🫒Olive oil update! I’ve finished 69 bottles in about 5 months, and my current favorites are La Tourangelle Smooth and Fruity (on my second tin), Finca La Barca (finishing my second bottle) and Castillo de Canena Sherry Cask (fourth bottle). 😋
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One task I'd like to never do again in #HPC is debug MPI, or submit commands. I am prototyping experiments with the #Flux Secretary, an agent that receives a general job command and figures out the rest. youtu.be/PwsXIMJdsEA Credentials stay in user space and I don't need to remember MPI_OMP_* 🙌
Flux Secretary Demo
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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
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Interested in co-scheduling of quantum resources? We presented "Hybrid Quantum and Classical Workload Management with Graph-based Scheduling" at t OpenQSE Day today. I recorded the talk to share with the larger community. 🥳 youtu.be/9TV4Nxb7guk Thank you #ORNL and collaborators for having us! 🙏
🌀 Hybrid Quantum and Classical Workload Management with Graph-based Scheduling
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If you missed our #HPCKP talk on Flux Framework Supporting Agentic Science, and some early vision for the #HPC Center of the future, the folks at HPC Knowledge Portal have prepared all the event videos beautifully. We hope that you enjoy! 🥳 hpckp.org/talks/flux-f...
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Thank you to @hpcwrangler.com and HPC Club for the T-shirts, hats, and stickers! 👕 We will wear them proudly. What happens in HPC Club stays in HPC Club, however we all can take moments to share our joy. Happy Sunday folks! 🥳 youtu.be/EprYDd6HmNs
😎 HPC Club Chariot!
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Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time. If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. ❤️ youtu.be/YnCa3aieZUk?...
⛰️ Mt. Tam Adventures
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We presented #FluxFramework at #HPC club this week, showing the basic designs and projects of Flux and a prototype example using agents for finance. youtu.be/Zk3f5ijgiM0?...
LLNL at HPC Club: Flux Framework and Agentic HPC meets Finance
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Hamza M@hpcwrangler.com · last mo.Still got a yearning to talk #HPC? come along to HPC Club next week luma.com/an25siuk cloudhpc.news/hpc-club-1-w...
🎆 Happy Fourth of July! This is a great album! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🚴♀️ Olive oil post! This is Nash's Olive Oil, La Tourangelle, and Bariani alongside Marin County Adventures. olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/06/nash...
🚴♀️ Nash's, La Tourangelle, and Bariani in Marin
I spent the end of June in Marin, enjoying the bike paths, beaches, and, running trails. I'd like to highlight a rare find that I am immense...
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I get obsessively interested in topics, to the point my curiosity is insatiable. It is happening with quantum computing, and here is some learning.😊 vsoch.github.io/2026/quantum... I think along with scheduling work I want to model scheduling algorithms with qiskit (and similar).
Interested in #quantum? Our converged computing team has started early work to explore integrations of Flux Framework with quantum APIs and local devices, starting in #Kubernetes! You can check out the review of the space in my short talk. 🎥 youtu.be/GScovgpIx18?...
🌀 Flux Framework and Quantum: Early Work
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🚀 We're excited to welcome Flux Framework to HPSF. Deployed on the #1 Top500 system, El Capitan, Flux provides modern resource management and scheduling for HPC, cloud, Kubernetes, and beyond. 🔗 https://bit.ly/43F3Y7t
📦 expfactory Software to generate a reproducible container with a battery of experiments. 👤 Vanessa Sochat (@vsoch.bsky.social) 🔗 https://github.com/expfactory/expfactory #pyladies #python #opensource
Want to learn about #FluxFramework with live presentations and tutorials? Come to our HPCIC Developer Tutorial, July 21st! I may have something up my sleeve this year that is a bit cutting edge... hope to see you there! llnlfed.webex.com/weblink/regi... Registration is free and open to anyone!
Spin it like Peanut Butter Jelly... I'll give you something to do (Galantis)! I heard this song for the first time last week and watched the video today. I had to dance to it! The music video is 🙌 if only going to the grocery store were that fun... 😂 youtu.be/1WYqQzl7Plg
Spin it like Peanut Butter Jelly... !
