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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett

@nicolehemsoth.bsky.social

VAST Data. Former Deputy Editor in Chief, The Register. Co-founder The Next Platform. Datacenter, chips, systems with a side of sauce.

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From Supercomputers to the Frontlines of AI Inference: Glenn Lockwood on Infrastructure That Lasts | Shared Everything In this episode of Shared Everything, Glenn Lockwood, just named Principal Technical Strategist at VAST Data, shares what decades at the bleeding edge of large-scale systems design have taught him abo...

Podcast: β€œSupercomputing used to be about going fast in one direction. In AI, that just drives you off a cliff faster.” β€” @glennklockwood.com Lockwood on why flexibility, not just performance, defines next-gen infrastructure. Now at VAST. shared-everything.simplecast.com/episodes/fro...

18.07.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Neat. RIKEN’s CGRA arch (research project/not product) systolic AI acceleration with FP64 HPC precision on a reconfigurable mesh. cogarchworkshop.org/assets/paper... #HPC #AI

27.06.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Aren’t We Building Datacenters Inside Wind Turbines? Embedding compute clusters in wind turbines matches AI workloads to renewable power, but cooling, latency, and reliability limit large-scale AI datacenter use.

Datacenters inside wind turbines? Aligns renewable power with flexible #AI workloads like model training but thermal challenges, latency headaches, and intermittent wind raise big questions about AI #datacenter readiness. #HPC www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

24.06.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can the Agentic Mesh Solve the Enterprise AI Paradox? McKinsey says Gen AI is stuck but banks, research firms, and others are quietly breaking through with AI agents and the "agentic mesh." Is this AI’s big pivot moment?

McKinsey says Gen AI is stuck: lots of hype, little bottom-line impact. But banks, research firms, and others are quietly breaking through with AI agents and something called the "agentic mesh." Is this AI’s big pivot moment? www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

17.06.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Why Everyone’s Talking About Sovereign Clouds (+Why the US Should Be Listening) Countries now see data as territory to protect. If the U.S. doesn't tune in, it might get tuned out.

Countries now see data as territory to protect. If the U.S. doesn't tune in, it might get tuned out.
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16.06.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Just my hydrangeas.

13.06.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Molecule or the Method? Inside Biotech’s Reckoning with AI In drug development, where timelines are long, costs high, and bets fail, any tool that helps reduce risk is worth keeping. But only if we’re honest about what it can’t do yet.

In drug development, where timelines are long, costs are high, and many bets fail, any tool that helps reduce risk is worth keeping. But only if we’re honest about what it can’t do yet. #AI - www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

11.06.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All things, with one exception, have to end

After years of sharing #HPC news and insights, it's time to log off

It was fun while it lasted and I remain grateful to all of you who followed and interacted

Stay curious, stay kind!

β€” @hpcguru.bsky.social signing off

#HPC #Farewell

11.06.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 3
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Intelligent Defense and the AI Revolution Antoine Bordes, ex-head of AI at Meta FAIR now leading AI at Helsing, discusses intelligent defense, data-driven warfare, and ethical AI integration in military applications.

Antoine Bordes, ex-head of AI at Meta FAIR now leading AI at Helsing, discusses intelligent defense, data-driven warfare, and ethical AI integration in military applications. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

09.06.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shared Everything Podcast From VAST Welcome to the Shared Everything podcast with new episodes airing every Friday.

TACC's Dan Stanzione on Horizon and how supercomputing is evolving beyond raw compute: real-time AI workflows, power efficiency, quantum futures, and why data rules the stack. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

07.06.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How NERSC Is Rewriting the Role of the Supercomputer In-depth with NERSC chief architect Nick Wright, we explore how the forthcoming Doudna machine redefines supercomputing to meet real-time demands of science.

An in-depth chat with NERSC chief architect Nick Wright exploring how the forthcoming NVIDIA Vera Rubin CPU+GPU Doudna machine redefines supercomputing to meet real-time demands of science. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt... #HPC #AI

02.06.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Pipelines, Power, and Parallel Worlds: Inside the Digital Twin Stack
YouTube video by VAST Data Pipelines, Power, and Parallel Worlds: Inside the Digital Twin Stack

Take a moment to dive into #DigitalTwin infrastructure and future work blending #HPC and #AI. I'm joined this week for the Shared Everything podcast by Wes Brewer from Oak Ridge National Lab and Adrian Jackson from EPCC. youtu.be/s-Y4SQ4etA4?...

