Joe Landman

Joe Landman

OG High Performance Computing (HPC) veteran. Non-practicing physicist, Ph.D in condensed matter theory. Closet mathematician, aspiring astrophotographer. Hubby, Father, Son, Uncle. Human.

Kindertransport and echos from terrible past times

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

A workaround for a problem

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

Shuffling machines

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

Joining AMD

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

Risks and opportunity costs

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