Index
Day 1: RCD Nexus Day
Day 2: PEARC26
Day 3: PEARC26
Day 4: PEARC26
Day 5: PEARC26
Day 6: Cleveland
Day 7: Columbus
Day 8: Cleveland
Midwest
After yet another plenary session in the morning-- Dr. Glenn Lockwood from VAST Data admittedly was quite good, much more topical to the general audience than yesterday's plenary-- it was back into HPC training and documentation. Had some very good insights, particularly into the importance of metadata as well as AI, in building documentation/handling how AI affects the end user searching for it, before diving into an even more undistinguished lunch than the day before.
Getting away from HPC training and education after lunch and into things like resource allocation, billing, and more system administration, particularly an interesting one (not new, but one I had not spent much time on before) deploying containers via environment modules. Perhaps the most interesting one was GPU usage at Big Ten universities' respective HPCs, and confirming that single-GPU jobs are the vast majority of GPU job needs. WUSTL's attempt at billing was perhaps complex internally, but designed to be more simple to the users, and still permit them to recover their costs; would be interested if they do a follow-up presentation next year to say how well that's worked, and if they've made any changes/improvements. Knowing their goals and if their goals have changed at all with cost recovery would also be useful to see in a year's time.
Caught up with Dr. Bauch afterwards; as he's half in Minneapolis and half in Los Angeles, being able to catch him in MSP was a bit of good timing. Quang's Restaurant is in an Asian neighborhood not too far south of downtown, and the bun bo hue there was pretty okay. Their gui cuon and their nem nuong coun could use improvement, but the chicken wings were also good. Plenty of other Asian restaurants in the area as well, might need to check some of those out if I visit MSP again.