Dan Ernst

The Era of Tape is upon us, at last!

Yeah, it's 100% at the cabinet level but not the server level.

I got to visit the early access system for NERSC’s upcoming Doudna supercomputer. A TALL order of GB200s. Surprisingly noisy.

#HPC

In Memoriam: Remembering Mike Flynn Michael J. Flynn is a widely respected contributor—indeed a giant—in the field of Computer Architecture.  He made highly significant and impactful contributions throughout his career, both in indus…

R.I.P. Mike Flynn, processor architect and professor.
One of the designers of the awesome IBM 360 model 91.

NVIDIA Acquires Open-Source Workload Management Provider SchedMD NVIDIA will continue to distribute SchedMD’s open-source, vendor-neutral Slurm software, ensuring wide availability for high-performance computing and AI.

As hybrid #HPC + #AI + #Quantum workflows become more prevalent, orchestration of complex systems is becoming a key component of successful deployment. Looking forward to accelerating these capabilities for the open-source community.

SC'25 recap The annual SC conference was held last week, drawing over 16,000 registrants and 560 exhibitors to in St. Louis, Missouri to talk ab...

I wrote up my notes from #SC25. Have a look: blog.glennklockwood.com/2025/12/sc25...

I’ll keep picking away at the editing, but would love to hear more from others about what stood out to them. I wasn’t at the conference itself as much this years as in the past, so I know I missed a lot.

#HPC

The future of supercomputing will be AI accelerated Interview: Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing

www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/f...

You're right, it's not dead! 😁

Ozaki does not replace FP64. It just makes DGEMM faster. Why is that bad?

That was the best analogy, though!

The future of supercomputing will be AI accelerated Interview: Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing

The future of supercomputing will be AI accelerated • The Register share.google/7ImYZdHWRsOf...

Hey #SC25 - we have a surprise for you...

Reminds me of Seattle in 2011. Didn't want to be a vendor in the "kid's table" hall.

Same. Not even close.

My 13yo showed me this passage in a book he was reading the other day. My response: "yeah, I've got one of those (blades) in my office". 😄

Yeah, this has been a go-to for years. Becoming especially important lately trying to find facts in the AI hype cycles.

Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test Charlie Munger identifies the two types of knowledge and shows us how to distinguish between those with Chauffeur knowledge and those with Planck knowledge.

See also: fs.blog/two-types-of...

Blog :: The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex Blog :: Don’t fall into the trap of being an expert before you’re ready. We have enough of those.\n\n

www.behance.net/blog/the-cre...

wut

The only office in the Twin Cities was for educational software and Office trainings, last I looked.

That would have been super valuable

The extra fun trivia is that I posted that message while sitting at the project kick-off meeting in Tokyo. :-)

That's a DFMA target number. Not GEMM.

To be chosen to participate in the design of the next iteration is a massive honor for us.

Through this partnership, we aim to develop a scientific discovery ecosystem based on the full integration of simulation and AI. We hope this work will benefit not only Japan, but also researchers worldwide.

RIKEN, Japan’s Leading Science Institute, Taps Fujitsu and NVIDIA for Next Flagship Supercomputer Japan is once again building a landmark high-performance computing system — not simply by chasing speed, but by rethinking how technology can best serve the nation’s most urgent scientific needs. At t...

Those who have been around #HPC a while know the historical significance (and probably the names) of Japan's flagship supercomputers. They always push the boundaries of technology, but in ways that are driven uniquely by the needs of Japan.

blogs.nvidia.com/blog/fugakun...

Those numbers were from their feasibility study and not necessarily where the design will land.

Not enough parallelism to saturate either.

For some reason, my three day weekends don't produce things like this...

Just confirming - despite the best efforts of the Minnesota Twins front office, I was *not* traded to Philidelphia this week. #Twins

Congrats, Glenn! Hope you enjoy the new gig! 🥳

Isambard-AI Now Fully Operational, Supporting Cancer Research and AI Security July 17, 2025 — Faster, more accurate cancer diagnoses and new clean-energy innovations are some of the key breakthroughs which are now closer to reality as the UK’s most powerful […]

Isambard-AI Now Fully Operational, Supporting Cancer Research and AI Security
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I, too, was once highlighted by DCD once on a move (to Azure).

Enjoy the ego stroke 😁

This is a well-known Minnesota-ism, so I've been polluted from birth.

If it makes you feel better, it bugs the heck out of my wife.