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Probably peoples' stances (?!) - my apologies in advance to followers of Garner's Modern English and also the grammar police 😜

People's stance on this quote, whether they're hearing it for the first time or heard it long ago, still is a great indicator of how I'll jive with someone.

Bonus points if they love the earworm version youtu.be/zSgiXGELjbc?... 🥰

#astillmoregloriousdawnawaits

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And yeah.. I am serving ALLLLL of that data in hot/warm via @victoriametrics.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 #storagemasters

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One of the most delicious vendor tickets I get to write is when they claim loss of sensitivity of a sensor (which DOES happen regularly btw - just not coincidentally on sales cycle) - tonight my supporting evidence was the past 999 days of data - actual tf: 2022-12-05 01:17:50 to 2025-08-30 04:32:52

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Ty for being a wonderful place to learn, play, & even compete for fun! #Alameda is lucky to have you in the #EastBay!

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Yes, these will be the vibes waking up tomorrow knowing I am going in to rack the first ever commodity-tier servers into @nersc.bsky.social's OMNI HPC centerwide monitoring infra!

Great question, @glennklockwood.com! Here’s the AI Factory Lego set I left #SC25 with. I hope this answers your questions. 🤪😂

Quick #AppreciationPost for @nersc.bsky.social as a champion for #neurodivergent employees. As someone who considers themselves so socially awkward, incredibly longwinded in my efforts to cover every possible use case with words (🤪), etc., I’m so grateful for the supportive & collaborative culture.

What an interesting #SC in the books! My 1st time at an elevated committee level — also one of those behind the scenes roles where you never know to what extent you’ve helped. I’m filled with so much gratitude for the patience, helpfulness, etc of the seasoned committee veterans. 😁 #SC25 #hpcignites

Wait, have I always known we are mutual Jersey kids? 🤣🤯

Even a tiny dose of wonderful animal energy can make the stressful things more manageable. Thank you, Buddy the Donkey! 💙 #SC25 #HPCignites

After seeing all of the floor traffic and boxes, major props to whoever shot this video and made it look this awesome!

Well 18k was also a record high. This is still 2nd highest.

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Bonus: Ask me about our sunflower pins.

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#SC25 as #AccessibilityChair is as much rewarding as it is a whirlwind. If I can't meet you or am not responding to meetup requests, you can always catch up with me daily 7:30am-5pm in the Community Engagement office - Room 360.

We are also always open to your feedback, shares, and concerns. ❤️

Our on-prem s3 is nightmare-ish to maintain. Should the monitoring team be looking to add VAST as the future vmstorage/backup backend? 🤔

at the finest granularity possible. Not everyone is as grounded in the reality of the ask. I love that bit from our switch vendor. Equally good - when a popular fs vendor said, "sure, you could have the best telemetry ever from our backend - but you'd get 0% fs performance." These are my people. 😜

I received some feedback on an open vendor ticket tonight that really made me chuckle - "Telemetry is supported, but I haven’t heard of any users actually using it for monitoring." Truly gets at the heart of the challenge here. In #HPCtelemetry #HPCmonitoring, we're often asked to collect everything

Looks awesome! Hope you have an awesome workshop!!

Also, yay Bill! :D @nersc.bsky.social is lucky to have him. 😁

Things right now can be super heavy in #STEM - here’s some levity of my wizard-magician puppy (10mo old!) with his highland cow Halloween plushie to break up the feed. Sadly he can’t accompany me to #SC25, but I still hope to engage with as many of you as possible while there! 😁

Few things in work-travel are as peak creature-comfort as settling down for the night in an optimally temperature-controlled hotel room and falling asleep to the endless supply of Forensic Files on HLN. #iykyk 🤣

But ultimately the appeal of the field is how much can rapidly change when the underlying principles remain the same. With quantum, the underlying principles change yet again. I thrive on the lifelong learning aspect, even when new things are fast & furious. 🤩

One of my fave things about tech is that it is ever-changing, always evolving. In the trenches, I sometimes wish the release lifecycle was a bit less breakneck these days. And always approach the newness w/ the caution of cybersec, ethics, and a healthy dose of human-in-the-loop still important.

It's truly a fascinating era to experience in the tech industry. In this case, 'security problems' =/= exploitable vulns and instead includes things like OSS dependencies. Would be interested to see the disaggregated data. Brings up broader thoughts on acceptable risk thresholds of vibe coding tho.

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I shared with my colleague that this is arguably the best news I've ever received at the top of a ladder while pulling cable in the data center! In actuality: my personal best top-of-ladder news ever! Anyone have another fun story of receiving awesome #HPC news in-situ of the architecture? 😅

Received wonderful news that our #SC25 #BoF on Operational Data Analytics #ODA was accepted! I happened to be atop a ladder in the data center pulling a new 50' cable from the hubs/gws that aggregate our #tString rack door temp sensors into NERSC's data lake - #OMNI!

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Enjoyed a visit to @taccutexas.bsky.social today. #TACC will always hold a special place as one of the first HPC sites I worked on in my grad program - now over a decade ago. The research collaboration & support shaped my view of the field. ❤️

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After ASI? And here I thought Agent Reese won the war!

Lots of cool advantages of off-prem / cloud too - more easy integration w/ new and emerging tech.

The fun thing about an engineering degree is that the old adage never dies, despite evolving technology - choose 2; good, cheap, fast. Warms my heart to know we're all still grounded in this foundation

Especially true when using on-prem resources - while you save on an ever-evolving "cloud cost model," the upfront $$$ amount for on-prem may looks exorbitant on outset. Same time, you've gotta price out annual licensing vs on-prem. It becomes extremely trade-off--based and nuanced as you scale.