Alan Sill

@AlanSill@mast.hpc.social
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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
NSF Cloud and Autonomic Computing Centerhttps://nsfcac.org/leadership.html
GitHubhttps://alansill.github.io
Texas Techhttps://www.depts.ttu.edu/hpcc/about/staff.php
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-sill-ttu/
Alan Sill3d ago

Dear Web Programmers:

I will never, ever, ever click on either of these options or anything like them that you force onto a page. I will stubbornly scroll content under it to read past it, or just nope out of the whole web page entirely if that's the only option to get rid of it. Please stop doing this.

Alan SillJun 8

Sorry to see this Kickstarter fail. It was an effort with noble ambitions!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cerebrocluster/cerebro-the-next-generation-clusterboard

Alan SillJun 1

Turns out if we had just asked the professionals, there was no need to worry about the trolley problem all this time. (Hat tip: @vaurora)

(This is a message about science funding and decision-making.)

Alan SillMay 4
Here are some photos of our new project, along with some of the High Performance Computing Center staff and one of the students who are helping the co-PIs and research team at the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech to put it into use. Iʻll say more about this project in due time. For now, all you need to know is that it is unstoppable, and the methods for remote management of data centers we are working on for this project are part of a large set of very positive future possibilities.
Alan SillApr 25
Believe in yourself! You can move the earth - even if just a little at a time.
Alan SillApr 11
Those of you who know me know what this is. It’s midway through its initial qualification test runs now.
Alan SillMar 24
This is a lie.
Alan SillMar 7
Completed Power-over-Ethernet powered Radxa X2L 4-node mini-training-cluster build. The goal for this one was to build something inexpensive, self-contained, compact, and in a robust enclosure for better transportability and handling. The PoE adapters shown here are among a new set of products becoming available that can provide 12VDC USB-C power delivery (PD) at the needed power levels. These adapters and the GbE PoE switch are mounted to a small DIN rail attached to the top of the case.
Alan SillMar 2

New test cluster in progress. It will be four PoE-powered Radxa X2Ls. The extra boxes on top next to the switch are the PoE to 12V PD splitters.

Pretty proud of this one!

Alan SillFeb 27
This is just fucking awful.