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What started as a few paragraphs to help explain AI to a friend grew into this long article (with reference links). If you have not been watching AI and LLM progress closely, like I have, you may find this background primer helpful.

https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/12/16/a-mostly-non-technical-ai-primer/

A (Mostly) Non-Technical AI Primer - HPCwire

I have studied and watched artificial intelligence grow over the last forty years. Like many, back in 1968, I was inspired by HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The question on my mind at the time was, “Is HAL 9000 possible?” Thus began my interest in learning all I could about computers […]

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Douglas Eadline Dec 15

I just got saw Nvidia acquired ShedMD (Slurm), hmm

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-acquires-schedmd/

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.

NVIDIA Blog

Douglas Eadline Dec 10

IBM just purchased Kafka (Confluent). Smart move because building data pipelines is the first step in model building

If you want to learn about Kafka, guess what, yours truly has created a video course to get you started (complete with serious looking head shot).

https://www.oreilly.com/videos/kafka-essentials-livelessons/9780138176761/

Kafka Essentials LiveLessons: A Quick-Start for Building Effective Data Pipelines

8+ Hours of Video Instruction Learn how to manage high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications with Apache Kafka. Apache... - Selection from Kafka Essentials LiveLessons: A Quick-Start for Building Effective Data Pipelines [Video]

O’Reilly Online Learning

Douglas Eadline Dec 1

Glenn K. Lockwood Dec 1

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

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.

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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...

Douglas Eadline Nov 11

Many people ask, "Just what is this Beowulf Bash thing anyway?"

I tell them, "It started with cigars and cognac and became a legend at SC". The story is best told by the invitations (see you there at #SC25)

https://www.clustermonkey.net/Supercomputing/beowulf-bash-invitations-2008-to-present.html

Beowulf Bash Invitations: 2008 to Present | Supercomputing | Conference Reports

Cluster Monkey is an exclusive content based site that speaks directly to the high performance computing (HPC) cluster market and community. We focus on benchmarks, tutorials, case studies, and how-to information that is useful to cluster users, administrators, purchasers, and designers.

Douglas Eadline Nov 10

check it out! new look

https://www.hpcwire.com/

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Douglas Eadline Nov 7

Big thanks to #SC25 Bash sponsor @arcitectamakers visit them at booth #1439.

https://www.arcitecta.com/

Arcitecta - Big Data & Data Management Software & Solutions

Arcitecta's big data & data management software solutions lets you leverage the power of metadata to exploit massive data sets to unlock rich insights & speed

Douglas Eadline Nov 3

Glenn K. Lockwood Nov 3

This is like showing up with a new boyfriend the week after the divorce. At least Microsoft is still getting those alimony payments.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-open-ai-workloads-compute-infrastructure

AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership

Partnership will enable OpenAI to run its advanced AI workloads on AWS’s world-class infrastructure starting immediately.

Douglas Eadline Oct 14

We do like the aliens

https://beowulfbash.com/

Beowulf Bash | The annual celebration of Beowulf at SuperComputing

Douglas Eadline Oct 2

Bit of news: I have stepped back from Managing Editor of HPCwire, still a contributor and still busy with a bunch of other things. New ME is Alex Woody

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/tabor-communications-appoints-new-editorial-director-promotes-staff/

Tabor Communications Appoints New Editorial Director, Promotes Staff

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 2, 2025 — Tabor Communications Inc. (TCI), publishers of HPCwire, BigDATAwire, AIwire, and QCwire, has promoted long-time BigDATAwire Managing Editor Alex Woodie to the position of TCI […]

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