Phrase of the day "genesis content"
www.hpcwire.com/2026/05/22/g...
History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system
Tomorrow (Thursday, May 21), Brad Chamberlain and Jade Abraham will be giving an overview, update, and demo of Chapel at the Northwest C++ Users’ Group at 7pm PT. Attend in person in Bellevue WA, or online using Microsoft Teams.
nwcpp.org/May-2026.html
#hpc This Friday's exploit: ssh-keysign-pwm github.com/0xdeadbeefne...
Well that is wrap, Spring 2026 Big Data Management (aka scalable tools) at Lehigh University is done, grades submitted, 29 students now know about Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, ... and even a bit of Linux command line 😉
#HPC must read,
"FP8 is All You Need (Part 1):
Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail" from Satoshi Matsuoka
arxiv.org/pdf/2606.06510
In light of all the new potential Linux kernel "bugs," Jasper Nuyens created a simple script to place all unused modules (not currently loaded) in "module jail" i.e.the kernel cannot load them. Good temporary hygiene until things get cleaned up.
Read more here: github.com/jnuyens/modu...
Read how we designed and deployed Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a multi-company step towards Ultra Ethernet, at 800G in Microsoft's datacenters.
Demonstrated with a 75k GPU pretraining job running stably through multiple faults.
OpenAI blog: buff.ly/X0KL4Xy
Paper: buff.ly/I3OcXWn
Wow. Another HPC acceleration by AI paper. This is the way
At the Salishan HPC conference last week, I gave a talk called "AI doesn't need massive supercomputers after all!"
A couple people asked me for the slides (as crappy as they were), so here they are in hastily written blog format.
blog.glennklockwood.com/2026/05/ai-d...
#AI #HPC