For reference, this is the entirety of the 1,000-year-old Scottish castle in question. I think it's already destroyed.

DatacenterDynamics@dcdnews.bsky.social · 5d ago

Spent a few months preparing the tech docs for DataEnclave, VAST's new confidential computing runtime. W/ help from VAST R&D, I learned how attestation etc worked well enough to describe and defend it. Short version: www.vastdata.com/blog/introdu... 15-pager: www.vastdata.com/resources/wh... #AI

Introducing VAST DataEnclave Confidential AI

VAST DataEnclave runs AI workloads in hardware-isolated environments, so proprietary models and sensitive data can meet on untrusted infrastructure.

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I wrote this doc to explain KV caches and KV cache offloading many months ago. I found salespeople couldn't confidently tell when their customers might have a problem, because all the content online is straight marketing or way too in the weeds. blog.glennklockwood.com/2026/09/what...

What are KV caches really?

KV caching lies sufficiently deep within the guts of how transformers work that really understanding how it can be used goes beyond any si...

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Malaysia is allegedly evaluating Huawei's Ascend 910C for their sovereign AI buildout. If Malaysia picks Huawei over NVIDIA, it'd be the first big buy of these chips outside of China. Egypt also name-dropped as a nation being pursued by Huawei. www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/hig...

Malaysia weighs Huawei chips for sovereign AI push

The country is seriously considering using Huawei’s AI hardware as the backbone of a RM2 billion initiative aimed at giving Malaysia greater control over national data.

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The IO500 committee just stripped Sugon of its #1 position in the Production list because it appears that their ParaStor F9000 isn't a real product, or it could not be verified as one. Verify here: io500.org/list/isc26/p... My notes on ParaStor: glennklockwood.com/garden/paras... #HPC #notreally

I recently had the opportunity talk to @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social about a few failures in #HPC and #AI infrastructure that taught me some important lessons about designing systems and managing risks. Have a look, have a listen. Hope others find it interesting! www.vastdata.com/blog/failure...

Failure is a Finding: The Hard Lessons Behind Computing's Biggest Bets

VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, unifying storage, database, and compute to drive agentic computing and data intensive workloads. Learn more.

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MLPerf Storage results are out and StorageReview pointed out the interesting disconnect between MLPerf leaderboard winners and companies with the largest #storage footprints in the #AI clouds. Suggests this benchmark may not reflect real needs. www.storagereview.com/news/mlperf-...

MLPerf Storage v3.0: 877 GiB/s Checkpoints, a Cloud First, and a Leaderboard Turned Over

MLPerf Storage v3.0 results: 877 GiB/s checkpoints from Everpure FlashBlade//EXA, new KV cache and vector DB tests, 143 submissions.

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I recently wrote up an argument about why batch schedulers like Slurm are architecturally insufficient for autonomous scientific laboratories and agentic workflows. Event-driven orchestration is the scalable alternative. www.vastdata.com/blog/autonom... #HPC

Autonomous Science is Inheriting a Workflow Infrastructure Problem

VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, unifying storage, database, and compute to drive agentic computing and data intensive workloads. Learn more.

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Funny, there’s a reason NERSC took its datacenter out of this location. It’s not a great place to put one. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/form...

Former LBNL supercomputing facility in Oakland, California, targeted for 20MW data center

Behring looks to turn vacant site back into live data center

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I have a theory that every panel about “how AI will affect XYZ” will devolve into nonspecific discussion around “here is where the AI tools I use today fail” and “how do we trust AI?” regardless of what XYZ is.

The lack of shame some people have in copypasting prose straight out of Claude into Powerpoint is shocking. Were these people just recycling their students’ slides before, and now just tap a different source of material?

I am attending the ModSim conference for the first time next week, and I'm presenting analysis and design modeling of I/O performance requirements for frontier model training based on a year's worth of production data across the VAST hyperscale fleet (>900 training jobs, >140K GPU-years of compute)

I recently upgraded to Claude Max and started using Opus 5 for exploratory analysis. If this is what the AI community things approaches "PhD-level capability," I don't know what to say. It's sloppy, inconsistent, and walks back conclusions at the lightest of questioning.

Surprised to see a solution so heavily focused on tiering to HDD for capacity now tier to…more HDD for capacity. Curious what Wasabi does that PanFS doesn’t (and vice versa) to make this pairing complementary.

@chris-mellor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

VDURA goes to Wasabi for tiered AI data cloud storage - www.blocksandfiles.com/public-cloud...

