Brandon Biggs

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HPC Sysadmin. Working to make computing easier. Lighthearted Schnauzer dog dad. He/him.
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Reminder to any receiving notices of grant terminations, changes to previously negotiated institutional indirect cost rates, and other harmful actions of the current administration:

When you're on a ship boarded by pirates, you do not just fold up into a corner and let them take over; you fight back. Fight back!

Notices will contain language or be backed by policy statements saying decisions are not appealable to the agency. Do NOT let this stop you. Your organization has resources. Use them!

For people who want to read academic articles behind a paywall, I have yet another success story for reaching out to the authors.

They don't get a cut of the money you would have paid the journal for a copy of a PDF and are happy to share/talk about their work.

#AcademicPublishing

Would you rather permanently have?

(Boost for reach)

Daylight savings time
15.9%
Standard
26.7%
IDC, stop switching
53%
Other
4.5%
Poll ended at .
oh shit don't tell Elon about VLAN tagging or all our Ethernet is going to get fired
Trump ordered all federal workers back to work in physical offices. So how is that going? Per the Washington Post:
Don't forget to write 2025 as
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³
(next opportunity is only in 3025)!
(Or, for the #math and #LaTeX lovers:
\begin{equation}
\sum_{n=1}^9 n^3
\end{equation})

so far we've sold more zines during today's zine sale than during the whole month of October so thank you everyone ❤

the sale ends when Friday's over (if it's Friday anywhere in the world, sale's still on!), but until then, PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF, and print zines are 30% off with the code WIZARDPRINT

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64th #Top500 is out!

o #ElCapitan at LLNL is the new #1

o We now have 3 #Exascale systems officially

o #HPC6 at Eni is new at #5

o Tuolumne, a smaller version of
#ElCapitan, rounds up the
#Top10

https://top500.org/news/el-capitan-achieves-top-spot-frontier-and-aurora-follow-behind/

#HPC #AI #SC24

El Capitan achieves top spot, Frontier and Aurora follow behind | TOP500

The answer to supporting older X11 applications in Wayland-only environments seems to be Xwayland, as explained at https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch05.html for example. Does anyone have any experience with this in an all-Wayland cluster or server environment? There is more discussion for example at https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/switch-to-wayland-tips-and-tricks/107993/7 that seems useful, and other distros have similar pages in their forums, but no comprehensive guide. I'm mystified as to what we are supposed to advise remote cluster users when this hits.
Chapter 5. X11 Application Support

🚀 Parallel Python Made Easy! 🐍

We're hosting a hands-on tutorial on PyOMP, a system bringing OpenMP parallelism to Python! By combining OpenMP directives (as strings) with Numba's JIT compiler, PyOMP taps into LLVM's OpenMP support, delivering C-like performance in Python's simplicity.

Our participants are mastering this game-changing tool to supercharge their workflows.

Stay tuned for updates!

#Python #OpenMP #PyOMP #ParallelComputing #Numba #HPC