Alan Sill

Physics/cloud/data centers/HPC. This one's for personal viewpoints/tech stuff I find cool. For official work look elsewhere, for example at the metadata links here. Open to questions and try to reply. One of the admins here on mast.hpc.social

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🦜 High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPCinsidehpc.com@rss-parrot.net
2025-05-22

Soluna to Launch Solar-Powered Data Center with 75MW Project

insidehpc.com/2025/05/soluna-to-launch-solar-powered-data-center-with-75-mw-project

ALBANY, N.Y.–Soluna Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLNH), a developer of green data centers for intensive computing applications, including Bitcoin mining and AI, announced today that it has signed a term sheet for power for Project Annie, a new 75 MW data center…

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2025-05-22

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0

A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).
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2025-05-21

🚨 *Attention!* We were made aware of a fake “KeePassXC Password Manager Pro” repository on GitHub that links to unverified external binary downloads.
- There is NO Pro version of KeePassXC!
- You get all the “Pro” features with the regular version.
Please download KeePassXC only from trusted distribution channels linked on keepassxc.org/ !

Screenshot of the fake “KeePassXC Pro - Ultimate Security Solution” README.Screenshot of the fake Pro features.
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2025-05-21

Time to make 2024 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread.

If you like these, the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon is out.

worldscientific.com/worldscibo

2025-05-20

@rupdecat Just click the “Not now” button.

2025-05-20

I’d love to hear about other successful projects in this area and how we can make participation in single board computer cluster competitions and integration f these methods into classrooms and course development more of a regular thing and less of an exception. Thanks for any pointers to others who are doing that also.

2025-05-20

I gave a talk today to the “Building Research in Community Colleges in TX” (BRICCS-TX) project about some of our work at Texas Tech aimed at bringing our own graduate students and undergraduates up to speed with HPC concepts and methods using single board computer clusters and the evolution of our ideas and their implementation in this area. The slides are at the link below in PDF format. texastechuniversity-my.sharepo

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Serhii Nazarovetsserhii@mstdn.science
2025-05-19

Scientific data is never more vulnerable than in a crisis: wars, pandemics, cyberattacks & more. Join for #webinar on how to protect, store & preserve research data in turbulent times.

📅 21 May | ⏰12:00 UTC

đź”—Register: interacademies.org/event/iap-i

#OpenData #OpenScience #FAIR #FAIRdata #CARE #Ukraine

IAP-ISC Webinar: Safeguarding Scientific Data in Times of Crisis
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Em :official_verified:Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
2025-05-17

New word proposition: Botsplain

When you ask a question and instead of genuinely trying to answer or simply admitting "I don't know" someone asks a generative AI and feed you that garbage answer against your consent.

#NoAI #AI

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2025-05-14

Rustls Server-Side Performance Looking Very Good Compared To OpenSSL

Rustls as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language has long been showing promising performance and competitive to OpenSSL and other alternatives. In a fresh exploration of Rustls server-side performance, it's easily beating OpenSSL...
phoronix.com/news/Rustls-Serve

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Josh Aas 🇺🇦joshaas@infosec.exchange
2025-05-14

We created a safer AV1 decoder, rav1d, by forking the dav1d decoder and rewriting the C code in Rust. It works well except our Rust is 5% slower than the C. We're not sure why so we're offering a $20k bounty to figure it out and make the Rust code faster. memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-pe

2025-05-09

@rupdecat @jannem For us, it’s covered in our documentation and the general policy that any software used on the cluster must be used in conformance with its license.

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nirik :fedora: :redhat:nirik@fosstodon.org
2025-05-09

I sure hope we can all rally around OSUOSL and get them the funding they need to continue their invaluable work.

#fedora has a server hosted there that provides a number of vm's as well as a power10 instance for package maintainers to test their packages on power10.

They have touched so many open source communities!

If you have a way to help them, please do!

osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl

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2025-05-09

RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.

science.org/content/article/ex

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Society of RSEResearchSoftEng
2025-05-09

📣 This is your regular reminder that the Society has funding available to support various community Events and Initiatives. Generally, grants of up to £1,000 can be awarded for activities which support our mission statement and charitable objectives.

For more information, or to apply, click here: society-rse.org/policy-for-soc

2025-05-09

@jannem @rupdecat
Oh, not this stuff again.

TL;DR use miniforge which sets up only free repos by default and as you mentioned, avoid the anaconda channels. (NOT miniconda.)

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2025-05-09

🟥 The recording of the webinar introducing the Research Software Maintenance Fund is now available on the SSI's YouTube channel, offering those who missed the live event a chance to review the information. Access the video, slides, and Q&A document at:
software.ac.uk/news/recording-

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2025-05-06

If Columbia agrees to this, it should just rename itself Trump University.

wsj.com/us-news/education/trum

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2025-05-06

The Scicodes Consortium is running a survey on research software challenges, in order to inform future actions around suitable infrastructure.

Audience: research software developers, engineers, repository/registry managers, curators, publishers, or/and librarians.

The survey is anonymous, the results will be published openly.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

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