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.

Red Hat, rebuilders, and paths forward for HPC

Red Hat has decided to change the way it handles its source distribution for its enterprise products.  This change impacts downstream rebuilders, such as Alma and Rocky Linux.  Not to mention Oracle.  This

All good things ...

June 1st was my last day at Jump Trading. I spent lots of time writing code in Python, Julia, and some C++.  I worked with massive data sets.  I built (testable) models of

Implications of runs on banks

So yeah, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) had a run last week.  Over the weekend various (self interested) people posted takes that ranged between pleading for bailouts, begging FDIC/Fed/Treasury to do things,

State of AMD's ROCm

TL;DR version:  partially working on my laptop, compared with CUDA, which just works.  On the same machine. I have a $work machine with some nice AMD MIXXX kit, but I'm

Real science does not care about your narrative

In the soviet union, early in the 20th century. a political narrative was born.  In it a pseudo-scientist, really, an activist, named Trofim Lysenko decided that it was politically incorrect to study or