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Robert Thoelen

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High Performance Computing/Scientific Computing, Linux system administration, amateur radio are my interests. Presbyterian elder interested in theology and science. IEEE CT Section Officer. Opinions my own.

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Just wondering for those that follow me, do you use Google Gemini? I’m considering subscribing, but wondering what people use it for?

06.06.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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IEEE CT Section is a community partner at this event. Check out our table while you are there!

For more information, go to bit.ly/yaleinnovati...

16.05.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy New Year.

May 2025 bring us all: a large amount of love, enough hard work to make us proud, full-throated joy, the ability to grow.

And most of all, may it bring us the stamina to pause, or perchance to retreat for a bit, but never, ever to give up.

01.01.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 232    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

Happy New Year! Looking forward to another year of keeping HPC systems running and developing new strategies.

01.01.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chernobyl should be required viewing for SREa or anyone that deals with incidents in complex systems.

30.12.2024 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Home - MGHPCC Thank you for visiting our virtual booth! From this page, you can check out featured projects, visit landing pages for each of our member universities, see our schedule of live talks and chat with mem...

I presume ISO-NE is ISO New England. I know there are probably other areas of the country with more expensive power than us, but I've heard expensive power is why datacenters aren't usually built in NE. An exception would be MGHPCC. www.mghpcc.org

10.12.2024 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Those were the days of 1200 baud over the air, with latency measured around 8-15 seconds for RTT. The TCP/IP stacks were tuned to not time out due to the longer latency. I once downloaded a 300k pkzip installer in about 3-4 hours. Took a long time but was successful!

07.12.2024 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zero Retries 0179 2024-11-22 β€” 2300+ Subscribers!, What’s New at DLARC 2024-11, Explaining Data Over Repeater - Part 1, WB2CBA / DX-FT8 FT8 Multiband Tablet Transceiver, New Yaesu FTM-150RASP β€œData Radio”, SharkRF M1KE

In the mid-90s, we had an amateur radio data repeater near me like this article mentions for TCP/IP. The system here in CT worked really well.

www.zeroretries.org/p/zero-retri...

07.12.2024 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Voip.ms is a great provider if you want low-cost VOIP services, but it is very much DIY with all the settings. Getting Groundwire and other VOIP clients to work take a bit of adjusting to get SIP-TLS to work, as there are a bunch of advanced settings to configure in both places.

06.12.2024 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On Giving Tuesday made some donations and renewed USENIX membership. I noticed the ATC '25 meeting will be in Boston next year. Might be able to attend that one!

03.12.2024 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve always wondered this about professional society leaders. The number of conferences and events every week they attend while holding leadership positions at a company seem to be staggering. I don’t know how I’d get my work done.

02.12.2024 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm fine being atypical on these types of things. I've had home automation products stop working soon after the warranty is up. Not interested in paying lots of $$$ every few years just to have everything automated.

29.11.2024 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

21/22. I was in the tutorial, was very insightful. Thanks to you and the group that ran it.

24.11.2024 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome!

23.11.2024 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think with the right venue more people are fine. I have thought that Denver and Dallas have been the best venues for me. This year was good, but tons more walking and having to go up and down escalators made it seem a bit more cumbersome than normal. Got my exercise in but really wiped out!

22.11.2024 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, this is a great benefit from my employer. It creates a force multiplier for intentional giving!

22.11.2024 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

any experts on Bluesky know if I change my .bsky.social to a domain name, if I want to change the domain name in the future to another one or go back, does it mess up any links or references to the account?

22.11.2024 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Since I’m in industry, I haven’t used EDUroam. What is the advantage for academic users in signing into that network? Are you able to get back to your institution without using a VPN? Or if your device is already configured, you don’t have to sign in to the SC network? #hpc #sc24

20.11.2024 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Just finished volunteering at the SIGHPC booth. Always good to network with others and encourage students!

18.11.2024 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My advice would be to leverage the digital experience if a room is crowded, and if you want to meet with someone, schedule it before going to SC if possible. The conference is large so it is challenging to meet up.

18.11.2024 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Atalian was great

18.11.2024 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looks like a good crowd at #SC24 today!

17.11.2024 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I’ve found that turning off bluetooth when in packed sessions on a MacBook may save on CPU / energy usage. Not sure how much battery savings it provides, but was surprised how much the bluetoothd process starts to work. #sc24

17.11.2024 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for posting the schedule!

17.11.2024 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heading out to #sc24 soon!

16.11.2024 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was the first community I looked for when I got off X a year ago. Glad it’s coming together now!

14.11.2024 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s great to see many HPC practitioners here since I got off X last year!

12.11.2024 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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80 degrees F in CT today! Nice day for a walk.

01.11.2024 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No just did VARAC and js8 today

26.10.2024 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

10meters seems to have been open most of the day today from the east to west coast. Lots of stations heard on VARAC. #hamradio

26.10.2024 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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