30.05.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CoreWeave’s AI-Driven Pipeline Is Rewriting Hollywood’s Script CoreWeave is replacing Hollywood’s render farms with AI-native data engines that turn every frame into a dataset.

Some insight into how CoreWeave is replacing Hollywood’s render farms with AI-native data engines that turn every frame into a dataset. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

29.05.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick Over the past few years, Uncle Sam has made it progressively harder for US chip designers to flog their AI wares in China. But not impossible.…

Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China

28.05.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Everyone’s Talking About NVIDIA Dynamo (and Why It Actually Matters) Everyone's talking about NVIDIA Dynamo, but here's why disaggregation, KV caching, and smarter routing might actually rewrite inferenceβ€”and why GPU cache isn't enough.

Everyone’s talking about NVIDIA Dynamo... disaggregation, smarter routing, KV cache tricks: all solid moves. But behind the GPU inference magic, there’s a deeper infrastructure story nobody’s mentioning. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

28.05.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI’s Linux Moment is Already Happening Gen AI’s infrastructure crisis with costly inference, rigid stacks is driving an open, Linux-like shift and modular, community-built solutions are rewriting datacenter rules

GenAI’s infrastructure crisis of costly inference and rigid stacks is driving an open, Linux-like shift. Modular, community-built solutions are already rewriting datacenter rules as we saw with Red Hat's announce today (among other cues) www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

21.05.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My HS senior made the rounds to her old elementary school to see her 4th grade handprint on the wall and her youngest sister. I know it’s cliche ya’ll but time..it really does fly.

20.05.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Is Challenging the Old Efficiency Rules Jonathan Koomey’s take on AI’s rising power demands, the limits of computing efficiency, and whether Koomey’s Law still holds in the era of synthetic data and grid constraints.

Remember hearing about Koomey's Law? With AI in the mix, this datacenter energy figure just keeps more interesting. Here's my chat with Koomey filmed this week www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt...

16.05.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

James it was great to meet you today!

19.03.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lip-Bu Tan: Intel’s New – And Maybe Last – CEO In his letter to Intel employees, new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan, who starts his new job next Tuesday, tells them that he is β€œnever deterred by

Lip-Bu Tan: Intel’s new – and maybe last – CEO

Analysis and commentary here on Intel's future and its new boss www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/13/l...

13.03.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Is object storage taking over AI training? What comes after parallel file systems? How do we speed long-context #AI? Moderating a convo with AI Infra Architect at Microsoft, Glenn Lockwood and Jeff Denworth at #GTC. Have breakfast with me! -https://events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-breakfast-microsoft

12.03.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
VAST + Microsoft: Rethinking AI Training Infrastructure Speakers

If you are at #GTC this session has to be a priority:

1. Because of #HPC celebs involved - @glennklockwood.com @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social & Jeff Denworth

2. The important topic for #AI & #supercomputing - the future of #IO, #data and filesystems (or not)

events.vastdata.com/nvidia-gtc-b...

07.03.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Joins VAST Nicole Hemsoth Prickett explains why she’s joined VAST after almost two decades in media, and why she thinks VAST represents true industry disruption.

A Q&A that details why I am moving from reporting on the future to helping build it. Big change but for great reasons. www.vastdata.com/blog/nicole-...

06.03.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man is swinging a golf club in front of a bag that says callaway golf Alt: Jack O’Neil hits a golf club into the Stargate

I really wish these folks would stop naming their projects after perfectly good science fiction shows.

22.01.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beet not beer

05.01.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The scale of AI defies logic and yet it's still happening It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon

A terminal case of #AI fever: It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the #AI dragon

Million #GPU clusters, #gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/s...

#HPC via @tobiasmann.bsky.social @theregister.com

19.12.2024 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really? Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like AnalysisΒ  Nvidia is facing its stiffest competition in years with new accelerators from Intel and AMD that challenge its best chips on memory capacity, performance,…

Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?

17.12.2024 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh this looks right up my alley. And the spa just means uninterrupted time and full book immersion so yes, thanks

12.12.2024 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yes but have gone through them all. Cheers to your good taste though!

12.12.2024 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many refreshing things about being here but top of the list this week are all the book recommendations found via people I don’t follow directly. Open to more, it’s winter and I have a birthday spa weekend ahead. Just finished Fayne, took sci-fi break but ready for more. #Booksky (I’m guessing)

11.12.2024 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0