Congratulations Virgin Galactic Richard Branson Spaceport America #Unity22 #nmtrue.

I was going to post something snarky about trying to have a nice dinner in Los Alamos on a Friday night after 8pm, but realized anyone who would care already knows.

Visiting Casa Bonita as a kid was magical. Later on, our entire high school marching band disappeared into a normal dinner crowd. Kudos to Trey & Matt for ensuring its future.

Attending GEOINT 2021? Check out our training workshop where attendees will learn Machine Learning and Computer Vision techniques to extract actionable information from diverse geospatial data sets at planetary scale. Read the press release. hubs.ly/H0W_xLb0

Given the choice between “Little Wing in the style of Ralph Vaughan Williams” and bloody Four Seasons again I know which I’d prefer to hear. Odd gatekeeping from Classic FM theguardian.com/music/2021/sep…

Ironman competition in Sacramento canceled over weather conditions kcra.com/article/ironma…

Terry Cunningham, CEO EarthDaily (formerly Descartes Labs) presenting now at AWS re:Invent about global scale geospatial analytics for sustainability.

Elon Musk Promises Full Self-Driving "Next Year" For The Ninth Year In A Row. jalopnik.com/elon-musk-prom…

32 years ago today I arrived in Los Alamos with all my worldly possessions. I expected to leave at the end of a summer graduate research fellowship, but I’ve been here ever since.

Wordle 319 2/6 ⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

In this presentation from 2014 I predicted a machine would run Linpack at an exaflop in 2022. The prediction was proven correct this week. #Frontier #Top500 #exascale #supercomputing #HPC youtube.com/watch?v=Vh_TSN…

Our latest manuscript. “An Efficient Global Scale Sentinel-1 Radar Backscatter and Interferometric Processing System” Piyush S. Agram, Michael S. Warren, Matthew T. Calef, Scott A. Arko preprints.org/manuscript/202…

This young buck stopped by to eat our raspberry plants for lunch.

Watching the #DARTMission, I harken back to 2005 when Sam Skillman modeled Deep Impact smashing into comet Tempel 1 using our Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code.

Puppy.

Our 172 thousand core EC2 Intel Xeon Platinum cluster appears at #57 on the latest #TOP500 supercomputers list, down only 17 places from its June 2021 debut at #40. I’ve been told that they refer to me within AWS as “the Beyoncé of supercomputing.” top500.org/lists/top500/l…

How many lines of code has Elmo written?

I met Greg Bear at the Petaflops conference in Bodega Bay in August of 1995. He was a good man, and one of the best science fiction authors ever. I was always looking forward to reading his next book.

Dr. Fred Brooks was of the founding generation of software engineers. Reading his Mythical Man-Month is essential for anyone who wants to understand how software is fundamentally different from all other disciplines.