasts, social media, etc.

hpcnotes Who am I?

It worked. New www.hpcnotes.com site up and running …

That tense moment when you switch what your primary domain and sub-domains urls point to … and your entire online presence evaporates for several long minutes while waiting for the DNS updates to go live and spread … the tension to see if you made a mess of the DNS edits …

In what is now a solid tradition, the most important post-SC event ... publication of Glenn's SC notes!

#HPC #SC25 #supercomputing #HPCignites

Exactly.

A dozen vendors supplying essential web functionality you could make a case for.

Hundreds? Nope. No case at all. It’s just an over-entangled web of non-essential tracking and crud that takes up bandwidth.