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🫒 Olive oil review! I loved this oil because it tastes like arugula. I also do a deeper dive on the polyphenol Oleocanthal, and how it is works as an anti-inflammatory and interacts with TRPA1 and COX enzymes. Enjoy! 💃 olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/oliv...
🇫🇷 Oliviers & Co. from Mane, France
I finished one of my favorite olive oils this last week, and with a little help from a tasting that I hosted with a small group. This is La ...
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🫒 Sciabica's Tasting Room, Costa d'Oro and California Gold, and the Hillside 7. olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/scia...
Sciabica's Tasting Room and California Gold
On the way to Yosemite I stopped at the Sciabica's Tasting room . It was a clean, beautiful facility hidden in the middle of a sprawling, c...
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Interested to learn about our work in agentic science, with some added #FluxFramework? Please attend the #HPCKP meeting in Barcelona! 💃 I am excited for this work, and for the future of science. After recording this talk, I was moved to dance!🌹 hpckp.org/annual-meeti...
Adventures this week, with miles of beaches, running, biking, and beauty. olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/true...
🇬🇷 True Olive Connection, Kosterina (Greece), and Moresh (Morocco)
The True Olive Connection in Aptos, California, is advertised as a woman-owned business that specializes in supplying premier extra virgin ...
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The time has come to know Clear your head, mind the open road Your heart will never lie It's the trip that keeps us alive ❤️
🌤️ So Many Miles
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I am building large containers locally that have layers too large for push from my home wireless. "Ah, I'll use an instance on Google Cloud!" I thought. I tried to get *one* c4-standard-96 instance, and then c3-standard-88. Could I? Nope. I tried every zone. 😭 It is Saturday. 🙃
Morning adventure into town to see art, roses, live music, and the farmer's market! 👉 olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/la-o...
🥕 La Olivina at the Farmer's Market
I unexpectedly found Olivina at the farmer's market this morning! If you zoom in on the sign on the stand, you can see the variety of oliv...
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🫒 Olive Oil, orchard, and market review - La Olivina, and Olive Oil Pantry! olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/oliv...
Olive Oil Review: La Tourangelle, Regenerative. 🫒 olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/05/la-t... On that note, I'm off for some adventures! 🍃
La Tourangelle Regenerative - Koroneiki Olives
Have you heard of La Tourangelle? Before last year I would have said, 'Why, yes!" La Roue Tourangelle is a bike race in France! In fact, it...
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An agent just wrote and ran an entire #snakemake workflow using our agentic tools + mcpserver! 🐍 Running snakemake would be too easy. I've given the agent just inputs + a wrappers catalog and said "figure it out." The agent gets controlled access to a workdir, and incrementally figures out steps.
García de la Cruz from Toledo Spain. What was most interesting was learning about the history of the amphora. They are used to date shipwrecks. At first glance the design seems nonsensical, but this is with my applied bias of storage today. Enjoy! olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/04/garc...
🇪🇸 García de la Cruz from Toledo Spain
García de la Cruz is a premium olive oil produced in Toledo, Spain, and founded in 1872. They advertise as one of the oldest oil mills in Sp...
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New olive oil review! 🫒 These are made by the same producer in Morocco. Both have good price points, and beautiful bottles. I recommend Desert Miracle if you want to try oil that is subtly peppery, and Atlas if you want something primarily smooth. olive-oil-girl.blogspot.com/2026/04/atla... Enjoy!
Atlas and Desert Miracle Moroccan Olive Oils
I present to you two elegant, dark bottles. One is octagonal with shiny, embossed gold lettering, and an elegant "A" with what appears to be...
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Running jobs with our #Slurm Operator today! 😘 I'm enjoying learning about build, admin, and config of Slurm. I'm running on AWS hpc7g with EFA, and (so far) the jobs are comparable in performance to Flux! Would ❤️ to write a paper, "Workload managers, they are all pretty good. Stop the quibbles" 😆
