Glenn K. Lockwood

@glennklockwood@mast.hpc.social
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I am a supercomputing enthusiast, but I usually don't know what I'm talking about. I post about large-scale infrastructure for #HPC and #AI.
Homepagehttps://www.glennklockwood.com/
@jannem The whole HPC world will never go all-cloud, but some of the biggest dominoes could have.
@kpdooty @glennklockwood Definitely. It's hard to appreciate that contrast until you've been in both worlds.

In the few days I have between jobs, I wanted to share an unvarnished perspective on what I've learned after spending three years working on supercomputing in the cloud. It's hastily written and lightly edited, but I hope others find it interesting: https://blog.glennklockwood.com/2025/07/lessons-learned-from-three-years-in.html

#HPC

Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputing

I recently decided to leave Microsoft after having spent just over three years there, first as a storage product manager, then as a compute ...

@teve Soon! But not yet.
Today is my last day at Microsoft. I’ve learned a lot over the last three years, but I’m ready to try something different.
@kpdooty Thanks. He’s back home and just very puffy. Worst is over.

In the last 18 hours, I’ve learned way more about adjuvanted vaccines and adverse reactions to them in cats than I ever cared to. And the real kick is that the choice to re-up the cat’s vaccines was an afterthought, because we had to take other cat in for minor surgery. Cat who got surgery has been fine; cat who didn’t was not.

Worst part is, I didn’t even get a photo of Arthur’s Popeye arm before he went back to the vet (for the third time…) this morning.

@elebertus I’ve been working on HPC infrastructure for over a decade now and I never get tired of it. There’s always something new, new ways to put things together, and new ways to try squeezing more performance out of it all.
@nickserv I don’t have a horse in this race, so you may misunderstand where my comment came from. But if you think what I said is wrong, that’s certainly your prerogative.
@nickserv You should let Jack know about your concerns