I gave the invited talk for the Systems track at #PEARC26. If you were not able to attend, you're in luck! 🍀 I walked back to my room and recorded a second time so all would have access in the present and into the future. youtu.be/qiKfTgYoKkE?...

🌀 The Agentic HPC Center: Orchestrating the Future of Science

YouTube video by vsoch

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I’m glad someone liked it! Hard needle to thread in crafting a technical plenary that is interesting, accessible, and thematic to “resilient roots.” Also relieved that my SDSC colleagues didn’t mind me spilling the tea on one of Gordon’s failures. #HPC #alittleAI

Robert Henschel@roberthenschel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excellent keynote about exploring failures by @glennklockwood.com at #HPC #PEARC26

I am ready! Almost. #PEARC26

Another great addition to Utah’s amazing pro-human AI innovation ecosystem built on public-private partnerships.

Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute@sci.utah.edu · 3mo ago

🪶 Redtail, an AI factory for all of Utah, recently debuted on a list of the world's top supercomputers, ranking No. 159 for performance and No. 76 for energy efficiency. The system, managed by SCI’s Center for High Performance Computing at @utah.edu, supports statewide innovation. bit.ly/redtailrank

Surprising to see a software company go into the hardware business, selling an unusual 2U70 dual-controller flash server. It's hard to source flash these days, so there are strong market incentives to ship software on whatever hardware your customers can find.

@chris-mellor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WEKA's big beast AI storage products - massive new WEKAPod and capable NeuralMesh upgrade - www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

We are now in the age of AI-generated conferences. Today’s keynote by Gropp prominently features distinctly Claude-generated plots; yesterday had an entire presentation delivered by an AI voiceover of slides. And slides are full of Claude design tells.

First time I’ve seen someone with a PhD actually predict that data centers in space will be a real thing. Granted, it’s a CS PhD, not a physical sciences one. #HPC #notreallythough

With Infinia gaining support for files, is there a reason for anyone to buy EXAScaler anymore? Why would someone choose Lustre over Infinia if Infinia seems to support everything that Lustre does but with enterprisey glitter? Curious to see how DDN positions these two lines. #HPC

@chris-mellor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DDN gets Infinia ready for production AI inferencing - www.blocksandfiles.com/object/2026/...

Block off your calendar for Wednesday at 10am! I'll be there.

PEARC Conference Series@pearcconference.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎤 The #ACM #PEARC26 Conference Schedule is live! Plan your conference experience: 📅 pearc.acm.org/pearc26/conf... 🏨 Book your hotel ASAP: 2 of the 3 conference hotels are already sold out! pearc.acm.org/pearc26/hote... #ResearchComputing #RCD #PEARC #ResearchData #HPC #Minneapolis2026

=> Architecting for Frontier AI Labs: How Anthropic scales Claude on TPUs, Google & Anthropic, Google Cloud Next 2026, Apr 22 youtube.com/watch?v=LEPY... content-cdn.sessionboard.com/content/3e8V... Automated fault recovery & intelli scheduling to maintain continuous uptime across massive pod-scale

I wrote up some notes after my week at #ISC26: blog.glennklockwood.com/2026/07/isc2... Interested to hear others' perspectives on highlights and things I may have missed. #HPC

ISC'26 recap

Last month was the 2026 ISC High Performance Conference in the beautiful (and sweltering) Hamburg, Germany. It was my fifth time att...

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I somehow missed that China has developed its own implementation of InfiniBand, called ScaleFabric 400, to compete/supplant NVIDIA/Mellanox IB. Oddly enough, its manufacturer (Sugon) is not a member of IBTA though. en.eeworld.com.cn/mp/EEWorld/a... #HPC

The first domestically produced InfiniBand has been launched; real-world test data tells you just how powerful its performance is.-Electronics Headlines-EEWORLD

Recently, another technological high ground long monopolized by foreign countrie......view more！

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Interesting that C-DAC, whose indigenous Indian interconnect Trinetra is based around libfabric, opted to implement verbs support to make Lustre work instead of adopting Cray’s kfabric LND. #ISC26

1. General LLMs beat coding-specific models at writing Fortran, likely bc code models are overfitted to Python 2. This conf begins the age of Claude-generated pptx. Clear tells 3. My phone doesn’t like these #ISC26 projectors

Now happening at #ISC26 #HPC

This is the worst Jensen keynote ever