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
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.
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
Relearning Maxima (Macsyma)
In undergrad (Stony Brook), I had a math teacher (numerical methods class) who talked about this package he used in his research. Macsyma was a symbolic math package, sometimes called a computer algebra
Backing up decades of data
This is a tale of backing up data. To date, I have a small-ish 28TB server at home running zfs (finally) on debian 11.5. This is my local backup target, and I
On medical device company and insurance complex (in the US)
I use a CPAP machine. I've had one for, I dunno, 12 years? It started out being owned by a company that leased it to my insurance company. Monthly. For most