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The HPC related account of Sander Antoniades currently working @MITREcorp formerly @columbia and @ZuckermanBrain.

Joined June 2019
You can buy an 8 GPU node for the cost of renting on AWS for about 2 months. It’s amazing to me how many companies and labs get sucked into the expensive trap of cloud compute.
2021 was an "interesting" financial year for the lab. We started off with a nice surplus (have been lucky to have healthy finances from 2014-2021). Then 2 things change 1/
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I cant believe we still have to load this stuff when we fly...
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Congratulations to @SIGHPC Treasurer @ItsHarveyTime on her "Becoming Everything You Are" award from @MITREcorp. She's definitely led the way with @StudentsSC, and is a great mentor and supporter of diversity in the HPC community. #WomenInSTEM @womeninHPC
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Where did I learn to type? OpenBSD 5.9 on Sparcstation 20 :) #retrocomputing
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#HPC #Storage is an attractive market - both on-prem and #cloud
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18 types of cognitive biases, explained. Credit: @jblefevre60
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If there was one thing I wish I could get every American to understand it's this map. Being "closer to nature" doesn't make you greener. Cities are greener because people ditch cars & live in smaller spaces. Every apartment not built in a city pushes more people out into the red.
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I've been configuring batch schedulers on high performance computing (HPC) systems for about 20 years. About 14 years ago, my work started to include HPC environments that ran, at least in part, on public clouds. Some observations: 1/?
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It was 1951 and this is Theseus by the amazing Claude Shannon of @BellLabs. It is a maze-solving mouse with 99 relays for its brain—mouse of X-Y motors & reed switches. It is the antecedent to all machine learning and AI we have—today. Astonishing...
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NYC transit modes as birds 🚃🐦(a thread) R33 Redbird Train // Cardinal
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Turns out Disney’s animators copy/pasted their code from old projects too ✨
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I am so impressed (and grateful) for Karikó's doggedness in pursuing mRNA technology, despite being repeatedly shit on by UPenn for doing something outside of the mainstream. I can't imagine I would have stuck with it in her shoes.
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A future where air taxis traverse our skies is taking shape today. We're working with the @FAANews and the aviation industry to explore approaches for integrating Urban Air Mobility operations safely and efficiently into the National Airspace System. bit.ly/3aSri7x
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Stay at 127.0.0.1 Wear a 255.0.0.0 #MerryChristmas2020 #WednesdayWisdom
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Good periodic reminder:
Being good at things is not the point of doing them.
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