Long ago, back when we banged desktop/deskside computers together for HPC clusters, I was a firm believer in stateful systems. That is, systems with an OS installed directly on the unit, where you had to manage configuration, and configuration drift. Many different tools were developed for this. CFEngine, puppet,…
See https://a.co/d/dAF9dxD , in the kindle store. After getting a third rejection of this story, despite very positive reviews from my local writers group, and a writers conference I attended last year, I figured I didn't really need to sell the story to a publication.…
I just returned from Hamburg Germany after attending ISC24. Hamburg is a beautiful city. The people are wonderful, and they even tolerated my rather terrible Deutsch Sprache. When I visited Vienna about 17 years ago, the people would immediately switch to English once they heard me speak. Go figure. ISC24…
My primary test systems are Debian based. One of them hosts an AMD MI50 Instinct GPU that I use for dev/test/learning. I install various ROCm on this system. One of the packages to be installed is rocm-gdb. This is the GPU code debugger tool. This package has a…
This past weekend, 7-October-2023 until this writing on 9-October-2023, has seen a horrific pogrom perpetrated against Israelis by a terrorist organization, Hamas. During the pogrom, we saw images of people celebrating the events. Celebrating murder and mayhem. Celebrating rape, decapitation, torture. Celebrating killing families. Sweets were handed out. Joyful singing…
Given that I am starting a new position tomorrow, I wanted to build a new deskside machine to use. One of my older cluster machines died a few weeks ago, and I needed to replace it. My deskside machine at the time, was an AMD Epyc Rome unit with 16…
I've accepted an offer from AMD for a Principal Member of Technical Staff position as Principal Customer Engineer for Instinct GPU Software. I can't say much about the role at the moment, though I am looking forward to the challenge. For those who have read this…
The context of this post is about an important decision, at which company I am going to work, that I am finalizing now. Every single decision you make between such scenarios carries a risk. You can't eliminate risk. You can, to some degree mitigate it by chosing carefully.…