With initiatives like AmSC, Genesis, and NG-HPCC, it's obvious that the "HPC center of the future" is very cloud-like. What gives me pause is whether staffing and mindset are ready for a focus on infrastructure innovation. I think I saw this coming. 🙃 https://www.authorea.com/users/872044/articles/1252755-infrastructure-engineering-a-missing-undervalued-role-in-the-software-ecosystem

Happy holidays, folks! 🥞

Whether you like latkes or roast (I am privy to both) I hope you enjoy the holiday, and make time for dancing and time with friends and family. I haven't reflected fully on the year yet (still adventures to be had) but man, it was great! 🥳

https://youtu.be/jA2J9TbE9OA

When you submit your talk, make sure to select "Project Meeting: Flux" under Topic/Track. You do not need to be an expert or long time user to contribute! If you have a talk related to scheduling or practical experiences that would solicit good discussion, we'd love to have you! 💙

If you care about the intersection of high performance software and open source, we are pleased to announce that #FluxFramework will have a project meeting at the #HPSF 2026 Conference in Chicago next March! Please respond to the CFP to be a part of it!

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/hpsf-conference/program/cfp/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vsoch/115730489724283209

And please engage with us! We are joining #HPSF soon and looking to grow the community and provide support to our users. We need to understand use cases and what folks are looking for. We will best figure this out if you ask questions, and tell us what you need. 🙏

We are getting a lot of questions about #FluxFramework! 🎉 If you are new to the project, this is the right one: https://flux-framework.org/. You can most quickly get to the devs via an issue on flux-core on GitHub, or ping us in the hpc.social slack or here. ☎️

Let us know the questions you have! 🤓

Google made an end of year video, but it was bad. I made my own. This year was about adventure, pushing limits, and growth. This is a small glimpse of that. Thank you to everyone that has supported me and filled this year with so much joy... encore! 🥳

https://youtu.be/F8qoEXjTJlI

And a fun Easter egg! At the SC Gelato Club event in a group picture https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7397105742522171392 I'm looking down at something. That something is the HPC social sticker, our retro 80's and ninja turtle inspired dinosaur! I was lost in my head for a second enjoying his sparkle. ✨

Thank you! 🙏

The automation is neat - filling out a web form opens a GitHub issue. A maintainer can label the issue with "approve-event" and it triggers a workflow that updates and deploys the calendar and closes the issue.

Please provide discussion and feedback here 👉 https://github.com/hpc-social/hpc-social.github.io/discussions/51.

We've just updated the https://hpc.social events calendar and feed, and we are looking for event contributions and feedback.

📅 View the calendar: https://hpc.social/events/
🖥️ Code on GitHub: https://github.com/hpc-social/events

Strength of the body extends to the mind, and our daily work. If we learn to push our physical limits and embrace discomfort, our relative perception of what is hard completely changes.

I am absolutely certain that nerds rule the world! 🤓

Affirmation! 🙌

Another 1990s throwback - jamming while driving with imaginary drums. This is dedicated to my Dad. Many good memories rocking out to this song! 🥰

https://youtu.be/my-xEWC1pe4

Would it really be a proper Monday without some terrible, extraordinarily fun dancing? 🪩

https://youtu.be/_kQFsdsLsE8

Happy Monday everyone! 😘

Cruisin'! 😎

First track run on a *gorgeous* track! I'm not sure this PR counts, but hell, I'll take it! 💪

Dinosaur pro tip: 👆 When someone judges you or questions your technical ability, just quietly remember that you can kick their @#ss. 😉

We used state machines to orchestrate a complex #HPC workload in #Kubernetes, and performed a Usability study across #Azure, #GoogleCloud, and #AWS with over 28K CPU and 256 GPU that resulted in over 26K datasets!

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3731599.3767583
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3731599.3767353

To be presented at #SC25

Felt like noodle dancing today - throw back to 1999 and Lou Bega! 🙌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGQZvV-OIOA

Belated Halloween Dance! 🎃

My dancing is terrible, but the important part is that I had fun. Happy belated Halloween!

https://youtu.be/LSabqdDAioE

This is a progressive tempo run, where you start easily and go up to a comfortably fast pace. There is something to say about strength (of heart and muscle) per unit of body weight! I can't win otherwise. 😆

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And so it begins! Is lifting the bar hard for me? Yes. Is my shirt inside out? Also yes. Am I going to be consistent, and steadfast in my ability to manifest what I want in life? HELL yes. 👏