Melissa
@itsmelrom.bsky.social
#HPC Operational Data Analytics Engineer- opinions expressed are my own.
Respectfully, @fedora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy asking what our weekend plans are... is a unique level of hell in the era of AI vulns. 🤣 As a #gamer and #FFXIV player, this is giving 15+ vuln stack tanks being mad at their healer when they're one-shot. 🤷♀️
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An article that hasn't left my mind since it was widely publicized on socials: cacm.acm.org/news/why-are... At the same time that I FEEL this article to my core, a massive part of why I stayed (and why other women in my field also have shared): male allies. No, not from the "not here" types.
Why are Women Leaving Computer Science? – Communications of the ACM
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“Observability isn’t a trophy for collecting the most data points but a quest for understanding.” - Josh Biggley Back in my happy place… another new quest in the ever-evolving field of #HPCObservability… and I am here for the EXP! 😉 #Observability #OperationalDataAnalytics #HPC-ODA #HPC
Is it really even a weekend wrestling with BMCs if you don't get to the hype songs + splash screen dance parties just to keep the morale up part? Another #bootloop, you say? No time to despair when you're also breakin' it down to #runninginthe90s! 💃💃💃 #f11breakdown #arghDRAC
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HPC Fam! It is our first year having an accepted 1/2 day Operational Data Analytics workshop at #SC26, after many successful years of BoFs! We are very much workshop newbies that would appreciate any signal boosts you can possibly offer for our CFP: hpc-oda.org/workshop2026/ #HPCODA #EEHPCWG
Workshop | HPC Operational Data Analytics
Homepage for the EE HPC WG Operational Data Analytics Community (HPC ODA)
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HPC Fam! It is our first year having an accepted 1/2 day Operational Data Analytics workshop at #SC26, after many successful years of BoFs! We are very much workshop newbies that would appreciate any signal boosts you can possibly offer for our CFP: hpc-oda.org/workshop2026/ #HPCODA #EEHPCWG
Workshop | HPC Operational Data Analytics
Homepage for the EE HPC WG Operational Data Analytics Community (HPC ODA)
hpc-oda.org
Ah, we've reached the delicious special. The post-grief stage tends to be the best creamer the coffee can ever offer. Mmhm, so easy, mmhm yas yas 🤣
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Really excited to hear about the amazing staff advocacy work this year’s #CUCSA delegation has done & reconnecting with my fellow co-delegates and Systemwide HR partners next week!
Excuse me, I’m calling about your car’s extended… just kidding, have you upgraded your systems to a patched Linux kernel today? 👀🤣 #vulnpocalypse
LLM: Awesome - let's toss this over to the net team... Me: It's cute that you'd STILL assume I have a single place to pass this off to... 🤣🤣 37 switches, 150+ bare metal (with 170 counting virts), 1000s of edge-sensors.... full stack... one human.
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One thing about me is there’s nothing as engaging as a mystery bug or infra problem. That’s the kind of hyper-focus I’m addicted to. 😁
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A still more glorious dawn awaits, Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise… 💪💟
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Beyond elated to have the first ever #OperationalDataAnalytics Workshop accepted to #SC26, after many years of amazing community SC and ISC BoF engagement! We’re hard at work on the CFP and website but can’t wait for this opportunity! #seeyouinchicago #HPCUnites #ODA #EEHPCWG
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People's stance on this quote, whether they're hearing it for the first time or heard it long ago, still is a great indicator of how I'll jive with someone. Bonus points if they love the earworm version youtu.be/zSgiXGELjbc?... 🥰 #astillmoregloriousdawnawaits
One of the most delicious vendor tickets I get to write is when they claim loss of sensitivity of a sensor (which DOES happen regularly btw - just not coincidentally on sales cycle) - tonight my supporting evidence was the past 999 days of data - actual tf: 2022-12-05 01:17:50 to 2025-08-30 04:32:52
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Yes, these will be the vibes waking up tomorrow knowing I am going in to rack the first ever commodity-tier servers into @nersc.bsky.social's OMNI HPC centerwide monitoring infra!
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Quick #AppreciationPost for @nersc.bsky.social as a champion for #neurodivergent employees. As someone who considers themselves so socially awkward, incredibly longwinded in my efforts to cover every possible use case with words (🤪), etc., I’m so grateful for the supportive & collaborative culture.
What an interesting #SC in the books! My 1st time at an elevated committee level — also one of those behind the scenes roles where you never know to what extent you’ve helped. I’m filled with so much gratitude for the patience, helpfulness, etc of the seasoned committee veterans. 😁 #SC25 #hpcignites
Even a tiny dose of wonderful animal energy can make the stressful things more manageable. Thank you, Buddy the Donkey! 💙 #SC25 #HPCignites
#SC25 as #AccessibilityChair is as much rewarding as it is a whirlwind. If I can't meet you or am not responding to meetup requests, you can always catch up with me daily 7:30am-5pm in the Community Engagement office - Room 360. We are also always open to your feedback, shares, and concerns. ❤️
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I received some feedback on an open vendor ticket tonight that really made me chuckle - "Telemetry is supported, but I haven’t heard of any users actually using it for monitoring." Truly gets at the heart of the challenge here. In #HPCtelemetry #HPCmonitoring, we're often asked to collect everything
Few things in work-travel are as peak creature-comfort as settling down for the night in an optimally temperature-controlled hotel room and falling asleep to the endless supply of Forensic Files on HLN. #iykyk 🤣
It's truly a fascinating era to experience in the tech industry. In this case, 'security problems' =/= exploitable vulns and instead includes things like OSS dependencies. Would be interested to see the disaggregated data. Brings up broader thoughts on acceptable risk thresholds of vibe coding tho.
The Register@theregister.com · last yr.AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems
Enjoyed a visit to @taccutexas.bsky.social today. #TACC will always hold a special place as one of the first HPC sites I worked on in my grad program - now over a decade ago. The research collaboration & support shaped my view of the field. ❤️
A stark reminder anyone in #HPCobservability knows all too well: conceptually simple doesn’t mean operationally trivial. Especially when "monitoring" is a full-stack, cross-domain, centerwide data effort for users & operators. A big point: you don't need more abstraction, you need more grounding.
Good things & bad things of not having finished the PhD despite being ABD after super many years — I see both the tremendous accomplishment and weight it carries but also have an eye for how limited it is or what can be pushed through when industry is the ultimate goal vs academia.
Was in a meeting this week that scratched an old research itch based on my past work in the #HPC event-driven workflows space… can’t stop thinking about how much fun it was to exchange ideas in the research mindset on the user-facing side again! Dare I say I might even have missed it? 🫣
Do we as a working society value the supernovae or the red dwarfs? What is the right amount of boundary to be seen as valuable but not burn out in an infinite workday culture by an employer?
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